Cops shoot Texas homeowner dead after he kills intruder

[Netpackrat]

A Texas homeowner was shot dead by police after he shot and killed a career criminal who broke into his home Thursday night, authorities say.

The Dallas Morning News reports police did not realize 57-year-old William Keith Hall was defending his home when they arrived, and that Hall ignored the officers’ repeated demands he drop his weapon.

Offered without comment.

[Yogimus]

Sorry, but once you point guns at the cops, you tend to forfeit the moral high-ground.

"Cops shoot homeowner dead after he points a gun at neighbors, and responding police"

[rightisright]

Hall had no criminal record, but a neighbor told the Dallas Morning News Hall was a “loner” who lived in a “hoarder’s house.”

Sounds like homeowner had a bit o' crazy in him.

[Netpackrat]

Sorry, but once you point guns at the cops, you tend to forfeit the moral high-ground.

"Cops shoot homeowner dead after he points a gun at neighbors, and responding police"

I didn't make up the headline. Both it and your version seem to be equally accurate.

[Yogimus]

Oh, I am not blaming you, I blame the idiot who wrote the story. There are some STRONG implications in that story title that do not reflect the truth.

[Netpackrat]

That's why I included the first couple paragraphs of the linked story.

Edit to add: It's not that the headline doesn't reflect the truth; it appears to be exactly what happened. What it does is exploit the tendency to jump to conclusions based on limited information. It's great marketing, and does everything that a title should, because it makes you want to read the rest of the story, and technically doesn't carry any inherent bias.

[Greg]

It does seem like one of those 'we're never really going to know the full thing' stories that lead people to project their own assumptions onto the [lack of] facts.

[308Mike]

That's why I included the first couple paragraphs of the linked story.

Edit to add: It's not that the headline doesn't reflect the truth; it appears to be exactly what happened. What it does is exploit the tendency to jump to conclusions based on limited information. It's great marketing, and does everything that a title should, because it makes you want to read the rest of the story, and technically doesn't carry any inherent bias.

And wants you to buy the paper to read the story, and thus be exposed to the products of their advertisers.

"Yellow Journalism" at its finest. Create sales for the advertisers.