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.
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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...
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.
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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.
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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.
A late addition to the Palin Sexism Watch: Lola Ogunnaike, entertainment reporter for CNN's American Morning, speaking to Howard Kurtz yesterday: "people say, yes, she looks good in a bikini clutching an AK-47, but is she equipped to run the country?"
The bikini photo is a fake. Not only should Ogunnaike know that, and hold herself to a higher professional standard... frankly, she really shouldn't tease us like that.
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As Jimmy Carter would say, in my heart, I know lust.
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Hmnph, not even an AK. Can't get the details right, can't get the fact that it is a photoshop, can't let any facts get in the way of their gotcha that isn't.
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It looks like a small bore pump action to me WM. A BB Gum. OBVIOUSLY a fake.
The original photo may in fact have been of another woman named Sarah Palin.
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The Governor with an AK? Bah. She's an American gal and would pack M16/M4 or better yet a Ma Deuce. Why does the phrase "They're American ivory. Only a professor pimp from a cheap University of Colorado at Boulder New Orleans whorehouse would carry a AK47 pearl-handled pistol." come to mind?
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Governor Palin would know the difference between a AK-47 and whatever the hell this rifle is with the chinzy scope. Probably a Daisy BB gun as Big Jim said. Someone Photoshopped Hillary body on Sarah Palin. Lola Ogaunnaike is a few IQ points short of an idiot.
It was not the bitterly disappointing 1-0 defeat against Nigeria at the Eastern Province Rugby Stadium in Port Elizabeth on Saturday afternoon that hammered the final nails into Bafana Bafana's coffin in qualifying for the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations finals. Banana fanna fo Bafano Bofana...
An hour later, the world's 145th-ranked Sierra Leone beat Equatorial Guinea 2-1, which assured that their opponents finished bottom of the Group 4 qualifying segment rather than Sierra Leone, and in the process obliterated the glimmer of hope that remained of South Africa participating in the 2010 tournament in Angola. This doesn't mean squat. I just hadda say that...
An involved system introduced by Fifa whereby the results of games involving teams finishing bottom in the qualifying groups are not taken into account ultimately sealed Bafana's fate -- with the fat lady chortling the unpalatable message that war-ravaged Sierra Leone, one of the minnows of world soccer and a country with a population of little more than six million, have effectively outmanoeuvred South Africa from the Nations Cup.
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Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
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Is the accompanying pic a warning to us not to make any "Greetings I am Bafana Bafana and I would like to present you with a business opportunity..." posts?
The native Kaka parrots - juvenile birds that have not reached sexual maturity - have torn off nesting box doors and vandalised bird homes.
Twenty-four of 44 new Kaka nest boxes built over the winter have been ripped apart and the birds then gouged out chunks of wood with their strong beaks at the Karori Sanctuary in Wellington.
Sanctuary conservation officer Matt Robertson said: "It may be that the challenge of taking doors off nest boxes is the Kaka equivalent to the Rubik's Cube."
"As far as I'm aware, this extent of destruction has never been observed." . . .
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The native Kaka parrots - juvenile birds that have not reached sexual maturity - have torn off nesting box doors and vandalised bird homes.
An annual gathering to celebrate a traditional spirit-god in one of Nigeria's few remaining virgin forests is one of the last places you would expect to hear complaints of over-commercialisation. But experts on Nigeria's traditional religion say the 600-year-old Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove Festival is under threat.
The event is now sponsored by international phone company MTN, Star beer, and Seaman's Schnapps, an alcoholic drink that touts itself as the "number one prayer libation drink".
Devotees believe that the sacred grove is one of the last remaining places that the spirits, or "orishas" will reveal themselves. If the spirits decide not to come, the festival will die, they say. Traditional beliefs involving animist spirits are still widely held in Nigeria, by people who say they are Christians and Muslims alike.
Each devotee family has a specific orisha, who their members will worship for the whole of their lives, but people also make offerings and sacrifices to other spirits who have responsibility for different aspects of life, hoping for their blessing.
Sacrifices can include killing chickens or rams, or token offerings like kola nuts, or libations of alcohol poured on a shrine. The popularity of the festival has increased dramatically over the last 30 years, mostly due to the dedication of Austrian-born artist Susanne Wenger, who rebuilt the shrines and worked to get the grove protected.
Financial trouble in the last eight years has led organisers to turn to commercial sponsors for funding.
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Unfortunately, they don't give his address, either physical or e-mail. Apparently he had a birthday over the summer, and I was going to get him a Sarah Palin action figure. :-)
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This is the clown who started the "Trig Palin is Bristol's baby, Sarah faked her pregnancy" rumor.
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I read the whole vile piece, though unfortunately I didn't archive it, and now (of course) it's been stuffed down the memory hole at Kos. However, Wizbang saved it.
It was perhaps the most odious thing I've read from the Left in a long time.
And of course ArcXIX hasn't volunteered his real name, nor has he consented to interviews, nor, for some reason, is he willing to stand behind his writing. Quelle surprise, huh?
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I imagine the threat of lawsuits has occurred to him about now ...
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Might be this guy.
Charles E Hartley (614) 224-6939 396 S Yale Ave,Columbus, OH 43223
I've just had a gander around there using "street view" on Google.
Muslim students at the University of Southern California are enraged by the school's recent decision to remove from a student group's website an Islamic text that encourages the murder of Jews.
Until recently, the website of the now-defunct Muslim Student Association, which is hosted on the university's servers, had featured the full text of the hadiths, the words of Mohammed that are not found in the Koran. One of those hadiths calls on Muslims to "fight against the Jews and...kill them," and promises that even the stones and the trees will assist Muslims in that gruesome task.
A statement issued by the Muslim Student Union at USC suggested that the hadith was being taken out of context, and called the school's decision to remove it from the website "unprecedented and unconscionable."
The Muslim Student Union accused the USC administration of practicing unfair censorship. In a way it's a pity. I used to use that site when looking up particular hadiths.
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These guys don't understand how USC is covering for them. If the average American really knew what Islam was about support for expanding the War on Terror would go through the roof.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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It was not the bitterly disappointing 1-0 defeat against Nigeria at the Eastern Province Rugby Stadium in Port Elizabeth on Saturday afternoon that hammered the final nails into Bafana Bafana's coffin in qualifying for the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations finals. 
Banana fanna fo Bafano Bofana...
