Heh heh heh!

Something really does not pass the smell test. They stole a truck, 17 guns, 200 rounds of ammo and some pills in OK, then went to Texas to rob a house? Then they shoot themselves after a confrontation with an armed homeowner? Huh?
Who is this, Dummy and Clyde?

Don´t mess with Texa(S)ns!

Sure is a twisted headline.

I agree there must be more to this. Maypearl is a tiny little wide place in the road, very little happens there. It´s not a place where homeowners would be targeted for robbery. However, that area is full of meth labs, tucked away in garages and mobile homes. There´s more to it, I guarantee.

Poorly written article by LA Times.

Yeah, GOT to be more to the story.

Do the gun grabbers in congress, Colorado, Californicate, and other such states know about this: a gun owner defending himself, his wife, and their property?

Yeah, love the lefty headline too. Might as well say:

"Children gunned down by Republicans, town rejoices"

Hyphenated name tells all that you need to know about the author, and the facts.

Two LoFo voters in training who won´t be adding to the prison overcrowding.

This is basically Hennessy-Fiske´s rewrite of info from the Associated Press.

Sounds as though they had crime on their minds, planning to start with a housewife alone in her rural home. When her husband showed up and bullets began flying their way, hitting one, they became a couple of panicked - and possibly drugged up - kids. The idea of prison time could do that to them.

Did I miss the part describing them as "honor students with ready smiles for everyone"?

Article says the one thug was shot several times, probably was dying or at least thought he was and shot himself. Possible the other one shot him - who knows, asked to do it by the wounded one? Maybe the unwounded one ´helps´ his friend then ´can´t go on´ and off´s himself. Lots of varations, who cares? Choices have consequences.

I like a story with a happy ending. Good guys are OK, bad guys are dead. Cost to taxpayers near zero.

Sheesh! The kids had 17 guns and 2,000 rounds of ammo! Well, it is turkey season here in Texas, but their having the prescription drugs (wonder what they were) certainly makes this sound like something else might have been in play. I think there was something more to Kenneth & Dillon´s Excellent Adventure.
I agree with another poster in that Maypearl is not exactly a vacation destination.

btnboerne

Excellent outcome! Sorry to read that the homeowner sustained a minor injury in the affair.

Does anybody else find it odd that the names are not being released but there is a photo and name of one of the teens ?

Seems like they took the vehicle and guns from one of the parents.

Again, no mention of their parents reaction. More feral youth.

DRT, couldn´t be a better result.

Two Oklahomans die in Southern Oklahoma.

The names have been released (one surname was Dillon, but I´ve forgotten the other); the delay was because the second kid was never reported missing by his family.

There´s still no further explanation--as far as I can find--of why they did what they did.

One of them "stole" the truck and most of the guns/ammo from his father. Included in the guns were a couple of .22´s so their was probably a brick or two of .22 shells -- 500 per box. That´s the way any serious shooter usually buys them. Maypearl is on I-95W, the interstate between Ft.Worth/Dallas and Austin - San Antonio - Mexican border.