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Cape man beats armed intruder to death
By Laurel J. Sweet and Michele McPhee
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=80610
A remote Cape Cod farmhouse became the scene of a bloodbath early yesterday after two masked gunmen burst into a West Barnstable home and pistol-whipped its occupant, only to have the victim's son beat one intruder to death with a baseball bat, sources said.
Barnstable police responded to 56 Boxwood Drive after a panicked 911 call saying the suspects had forced their way into the home and began to beat Pete Somers with the butt of a handgun and attempted to tie him up, sources said.
Somers' son, Joel, who was upstairs, grabbed a baseball bat and rushed downstairs to help his father. By then, the elder Somers had fought off one attacker, who then fled.
The younger Somers apparently began to beat the second masked gunman, Osnel D. Azor, 23, with the baseball bat. Azor died a short time later at Cape Cod Hospital.
Law enforcement sources said it is unlikely that Joel Somers, who was recently released from jail, will face charges for the fatal beating.
Yesterday, Cape & Islands District Attorney Michael O'Keefe confirmed Azor was an intruder.
``He did not belong on the property - had no authority or right to be there,'' O'Keefe said.
Another law enforcement source said Azor, who lived in Dennisport, had a long rap sheet. Still, it remained unclear why the gunmen targeted the Somers family, police and prosecutors said.
``Police are conducting a series of interviews and they will continue to do so until they have a clear picture of what went on,'' O'Keefe said.
The Somers' neighbor, Arnold Eliason, called the rental ``a party house,'' saying: ``My gut feeling was there was monkey business going on.''
Both men told neighbors they worked in construction.
The Somers, formerly of Franklin, had moved to the dead-end street in September, according to their landlord, J.E. Vandell of Yarmouthport.
``They seemed like good tenants,'' Vandell said. ``They maintained the house nice and paid the rent on time.
Cape man beats armed intruder to death
By Laurel J. Sweet and Michele McPhee
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=80610
A remote Cape Cod farmhouse became the scene of a bloodbath early yesterday after two masked gunmen burst into a West Barnstable home and pistol-whipped its occupant, only to have the victim's son beat one intruder to death with a baseball bat, sources said.
Barnstable police responded to 56 Boxwood Drive after a panicked 911 call saying the suspects had forced their way into the home and began to beat Pete Somers with the butt of a handgun and attempted to tie him up, sources said.
Somers' son, Joel, who was upstairs, grabbed a baseball bat and rushed downstairs to help his father. By then, the elder Somers had fought off one attacker, who then fled.
The younger Somers apparently began to beat the second masked gunman, Osnel D. Azor, 23, with the baseball bat. Azor died a short time later at Cape Cod Hospital.
Law enforcement sources said it is unlikely that Joel Somers, who was recently released from jail, will face charges for the fatal beating.
Yesterday, Cape & Islands District Attorney Michael O'Keefe confirmed Azor was an intruder.
``He did not belong on the property - had no authority or right to be there,'' O'Keefe said.
Another law enforcement source said Azor, who lived in Dennisport, had a long rap sheet. Still, it remained unclear why the gunmen targeted the Somers family, police and prosecutors said.
``Police are conducting a series of interviews and they will continue to do so until they have a clear picture of what went on,'' O'Keefe said.
The Somers' neighbor, Arnold Eliason, called the rental ``a party house,'' saying: ``My gut feeling was there was monkey business going on.''
Both men told neighbors they worked in construction.
The Somers, formerly of Franklin, had moved to the dead-end street in September, according to their landlord, J.E. Vandell of Yarmouthport.
``They seemed like good tenants,'' Vandell said. ``They maintained the house nice and paid the rent on time.
