https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15011581/shelby-hurd-joliet-illinois-burglar.html
Burglar shot and killed by mother protecting her baby during home invasion is identified – and his past is terrifying
By MARYANN MARTINEZ and JIMMY MCCLOSKEY, US DEPUTY HEAD OF NEWS
Published: 14:19 EDT, 18 August 2025 | Updated: 18:13 EDT, 18 August 2025
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A burglar shot and killed by a mother as she hid her baby in a closet during a home invasion was a serial criminal who’d only recently been freed from jail.
Shelby Hurd, 36, died last Tuesday after being blasted in the head with a bullet while entering the unidentified mother’s home in Joliet, Illinois.
Patch reported that Hurd was only freed on parole in February this year over a slew of previous burglary convictions.
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Sadly some people never change or learn. Guess he can be nominated for a Darwin Award. Does not say if he was a “father”. It does say a lot about the Illinois prison and parole system. As a felon with multiple convictions, parole should NOT be considered.
As far as the lack of a “stand your ground” law in Illinois, I’m not surprised given that it is a “blue state”. The criminal must be afraid of the citizen. That can only happen when people have the means of “self defense”.
“This may be considered as the true palladium of liberty. … The right of self defence is the first law of nature: in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any colour or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.” ~ St. George Tucker 1803
Remember if having guns in civil society was a problem, given the number of guns and gun owners in the USA, we’d known it.
“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” — Robert A. Heinlein
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