Needs specificity.On Sunday, March 25, Kansas City Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). police were called to the scene of an afternoon home invasion home invasion n. Burglary of a dwelling while the residents are at home. Noun 1. home invasion - burglary of a dwelling while the residents are at home . During a preliminary investigation, a homeowner said that two men in their 20s kicked in his front door, and that he got into a gunfight with the men, hitting both of them. The attackers retreated, but they didn't make it far. While fleeing in a vehicle, they crashed into a tree. Both men were killed. The police labeled the deaths as the "19th and 20th homicides of the year," reported KansasCity.com. If it is indeed true that the homeowner killed the men in self-defense (Law) in protection of self, - it being permitted in law to a party on whom a grave wrong is attempted to resist the wrong, even at the peril of the life of the assailiant. - Wharton. See also: Self-defense , why are the deaths referred to as homicides--a term that is synonymous with synonymous with adjective equivalent to, the same as, identical to, similar to, identified with, equal to, tantamount to, interchangeable with, one and the same as murder and manslaughter? Shouldn't they be called "defensive deaths" or something similar? |
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