Florida man fatally shoots home intruder while on phone with 911

Three intruders shatter the glass door to break in. Homeowner, while on the phone with 911, shoots and kills one of the criminals.
The other two were apprehended and charged with homicide.
In Florida, anyone committing a felony can face a murder-related charge if a death occurs during the crime.



"A man fatally shot one of three intruders who allegedly broke into his Sunrise, Florida, home in a dramatic moment all caught on the homeowner's call to 911.

Sunrise police received the 911 call Monday from the homeowner, Warren Darlow, who told the police he saw a car pull into his driveway. According to arrest affidavits obtained by ABC News, Darlow then told police he saw men he didn't know get out of the car and walk toward his home.

"Fearing the suspects were going to break into his house, Darlow armed himself with a shotgun," the affidavits say. Darlow told police he loaded the gun and called 911, according to the affidavits. As he was on the phone with 911, the suspects shattered a glass door and broke in, he told police, the affidavits say.

"They're in my house right now," the victim whispers to the 911 dispatcher in the call, which was obtained by ABC News.

Darlow later told police he was worried that if the suspects weren't already armed, they would arm themselves with one of Darlow's guns that he keeps in plain view on nightstands, according to the affidavits.

Darlow told police "several times that he feared for his life," according to the affidavits.

Darlow then fired his gun three times, according to the affidavits. Though the first shot did not hit anyone, the second shot did, the affidavits say. Darlow told police that after that second shot, he saw the injured individual appear to "reach toward something," so Darlow fired again, the affidavits say.

On the 911 call, the homeowner tells the dispatcher, "I killed one, I think."

The dispatcher asks about the other men and he says, "I don't know."

The homeowner then asks the dispatcher to tell the cops to hurry.

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The injured suspect was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to the affidavits.

Officers later stopped two men who matched descriptions given by Darlow; the suspects were both positively identified by Darlow as the men allegedly involved in the home invasion, and they were taken into custody. The men were later identified by police as Jose Coleman and Curtis Jefferies.

Jefferies, 26, and Coleman, 23, were arrested for homicide-willful kill-murder while engaged in certain felony and burglary-dwelling structure or conveyance armed. According to the affidavits, Coleman admitted to committing the burglary, but Jefferies maintained he just drove Coleman and the victim to the house, and said he was not involved in the break-in. It is not clear whether either man has obtained a lawyer. In Florida, anyone committing a felony can face a murder-related charge if a death occurs during the crime.

Broward County Court officials say both suspects were in front of the magistrate on the Nov. 28; no court dates have been set.

The Sunrise Police Department said Darlow will face no charges for killing the intruder.

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/...n-phone-with-911-theyre-in-my-house/361945089

 

Dead bad guys!
Incarcerated bad guys!

 

Armed or not, the homeowner being outnumbered 3:1 means the intruders had a clear "capacity to kill or commit serious bodily injury".

 

That, and in Florida, breaking and entering an occupied dwelling is a violent crime that is allowed to be defended against by lethal force.

 

Too bad he didn't get the other two.



http://www.local10.com/news/crime/2...e-killed-by-homeowner-during-botched-burglary

Albert Eugene Jones, another victim of "gun violence" (knee slap)

http://gunmemorial.org/amp/2016/11/28/albert-eugene-jones

 

Three unarmed Black men.

 

Three men carrying Schrodinger's guns.

 

That's a funny link. They list all of the links to show he is a victim of gun violence and every link implicates him in a felony and that his accomplices have been charged with his murder. The icing on the cake is that not a single person "lit a candle" for poor Albert.

 

That shows how silly some in the BM have become, The dead mope was a testament as to why honest citizens should be well armed. The real tragedy is that he wasn't able to mozambique all three of the mopes. The two that are still above ground will only be worse scum bags when they get out of prison-assuming they live that long since under felony murder laws, they both should be doing 240-360 months for murder. costing the taxpayers about 30K a year for 20-30 years. the shooter saved the taxpayers probably half a million for whacking one mope

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two now. Look at the good side

 

"For every case of self-protection homicide involving a firearm kept in the home, there were 1.3 accidental deaths, 4.6 criminal homicides, and 37 suicides involving firearms."
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM198606123142406

Try to keep things in perspective.

 

Feel free to turn in you guns to reduce your risk.

 

In one county, 34 years ago. Try to keep things in perspective.

 

where Kellerman counted a gun in the house as one in which an intruder brought the gun that did the shooting

pretty dishonest and it also only counted killing the criminal as a positive. I shot a mugger (stopped me from being assaulted and battered) held a guy Breaking and entering at gunpoint (no one shot-criminal arrested, nothing taken from my apartment) and scared off a robber when I was younger (he was not caught by nothing in my parents home, including their expensive art collection-was taken)

so I used guns three times to defend where I was living or myself and Kellerman wouldn't count any of those as offsetting drug addicts who shot themselves while stoned or people who would have killed themselves even without a handgun,

 

Then there are another 100,000 people (at a minimum) that use guns each year to save their lives that don't result in a "self-protection homicide". Their aggressor is either wounded, or starts breaking land speed records in the opposite direction.

I'll include a liberal source just for fun:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-12-27/how-often-do-we-use-guns-in-self-defense

 

Nicely done.

 

And...?

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A meaningless perspective at that.
See: Bold

 

They were too old to be teenagers.

 

both Arthur Kellerman and the methodology of his study have been debunked for quite some time now. It is intellectually dishonest to continue citing a so-called study with a discredited methodology of achieving the end results, as if it were still regarded as being valid.

How many of the accidental deaths, and criminal homicides, were perpetrated by individuals who could legally own firearms to begin with, as opposed to those who had prohibiting records for prior felony convictions?

 

It doesn't say the 100,000 defensive gun uses resulted in any lives being saved. Using a gun in self defense can make a bad situation worse- for example, innocent bystanders could be accidentally shot. So we don't know if we should be happy about guns being used in self defense 100,000 times.

 

33,736 total gun deaths in 2014-
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/injury.htm

229 self defense homicides with guns by private citizens-
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u....icide_by_weapon_private_citizen_2010-2014.xls

So Kellermann is basically correct: unjustifiable gun deaths greatly outnumber justifiable gun deaths.

 

Apropos of nothing .. the one on the left is very good looking. Maybe a modelling career will keep him off the streets.

 

Well self defense implies the individual using the weapon was "in fear for their life". Even if the attacker did not intend to kill, if they aren't dead I am willing to bet they won't do it again.

 

Pulling a firearm on a person for any reason other than legitimate self defense means their lives were in danger by DEFINITION.

Please show us some links to back up your claim that innocent bystanders are being injured in self defense scenarios.

You've been asked for it before, and have not backed it up.

 

You can take the thug out of the hood, but you can't take the hood out of the thug.

Aaron Hernandez is a great example of this in professional sports, and there are many such examples.

These guys make millions a year and still fall back to their behaviors. Money and success isn't a cure for psychopathy.

 

Huh? Even some warthogs are better looking than others.