ORANGE COUNTY ALMANAC : 10 Years Ago Today . . .
. . . A Buena Park man, bound with tape in his home by robbers, worked his way free and fatally shot one of the robbers with a sawed-off shotgun.
The 34-year-old mechanic and gun collector had answered the door to be confronted by two armed men wearing ski masks. They left before he freed himself, but one of them returned, with fatal consequences.
Source: Times archives
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