You Are Not Protected By Your Zip Code

Why people believe that they are, is beyond me. Neighbors share concern after police say homeowner shoots intruder in southwest Las Vegas

A fairly common story of homeowner dealing with a home invasion.

During a news conference, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Homicide Lieutenant Jason Johansson said the homeowner called 911 around 7:40 a.m. stating that a strange man was breaking windows, trying to get inside their house.

Eventually, after telling the guy to leave, and him not listening the homeowner shot him.

Officers found that man in the driveway with a gunshot wound. He later died at the hospital.

The neighbors are the heart of this story.

“I was shocked,” Jennifer Sauberan said. “Because it’s a very quiet neighborhood.”

Sauberan, who told 8 News Now she has lived in her neighborhood near Torrey Pines Drive and Flamingo Drive for decades, was startled by a crime scene on her street.

Bad guys have cars, and can drive to your neighborhood. People in your neighborhood might do drugs and become irrational. (This guy was described as "extremely irrational.") In short, crime is NOT something that happens to "other kinds of people" in "other kinds of places." It can happen to you.

Cops are still investigating, but to me, at a thousand miles distance, it seems a pretty straight forward case of self-defense, which is a human right.