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o_brother · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:35 am Post subject: Rockport Guide Shot and Killed

Saw this on another site... Very sad situation... Does anyone know the Minns from Rockport family.....

Man killed entering Aransas County home
By Elvia Aguilar (Contact)
Originally published 12:00 a.m., January 12, 2009
Updated 12:43 a.m., January 12, 2009

An Aransas County man was killed early Sunday morning while trying to enter a home on Portia Lane, south of Rockport.

According to Aransas County Sheriff Bill Mills, Leonard Minns, 29, was pounding on the door of the Portia Lane home. The homeowner answered the door holding a 12-gauge shotgun. After Minns tried to enter the home, the homeowner told him to leave.

According to statements taken by police, when Minns didn't leave, he was shot twice and died at the scene. Mills said an autopsy has been ordered and the case will be referred to the district attorney's office on Monday.

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topdog15 · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:14 am Post subject:

Sad situation......................but I'm confused as to why an autopsy was ordered when it is already known that he died of gunshot wounds?
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robul · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 26 Jun 2007 Posts: 2677

very sad.

Maybe they are going to Check Minns for alcohol or drugs? Maybe he was sick and needing help? I guess they want an explanation on why he was pounding on the door?

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ironmanstan · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:27 am Post subject:

He would have gotten the welcome at my house but only if I didn't know him from a can of beans. Its still a sad deal all the way around. Shocked

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THE_BLUFF_RAT · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:37 am Post subject:

very sad indeed.....but i do have to say, if someone came up bangin on my door and tried to enter when i answered it even though i said leave now...i would have done the same thing. hope i never get into that situation.
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Mansfield Mauler · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 3:41 pm Post subject:

read the comments section on the caller.com website
http://www.caller.com/news/2009/jan/12/man-killed-entering-aransas-county-home/

CopanoCruisin · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 7:32 pm Post subject:

Very sad situation, he was a friend of some of our close friends.

JayandCoyote · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 8:56 pm Post subject:

The evening news had a story about this. They said the two men involved were childhood friends and that they had an on-going argument. The mother-in-law seemed to think that the guy was invited to the house to settle the argument. They said the sheriff's office thought it was a justified shooting but if the guy was invited over things could change. Don't know how they would determine that with one witness gone.

On a side note, about six months ago someone banged on my front door at midnight. It turned out to be CCPD. I had answered the door with a pistol behind my back and when they asked to come in I told them to hold on a minute while I got the dogs. I stuck the pistol in my foosball table and let them in. They searched my house for a woman that was being assaulted. I had already told them my wife was in Houston but they had to check. After not finding anything one of the cops says, "you have an empty holster in that back room that you need to check out, goodnight". I thought that was kinda funny.

Then about three months ago someone bangs on my door about 5am. I hear a woman crying on the other side and open the door. She says she was at my neighbor's house drinking and some guy beat her up and broke her cell phone as she shows the broken cell phone. I called 911 and let the cops handle it.

I guess in both cases it is best that I did not start blasting the door. I think it is about time I put a peep-hole on my frontdoor Smile

BALZTOWAL · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:37 pm Post subject:

COYOTE WHERE DO YOU LIVE THAT YOU GET THAT MUCH ATTENTION.

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Big Ed · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:18 am Post subject:

May have posted this story before, but several years ago I was awaken by someone pounding on my front door and yelling at about 3:00 am. By the time I found my 12 guage he was gone. I saw him across the street banging on my neighbors door. With my door open, I could understand him finally. He was yelling Ayudame (help in Spanish) over and over. Well, he was having no luck in getting anyone to open their door to him at 3:00 am. A couple of minutes later the police showed up. As I walked out on the sidewalk, I saw the guy sitting on a curb with cops on either side of him. Shortly, Airlife Chopper landed at the corner. Boy, they can land in tight spaces. When I walked out the next morning there was blood on the side of my truck in the driveway, blood spots all down the driveway and sidewalk and blood all over my front door. I could watch trails of blood going down the sidewalk and across the street. What a mess. Later in the day I found out the story. The guy was an illegal who was riding the rails. He fell as he was getting on or off a train and it cut his arm off. He just headed to the nearest street lights to try and find help and ended up in my neighborhood. He died in the hospital that day. Other than just a wild story, I guess this has a couple of morals. First, I probably would have been justified in nailing him with my 12 guage as he was kicking the door so hard he broke the storm door. Luckily I didn't. I would have had to live with that for lots of years. Secondly, I still had to justify not helping this guy in my own mind (as did my neighbors). Although I felt a lot of guilt for quite a while, I would probably handle a similar occurance the same way. Just can't see justifying potentially harming myself and my wife under those circumstances. Probably not too many rational people would open their door when someone is screaming in a language they don't understand and apparently trying to kick down that door.
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Big John · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 2647

Just a few months back somone tried to kick our front door open in the middle of the night. Me yelling and the dog barking dettered that guy, but I picked up a Glock 40 cal, because I will do whatever it takes to protect my family, and realized if the other guy has a gun, and I don't my wife and daughter are in jeopardy.
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