Louisiana
Louisiana mother scuffles with home intruder, shoots him dead: police
A Louisiana mother shot a person lifeless after he broke into her home whereas she was residence along with her two younger kids Sunday, police stated.
The suspect, Robert Rheams, allegedly broke into the house on Klein Highway in Tangipahoa Parish, armed with a shovel and lug wrench within the early morning hours, the native sheriff’s workplace stated.
Rheams, 51, and the lady acquired right into a bodily scuffle after she discovered him inside her residence. Through the battle, she fatally shot him round 5 a.m., in accordance with Chief Jimmy Travis.
The house intruder, who was out on parole after serving twenty years in jail for armed theft, was pronounced lifeless on the scene.
Investigators stated he was additionally the suspect in a carjacking hours earlier than he broke into the household’s residence.
There have been no arrests and Travis stated it seems that the lady was “exercising her second modification rights to guard herself and her kids from a violent residence invasion.”