Posted
2/28/2005 05:18:00 PM
by Douglas
Note to self: Don't rob a bar at 5 a.m. if the bar has an alarm and the owner lives
next door. A man was shot to death early today in a confrontation with the owner of a north Harris County bar responding to a burglar alarm, sheriff's detectives said.
The incident occurred at 5 a.m. when an alarm sounded at the Circle M Bar and Grill in the 15900 block of Telge near Louetta. Deputies arrived to find Miller shot in the parking lot and the bar owner armed with a pistol.
The bar owner told detectives he had responded to the alarm at his business, which is located just west of his home. He grabbed a handgun and encountered Miller coming out of the bar after it was burglarized. The two men had a confrontation in the parking lot, and the bar owner shot at Miller several times, hitting him once, detectives said.
I'm sure we're going to find out, but there's a chance that the guy shot didn't have anything to do with the robbery. But somehow I doubt it.