Missouri homeowner kills 2 intruders within 4 months
FRANKLIN COUNTY, Mo. - For the second time in four months, a Missouri man killed an alleged intruder in his home, reports CBS affiliate KMOV.
Mike Weiners told KMOV that his former neighbor, Eric Frazer, barged into his house around 2:00 a.m. Tuesday carrying an ax. Weiners said Frazer destroyed some items in the home, demanded money and that he be driven to Arkansas.
"He said 'I will kill you, I'm going to kill you," victim Mike Weiners said.
Weiners said Frazer then went after him.
"He says 'I think I'm going to chop your feet off,' and I'm like 'what?' So he whacks and it hits the table and busts the table up. He barely missed my feet," Weiners said.
Weiners said Frazer was angry about losing his license due to unpaid child support, and took out his anger on the first person he could find.
"He reached around to get the money and that's when I got him. I struck him and he ran out the door and jumped in my truck and drove off," Weiners said.
Police said Wieners stabbed Frazer multiple times.
Weiners said he called police, who found Frazer slumped over the wheel of a stolen truck. Frazer later died at a hospital.
Weiners previously shot an intruder in February. According to Franklin County Sheriff's Captain Charles Subke, a man who Weiners previously had an argument with banged on his door on Feb. 26 while Weiner was in bed. Weiner told police he got up and when the man entered the house they scuffled over one of the two guns the man was carrying and it went off, killing him.
Captain Subke said the February death was ruled a justifiable homicide and that police have not yet sent Tuesday's case to the prosecutor. He said that a homeowner killing two intruders in less than six months was "unusual."