Brown, 54, was allegedly burgling a home in Choctaw when the officer discovered him while checking on the residence because his in-laws were away.
According to reports, the officer arrived to find the door open and the dwelling ransacked. When he found Brown with a gun, the cop shot and killed him.
Look, there are very few places you want to run into an off-duty cop with a gun — maybe at Affair of the Firearm at the fairgrounds — but inside his in-laws’ home is the worst. Because everyone, at least once, has wanted to pull out a pistol in their in-laws’ place and fire off a couple of rounds.
The last thing you want to do is give a guy an excuse.
This article appears in Aug 5-11, 2015.