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gigag... did you read the other article?

Around 1am, Lerma returned home with his brother and a friend to find four men in his front yard.

"I guess they panicked," he said. "One of them ran this way. He got stuck right there. We caught him. The other ones ran to the back. I grabbed my gun and shot him."

Three of the suspects ran through his back yard as Lerma retrieved a nine millimeter pistol from inside his home. He emptied his clip of 16 rounds, hitting two of the burglars. One of them died.

IF these facts are correct, and IF the suspects were running away, and IF he ran inside to get his gun, came back out and shot a guy they had cornered, I'm guessing he may be charged. However, we obviously don't have the entire story, sequence of events, etc. to make a proper judgement on what may happen.

On a side note: It's a shame you weren't able to make the legal seminar that Charles hosted last Saturday. We discussed the penal code you are referring to.

The law doesn't say you can shoot someone on your property just because it's dark!

I didn't see anywhere where it said they took anything. Both articles state the men were outside and ran away. Of course the details here are too vague to know exactly what happened to make any real educated guess on how this will turn out.

I'm betting there's a good possibility he will get charged for muder since they were not in his house and did not present an imminent threat to him or his family as they were running away.