Wow... great neighbors... with no evidence of wrongdoing, police feel it's justified, they blame the victimHomeowner fights back against intrudersMultiple shots were exchanged during the confrontation
By Eric James
(3/14/07 - KTRK/HOUSTON) - Police in northwest Harris County are investigating the shooting death of a suspected burglar.
It happened at a home on Dusty Dawn and Coral Stone. They say the homeowner did what he had to do to protect his family. But those who live in this neighborhood are questioning what the homeowner says led up to the shooting.
In that northwest Harris County neighborhood, residents say that about the only thing that ever makes a ruckus is the occasional stray dog. Victor McGee likes to walk through his quiet subdivision.
"I've been around this area for three and half years," said McGee. "As far as I know, I haven't noticed anything,"
But today his walk was met with crime scene tape at the 6700 block of Dusty Dawn Street. It was just after 8pm yesterday when police say the father of two who lives there with his family shot and killed an alleged burglar. Police feel the shooting was justified.
Orris Carr, who doesn't know the family, but lives a few doors down finds the homeowner's story of a random break-in a bit odd.
"But for it to happen around 8 o'clock last night, most of the time people are at home at that time," said Carr. "You would think that it was kind of rare for something like that to happen."
Carr has lived in the neighborhood since 2000.
"Generally at that time of the night, people are at home," he said. "Generally, a burglar wants to come into your house when no one is there. So, that is what I mean, why I think it's rare."
Carr wasn't the only resident in the neighborhood who had their suspicions.
"I'm not saying there was, that there's drugs or something, you know, normally that they are after," said neighbor Karen Vinson. "I mean, why else would somebody do it that early in the evening."
Investigators say the incident is still under investigation. Authorities are still actively looking for two other people who may have been with the shooting victim.
