Thanks to those like that brave homeowner, who keep this country not
so robber friendly.

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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2417986

Homeowner shoots intruder who flees, then dies
By PEGGY O'HARE
Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle

Police say a southeast Houston homeowner shot an armed intruder who'd
broken into his house overnight, but no realized the suspect died
until a neighbor found the body a block away this morning.  

The incident happened in the Sagemont Park subdivision, off Fuqua and
Sabo, a subdivision with neatly trimmed lawns and many homes with
alarm system signs.

Around 10:15 p.m., three intruders barged into the home in the 10400
Kirklane and tried to rob the homeowner of his car.

The homeowner started shooting and the intruders scattered, police
said.

Police searched the neighborhood, but the intruders were believed to
have gotten away. Around 8:15 a.m., however, a resident one block away
in the 10400 Kirkshire found what is believed to be one of the
gunmen's body on a walkway next to his home, shot three times in the
chest. A ski mask was next to his body, Houston Police Homicide
Sgt. Jim Binford said.

Outside the home that the intruders tried to rob, police recovered an
AK-47 covered with blood that one of the gunmen is believed to have
dropped.

The slain gunman has not been identified. His friends fled in a
turquoise Dodge Durango, police said.