This is not good - Death Threat Made Against Joe Horn Who Killed Burglary Suspects

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DEATH THREAT MADE AGAINST HOMEOWNER WHO KILLED BURGLARY SUSPECTS

Last Edited: Monday, 10 Dec 2007, 9:16 PM CST
Created: Monday, 10 Dec 2007, 8:48 PM CST

HOUSTON -- An unknown man called in a death threat against a Houston-area man who fatally shot two suspected burglars in the back, authorities said Monday.

The caller made the death threat shortly before 2 p.m. Sunday, leaving a message with the Harris County District Attorney's Public Integrity Division. The message is laced with curse words and says Pasadena homeowner Joe Horn will be killed in retaliation for the deaths of the two men he shot Nov. 14, the Houston Chronicle reported in its online edition.

"If you don't get an indictment, we're going to kill him and if he goes to prison, we'll kill him there, too," Pasadena police spokesman Vance Mitchell said the message suggested. Investigators have been checking phone records but do not yet have a suspect.

Horn, 61, killed Hernando Riascos Torres, 38, and Diego Ortiz, 30. The incident has touched off protests from minority activists and counter-protests from Horn's supporters.

don't rob and don't threaten to kill the neighbor.

There's no situation so bad that it can't get much, much worse.

into a house and take what they want either!

or someone you know owns that is worth killing a human being over?

usually isn't to the value of what was taken, but the violation you feel!

I think there's another way to look at this too. Was there ANYTHING those 2 could have stolen that was worth risking their lives for? Ican't prove it, but I believe if they had dropped their stolen goods, and dropped to the ground, I doubt the neighbor would have shot them.

Granted 2 wrongs don't make a right, but there sure was stupidity on both sides!

I didn't shoot him, BTW.


And as far as your "he wouldn't have shot them IF..." notion,
I'm afraid that just doesn't mesh with the FACTS of this case.

The man stated his intentions to shoot them to the police dispatcher,
left his home to confront them AGAINST the dispatcher's advice,
and shot them both IN THE BACK.

He didn't shoot them because it was necessary, he shot them BECAUSE HE COULD.

Don't kid yourself- dropping their stolen goods wouldn't have changed anything.
In fact, we only have their MURDERER'S "word" that they didn't do that.

And that's the same murderer who also claims they were "threatening him" while
they were unarmed and had their backs turned. :eyes:

shot (please excuse the pun) and a tough guy. Worthless shitstain on the underwear of humanity didn't care that he was taking the LIVES OF TWO HUMAN BEINGS. They're dead and what the fuck did he care? He was Dirty Harry and killing those two guys made his day.

He was a sneak and a coward who shot two human beings in the back for sport and to stroke his own pathetically lacking ego.

May he rot in prison for decades. He represents what has gone wrong with this country and the people in it.

lot of the friggin Hy Vee Store on 24th and Vinton. Every penny I had for bills (fell asleep and didn't make it to the utilites companies, so I just went to the store).

Don't tell me about being robbed.

but then I also don't believe death is an appropriate punishment for that particular crime.

That's a new tidbit to this story that I was not aware of.

Makes so much sense.

They have more rights than we do now.
Intimidation is legal, hell, it's encouraged!
Haven't you been paying attention the last 6 years!?

A sympathy play, maybe.

But, you know the people he killed probably had friends and family who, understandably, would be very upset by this. Most likely, one of them wasn't thinking straight and did this.

It happens every day, on every level of information-input.

get picked up tomorrow. Doesn't he know they can trace his phone call?

It treats him the way he treated others. But I bet he objects in his own case.

:shrug:

me, I'm not shooting, not calling the police, nothing. Just mind my own business.

Calling the police is something you could do as a common courtesy.
Jeez.

and they did not but they did arrest 3 people for the thing i called about. Were they a threat to me---no, but they were doing something to the cars on my street.

...but I can also say that such a world would be INFINITELY
preferable to a world full of Joe Horns! :toast:

they were installers from best buy who were just there to exchange a home theater system for a new one!!

I hope no one else gets hurt.

.... gangs don't issue threats, they just do it.

In fact, most people who actually would do it would not not issue a threat.

This cat that called in the threat is an idiot. I think we (or at least the cops) will find out who this guy is.

have been thrown around in every direction?

Careful where we all let hysteria take us all, take a collective deep breath.

Calling Lou what's his name. Right up his ally

I am just informing the DU public on this case.

According to many folks here, the answer to all sorts of
problems lies in their hand(gun). This is just the next
logical extension of that theory.

A murderer appears to be about to go free, so...

Tesha