Stories of self-defense are often senseless. This one from the Las Vegas Review-Journal makes less sense than most. Man killed in alleged break-in at Las Vegas country club lived in the private community
A man shot and killed by a homeowner after he allegedly broke into a residence at Canyon Gate Country Club lived less than five minutes away in the private west Las Vegas community, according to police.
Normally if I read a story about a resident of a gated, golf-course community breaking into another home in that community, I would assume that there was some kind of neighborhood beef, or a domestic situation, or something. That doesn't seem to be the case here. "Havens, identified in the report as a stranger to the homeowners, was pronounced dead on the scene."
This doesn't sound like the kind of place for random break-ins. But I guess this proves what I always say; you are not protected by your zip code.
Canyon Gate Country Club, where the shooting happened, is a gated community with an 18-hole golf course, fitness centers, sports complexes, and more, near West Sahara Avenue and South Durango Drive.
I would like to say that we will learn more in time, but I doubt that the media will cover this story again, unless something truly strange is uncovered. It will remain one of life's mysteries.
Drunk or high......mistook the house for his own place perhaps. It happens occasionally.
ReplyDeleteI suppose it is a sign of the times, that HOAs demand everything look uniform to the point that you can't identify your own home.
DeleteHOAs come after the tract SFRs (single family residences) are built. The developer may offer as few as three and maybe as many as six models buyers can choose from.
DeleteThe models then may be flipped, reversed footprint, to add variety to a neighborhood. But from the street they all begin to look alike. Entering a street from, say the west as opposed to usually from the east, one may mistake the south for the north.
The inebriated or newly arrived residents do make such an error.
Anyway, tracts are for suckers.
BTW; for the last ten yrs or so, developers have really pushed the 'smart' home. If this were the case here, how did the intruder gain entry? I mean, either it was forced entry, no mistake, or he had been invited in.