Self-defense in the news...

[Brad VanHorn]

Police: Beach pizza parlor worker kills would-be robber

12:31 AM EDT on Sunday, June 29, 2008

Andria Borba

(VIRGINIA BEACH) --- Police say an attempted robbery at pizza parlor ended when a store employee shot and killed the alleged thief.

Workers at Dominick's Pizza and Pasta in the Timber Lake shopping center on Holland Road tell 13News a masked man came in through a back entrance, brandishing a gun and demanding cash.

Police say the shooting happened around 10pm Saturday.

According to employees, a worker opened the safe, taking a loaded revolver out instead of money.

The worker reportedly returned to where the alleged thief was and opened fire.

Police say workers called 9-1-1 at 10:08.

By the time officers arrived the masked man was already dead.

Police have not identified the suspect, and have not said if any charges will be filed against the employee.

http://www.wvec.com/news/topstories/stories/wvec_local_062808_pizza_shop_employee_kills_thief. 51300a5.html?npc

[Joe Ford]

Dear criminals,
There are many crimes you can commit, some profitable some not so profitable, some risky some not so risky. One thing is for sure do not and I mean do not mess with southeast Virginia Pizza dudes..............

Any one remember the rob the pizza dude wave that abruptly ended when delevery guys started fighting back ? Or the free pistol classes at Bob's if you showed up wearing a pizza delivery uniform ?

[D.R. Middlebrooks]

Texas Woman Kills Home Intruder With His Own Gun

Thursday , September 04, 2008


BLUE MOUND, Texas —
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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