OH - Man Shoots, Kills Would-Be Home Invader

[Kevlar]

Columbus police yesterday identified the victim in a Friday night shooting on the Northeast Side as Charles R. Sprague, 35, of Columbus.

Sprague was shot while trying to break into an apartment at 5764 Cooper Rd., said detective James Day of the homicide squad. A man inside the apartment fired shots because he felt threatened by Sprague, Day said.

"It appeared that the victim in this incident was the aggressor and that the shooter was acting in self-defense," Day said. "He'd actually tried to force his way into the apartment at the back door when this occurred."

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Sprague was a registered sex offender with a criminal history that includes a 2006 conviction for gross sexual imposition. He served a sentence of a year and a half at Madison Correctional Institution before his release in November 2007. He was still under the Adult Parole Authority's supervision, state prison records show.

Day said the shooter told investigators that he fought with Sprague, who was nearly twice his size, and tried to convince him to leave before firing shots.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/conten...n-killed-during-break-in-attempt.html?sid=101

 

[FiremanBob]

Best possible outcome: no hospital bills, no trial, no incarceration expense. He should have been executed for the rape in the first place - 18 months? WTF!

 

[Speedway]

Cleanup on aisle 3.

 

[Business]

"Sprague was shot while trying to break into an apartment at 5764 Cooper Rd."

"It appeared that the victim in this incident was the aggressor and that the shooter was acting in self-defense"

"Sprague was a registered sex offender with a criminal history that includes a 2006 conviction for gross sexual imposition."

so whens the award ceremony?

 

[GaryO]

Day said the shooter told investigators that he fought with Sprague, who was nearly twice his size, and tried to convince him to leave before firing shots

The shooter is lucky to be alive, and it is a good outcome.

 

[BigMike]

I thought firing shots WAS convincing an intruder to leave

 

[Masterguns]

I thought firing shots WAS convincing an intruder to leave

LOL

 

[Erebus]

Why are they still calling this guy "the victim"?

I thought firing shots WAS convincing an intruder to leave

It would convince me.

 

[Jose]

 

[Scrivener]

Sprague was a registered sex offender with a criminal history that includes a 2006 conviction for gross sexual imposition. He served a sentence of a year and a half at Madison Correctional Institution before his release in November 2007. He was still under the Adult Parole Authority's supervision, state prison records show.

Day said the shooter told investigators that he fought with Sprague, who was nearly twice his size, and tried to convince him to leave before firing shots.

The only mistake seems to be waiting before shooting an attacker twice the victim's size.