PA Bill Number: HB2663
Title: Providing for older adults protective services; and making a repeal.
Description: Providing for older adults protective services; and making a repeal. ...
Last Action: Referred to AGING AND OLDER ADULT SERVICES
Last Action Date: Nov 19, 2024
California Self-Defense Shooting-Long Beach Resident Shoots and Kills Late Night Intruder :: 08/11/2014
Long Beach, California Resident Shoots and Kills Late Night Intruder. According to local media reports, suspected intruder is dead in Long Beach, California after encountering an armed homeowner early Sunday morning.
Police say a man allegedly broke into a home in the Bluff Park neighborhood and was shot by the homeowner.
Responding paramedics declared the suspect dead at the scene.
The identity of the homeowner and the suspect are currently being withheld by police.
Of course, we're talking about California here, so the local media outlet had to bring up the fact that the homeowner might be charged for exercising their right to self defense.
From the Orange County Register,
[Long Beach Police Department spokeswoman Sgt. Megan Zabel] said it is too early to speculate on whether the resident would face charges.
"The case will be presented to the (district attorney's) office upon conclusion of the investigation, who will determine if charges will be filed if any." Zabel said.
The shooting comes less than three weeks after an 80-year-old man caught a man and woman ransacking his house in the city's upscale Bixby Knolls neighborhood. The homeowner shot at both of them and fatally wounded the woman in the alley outside the home, authorities said.
The man and woman, who police said had criminal histories consistent with the crime, "body slammed" homeowner 80-year-old Tom Greer onto the floor when he confronted them, Long Beach Police Chief Jim McDonnell said. Greer suffered a broken collarbone in the scuffle.
Greer got up and was able to retrieve a gun and fired at the intruders inside the home. He then pursued them as they fled out of the garage and into the alley, where Greer shot the woman, police said.
