Officers showed up at the home and found a man struggling with a woman over a knife. An officer opened fire and struck the man, killing him at the scene. Only later did they discover the man who was killed lived at the home and was struggling to fend off the woman who had broken into his home.

Police say Brandon Durham, 43, had called 911 and reported multiple people outside his home shooting, then told the 911 operator that someone had entered his home through the front and back doors and he was locking himself in the bathroom.

He also told the 911 operator that he was home with his 15-year-old daughter, according to police. Officers kicked open the door after arriving on scene and hearing someone screaming as well as damage to vehicles parked outside the property, police said.

  • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    125·
    19 hours ago

    What else do you do? I get the point but who else deals with that if you can’t? At a certain point you have to roll those dice right?

    • Freefall@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      42 minutes ago

      You separate and control both people. You use your police h2h training to deescalate the situation, soak them both in pepper spray or taze them both while you sort out the facts. You get stabbed doing your duty to serve and protect civilians because you knew that is what you signed up for and why police are heroes…

      Oh wait…

    • JamesTBagg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      181·
      19 hours ago

      But a gun, learn to use it, call a lawyer then cops. Or gamble on the cops and going fisticuffs with a knife like this poor guy did.

      • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        62·
        13 hours ago

        a bunch of guys breaking into your house and you with one gun will probably have the same outcome

        especially if you store it safely, locked in a safe, unloaded, ammo separate

        • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          4 hours ago

          a bunch of guys breaking into your house and you with one gun

          Welcome to the argument for standard capacity magazines.

          • Rubanski@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            4 hours ago

            I thought that you are supposed to leave the chamber empty, preventing accidental discharge?

            • modus@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              60 minutes ago

              Fair question. Not pulling the trigger prevents accidental discharge.

              Having one in chamber saves time. It’s one less thing to do in a stressful situation when every millisecond counts. If it’s got a safety, train with it engaged and flip it off as part of any exercise.

      • Snapz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        714·
        11 hours ago

        Smash cut to Rambo over here in an actual perceived thread, tripping over his footie pajamas in the dark and shooting himself in the dick with the first bullet and his neighbor in the face with second. Then reveals that the “gang of migrants” “breaking in” was actually just mormon kids knocking on your door to tell you about home pest control service they are also selling on their iPads.

        You secured the perimeter, dipshit.

    • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
      42·
      18 hours ago

      Personally I blast a monolog sequence from an old mobster movie and then fire blank rounds of a tommy gun

          • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1·
            5 minutes ago

            You’re rooting for people who break and enter in occupied dwellings instead of a person defending their home, on a post about the cops showing up and shooting the homeowner who was struggling against a home invader attacking them with a knife? Ooooook.

      • ajoebyanyothername@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        17 hours ago

        And then give them to the count of 10 to get their ugly, yellow, no-good keister off my property, before I pump their guts full of lead.