STAND YOUR GROUND: Detroit homeowner shoots and kills home invader
- 10 years ago
If you're planning on doing a bit of robbing, or perhaps a home invasion or two, you might want to try a city other than Detroit.
That's the lesson two young men learned over the weekend after they broke into a home at about 2 a.m. on February 22nd.
The homeowner caught the thieves in his house and after one of the bad guys raised a tire-iron, the homeowner shot and killed him while also wounding the second intruder.
Days before that fatal shooting, a Detroit woman made the news after she shot at three teens trying to burglarize her home.
The teens got lucky and only ended up arrested.
Detroit is having a hard time shaking off its well-founded reputation for violence, with almost 400 murders last year.
Forbes Magazine's list of the Most Dangerous U.S. Cities of 2013 put Detroit at the top for the fifth year in a row last year.
There was one bright spot: the overall rate of violent crime rate in the Motor City did actually decline in 2013.
The city is faced with massive financial problems and it became the biggest municipality to go bankrupt in U.S. history.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's crime database reports Detroit had 386 murders last year, up from 344 in 2011.
Detroit continues to hemorrhage residents and that outflow of residents has driven Detroit's murder rate up to 54.6 per 100,000, more than 10 times the national United States' average.
The city's police chief, James Craig, says Detroit needs more armed citizens, as in his words "Good Americans with guns can help deter crime."
Such pronouncements are often mocked by anti-gun campaigners, but if it was your granny living in Detroit, you might just sleep better knowing she's able to defend herself.
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That's the lesson two young men learned over the weekend after they broke into a home at about 2 a.m. on February 22nd.
The homeowner caught the thieves in his house and after one of the bad guys raised a tire-iron, the homeowner shot and killed him while also wounding the second intruder.
Days before that fatal shooting, a Detroit woman made the news after she shot at three teens trying to burglarize her home.
The teens got lucky and only ended up arrested.
Detroit is having a hard time shaking off its well-founded reputation for violence, with almost 400 murders last year.
Forbes Magazine's list of the Most Dangerous U.S. Cities of 2013 put Detroit at the top for the fifth year in a row last year.
There was one bright spot: the overall rate of violent crime rate in the Motor City did actually decline in 2013.
The city is faced with massive financial problems and it became the biggest municipality to go bankrupt in U.S. history.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's crime database reports Detroit had 386 murders last year, up from 344 in 2011.
Detroit continues to hemorrhage residents and that outflow of residents has driven Detroit's murder rate up to 54.6 per 100,000, more than 10 times the national United States' average.
The city's police chief, James Craig, says Detroit needs more armed citizens, as in his words "Good Americans with guns can help deter crime."
Such pronouncements are often mocked by anti-gun campaigners, but if it was your granny living in Detroit, you might just sleep better knowing she's able to defend herself.
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