How ‘bout them apples.
A homeowner in the Tampa Bay area said he was inside his home playing video games just after midnight on Friday morning when he heard the glass of his laundry room door shatter.
“...the homeowner grabbed a gun and saw the first suspect down a long hallway wearing a dark ski mask and dark clothing and pointing a gun at him.
The homeowner fired and the suspect went down, according to PCSO.
That’s when the victim saw a second suspect down the same hallway pointing a gun at him, so he fired again. At some point, a suspect fired his gun...
When the second suspect went down, the victim saw a third suspect down the hallway, so he fired again and the suspect fell.
The victim’s gun jammed at this point, so he went to grab another gun. When he returned to the hallway, he noticed that the third suspect was gone. That’s when he got a phone call from a neighbor who said he was holding the third suspect outside at gunpoint to keep him from getting away.
Deputies arrived shortly before 1 a.m. and said two suspects died at the scene and the third suspect was taken to the hospital where he is expected to survive.”
The sheriff said the intruders who died have histories of violent crime, saying “this is not out of the norm of their activities to use violence.”
The surviving intruder that was wounded faces charges of armed home invasion and two counts of felony murder.
Under the state’s felony murder statute, homicide charges can be filed if someone dies in the commission of a crime. In this case, that would be the deaths of his accused accomplices during the home invasion.