Intruder Shot At Gresham Apartment Man Shot, Injured After Kicking In Door, Police Say

Fire_Medic_Dave

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Sat Dec-05-09 08:55 PM
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Intruder Shot At Gresham Apartment Man Shot, Injured After Kicking In Door, Police Say

GRESHAM, Ore. -- A person who kicked down an apartment door was shot and injured Thursday night, Gresham police said.
Officers were called at 9:11 p.m. on Thursday about someone trying to kick in Nathan Brown's apartment door in the 1200 block of East Powell Boulevard.
Brown said his 2-year-old daughter was sleeping when he heard a loud noise.
"I heard three distinct loud bangs like someone was kicking my door. It wasn't like a knock, it was emotionally charged. It scared me," Brown said.
He grabbed his handgun and cracked the door to see who was there.

http://www.kptv.com/fox12investigators/21738557/detail.html

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GreenStormCloud

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Sat Dec-05-09 09:18 PM
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1. He took a high risk by firing a warning shot.

While he is waiting to see if the intruder will take heed of the warning shot, the intruder can be drawing his own gun. The defender would have then had to play catch-up. He risked his life to give the intruder a chance to live.

We don't know if the shot into the thigh was a miss, or a deliberate attempt to wound.

Once the BGs have broken in, your life is at stake. Open fire with no warning, aim for center mass. He had two intruders so he should have done a fast double-tap to the first one, then shifted fire to the second intruder. Aim for center mass on all shots.

The resident could have ended up dead with the kind of tactics that he used.

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safeinOhio

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Sat Dec-05-09 09:19 PM
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2. I'm glad he was able to stop these guys

with out killing them.
:popcorn:

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Fire_Medic_Dave

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Sat Dec-05-09 09:41 PM
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3. Of course.

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GreenStormCloud

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Sat Dec-05-09 10:05 PM
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4. Or getting killed himself. N/T

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