Jan. 27--No charges will be filed against an 80-year-old man who fatally shot a woman who was burglarizing his Long Beach home, prosecutors said Monday.
On July 22, Thomas Greer fired two bullets into the back of Andrea Miller, 28, even after she begged him not to shoot and claimed she was pregnant.
Prosecutors say Miller and her suspected accomplice, 26-year-old Gus Adams, had assaulted Greer before prying open a safe and stealing $5,000.
Greer, who was robbed on two other occasions, "held a reasonable fear of imminent peril of death or great bodily injury," wrote Los Angeles County Deputy Dist. Atty. Janet Moore, explaining the office's decision not to charge him.
"Greer exercised his legal and legitimate right of self-defense when he shot and killed Andrea Miller," Moore wrote.
Authorities claim Ruby Adams served as a lookout while her son, Gus, and Miller allegedly broke into Greer's home in the 3900 block of Country Club Drive.
Gus Adams was charged with five felony counts in connection to the Bixby Knolls break-in: murder, grand theft of a firearm, possession of a firearm by a felon, and first-degree robbery and burglary.
His mother was charged with first-degree residential burglary and first-degree residential robbery.
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