If so, my condolences for your misplaced emotion.
Vigilante or just vigilant, Pasadena resident Joe Horn blasted himself into a world of controversy Nov. 14 when he fatally shot two men he said were breaking into the house of his next-door neighbor.
Despite repeated admonitions of a 911 dispatcher not to confront the pair, the 61-year-old computer consultant stepped onto his front porch, spotted the men in his front yard and shot them in the back. Killed in the midday incident were Hernando Riascos Torres, 38, and Diego Ortiz, 30, both black Colombian nationals later determined to have been in the United States illegally.
In a taped conversation with the dispatcher, a clearly agitated Horn expressed concern that the men would escape with a bag of stolen property.
Horn, in a written statement released through his lawyer, Tom Lambright, later lamented the shootings, conceding they would "weigh heavily on me for the rest of my life."
While Horn's actions may have been protected under law — his lawyer says he fired in self-defense — the shootings ignited a contentious debate on gun rights, racism and immigration.Still simmering among some was the memory of an August crash in which three people, one of them a 2-year-old boy, died.
Police said the driver of a second vehicle, illegal immigrant Juan Felix Salinas, was intoxicated. He had been arrested earlier in the year for "violently shaking his wife," authorities said. He avoided being detected by immigration authorities, however, by signing a "non-arrest" bond, which some victim advocates have called a loophole for illegal immigrants.
http://kathmanduk2.wordpress.com/2007/12/30/pasadena-shootings-created-shock-waves/
2007-12-31 11:00:50 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
From statements I read, the 2 thieves were on his front lawn and one was heading in his direction, approaching his residence...........illegal criminals who stalk innocent people should expect, at some point, to be confronted.
2007-12-31 11:07:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
Yea someone somewhere misses them. Just like ur mom would miss you even if I don't understand her pain on that.
2007-12-31 14:00:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
As the guy above me said, God Bless Joe Horn. Everyone should defend themselves like he did.
2007-12-31 12:30:02 · answer #3 · answered by Sweet Tea & Lemons 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
God bless Joe Horn and any one like him!!!
2007-12-31 12:25:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Joe Horn will see them again in hell. There is nobody in the right here. He shot people in the back, they were criminals. They should not have been there, niether should he.
It doesn't matter what the law says. The lord will decide this issue one day.
2007-12-31 11:43:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 5⤋
sounds like a good shooting to me. cop 37 years
2007-12-31 11:31:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
In the first place they had no right being here! They were illegals. Second, if they hadn't been here, it wouldn't have happened!
In a sense they didn't exist!
Three cheers for Joe Horn!
2007-12-31 11:19:31 · answer #7 · answered by onlyme 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Mr. Joe Horn is a HERO and a great American Patriot. He should be supported and congratulated by everyone of us law abiding citizens. And it should remind us that our rights are slowing being taken away by the liberal scum in this country. It is about time that all of us arm ourselves, for the protection of our property, family and country.
To answer your question. NO, the ILLEGALS got what they deserved. May they and their supporters burn in hell.
2007-12-31 11:14:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
Shooting people in the back is protected by law? They were turned away from him, that means they were no threat whatsoever to him, and as no one else is listed has being involved it cannot be claimed as self defense. If they were armed it would be arguable, but as it stands this is clearly a crime. While not murder it is definitely manslaughter.
2007-12-31 11:10:52 · answer #9 · answered by Weise Ente 7 · 3⤊ 7⤋
Yes some people are missing them right now.
2007-12-31 11:08:00 · answer #10 · answered by sparkee 3 · 2⤊ 8⤋