The Arapahoe County District Attorney’s Office is reviewing the case of a man who allegedly shot another man who was breaking into his parked car early Friday morning.
Aurora police responded to report of gunshots at about 3:15 a.m. in the 3200 block of South Bahama Street. While there, they received a call that there was a shooting victim just a few blocks away in the 17700 block of East Eldorado Place.
A young man was transported to the hospital with a single gunshot wound to the torso. His condition was not life-threatening, but he remains in the hospital, according to the Aurora Police Department.
Witnesses told police that a resident of a house on the 3200 block of South Bahama Street had shot someone who was breaking into his car.
The homeowner told police he confronted the suspect who was trying to break into his car parked in the driveway. The homeowner was interviewed and released.
The District Attorney’s Office will now review the case and decide whether any charges will be filed against the homeowner.
Last week, Robert Wallace, 81, pleaded no contest to attempted reckless manslaughter and illegal discharge of a firearm into an occupied motor vehicle in a plea deal after an incident in February in which Wallace shot a man who was fleeing with his trailer in Wheat Ridge.
“The lesson to be learned is that Colorado law does not authorize a citizen to use deadly physical force to protect property,” said Jefferson County District Attorney Scott Storey during Wallace’s case.
The homeowner and the young man who was shot have not been identified.
This article has been corrected in this online archive. Robert Wallace pleaded
no contest to the charges of attempted reckless manslaughter and
illegal discharge of a firearm into an occupied motor vehicle.
