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4/2/2013

Yet Another Person Tries to Kick Down the Door of a Prosecutor

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 10:44 pm



This time, they picked the wrong one.

An intruder who forced his way into the mountain home of a Colorado deputy district attorney was shot dead by either the prosecutor or her police officer husband, authorities said on Tuesday.

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The deputy district attorney made a 911 emergency call and reported that a man was at her door “behaving very erratically,” police said.

The prosecutor then told dispatchers that the stranger forced his way into her home. An altercation ensued inside and shots were fired, leaving the unidentified man dead, police said.

A spokeswoman for one of the agencies investigating the incident told Reuters that the prosecutor and her husband, himself a sheriff’s deputy, both fired at the intruder, but it is too early in the probe to know who fired the fatal shot.

I won’t be waiting for the official reports to offer my congratulations to both.

Thanks to redc1c4.

39 Responses to “Yet Another Person Tries to Kick Down the Door of a Prosecutor”

  1. Good Shooting by team Lock and Load.

    mg (31009b)

  2. Can’t to wait to find out who he is and who his friends were…

    Reaganite Republican (02f748)

  3. i lurves me a story with a happy ending. 😎

    the interesting bit is at the end of the article where the suspect that got capped in Texas after apparently shooting the Colorado prison chief is also the suspect in the death of a pizza delivery guy in Colorado as well.

    that’s one way to get someone to the door with their guard down, and most people don’t have bullet proof doors.

    redc1c4 (403dff)

  4. …but it is too early in the probe to know who fired the fatal shot.

    Does it matter?

    Blacque Jacques Shellacque (1016a0)

  5. please do not come inside or I will have to shoot you

    what part of please do not come inside or I will have to shoot you did you not understand

    happyfeet (8ce051)

  6. This report says it was in Hot Sulphur Springs CO and the suspected intruder was a 32 year old Michigan man who “had been looking for work in the area and that he had been there for about a week.”

    DRJ (a83b8b)

  7. Apparently the shooting occurred at a hotel, not a home.

    DRJ (a83b8b)

  8. This headline suggests the prosecutor and the deputy own the hotel.

    DRJ (a83b8b)

  9. Were they firing a warning shot through the door with a shotgun?

    Cuz ifin that’s what they done did, then the Veep sez they’re in the clear.

    Icy (ef2e07)

  10. Why weren’t their guns taken away?

    Rodney King's Spirit (951136)

  11. Great news in the morning!

    Rodney King's Spirit (951136)

  12. “what part of please do not come inside or I will have to shoot you did you not understand”

    Random crazy allowed to walk the streets: “The run sun done the gun; go ground, don’t drink drown down, brown ow”

    SarahW (b0e533)

  13. I sincerely wish it to have been a random crazy. Anything to suggest its linked to recent attacks on prosecutors/law enforcement?

    SarahW (b0e533)

  14. They should be jailed for using excessive force. The official policy in Colorado calls for them to urinate over themselves to deter attacks. Or is that only for women?

    great unknown (f36a36)

  15. By accident SarahW posted a comment about this on another thread. I think it’s helpful so I’m linking to it here.

    DRJ (a83b8b)

  16. The good news is that this looks less like an attempt to go after the prosecutor because of his job (in retaliation for something that happened in the justice system, like in the Texas/Aryan Brotherhood case) and more like a random breakin. While the random breakin still *sucks*, it’s way less disturbing than an attempt-to-mess-with-the-justice-system would have been.

    aphrael (b57693)

  17. Early reports (that are notoriously unreliable, so take this with a grain of salt) suggest the prosecutor and her husband live in a hotel or in a house near a hotel they own. This could be another suspected Aryan Brotherhood incident, or it could be a case of someone mistakenly approaching the wrong door. What I’d like to know is whether the suspected intruder was armed and whether he has a prison record and (if so) was a member of a gang; or whether he had been drinking and was living in the neighborhood or at this hotel.

    DRJ (a83b8b)

  18. The article doesn’t state what sort of gun the prosecutor used and we can assume the husband used his service revolver, but on a side note there is a bit of irony in this considering Governor Hickenlooper’s signing of bills last week that require background checks for private and online gun sales and ban ammunition magazines that hold more than 15 rounds. As a result, Magpul Gun Manufacturerers, located in Colorado, are looking for a new home and being wooed by a number of states to choose them – and will take hundreds of jobs with them, as well as $85 million dollars worth of business a year.

