FL: Wellington teacher fatally shoots armed intruder
Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 12:04 am
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And here's the burglar/intruder alarm:Wellington teacher fatally shoots armed intruder, PBSO says
Robert R. Tomlin
By C. Ron Allen, Dianna Cahn and Marc Freeman
6:22 PM EST, February 16, 2009
WELLINGTON - One man is dead and a couple is left shaken after a home-invasion robbery turned deadly early Monday.
The intruder wound up dead after he was shot by Heath Miller, 34, a popular music teacher at Howell L. Watkins MIddle School. The dead man is identified as Robert Rishard Tomlin, 22.
According to Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office spokesman Pete Palenzuela, Tomlin entered the home Miller was renting through a back sliding-glass door at about at approximately 1:50 a.m. Miller told authorities he saw the silhouette of an individual with a handgun coming through the bedroom door and fired.
Miller and his wife Mirelle were quite shaken and were staying with his parents, said his mother Harma Miller, a former Belle Glade mayor who served for 14 years as a city commissioner. The Miller family also runs a funeral home in Belle Glade, Miller Mortuary.
"He's all right for a few minutes and then he's not all right," Harma Miller said. "They are pretty wasted. Actually, they are going to need some therapy."
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The homeowners credit their dog with alerting them to the presence of the intruder, who came in through a sliding-glass door, officials said.