"New Orleans Pelicans guard Bryce Dejean-Jones was shot and killed early Saturday morning after breaking down a door to a Dallas apartment, police said.
Dallas Police Senior Cpl. DeMarquis Black said in a statement a man living inside the apartment was sleeping when he heard his front door getting kicked opened. As Dejean-Jones tried to break into the bedroom, the man retrieved a handgun and fired shots at Dejean-Jones.
Responding officers found Dejean-Jones, 23, collapsed in a breezeway, and he later died at a hospital.
"We are devastated at the loss of this young man's life," the Pelicans said in a statement.
It is legal in Texas for someone to use deadly force in order to protect themselves from intruders.
ESPN reported that the apartment complex sent an email to its residents Saturday morning, saying that Dejean-Jones was “believed to be breaking into the apartment of an estranged acquaintance (but) in advertently broke into the wrong apartment.”"
Another source told ESPN that he was shot trying to enter his child’s mother’s home. ESPN reported that Dejean-Jones was in town to celebrate his daughter’s birthday but was involved in an argument with the child’s mother prior to the shooting incident.
Black said he couldn’t confirm whether Dejean-Jones was trying to access an acquaintance’s apartment.
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Yes. Most people in apartments are armed. Solid.
2nd did you know the Intruder?
That briefs nice but when you are awaken in the middle of the night to your bedroom door being kicked in and you have a gun all that other stuff goes right out the window.
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Hate banging on an Apt door. Its got the best chance of being riddled with bullets. Apt dwellers are armed most of the time.
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not enough space to spell it out.
Protect yourself? I think many people hope someone tries to enter their home so they can shoot first and figure out if shooting was absolutely necessary later.
If your in the house say up stairs or away from the noise call 911 don't go hunting. Arm yourself yes but stay in the room and find some cover.
Thankfully, people don't have legal protection to defend themselves from sentence fragments. JFC.
Maybe I am not understanding you right.. You think that the guy who lives in the apt was wrong?
If your in the house say up stairs or away from the noise call 911 don't go hunting. Arm yourself yes but stay in the room and find some cover.
Its your house. You have the right to defend it.
Get behind something solid.
People have no manners today. In the past, you would always call before kicking down someone's door and charging in a murderous rage into their bedroom.
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than someone coming in your bedroom. Someone comes in my bedroom I going to put three rounds in him without thinking.
If your in the house say up stairs or away from the noise call 911 don't go hunting. Arm yourself yes but stay in the room and find some cover.
Its your house. You have the right to defend it.
Sure you have the right to die too. Maybe the intruder is not alone? Has a Weapon too. Has Skills in clearing a house and has training in some fashion. Just likes to kill people. Stay in a safe place call police or trip alarm even your car alarm helps. People who take the My house I will go shoot them are a lot of times the victims.
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People need to take a breath before trying to confront someone. Even better, someone of his profession probably has a lawyer or, at least, can afford one.
Maybe I am not understanding you right.. You think that the guy who lives in the apt was wrong?
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People need to take a breath before trying to confront someone. Even better, someone of his profession probably has a lawyer or, at least, can afford one.
Maybe I am not understanding you right.. You think that the guy who lives in the apt was wrong?
Legally right, morally wrong.
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People need to take a breath before trying to confront someone. Even better, someone of his profession probably has a lawyer or, at least, can afford one.
Maybe I am not understanding you right.. You think that the guy who lives in the apt was wrong?
Legally right, morally wrong.
It's very easy to wax philosophic when you're not the one behind the door getting kicked in. i own a few guns for home prot cation and bc I like to go shooting. I don't think gun ownership for home protection is silly and I dont think it's anything to be made light of, like you're a paranoid homeowner. If you're responsible and have a plan(s) in place it's nothing but being careful and vigilant. I've gone so far as to t arch my wife to shoot. I'm not home many nights and we have a plan: if someone tries to break in you get th baby and get to th bedroom. Lock the door. Announce you've called the police and that you are armed. Announce they can take anything in the house but do not try to enter the bedroom. If that knob so much as jiggles then she puts a round of buckshot in the door, which is marked with a small "X" in electrical tape. It's a fairly common plan, IIRC a 12 year old boy killed an armed intruder the same way after being taught by his father.
People,can scoff all they want, all it takes is one attempted break in to change your mindset. Shortly after I moved to Philly someone tried to kick in my back door. If it weren't for the dish washer being immediately adjacent to the door and itself open, effectively creating a barrier, he/they might have kicked it off the hinges. I often think about what could have happened if I had simply not forgotten to close that dishwasher.
The serving platter you save just might be your own...
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Hate banging on an Apt door. Its got the best chance of being riddled with bullets. Apt dwellers are armed most of the time.
Yes. Most people in apartments are armed. Solid.
Yep. And they're sneaky bastids too.
Sad story. Jones was only 23. :>(
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and your life is threaten yes you can use deadly force. Most of the time the homeowner/Apartment dweller can just get rid of the intruders by announcing you called the police and you are armed. If you think they are coming towards you Rack a round into the chamber or Cock the trigger(that's when its life or death).If you are not armed say loudly Yes Officer I will stay on the Phone.
That briefs nice but when you are awaken in the middle of the night to your bedroom door being kicked in and you have a gun all that other stuff goes right out the window.
I think the APT dweller was probably scared shitless at the time.
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article says "It is legal in Texas for someone to use deadly force in order to protect themselves from intruders." That should be legal in all 50 states
Isn't it?
Any state, doesn't matter, you are under no obligation to retreat in your home and can use deadly force if you feel your life is threatened.
Thanks. Now we'll have every damn dishwasher grabber up in arms.
I would argue that breaking in the front door, and then attempting to kick in the bedroom door would satisfy any reasonable question that a threat existed. I wonder where you would have interjected the questions you believe were necessary to defend yourself.
Nah. It's more humane to just fire the deadly round(s). No need to make the intruder suffer unnecessarily.
The punk claims the guy with your wife's purse lives in apartment 7. You're in a fit of rage and proceed to kick the door in. The person living in the apartment shoots first, legally of course.
The punk claims the guy with your wife's purse lives in apartment 7. You're in a fit of rage and proceed to kick the door in. The person living in the apartment shoots first, legally of course.
I can't believe I was so stupid. R.I.P., but I only have myself to blame.
Is he going to give you a warning shot too?
First rule if you pick up a gun you use it. Not to wound but to kill.(In your house it's survival)
Warning shots get you killed. Burglars carry guns too. While you are firing warning shots he is putting three rounds in your chest.
If you pull out a gun you have to be ready to use it. The guys in your house are. You have no idea what they are on if you have an exsoldier who is good in close quarter shooting. A crackhead who is so high he thinks he is playing a video game. Thugs just being violent. Warning shot get you killed.
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Many of these legal shootings were mistakes or most likely unnecessary.
And some were not mistakes and not unnecessary. That information is unknown as it is happening. I don't understand the moral obligation for the totally innocent party to hesitate and increase their risk.
It's simple, a human life is at stake.
I'm done with this. I see it in a different light and I don't see opinions changing
Here is what I would do. Have the wife call 9-11 and go home with her. I would stay vigilant in case they came back, but my duty is to protect my family at all costs.
Your idea of a warning shot is not a good one. You miss a shot defending your life is one thing, a warning shot that goes through a wall/ricochets and harms someone else is another (this incident occurred at an apartment complex.
Now if somebody draws first and you don't react you are an idiot. If the danger is gone and you don't continue firing, then that is what you are supposed to do. If you fire after that person is no longer a threat, that is illegal.