Houston - HOME INVASION-ONE DEAD-THREE IN CUSTODY

[Glockster]

Just after midnight Friday four males forced their way into a home in the 8900 block of Kemble off Atascocita Road. One of the males was shot by what appears to be the home owner...The home owner was also transported for questioning."

http://montgomerycountypolicereporter.c ... n-custody/

[Jago668]

Yup, dogs do good work. Be it police, military, or even just herd dogs.

[bcooper]

Yup, dogs do good work. Be it police, military, or even just herd dogs.

had a friend once whose dog fetched me a beer.... good work too! lol

In all seriousness, wished he would have gunned all of the low lives. Good the found all of them and will bring them to justice.

[E.Marquez]

Atty Boy Jack...

When i see these articles, I have to admit the thought of "Why that house/person" always runs through my mind. Was that house/ person targeted or random? If targeted why?

Was it pictures on the internet with metadata that showed his diamond (coin, gun, tool, art, car, motorcycle, jewelry ect) collection? Was he a small business owner that was seen leaving the business at end of day and going home with a cash bag vice to the bank deposit ?
Was he known or believed to be in some illicit trade that the thieves were hoping to cash in on, literally in cash or product?

I know, that is somewhat victim blaming, or can be read into that way.. though it's not really my intent.. Just wanting to understand, Why that house/ person?

[SA_Steve]

Seems a little after mid-night is early for this sort of thing unless they thought the house was unoccupied

[Pariah3j]

Marquez - I personally don't/can't really think like a criminal - one of the more eye opening things for me was the show a few years back called 'It takes a theif' or something like that on Discovery ( found the wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Takes_ ... TV_series)). They had a couple reformed thieves that would do security assessments on houses and show how they would break in. Most people were shocked at just how easily these guys got into their house and made off with things. On one of the episodes they even stole the guy's 'guard dog' because it was too friendly

But point being is the way they thought about home security was quite different then most of us would. These thieves may have very well 'targeted' this guy because he had nice things, or perceived (or was known) to have alot of cash. But I doubt it was more then the thieves thought of him as a soft target and one of them learned that to be incorrect the hard way.

[philip964]

Atty Boy Jack...

When i see these articles, I have to admit the thought of "Why that house/person" always runs through my mind. Was that house/ person targeted or random? If targeted why?

Was it pictures on the internet with metadata that showed his diamond (coin, gun, tool, art, car, motorcycle, jewelry ect) collection? Was he a small business owner that was seen leaving the business at end of day and going home with a cash bag vice to the bank deposit ?
Was he known or believed to be in some illicit trade that the thieves were hoping to cash in on, literally in cash or product?

I know, that is somewhat victim blaming, or can be read into that way.. though it's not really my intent.. Just wanting to understand, Why that house/ person?

My neighborhood was burglarized over the Thanksgiving holidays. A home similar to mine on the next block was burglarized. The homeowners were out of town. I was out of town. They jumped over a back fence and broke out the glass of the rear back door that leads to the detached garage. I have a similar situation. The differences between the two situations are: I left a car in the driveway, I had lights on timers. I have a lot of landscape site lighting which stays on all night. But probably the real difference was, I was just lucky this time.

Houston really needs 800 more police officers. Everyone has alarms, we even have a constable patrol. The burglars know they have 3 or 4 minutes, so that's all the time they take.

http://www.click2houston.com/news/famil ... e/36711442 Here is a robbery captured on video in broad daylight in the Heights. They are crawling to avoid the motion sensors from going off (it didn't work) They tumbled the safe down the stairs and out the front door. Apparently no worry about how quick the police response would be after the monitoring company called in the alarm.

In this case it apparently was a tip that picked the house. They were dressed for the cameras and apparently knew where the safe was located.

I have similar internet cameras that live stream to my iPhone. I'm sure watching it live on your phone does not make you feel better as you sit there helpless.