Thief Returns to Crime Scene to Retrieve Lost Shoe, Gets His Ass Shot by Home-owner

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DETROIT (WJBK) - "It just got to a point were we just had to take action for ourselves. It was just happening too frequently," said Hector Martinez.

There have been too many break-ins way too often at a home on Horatio in southwest Detroit.

"We had break-ins at least three times in the last two months," Martinez said.

Their pit bull was even stolen, but this time, two men allegedly broke into their Chevy Blazer and busted out a rear window about 2:30 Tuesday morning.
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"We never tried to hurt anybody. We just tried to scare them off," said Martinez. "We just fired off warning shots, and it wasn't up until when the cops came that they told us that one of them was dead and the other one was injured."

http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/local/robbery-suspect-returns-for-shoe,-fatally-shot-by-homeowner-20110628-mr

Of course, I'm not condoning using lethal force over mere property crimes -- guns should only be used in self-defense if one's life is in danger -- but I kind of have a hard time feeling much sympathy toward the criminals who got shot... "occupational hazard" and all that.