Suspected robber killed by homeowner

[djpup]

Another Obama supporter breaks into house, assaults homeowner and dies.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -

Police said a homeowner shot and killed a man Wednesday morning who tried to break into his Arlington home about dawn on Friday.

According to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, the man, 21-year-old Marquise Trevel Yates, broke into a home on Seabrook Cove Road, off Arlington Expressway, about 6:30 a.m. and threatened the homeowner, 50-year-old Foster Coker, at gunpoint.

Police said there was a struggle between Yates (pictured below) and Coker, but Coker was able to get away.

"The homeowner was able to retrieve a firearm and the suspect of the robbery was deceased at the scene," said Sgt. Michael Paul.

According to the police report, Coker retrieved his personal firearm and exchanged gunfire with Yates. Coker's wife, Pam, also fired her personal handgun at Yates, who died at the scene.

The Cokers were taken to UF Health with non-life-threatening injuries consistent with blunt force trauma, according to JSO.

“If we had not had a gun in our home, we would be dead,” Pam Coker said from the hospital Friday. “I'm convinced of that. That guy was strong and he was not going to stop. Nothing was going to stop him.”

Pam Coker said she was getting ready for work when Yates kicked in the deadbolted wooden back door and burst into the home.

“He came at me, was chasing me,” Pam Coker said. “Had a gun in his hand.”

She said Yates pushed her down. She screamed for her husband, who jumped out of bed and over Pam, struggling for the gun as Yates bit his finger and beat him.

“He just wouldn't stop,” Pam Coker said. “The guy wouldn't stop. He just kept fighting. He hit my husband in the head really bad several times (with the gun) and busted his head. So I got our gun and we had to shoot him.”

The Cokers' 7-year-old grandson was in the home at the time. He was not hurt.

“We told him to stay in the bedroom,” Pam Coker said. “And when the policemen came they went inside the bedroom and put a blanket over him and took him out.”

The couple's daughter, Amber Olsen, who couldn't stop shaking, called her parents heroes.

“The whole thing, it'll shake anybody up,” Olsen said. “You never think in a million years something like this is going to happen to your family, especially your mother with your child in the house, and they protected him with their lives.”

“I'm sad for the person who thought they should do something like that, and I'm sad for us that we had to experience something like that,” Pam Coker said. “It was horrible. No one wants to hurt somebody, but if you have to do it to keep from being killed, you have to do it.”

News4Jax crime and safety analyst Gil Smith said the random home invasion sounds like a crime of opportunity.

“A lot of times when people are doing home invasions, one thing they're looking for is a quick and easy escape route,” Smith said. “This house is near the corner, very close to the expressway, so his plan was to probably take what he can take, get into his vehicle and get onto the Arlington Expressway."

Investigators taped off an area of Seabrook Cove Road at Arlington Expressway.

"Very shocking. Too close to home. I have little kids," neighbor Jamieal Brooks said. "We all need to just stop and live together and stop doing all this violence."

A couple weeks ago, burglars broke into ITC Auto Sales across the street. They cut the power and stole seven cars, ramming them through the fence.

“They took the meter from the electric system, which means they crippled the power and any surveillance we have was inoperable at that time,” said Ahmed Neenia of ITC Auto Sales. “They definitely knew what they were doing."

“There was a time when Arlington was an absolutely beautiful place to live,” Pam Coker said. “And it's turned into nothing but gangs and crime, and decent people are being chased out."

The JSO Homicide Unit is investigating the death and the State Attorney’s Office is reviewing the case

Picture and video: http://www.news4jax.com/news/jso-inv...ngton/27504490

[PocketProtector]

"There was a time when Arlington was an absolutely beautiful place to live,” Pam Coker said. And it's turned into nothing but gangs and crime, and decent people are being chased out."

Every city in Amerika. But we all know whose fault it is....everyone who left and everyone who was never there

[Qtrborecrazy]

To the perp, rest in hell. To the victims, good shooting.

[DClan]

To the perp, rest in hell. To the victims, good shooting.

Absolutely nailed it. Remember , gun control means having a gun, being in control of it, and hitting your target with reasonable accuracy. I applaud the gun control these home owners applied to this situation.

[fortysix]

See if the perp was smart, he would have just held up his hands and called time out.

[MJH]

Oh God! And now we've lost another good boy that was going to start college next week. He only had the gun because he was taking it to his grandmother's house. How could these old people murder this young man just as he was turning his life around?? I hope Obummer gets involved with this tragedy ASAP. If this trend is allowed to continue, colleges around the country will have no students to attend classes in the Fall.

I give it 24 hrs before his 8th grade class picture if floating around every media outlet identifying this misguided boy.

[dlcole]

"The homeowner was able to retrieve a firearm and the suspect of the robbery was deceased at the scene," said Sgt. Michael Paul.

Best police quote of all time, simple and to the point!

[streaker69]

Oh God! And now we've lost another good boy that was going to start college next week. He only had the gun because he was taking it to his grandmother's house. How could these old people murder this young man just as he was turning his life around?? I hope Obummer gets involved with this tragedy ASAP. If this trend is allowed to continue, colleges around the country will have no students to attend classes in the Fall.

I give it 24 hrs before his 8th grade class picture if floating around every media outlet identifying this misguided boy.

Wait a minute. How did they get the deceased to pose for that picture? I mean, he didn't have a previous criminal record before he got confused where his own home was and was gunned down by the racist homeowners, right?

[MJH]

Wait a minute. How did they get the deceased to pose for that picture? I mean, he didn't have a previous criminal record before he got confused where his own home was and was gunned down by the racist homeowners, right?

Right. Good thing he had his picture taken for the Good Citizen Award previously, otherwise we wouldn't have a current picture of the victim.

[streaker69]

Right. Good thing he had his picture taken for the Good Citizen Award previously, otherwise we wouldn't have a current picture of the victim.

Bastard press people cropping out him shaking hands with the mayor handing him the keys to the city.