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by Keith B
Mon Feb 06, 2012 10:42 am
Forum: The Crime Blotter
Topic: TN Homeowner Shoots Suspected Burglar with Shotgun
Replies: 7
Views: 754

Re: TN Homeowner Shoots Suspected Burglar with Shotgun

RoyGBiv wrote:If I'm the homeowner, I've just foiled a night-time break in... I've got one BG at gunpoint.
Second BG pulls up in the getaway car calling for the guy I'm holding. Police are who-knows-how far away.

Will BG #2 in the pickup drive down the block, stop, take cover and start shooting?
Will BG #2 take a neighbor hostage and try to trade him for his accomplice?
Until BG #2 stops moving, he is a threat in the night time and a mortal danger to me and others.
All the more resason to NOT chase down a bugular and try to hold them at gunpoint in your open yard at 2AM. Still, unless there is something else we don't know about other than the guy just yelling at an aquainteance from a pickup truck, then this homeowner is in hot water.
by Keith B
Mon Feb 06, 2012 9:04 am
Forum: The Crime Blotter
Topic: TN Homeowner Shoots Suspected Burglar with Shotgun
Replies: 7
Views: 754

Re: TN Homeowner Shoots Suspected Burglar with Shotgun

You updated the post with the second story after I posted. So, IMO the homeowner is more than likely gonna be charged if he shot at someone who was not a threat.
by Keith B
Mon Feb 06, 2012 8:50 am
Forum: The Crime Blotter
Topic: TN Homeowner Shoots Suspected Burglar with Shotgun
Replies: 7
Views: 754

Re: TN Homeowner Shoots Suspected Burglar with Shotgun

Investigators say that's when another man drove up to the house. When he saw the homeowner had a gun, he tried to get away, but the homeowner fired, and hit the man in the head.
Cant' tell if the guy in the truck or yard tried to get away (assuming yard.) However, if this is actually how it went down it may not play out well for the homeowner.

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