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| -Lurid Crime Tales- |
| Messin' With Texans |
| 2008-09-08 |
| When two gunmen smashed through the glass front door of her suburban Fort Worth home, Kellie Hoehn didn't think twice. The 34-year-old mother of two grabbed a shotgun that had been pointed at her face early Wednesday, starting a struggle that ended with one intruder killed with his own weapon and another in the hospital. "I wasn't going to let them get to my babies," she said, recalling the moment when she pushed up the muzzle of the shotgun, pointing it away from her children's rooms. Although the intruders told her to keep quiet, she screamed for her husband. She told her 12-year-old son, who was awakened by the sound of the shattering glass front door, to get his 5-year-old sister and hide. "It was like a horror movie," her husband, 32-year-old Keith Hoehn, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "I thought I was a dead man. We're fighting for our lives." With Kellie Hoehn clinging to the weapon's muzzle, her husband tackled the man who held the shotgun. She knocked the intruder in the head with a jar candle, giving her husband a chance to wrest the shotgun. By then the tussle had spilled out onto the front lawn. Keith Hoehn shot one of the men who had a pistol, police said. Wounded, that man ran away. Then the intruder who initially had the shotgun charged Keith Hoehn. Kellie Hoehn told The Dallas Morning News that she screamed at her husband, "Shoot him, shoot him, shoot him." Her husband fired the shotgun and the man fell to the ground. Then the shot man lunged a second time. "Well, I shot him again, and I guess that was it," Keith Hoehn said. Dakota Scott Benoit, 20, of Richland Hills, was pronounced dead at a hospital. John Garland Pierson, 25, of Haltom City, was in critical condition and in police custody at the hospital. "I am not happy that someone is dead," Kellie Hoehn said. "But I am glad that my family is alive." Police said Pierson was shot in the left arm and the bullet pierced his diaphragm and other organs but his condition was improving. He will face charges of burglary of habitation with intent to commit another felony, police said. Investigators say the couple were just defending their family and probably won't be charged. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #7 Agreed, we don't need him. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-09-08 22:17 |
| #6 Don't know about you guys but I'm GLAD this POS is dead and I wish the other one was. I WANT home invaders killed on the spot if possible. Saves the taxpayers a lot of money and makes damned sure they won't do it again--which you know damned well they would if they got away. My patience with criminals is exhausted. I'd like to see the United States empty out its death rows tomorrow. Kill the whole lot of them and have done with it. One last thing: I keep reading more and more about home invasions. If you've ever been to Brazil or even Puerto Rico, you'll have noticed some architectural features not seen on most American homes, i.e., reinforced steel doors and cast-iron bars on all windows. Those people don't spend the money on that stuff because they have a fetish for ferrous metals. They do it because crime is out of control there. I saw that change come to South Africa, with the installation of high brick/barbed wire fences topped with spikes/broken glass, razor wire, electrified barbed wire, etc. The tide of criminality is rising. We'll either stop it or be overwhelmed by it. We already spend twice as much on private security as we do on every police unit in America combined. You think that doesn't hurt our international competitiveness? Enough is enough. Criminals need to be punished harshly. Screw the idea of fixing them; just lock them up and keep them locked up for a long, long time. Then tell them if they screw up again and land back in jail, they'll never see the light of day as a free man again and if they kill someone in the commission of the next crime, they'll soon be following the dead person into eternity. The bottom line is it's us or them. |
| Posted by: Jolutch Mussolini 7800 2008-09-08 17:05 |
| #5 He'll also face charges of 1st degree murder, since his playmate got killed in the course of a felony. |
| Posted by: mojo 2008-09-08 14:17 |
| #4 Here in Texas a law was recently passed that furthur protected victims of crime from civil action by either the culprit or by any agency. It was inspired by the people here after a lady was arrested and charges filed, not by the culprit, but by the local police in that community for protecting her young daughter with deadly force from an intruder. What the authorities did outraged a lot of people so they took action. In Texas, if you look at old deeds for property, the deads back in the old days states that the deeded owner "Owns, Protects and Defends" said property. The authorities seemed to forget that for a while. |
| Posted by: Snosing and Tenille9185 2008-09-08 12:05 |
| #3 I'm pretty sure Texas has a retribution law that keeps relatives of dead perps from suing or harassing the victims. |
| Posted by: Anon4021 2008-09-08 10:58 |
| #2 probably won't be charged. That is just the AP putting their own unique touch on the story. Texas law is quite understanding about shooting people who break into your home. Even further, anyone messing with your stuff at night is considered fair game. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2008-09-08 10:09 |
| #1 Investigators say the couple...probably won't be charged. Probably? It better be definitely unless they want to start a multi-ranger riot. Does Texas (or any other state) have laws to prevent the perp's or their families from suing? Not much makes my blood boil more than hearing that some lowlife or his relatives is/are continuing the assault with the help of some shyster... |
| Posted by: PBMcL 2008-09-08 02:00 |