As if being robbed at gunpoint in your own home isn’t bad enough, a Colorado man may face charges for shooting and killing his attacker. Colorado law allows you to shoot an attacker inside your home, but what if you chased your attacker outside?
A Colorado homeowner who was tied up and robbed at gunpoint Sunday may face charges for shooting and killing the suspect who was fleeing in a stolen car, Fox 31 reported.
The unidentified homeowner, who managed somehow to untie himself after the robbery, reportedly went outside his home in Littleton and fired shots into the car at the fleeing suspect. The man in the car was reportedly identified as David Martinez, 38, who has a long criminal history of burglary, theft and drugs. Martinez crashed the car about a block later and died.
The Denver Channel reported that under the state’s Make My Day law, a homeowner is able to shoot an intruder who enters the home, but, according to one legal analyst, the law does not protect a homeowner if the shooting occurs from the porch, yard or driveway.
Read the full story at Fox News.
Does the right to self defense stop at a homeowner’s doorway?
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