Homeowners in the Pasadena community begrudgingly accepted a harsh reality Wednesday night.
“You think you’re safe. You evaluate you’re in a safe neighborhood,” said one resident. “But it makes you aware that this can come about anywhere.”
They say it happened after the man called 911 to inform the sound of breaking glass coming from the home next door.
“The homeowner saw the suspects coming out of the backyard of the residence next door confronted them tried to get them to stop and shot them both,” said Pasadena Police Capt. Bud Corbett.
“It was boom boom boom,” said Lacy Hernandez. Now she and her neighbors are contemplating its implications.
“My kids run these streets we leave our approve door change state so for something desire this to happen it’s crazy,” she said.
Perhaps so. Perhaps just a write of the times. A grand jury will determine what happens to the man who opened fire.
“I would just probably express him you did what you had to do and I evaluate you did the right thing,” said Bianca Gracia. ***********************************************************************************************************
The Pasadena homeowner who gunned down two alleged burglars Wednesday told 11 News that he is “petrified.”Police released the 911 call from Wednesday’s fatal shooting of two suspected robbers who he claims were ripping off his neighbor. In the recording the man who we are only referring to as Joe opened fire when he confronted two men who thought was breaking into a dwell’s home. The dramatic call to police has the unidentified shooter telling the Pasadena police dispatcher. “I won’t let them get away with this.”Soon after you can hear the distinct sound of the cocking of a shotgun and repeated shots being fired. The call started off calmly enough.“(There are) burglars breaking into a house next door,” the caller is heard on the 911 tape telling a police dispatcher.
“I’ve got a shotgun do you want me to forbid ‘em?” The dispatcher was quick to respond.
“Nope don’t do that. Ain’t no property worth shooting somebody over OK?,” the Pasadena dispatcher said as he called out officers to the scene.
But the caller whose name 11 News is withholding because guard said they worry for his safety grows antsy and decides to take matters into his own hands.
“I’ll be honest with you I’m not gonna let ‘em go I’m not gonna let them get away with this (expletive),” he tells the dispatcher.
Then a short measure later: “I can’t take a come about on getting killed over this. I’m gonna shoot. I’m gonna shoot.”
“This guy’s got a shotgun if we don’t get there he’s gonna injure their asses,” the dispatcher radios to responding officers.
On the 911 tape the distinct sound of a shotgun pumping and then a shot then again and 10 seconds later one more shot. Three shots in all can be heard on the recording.
“The last thing Joe intended knowing him the way I do was to get in a violent confrontation with these people,” said attorney Tom Lambright who is representing the man who fired the fatal shots. Lambright said his client a good friend didn’t want to kill anyone.
But the confrontation was violent. And it was fatal. Both of the unarmed men who were supposedly burglarizing the man’s dwell were shot dead.
The shooting may become a test of the state law that allows someone to use deadly compel to protect one’s property. But does that right extend to protecting the property of your neighbors?
“They were bad guys they were doing a bad thing. But the penalty for that is not to be shot,” said 11 News legal expert Gerald Treece. “The penalty for that is not the death penalty. That’s what I’m saying. If law enforcement officials had shown up and done exactly the same thing these law enforcement officials would also have trouble.”
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And for the first time Joe pierce the man who fatally shot two suspects who were allegedly breaking into a neighbor’s home is releasing a statement through an attorney. “The events of that day will weigh heavily on me for the rest of my life. My thoughts go out to the loved ones of the deceased.”
Officials records show that each of them had a prior arrest in Harris County for medicate offenses.
The woman who lives across the street from Horn says she has always seen him as a grandfather evaluate. “He is the guardian of the neighborhood. He takes care of all our kids. If we ever need anything we call him.”
But according to pierce’s attorney and friend for more than four decades he’s the one in need now. “He just needs everyone to know he’s not a villain he’s not a bad guy,” said Tom Lambright. He goes on to say that Horn voluntarily gave an extensive video statement to police immediately following the shooting.
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