Home Invader Is Shot, Killed In Boulder

By Bob Owens

Do you continue to carry your concealed weapon once you get home, or do you remove it quickly and put it in your gun safe?

I used to fall into the latter camp when I didn’t have a holster set-up that was comfortable, but now I typically have my gun on me until bedtime, and I suspect that is also the case in a Denver home invasion last night that saw the intruder shot and killed after forcing his way into the home.

Boulder Police say a suspected home intruder was shot and killed Monday night by a resident of a house on Pima Court.

Boulder Police Cmdr. Tom Trujillo said it happened at 8:40 p.m., at 98 Pima Court, near Highway 36 and Foothills Parkway.

“A male broke through the front glass door and was confronted by a person in the home,” Trujillo said. “The male was shot and died at the scene.”

Mitchell Byars, a reporter for our partners at the Daily Camera said a man was seen being taken away from the house with paper bags over his hands. This is typically done to preserve forensic evidence.

The “paper bags over the hands” trick preserves gunshot residue (GSR) evidence, so …read more

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