Raleigh homeowner shot man he thought was breaking in

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A Raleigh man was shot in the leg after a homeowner told police he thought the man was breaking into his home.

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Police: Raleigh homeowner shot man attempting to break in

Police tell WRAL News, one neighbor, in the midst of what may have been a mental health crisis, walked down Terravista Ave, picked a house at random, and started trying to break into the garage.
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Doesn't matter that the attacker may be "mentally disturbed" or "only speaks Spanish".
What matters is he attacked ailerons in their home. He's lucky the home owner thinks shooting someone in leg is good enough to stop a threat. 99.9% of the time it isn't.

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They will soon be spinning this to make the “self defense issue” become an issue
 
"Police said the man who was shot could be mentally disabled and only speaks Spanish."
Yup. that's a tragedy. Que una lastima. que malo.
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many was in his home, with his family, and a mentally disturbed man tried breaking in. was he supposed to just open the door for the guy and see if he was the mentally kind of disturbed where he'd kill the kids and rape the dog, or just the kind of disturbed where he'd take a dump in the kitchen sink and move on?
 
Get Off My Lawn said:
Folks trying to get into the wrong house has GOT to happen all the time in an apartment cookie cutter neighborhood like that.
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My house isn't much, but it'll always be "the first brick house on the right," when I'm telling visitors how to get here.
 
fishgutzy said:
Doesn't matter that the attacker may be "mentally disturbed" or "only speaks Spanish".
What matters is he attacked ailerons in their home.
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Remember that prior to what is commonly called castle doctrine, the law, which is still on the books and valid, is that you can shoot to PREVENT their entry. Now, of course, you can shoot them once they’re inside but before once they were in you had a duty to retreat.
 
noway2 said:
Remember that prior to what is commonly called castle doctrine, the law, which is still on the books and valid, is that you can shoot to PREVENT their entry. Now, of course, you can shoot them once they’re inside but before once they were in you had a duty to retreat.
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NC is still a "duty to retreat" state?
That's insane. Even MA elongated duty to retreat after getting slapped in court.
The OP case, the home owner only shot after getting physically attacked.

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fishgutzy said:
NC is still a "duty to retreat" state?
That's insane. Even MA elongated duty to retreat after getting slapped in court.
The OP case, the home owner only shot after getting physically attacked.

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I don’t think so anymore, at least in the cases covered by HB whatever it was, 650 maybe. Places like your house, car, work, hotel room, etc. prior to that passage, about 10 years ago, it was a duty to retreat state.
 
Get Off My Lawn said:
Folks trying to get into the wrong house has GOT to happen all the time in an apartment cookie cutter neighborhood like that.
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Can't stand those types of neighborhoods, absolutely zero soul. I'm only aware of two houses in my neighborhood are identical (or rather, flipped mirror images of each other) and that was only after the owner of one of them pointed it out to me.

Anyways, every day that passes is a day closer to moving out to the middle of nowhere, hopefully.
 
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