Pasadena Neighbor May Have Shot Suspected Burglars in Back
Last Edited: Friday, 07 Dec 2007, 4:55 PM CST Created: Friday, 07 Dec 2007, 4:50 PM CST
Miguel DeJesus, Diego Ortiz
FOX 26 News
HOUSTON -- A preliminary autopsy report shows that the two victims police believe to have been burglarizing a home in Pasadena last month may have been shot in the back.
Police had originally thought the wounds on the front side of Miguel Antonio DeJesus, 38, and 30-year-old Diego Ortiz's bodies were where the gunshots entered their bodies. But the report shows that the wounds in front side of their bodies actually are where the shots may have exited.
Ortiz and DeJesus died Nov. 14 by 61-year-old Joe Horn who shot them in the chest and lower abdomen area.
Horn said he saw the two men breaking into a neighbor's house and called 9-1-1 threatening to kill the men, a 9-1-1 tape revealed. As the men were leaving, Horn confronted and shot them with a 12-gauge shotgun despite an emergency dispatcher's instructions to stay inside his home.
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