    Dana (292dcf)

  19. A drifter on drugs can ruin your whole day.

    nk (d4662f)

  20. If that had been Jim Carrey’s hotel room/house, Jim Carrey would probably be at the morgue right about now.

    Elephant Stone (053897)

  21. Now, they say a disgruntled employee might be responsible for the McClelland hit, I don’t think they have a clue.

    narciso (3fec35)

  22. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, there is not one person among you who does not have a relative or neighbor who uses drugs. These poor people are just trying to feed their habits.

    nk (d4662f)

  23. There are too many lately revealed elements indicating initial reports slanted this incident to fit a previously established narrative. We could be looking at another example of our self-serving media purposly obscuring the facts in order to manufacture over reaction.

    ropelight (6a355e)

  24. First it was the Saudi, then Ebel, who seems to have taken a tip from ‘White Collar’ whereas Occam’s razor would point South, to an organization
    known for killing law enforcement,

    narciso (3fec35)

  25. I’m still open-minded about the possibilities. I posted a comment in a wrong thread from some local who claims to have known him.

    She posted in another board, too, as “Iris Mae”; she seems to know the family and something about what happened

    he went to the attorney to try and talk to her about getting her help to get his long time friend out of jail and trouble. The only thing wrong with Josh was his dependency to drugs, but NEVER had ever layed a hand on anyone!

    Admitting her friend was likely drug-addled (and lamenting that a person can be shot for trying to break into someone’s home while drug-addled)

    He’s from Michigan, what he was doing in Colorado is not known to me. That’s a peculiar errand to take to a prosecutor’s home. There are phones and offices. How did he know the prosecutor lived there?

    The first assassin was an addled loser, too. AB seems to collect them. If he’s a drifter, he’s a drifter, but that photo is from 2007. He might have picked up a tattoo since then. Any more recent mugs? I’d like to know what he looked like when he showed up at her door.

    SarahW (b0e533)

  26. Sorry for bad grammars. I’m virus-addled today.

    SarahW (b0e533)

  27. nk makes a good point about the proliferation of drug usage among society.

    If people on drugs aren’t merely desperate just to pay for their next hit simply to avoid the awful withdrawal symptoms, they’re desperate to acquire money or contraband they can sell in order to pay their debt to their dealer.

    Elephant Stone (053897)

  28. I agree with narciso. The killing of family members is a Mexican/Colombian drug trafficker signature.

    nk (d4662f)

  29. The “talk to the prosecutor about my friend” scheme, however, puts a different spin. That would imply he knew whose door he was approaching.

    He didn’t pick some likely, or random target to get money or stuff but the hardest target.

    SarahW (b0e533)

  30. (assuming his visit was a pretext to get drugs or money or stuff for drugs). The strange ambassador scenario seems more malevolent unless they live next to a halfway house or something.

    SarahW (b0e533)

  31. Hot Sulphur Springs does not have more than one or two “hotels” if I recall correctly. Very small town on the Colorado river.

    SPQR (768505)

  32. Yessssssssss. May we have several more sir.

    glenn (647d76)

  33. Iris calls the home-invader “a tiny man” and is upset James Holmes was “restrained” but deadly force used on her friend.

    She discounts his involvement in the AB by telling me he has a mexican god-daughter.

    SarahW (b0e533)

  34. She’s sticking with the strange ambassador story, too.

    SarahW (b0e533)

  35. 27. Yeah, we know, its temporary. Rub our aged noses in it why don’t ya?

    gary gulrud (dd7d4e)

  36. It’s excellent that they had the right to keep and bear arms. This good outcome shows the value of that right. I hope that prosecutors will give the same break to us “ordinary” people who are ordinarily suspect when we say, “I thought he had a gun.”

    Daniel (6c6924)

  37. 37. Comment by Daniel (6c6924) — 4/3/2013 @ 12:12 pm

    It’s excellent that they had the right to keep and bear arms. This good outcome shows the value of that right. </I.

    And the case of Mike McLelland in Texas shows its limitations.

    Also, that case, of course, put other prosecutors more on guard. McLelland probably did not expect to be attacked at home.

    Sammy Finkelman (d22d64)

  38. He’s not a random crazy! He’s a Homeless American!

    Racists.

    😉

    Patricia (be0117)


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