Looks like the armed resident was shot by responding LEO...

[Gman]

This sucks all the way around.

[BushMasterBoy]

If you had time to put on body armor after the first engagement, you're clearly not placed in a life threatening scenario. Had you the time to don armor, you had time to FLIGHT/ escape, move to a more secure area.

Huh? Im'not fleeing. I live here. This is my secure area.

[Skip]

Horrible. BG set the whole thing into motion, happy he’s on ice and can’t hurt anyone else.

It’s tough because as LEOs are responding, the situation is transitional. Too early for homeowner to disarm (could still be danger before LE arrives). LEOs can’t take any chances because they are responding to shots fired.

[cstone]

Sometimes you can do everything right and still be wrong.

Be safe.

[sniper7]

Sucks all the way around.

Sucks especially for the resident who got killed
Sucks for kid that got jacked up and will be jacked up
Sucks for the officers dealing with the situation and especially for the guy who had to shoot.
Sucks for the family of all involved.

It’s too bad the BG didn’t just kill himself or overdose or.....

[bellavite1]

Whatever happened to DROP IT, HANDS UP and the like?
Would that put the officer at risk?
Of course, but it is part of the job, if you don't like it get a different job.
If I was to shoot everybody that walks into the range holding a firearm with the action closed we would run out of customers.
I want to work that job, so I live with it and ask them to open the action and show their firearm safe.
The day I am no longer willing to put up with it, there's plenty of hamburgers that need flipping out there.


The officer is on PAID REASSIGNMENT???
Is somebody going to name a street after the good guy that was shot?
Would I be a better cop than that? Probably not, that's why I am not one.

It could have been me.
It could have been my wife.
It could have been you or your wife...
I can't imagine I would have put the gun down before making sure there were no other intruders.

And don't come at me with the cop bashing bullshit...

[MarkCO]

This sucks all the way around.

This. Easy to poke holes in it from a PC across the city.

Like I say to my wife when we watch the boys play baseball and she "thinks" the umpires call is wrong..."Yeah, you can see it much better from 330 feet than the ump can from 3 feet."

[Big E3]

I can see the scenario if, as stated, the officers arrived at the sounds of gun shots, they would have entered the house with guns drawn. If the BG was just put down after some sort of scuffle and the next voice the homeowner hears behind him is “drop the gun”, he would likely turn and point the gun in that direction not knowing what to expect. The police have no idea who just won the gun fight, good guy or bad guy and are not going wait to see if the guy pointing the gun pulls the trigger.

I think I’m going to have a bulletproof vest made with “HOMEOWNER” printed on it just like the LEO vests with FBI, Police or Writer (Castle) to wear just in case.

[Zundfolge]

I think I’m going to have a bulletproof vest made with “HOMEOWNER” printed on it just like the LEO vests with FBI, Police or Writer (Castle) to wear just in case.

I think a little perspective is in order here, being shot by the cops because you called them for a home invasion robbery is really a black swan event. You're more likely to be killed in a terrorist attack or mass shooting than this (and those are both extreme black swan events).

The chances that any of us will experience an armed home invasion robbery is pretty slim (even for those of you in Pueblo or Aurora ).
The chances of any of us experiencing an armed home invasion robbery wherein we call the police BEFORE the suspect is neutralized or fled is even slimmer.
The chances of any of us experiencing an armed home invasion robbery wherein the police have been called before the suspect is neutralized or fled AND we're actively engaging the suspect at the moment the police arrive is far slimmer still.

The chances of this happening again in Colorado within the next decade are virtually nil, so the chances of it happening to someone that thought ahead to buy a bulletproof vest with "HOMEOWNER" printed on it are so impossible that I think we'd all be better off spending our resources trying to prevent our homes from being destroyed by asteroids or being attacked in downtown Denver by a rabid moose.

So the lesson we all need to learn here is; "what caliber for rabid moose?"

[BushMasterBoy]

What are the chances of being awakened by the sheriff robo calling that an active shooter in your neighborhood? Already happened last year. I woke up and went outside. And yes I could hear gun shots. Some pot growing ahole was shooting at anything including deputies. I went back to bed since I was medded up from surgery that week. What are the odds?