Man Opens Fire After Waking Up To Find 2 Home Invaders, Killing One

By CN Staff

Via TTAG

“‘You have a responsibility to protect yourself and your family in whatever means possible to do that,’ [Radcliff Police Capt. Willie] Wells said. ‘So, long as you can articulate that your actions were in defense of yourself or your property, then I think you would be justified.’”

That’s the considered opinion of a Kentucky cop who was called to a home after two men forced their way inside in the early hours of Sunday morning. The homeowner shot both of them. Twenty-year-old Kobie Long was carried out of the premises.

Long was killed, but the other man is in critical condition at University Hospital.

According to wave3.com, the defender and the two home invaders weren’t strangers.

[Radcliff Police Chief Jeff] Cross said everyone involved in the shooting knew each other and that there may have been some type of run-in at a party earlier that night.

The shooting is still under investigation.

There have been no arrests, and it will likely stay that way, Wells said. The shooting appeared to be an act of self-defense, and the homeowners hasn’t been charged.

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Source:: Concealed Nation