Alberta Man Kills Robber in Botched Home Invasion

by Rob Walker | January 4, 2008 at 06:47 am

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While Canada is more stringent about its self-defence laws (its generally considered you're allowed to use a similar amount of force being used against you, within reason. So if someone shoots a gun at you, you could fire back...but if someone tries to punch you, you can't stab them). In this case it sounds like it would normally be pretty cut and dry, since they were in the man's bedroom where he and his girlfriend were sleeping, but the police are saying the men all knew each other...

That usually means some previous altercation, or drugs/money were involved.

A home invasion took a deadly twist yesterday, leaving one of two bandits dead and a suspect in critical condition from serious stab wounds.

And murder charges could be pending against the 35-year-old man renting the acreage home, who, along with his girlfriend, was jarred awake at 3:30 a.m. when the two men burst into the bedroom after forcibly entering the residence through a side door.

Mounties said the man fought off the two assailants, leaving one of them, a 32-year-old man, dead in the bedroom -- an unusual turn of events for police at the scene.

"It doesn't happen very often where an attacker ends up dead," RCMP Cpl. Patty Neely said.