Joe Horn No-Billed

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Grand jury clears Joe Horn in controversial Pasadena shootings



HOUSTON -- The Pasadena man who shot and killed two suspected burglars last November was no-billed by a Harris County grand jury Monday.

Horn's attorney, Tom Lambright, first heard the news in a phone call from 11 News.

"I'm sure Joe will be delighted," Lambright said. He said he planned to call Horn immediately.

"The message that the grand jury sent today is frightening," said community activist Quanell X.
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Horn testified before the jurors for about 90 minutes on Friday before he was escorted out of the courtroom in secret.

The fiancé of one of the men Horn killed was hoping for a different outcome.

“He shouldn’t have shot those men. He shot them in the back,” Stephany Storey said Friday. “I think he should see jail time. He should be behind bars.”

Storey had hoped to make that point before the grand jury, but she was turned away.

The grand jury has been on the case for two weeks, working through the details of an incident that garnered national attention.

Horn maintains that he shot the men in self-defense. An autopsy report indicated that both men were shot in the back.

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Police later said the two illegal immigrants were believed to be part of an organized home burglary ring out of Colombia.

Horn called 911 to report two men had broken into his neighbor's house.

During the 911 call, the operator repeatedly warned Horn to stay inside.

“I’ve got a shotgun do you want me to stop ‘em?” Horn asked.

“Nope don’t do that. Ain’t no property worth shooting somebody over OK?,” the Pasadena dispatcher said as he called out officers to the scene.

“I’ll be honest with you, I’m not gonna let ‘em go, I’m not gonna let them get away with this (expletive),” he told the dispatcher.

Then a short time later: “I can’t take a chance on getting killed over this. I’m gonna shoot. I’m gonna shoot.”

The entire shooting was caught on tape.

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Things turned ugly when protesters clashed outside of Horn's house late last year.

Horn can be heard telling the suspects, "Move, You're dead," followed by a loud boom.

The shooting ignited a national debate about the use of deadly force in protecting property.

Many of Horn’s neighbors supported his actions, while some community activists have condemned him as a gun-toting vigilante.

Funny how the media left out one word in his quote and made it seem like he shot w/o giving a warning

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TEXAS PENAL CODE 9.43
JOE HORN HAS MY PERMISSION

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No Im not selling the shirts...Im just standing up for a guy who protected his neighbors property, a good citizen..for those that are wondering

§ 9.42. DEADLY FORCE TO PROTECT PROPERTY. A person is
justified in using deadly force against another to protect land or
tangible, movable property:
(1) if he would be justified in using force against the
other under Section 9.41; and
(2) when and to the degree he reasonably believes the
deadly force is immediately necessary:
(A) to prevent the other's imminent commission of
arson, burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, theft during the
nighttime, or criminal mischief during the nighttime; or
(B) to prevent the other who is fleeing
immediately after committing burglary, robbery, aggravated
robbery, or theft during the nighttime from escaping with the
property; and
(3) he reasonably believes that:
(A) the land or property cannot be protected or
recovered by any other means; or
(B) the use of force other than deadly force to
protect or recover the land or property would expose the actor or
another to a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury.




§ 9.43. PROTECTION OF THIRD PERSON'S PROPERTY. A person
is justified in using force or deadly force against another to
protect land or tangible, movable property of a third person if,
under the circumstances as he reasonably believes them to be, the
actor would be justified under Section 9.41 or 9.42 in using force
or deadly force to protect his own land or property and:
(1) the actor reasonably believes the unlawful
interference constitutes attempted or consummated theft of or
criminal mischief to the tangible, movable property; or
(2) the actor reasonably believes that:
(A) the third person has requested his protection
of the land or property;
(B) he has a legal duty to protect the third
person's land or property; or
(C) the third person whose land or property he
uses force or deadly force to protect is the actor's spouse, parent,
or child, resides with the actor, or is under the actor's care.

PENAL CODE CHAPTER 9. JUSTIFICATION EXCLUDING CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY

Legally he had every right to go out and stop them...even though he should have shut his stinking piehole on the 911 call..sheesh!

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I'd love to have some neighbors like Joe Horn!