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."
The homeowners credit their dog with alerting them to the presence of the intruder, who came in through a sliding-glass door, officials said.
POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
hopefully the school board will stay the hell out of this and he wont loose his job.
“I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democrat Party has adopted our platform.” - Norman Thomas, a six time candidate for president for the Socialist Party, 1944
