Security Camera shows home invasion shootout. (updated link)

[TWiley]

The homeowner scored a big one.

Google this link: video/crime/2009/02/11/marino.home.invasion.KVOA

on edit: I think this is a direct link http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/crime/2009/02/11/marino.home.invasion.KVOA.html

[conscious evolution]

1. Not showing video at link

It shows a black screen instead.

[TWiley]

2. Then go to CNN.Com, click on the video link at the top right

And, when you get to the video page, scroll down and look for a still that shows the hood of a blue car in a driveway. I tried everything I know of to get a direct link that I know of. The google search worked for me so I posted it.

Sorry you are having trouble, the video is worth watching if you can find it on the cnn website. Maybe you have to press play or something.

Try this link: http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/crime/2009/02/11/marino.home.invasion.KVOA.html

[TWiley]

3. Please let me know if you still have trouble

and I will try something else

[Hoopla Phil]

4. Wow!!!

That surveillance system really paid off. One of the "invaders" had what looked like an AR-15. Nice neighborhood too.

[TWiley]

5. yes, it is a double edged sword isn't it.

major firepower to defend against major firepower.

[Hoopla Phil]

7. Yep

I'm reminded of the Rodney King Riots when the shop owners were on their roofs with SKSs and AR-15s defending themselves.

It looks like the surveillance system was the advantage here. My first inclination was that these invaders knew their target because of the way they were going in. But on second thought I discounted that because the apparently didn't know about the surveillance system (or maybe they just discounted it).

I installed a real nice surveillance system at my parents house a couple years back. Of course I did it not for security at the time but for peace of mind for my mother. My father is in ill health and mother wanted to be able to keep an eye on him all over their property. Now, after seeing this, I'm thinking about putting something in at my own home.

[TWiley]

8. Maybe they were after the gun or guns inside?

They found the car, so maybe there will be more info as the story unfolds

[Hoopla Phil]

11. Entirely possible. Guns are big business in the black market.

Yeah, I'm sure the police will get at least one of them since they found the car. I'm very curious on how it is they picked this particular house.


BTW - Did you notice the two "perps" running down the sidewalk? I LOLed at that.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

19. Criminals usually try and steal valuable things from people.

[Ex Lurker]

25. It also showed him shooting as they ran away. Self defense? hardly.

More like the racist asshole in Texas who murdered the two immigrants.

[Posteritatis]

26. They started running after he started shooting

Four people with guns, including at least one assault rifle, try to rush a house, and you think the guy's an asshole for firing on them?

[Hoopla Phil]

27. Didn't see the home owner shooting at the guys running down the sidewalk.

But you can see bullets striking the windshield of the guy getting into the car as the two are running down the sidewalk. That IS still under the legal definition of self defense. The man in the car still presented a viable threat to the home owner. The home owner was still covered under self defense until the car had it's tail lights to the home owner.

You may not agree on a philosophical standpoint but that is the way it is.

[spin]

28. I agree. (n/t)

[madmom]

6. Did I hear right? This happened around noon, smart robbers! WOW broad daylight.

[Hoopla Phil]

9. They may have been thinking no one would be home.

Most burglaries (I know - burglary and home invasion are very different but the principle is the same) are done in daylight hours because homes are often empty at that time.

[Robb]

10. Someone's got it on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApgSY1qSHf8

[TWiley]

16. thanks

[Greyhound]

23. Thanks, CNN is too intrusive for my system to allow any of their stuff in. n/t

[Ex Lurker]

24. Lots of stray bullets. Many innocent bystanders could have been killed n/t

[seabeyond]

12. ya. and what was it really about. i dont know anything about the story

but seeing the video. i would ponder being this persons neighbor

not talking about his right to defend here, but what really was up

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

20. I guess you could always move.

[conscious evolution]

13. If the Sherriffs Deputy

was the homeownwer that was no robbery.They were trying to take him out.

[TWiley]

14. Good point, I did not even consider that.

The story was called a home invasion, they did not really say what the motive was that I can remember. I just assumed it was robbery. Maybe the motive really was murder.

[Posteritatis]

21. Unless he's referring to himself in the third person it wasn't his house (nt)

[conscious evolution]

22. I did not get sound

with the video.
But if you look at the last few seconds of the vid you see someone that looks like they are dressed like a cop come out of the house.Hard to tell for sure though.

[Mugu]

15. I guessing that these guys might be rethinking their career choices. n/t

[underpants]

17. So far I am LOVING the commercial

:P

Now, time for some killin'

[underpants]

18. Damn, no killin'. Let me get this straight-bullets fly until they hit something?

Who knew?