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“This is a horror movie scenario”: Man killed naked intruder before being shot by Aurora police

The man shot and killed by Aurora police was defend­ing his fam­ily from a naked stranger who had burst through the front door of their East Montview Boule­vard home in the wee hours of Mon­day morn­ing, grab­bing an 11-year-old boy who was sleep­ing on a couch and attack­ing him.

The 73-year-old man, who has been iden­ti­fied as Richard “Gary” Black and was the boy’s grand­fa­ther, shot the intruder with a 9-mm pis­tol while the stranger was chok­ing and try­ing to drown the boy in a bath­tub, said Sid­dhartha Rathod, an attor­ney rep­re­sent­ing Black’s fam­ily. The intruder died.

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