A driveway car burglary Saturday morning in South Miami-Dade ended with the suspect dead after the property owner took off after him and smashed into his scooter, police said Monday.
The homeowner had just been burglarized the night before. Someone broke into his car and stole several items, including the vehicle’s keys and a gun.
After Friday night’s car break-in, the suspect apparently returned to the house on Southwest 228th Terrace at 5 a.m. the next day. Police say the homeowner, Ellis Georges, came outside after seeing the burglar trying to break into his car again through his doorbell camera.
The burglary suspect, 35-year-old Michael Rullo, then hopped on his scooter and drove off. Police say Georges chased after him in his car.
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Miami-Dade police say Georges, 45, plowed his car into Rullo’s scooter, causing him to slam into the barriers.
Rullo died on the ground in between two of the barriers.
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Police arrested Georges on a charge of second-degree murder with a weapon. He is being held on no bond.
He broke into a car and stole a gun — then the owner ran him off the road, police say
Our good old “friend” Ego made its presence and somebody is charged with murder because they may have felt disrespected.
There was never an event that raised to threat to Death or Grave Bodily Harm. The event itself died the moment the burglar took off and the chase created by Georges is a new event in which he was the one holding the weapon used in the death of the victim.
Play stupid games…
Man, that Georges guy is an idiot. Besides the gun in the vehicle and the murder, why do people leave they keys to a vehicle in said vehicle? Especially outside?
When my vehicles aren’t going to be used in the next or few days, their keys go in the gun safe. In no case do I leave them *in* the vehicle.
From a legal standpoint, yes he is an idiot. However, I am sick of people constantly stealing everything, even if it IS nailed down. Every time I buy something, I did it with money that I had to sell slices of my life to obtain. Stealing it is in effect stealing parts of my life.
During those days when I was a paramedic, I once treated a guy who had been beaten in a robbery. The robber had followed him home from the store. The cop looked at me and said, “He got what he deserved. That’s what he gets for wearing an expensive watch to WalMart.”
That is no different than blaming a woman for her own rape because she wore revealing clothes.
Maybe if more thieves got killed in the attempt, it would discourage others.
Who came up with this shit? It is a shitty attempt to stop an argument. Criminal stats show that rapists do not give to shits about how the woman is dressed, ager or looks. However, if you knowingly go to a location where there are criminal characters, under the influence and start cockteasing them, expect the obvious outcome.
If a person leaves a gun in his car of stupidity or laziness and it gets stolen, they can’t come crying that are unfairly tagged as an idiot.
We are gun owners, we are supposed to be big on personal responsibility
The reason why it is an obvious outcome is that the victims never fight back. That is exactly my point. What if some percentage of their would be victims shoot them in the face? The main reason more criminals don’t get shot in the face is that law abiding people don’t want to go to jail.
Sure, the guy in your case was legally in the wrong for chasing down the thief, which resulted in the thief’s death. It used to be that, if you stole a man’s horse, the man and his friends would ride off into the desert to retrieve the horse. No one really cared if the horse thief came back or not. Although there are no stats available on that, I am betting you that there was a lot less stealing of horses back then than there is the stealing of cars today.
The law makes it a crime to punch someone for calling your wife a whore. It prevents us from using force to stop thievery. It makes it possible to blame the victim of theft for not using enough locks to stop the thief. This, they tell me, somehow makes us more “civilized.”