Posted August 23, 2016 2:56 pm by Comments

By Bob Owens

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The southern saying that I grew up with is that, “curiosity killed the cat.” It came within a hair’s breath of killing a homeowner in Indianapolis as well, after he placed a 911 call reporting that an armed man tried to carjack his wife.

He hung up and armed himself, and then went outside just as the cops arrived, with sadly predictable results.

Police had little information to go on early Tuesday morning, when a man called 911 and said an armed suspect stole his wife’s car keys in front of the couple’s east-side home.

The sketchy details, hindered further by the pre-dawn darkness, led one responding Indianapolis Metropolitan Police officer to shoot the armed homeowner trying to protect his wife, police said.

Officers were sent to 3600 block of Foxtail Drive at about 4:34 a.m. on the report of a possible robbery, according to Marion County police dispatch.

The caller, who ended up being the man the IMPD officer would ultimately shoot, police said, managed to tell the 911 call taker that an armed suspect had robbed his wife at gunpoint before the call disconnected. He never told police he was armed, too.

As officers responded to the scene, emergency dispatchers tried getting …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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