Sorrento homeowner shoots and kills suspected burglar

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

SORRENTO – The Lake County Sheriff's Office is investigating the fatal shooting of a suspected burglar by a homeowner.

The man killed Thursday was identified as Brett Lee Canada, 23, of Mount Plymouth, according to sheriff's Sgt. John Herrell. Canada's next of kin has been identified, Herrell said.

He said the shooting occurred soon after 3:30 a.m. on property located at 25130 Spring Hill Ave. The location is south of State Road 46 in the Sorrento area.

The property owner, Shane Biel, awoke to his alarm sounding. He looked outside and spotted a silhouette figure out by his lawn equipment trailer, Herrell said. Biel had been the victim of prior lawn-equipment theft, he said. And there have been other equipment thefts in the area recently.

The suspect had not entered the enclosed equipment trailer but was inside a fenced area.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-homeowner-shoots-burglar-20091119,0,1159031.story

[safeinOhio]

1. always use deadly force as a last resort

If you must you must. Still you may pay for it mentally for the next 65 years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHQEVXL_CVU

[razorman]

2. At least you may have another 65 years.

[safeinOhio]

3. I could live 65 years

without my lawnmower. I have insurance for that. PTSD sticks around to think about your choice to confront some one over property. Big difference in some one raising a rifle in a battle and some one stealing a lawnmower. The guy was most likely within his rights and will win the lawsuits after paying thousands for lawyers. Shrinks and Rx may be on his health insurance. Police may not have got there in time to catch the guy, However, yelling out a window might have run him off too. Deadly force is an option for me. The last option and only in defense of life and limb.

[spin]

4. He may not face lawsuits in Florida...

Florida’s ‘Stand Your Ground’ Law:

The Florida law is a self-defense, self-protection law. It has four key components:

* It establishes that law-abiding residents and visitors may legally presume the threat of bodily harm or death from anyone who breaks into a residence or occupied vehicle and may use defensive force, including deadly force, against the intruder.

* In any other place where a person “has a right to be,” that person has “no duty to retreat” if attacked and may “meet force with force, including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.”

* In either case, a person using any force permitted by the law is immune from criminal prosecution or civil action and cannot be arrested unless a law enforcement agency determines there is probable cause that the force used was unlawful.

* If a civil action is brought and the court finds the defendant to be immune based on the parameters of the law, the defendant will be awarded all costs of defense.
http://www.cfif.org/htdocs/freedomline/current/in_our_opinion/florida-self-defense-law.htm