“Police arrived in the 3900 block of East Hampton Circle, near Val Vista Drive and U.S. 60, about 11 p.m., just as the shooting occurred. Officers found that the 29-year-old boyfriend of a neighborhood woman had been shot and killed by a 49-year-old homeowner who lives nearby. The homeowner had come outside after hearing the man and his girlfriend yelling at each other in the front yard. Although police have stopped short of using the term self-defense, they said the homeowner shot and killed the man because he was ‘going crazy’ with a billiards stick and charged at the homeowner. The man was found dead on the homeowner’s driveway. ‘As far as coming out with a gun, he was well within his rights,’ said Detective Chris Arvayo, Mesa police spokesman. ‘He was in his yard. He never left his property. He came out with a gun, which is his constitutional right.’” (07/07/08)