Everyone, instead of going on different tangents, let's stay focused on victim defending his life against multiple masked robbers.
Why are we judging the resident as a criminal? If he was, police would be pressing weapons charge but they are not pressing any charge for the shooting, even after giving chase into the front yard from inside the house.
To me, threat to his life still persisted, especially when 3 in the car opened fired at him. At that point, he had every right to return fire at the car and robbers regardless which direction their bodies faced:
- Two masked men armed with guns went into the home of 20-year-old resident and demanded cash
- Resident initially complied and reached under the couch (pretending to get money) and instead pulled out his AK-47 and began shooting at the suspects
- Resident pursued the robbers into the front yard. The pile of brass in the front yard has been described as being from several different guns.
- The defender continued the gunfight with three occupants of the car that delivered the two home invaders. The group fled the scene in the car.
- The car crashed a couple of blocks away. One suspect was found in the car, dead. One wounded suspect was found at Capitol and 71st Street, he was the suspect that died at the hospital. The third suspect from the car was wounded, fled the scene, and was being treated in the hospital.
- The resident was not wounded during the incident
- Police do not expect any charges to be filed
The city/county I used to live in before moving to our retirement location was gangland battleground and home invasion robberies with 5-7 armed intruders with 2 posted outside at the end of the street (getaway drivers) with radios was common place. Police said these gang banger intruders anticipated armed home owners and moved fast and hard to overwhelm even armed home owners.
One home invasion by multiple intruders involved a 20 year old resident living with his dad. When 2 armed intruders demanded drug money at the door (They apparently got the wrong address - You know, even drug dealers/gang bangers make mistakes), 20 year old called 911 and armed himself. When asked the operator what he should do after telling the armed intruders that they had the wrong house, 911 operator said to do whatever to protect his and his dad's lives. When the armed intruders kicked the door open, 20 year old opened fired killing both. Police did not press charges.
And there were many such home invasions and I do not recall police pressing charges. Of course, home invasions to unarmed residents ended up with rape, robbery and murder, even if residents complied as if it was a gang initiation for new members, they had to kill. Police chief and Sheriff each year went in front of camera and pointed this out and highly recommended residents to arm themselves to defend from multiple armed intruders until police could respond (Sadly for many, police arrived to put bodies in bags).
During 6 years we lived there, we changed from Glock 22/23 and Sig 1911/M&P45 and shot gun to AR15s (.223 for wife and .300 BLK for me) with Glock 22/23 as back ups. Wife carried 2 pistols on person at all times in and around the house.
BTW, here's another recent thread discussion where a family was robbed by 3 masked armed robbers and home owner defended the family by killing them with his AR15 -
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...-killing-them-all.856344/page-2#post-11236127
