[Chewbarkah]

Though it’s not illegal to be out in your own front yard at 4 am in the winter, it does make me wonder what all was happening here.

[Valpal1]

Homeowner is a truck driver... he could have been leaving for work.

Or maybe the hoodrats woke him up and he was investigating the noise.

[Striperman]

getting ready to go fishing, work, etc

[Hot Tabasco]

it does make me wonder what all was happening here.

Well we know the kids were definitely on a mission to break into the house and rob whoever was there.

And since the homeowner was a truck driver, there's a good chance he may have been up getting ready to head to work.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

Though it’s not illegal to be out in your own front yard at 4 am in the winter, it does make me wonder what all was happening here.
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Yeah, let’s keep looking because it has to be the homeowner who’s the bad guy. /snicker

[Gaffer]

You can wonder but at least one of the three dead perps fired first. They just came up on someone who actually knew what to do with a gun. They’d already demonstrated the will to do deadly harm.