Deadly Home Invasion in Blue Mound

It was strange this morning to see a long article in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram about the killing spree that took place in my old hometown zone a couple days ago. I blogged about that yesterday.

I don't know exactly what made it seem strange. Maybe it was reading place names and locations, with which I was quite familiar, in a paper where I don't expect to read news from what used to be local to me.

I more expect to read stories about horrible crimes that take place in this zone. Like a home invasion that turned deadly in Blue Mound early Wednesday. Blue Mound is a suburb in the northwest part of the D/FW Metroplex. The guy you see in the photo, with his kid, Keith Hoehn, was secure in his home with his, Kellie, when suddenly a 300 pound man with a shotgun and a lesser-sized accomplice burst into their house.

With the shotgun pointed at his wife's face, told not to scream, but she did scream. For her husband. Who came to the rescue. The shotgun was then pointed at Hoehn's face, but the wife grabbed the muzzle and a struggle ensued.

As his wife kept holding the muzzle, Hoehn saw that the gun-holder was pulling the trigger, to no avail. Because the safety was on.

Then Kellie let go of the gun long enough to grab a candle and whacked the fat guy on the head. Then she took off after the accomplice who had a handgun.

At that point their son grabbed his little sister and hid in a closet.

The shotgun got loose, just like in a Western, Hoehn grabbed it. The fight moved outside. Hoehn took the safety off and shot successfully at the accomplice with the handgun, John Garland Pierson, 25 of Haltom City, another D/FW suburb.

Then he fired at the fat guy, who had originally had the shotgun, Dakota Scott Benoit, 2o, from Richland Hills, that's another suburb. After the first shot, the fat guy got up. So, Hoehn fired again. This time killing the home invader.

The surviving bad guy is in critical condition. Police believe the pair had invaded a Fort Worth home on Tuesday.

Their home invasions days are now over. What a strange career choice.