Intruders shot after Texas couple wrests shotgun

colding · 09-05-2008, 09:49 AM

Thought this was interesting... Note the last paragraph. Said they probably won't be charged. Why the hell would they be? I just wish he would have gotten a better shot at the first one!

BLUE MOUND, Texas — When two gunmen smashed through the glass front door of her suburban Fort Worth home, Kellie Hoehn didn't think twice.

The 34-year-old mother of two grabbed a shotgun that had been pointed at her face early Wednesday, starting a struggle that ended with one intruder killed with his own weapon and another in the hospital.

"I wasn't going to let them get to my babies," she said, recalling the moment when she pushed up the muzzle of the shotgun, pointing it away from her children's rooms.

Although the intruders told her to keep quiet, she screamed for her husband. She told her 12-year-old son, who was awakened by the sound of the shattering glass front door, to get his 5-year-old sister and hide.

"It was like a horror movie," her husband, 32-year-old Keith Hoehn, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "I thought I was a dead man. We're fighting for our lives."

With Kellie Hoehn clinging to the weapon's muzzle, her husband tackled the man who held the shotgun. She knocked the intruder in the head with a jar candle, giving her husband a chance to wrest the shotgun.

By then the tussle had spilled out onto the front lawn. Keith Hoehn shot one of the men who had a pistol, police said. Wounded, that man ran away.

Then the intruder who initially had the shotgun charged Keith Hoehn.

Kellie Hoehn told The Dallas Morning News that she screamed at her husband, "Shoot him, shoot him, shoot him."

Her husband fired the shotgun and the man fell to the ground. Then the shot man lunged a second time.

"Well, I shot him again, and I guess that was it," Keith Hoehn said.

Dakota Scott Benoit, 20, of Richland Hills, was pronounced dead at a hospital. John Garland Pierson, 25, of Haltom City, was in critical condition and in police custody at the hospital.

"I am not happy that someone is dead," Kellie Hoehn said. "But I am glad that my family is alive."

Police said Pierson was shot in the left arm and the bullet pierced his diaphragm and other organs but his condition was improving. He will face charges of burglary of habitation with intent to commit another felony, police said.

Investigators say the couple were just defending their family and probably won't be charged.

**roy365** · 09-05-2008, 09:56 AM

Alabama has just adopted the same law as Texas. Where if someone is on your property or in public and threatens your life you can shoot. Before it was like you had to pretty much be backed into a corner and a gun or knife to your head before you could defend yourself.

I am so glad this law was adopted to our state. Someone comes in my house.......they aint goanna make it.

rickys2020 · 09-05-2008, 09:59 AM

too bad he could not chase the other guy, drag him back and shoot him in the head.

baseballfanz · 09-05-2008, 10:06 AM

Don't mess with Texas or Texans.

We have good laws here when it come to defending one's home/property. The laws was made even better recently with the "Castle Doctrine".

dunefreak79 · 09-05-2008, 10:09 AM

That's why I love Arizona. Two guys come in your house; one of them gets shot and dies; the OTHER accomplice gets charged for the death as long as you were justified in protecting your life! Perfect! By the way, I may not live in Texas, but generations of my family do and I was born there.

rtc1184 · 09-05-2008, 10:13 AM

i just bought a mosberg pump 12 gauge for my apt and a taurus 24/7 tactical .40cal for my truck at a gun show this past weekend

dunefreak79 · 09-05-2008, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by rtc1184

i just bought a mosberg pump 12 gauge for my apt and a taurus 24/7 tactical .40cal for my truck at a gun show this past weekend

Remington pump 12 gauge/ Glock 27/ "Grandpa's" breach loaded 16 gauge- I dare'em!!!

**helomech** · 09-05-2008, 10:44 AM

If the second guy lives he will be charged with the murder of his friend. Any death during the commision of a felony is the sole responiblity of the person committing the felony.

And the peice of sh8t's family can't sue for wrongfull death, because the castle doctrine protects them from all suits, both civil and criminal.

**helomech** · 09-05-2008, 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by dunefreak79

Remington pump 12 gauge/ Glock 27/ "Grandpa's" breach loaded 16 gauge- I dare'em!!!

Locked gate a half mile from my house, 4 dogs over 100 lbs each, and more guns than I care to list.

rtc1184 · 09-05-2008, 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by dunefreak79

Remington pump 12 gauge/ Glock 27/ "Grandpa's" breach loaded 16 gauge- I dare'em!!!

well you know us texans love guns and i love to be able to carry now without a chl. i have a concealed but i dont carry on me too much

dunefreak79 · 09-05-2008, 10:52 AM

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Originally Posted by helomech

Locked gate a half mile from my house, 4 dogs over 100 lbs each, and more guns than I care to list.

Yep, you win!

rickys2020 · 09-05-2008, 10:57 AM

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Originally Posted by helomech

Locked gate a half mile from my house, 4 dogs over 100 lbs each, and more guns than I care to list.

big enough to take a small army

**roy365** · 09-05-2008, 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by rickys2020

big enough to take a small army

If you make it inside his house, which i doubt.....the monkey will rip your ears off and feed them to the turtles.

rickys2020 · 09-05-2008, 11:02 AM

and grind you and feed you to the deer.

rtc1184 · 09-05-2008, 11:12 AM