79-year-old landlord opens fire on naked intruder who body-slammed him to ground, breaking his legs



A 79-year-old landlord opened fire on a naked male intruder who body-slammed him to the ground Friday morning, breaking his legs, authorities said.

The incident occurred around 7:15 a.m. in the 4500 block of Tujunga Avenue at a Studio City apartment in Los Angeles, authorities told KABC-TV.

'Why is he out here naked?'

Surveillance video captured the intruder walking naked around the neighborhood, the station said, adding that video also shows him at the front door of a home and grabbing a sign and then continuing to walk.

The suspect soon entered an apartment, after which two women who were home at the time confronted him, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson told KABC.

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The women yelled at the trespasser to get out, prompting the landlord to rush to their aid, the LAPD said.

The intruder body-slammed the landlord, breaking both of the victim's legs, police said.

The 79-year-old man "at this time, in self-defense, shoots the suspect three times," said Capt. Warner Castillo of the Los Angeles Police Department.

Castillo added to KTTV-TV that the victim gave the naked man every opportunity to stop what he was doing before shots were fired.

"The 79-year-old man tells the suspect to leave, tells him I have a gun, and I will shoot you. The suspect grabs the 79-year-old man, lifts him, throws him on the ground, and that’s where the 79-year-old man suffered two broken legs," Castillo noted to KTTV.

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What's more, Castillo added to KTTV that "the suspect got shot one time, and the suspect still approached the 79-year-old [who] shot the suspect again, killing him."

KTTV noted that the victim, identified only as George, was taken to a hospital and underwent surgery. A neighbor added to KTTV the 79-year-old man is a Vietnam veteran.

The name of the suspect has not been released, KTTV noted. No injuries to the women were reported, KABC said.

"I heard commotion, like a lady yelling," a woman who witnessed the incident and declined to be identified by name told KABC. "Then I looked over, and it was a naked guy. At first I thought it was just like, maybe it's a house fire. Like, why is he out here naked?"

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WATCH: Joe Rogan gives his two cents on the ‘squatters' rights’ epidemic: 'It’s just law and order'



A few days ago, Joe Rogan had comedian and actor Joey Diaz on “The Joe Rogan Experience” to discuss a range of topics, including the wave of infuriating cases across the country involving “squatters' rights.”

Squatters' rights, formally called adverse possession, is a legal principle in which someone who has no lawful ownership or rentership over a property is permitted to continue living there without the rightful owner’s permission.

It’s easy to see why there are so many squatters' rights cases popping up all over the country — it’s basically grand theft with zero consequences for the squatter and maximum consequences for the rightful property owner.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), however, has taken charge of the issue by signing a law into effect eliminating squatters' rights in the state.

“In Georgia, there's a thousand houses right now that people are squatting in” but “not Florida,” Rogan told Diaz. “In Florida, they’re like, ‘F**k you.”’

“[DeSantis] is like, ‘In Florida, that does not fly. There is no way anyone's going to squat in your house in Florida,’ which is what people want to hear,” he continued, adding that DeSantis’ anti-squatter policy “should be in every state,” because it’s just “logical.”

“It has nothing to do with racism or xenophobia or white privilege or any of these dumb things they try to attach to this. It's just law and order. We have to have a set of laws that we all abide by if we're going to have a peaceful society where you don't create victims and you don't empower criminals, and the fact that that is complicated in 2024 is so strange to me,” Rogan said.

“It ain’t rocket science,” says Dave Rubin, who applauds Rogan’s words.

To see the clip of Rogan ripping into squatters' rights and praising Florida’s new anti-squatter law, watch the clip below.


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