LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — An 80-year-old man who came home to find two burglars said he shot and killed one of them despite her pleas that she was pregnant, but it's the woman's alleged accomplice who has been arrested on suspicion of murder, police said. 
 
 During a news conference Thursday, July 24, 2014, in Long Beach, Calif., police display photos of Gus Adams and Andrea Miller. Police said they're deciding whether to arrest an 80-year-old man who shot... (Associated Press) 
 
 Long Beach Police Chief Jim McDonnell leads a news conference Thursday, July 24, 2014, in Long Beach, Calif. Police said they're deciding whether to arrest an 80-year-old man who shot a fleeing, unarmed... (Associated Press) 
 
 Sgt. Israel Ramirez with the Long Beach Police Department addresses the media at a news conference Thursday, July 24, 2014, in Long Beach, Calif. Police said they're deciding whether to arrest an 80-year-old... (Associated Press) 
 
 Police said they would present their case to prosecutors Friday but were still deciding whether to recommend charges against Tom Greer, who told a television station he shot the woman in the back as she fled from his house. 
 
 "She says, 'Don't shoot me, I'm pregnant — I'm going to have a baby,' and I shot her anyway," Greer told KNBC-TV outside his house. 
 
 Long Beach police Chief Jim McDonnell said at a news conference Thursday that the woman, 28-year-old Andrea Miller, did not appear to be pregnant, but a planned autopsy would determine whether she was. 
 
 However, the surviving suspect, Gus Adams, 26, has been arrested on suspicion of residential burglary and murder, McDonnell said. The murder charge is possible because he is accused of being involved in a felony that led to a death, the chief said. He was being held on bail just over $1 million, and police did not know if he had hired an attorney. 
 
 Both Miller and Adams, who had histories of similar crimes, were unarmed, McDonnell said. 
 
 Greer had been burglarized three times before and believed the same suspects were responsible. 
 
 He returned home shortly after 9 p.m. Tuesday to find the pair in his home. Both suspects attacked him, hitting him with their fists and ultimately "body slamming" him to the floor, breaking his collar bone, McDonnell said. 
 
 Miller continued to hit him, McDonnell said, while Adams moved to a safe and begin trying to pry it open. 
 
 The homeowner was able to get to another room where he grabbed a gun and returned to open fire on the suspects. They fled through the garage and into an alley, and Greer gave chase, firing at them again outside, McDonnell said. 
 
 Miller was hit, collapsed in the alley and died at the scene, McDonnell said. 
 
 "The lady didn't run as fast as the man, so I shot her in the back twice," Greer told the TV station. "She's dead ... but he got away." 
 
 McDonnell would not say whether Miller was shot in the back as Greer said. He also declined to say how many shots were fired and whether either of the suspects was hit inside the house before fleeing. 
 
 No phone listing was available for Greer and he could not be reached for comment by The Associated Press. 
 
 It will be up to the district attorney to decide whether to charge Greer with a crime, the chief said. Under California law, homeowners can defend themselves if they are in "imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death," he said. 
 
 Prosecutors will have to determine whether chasing after the suspects and firing on them outside the home goes beyond self-defense, McDonnell said. ||||| LONG BEACH (CBSLA.com) — A man shot and killed a woman who he claimed was ransacking his Bixby Knolls home, officials reported. 
 
 Police are investigating whether the homeowner shot the woman in self-defense. 
 
 Officers responded Tuesday night to a call of shots fired at a home in Country Club Drive. 
 
 Tom Greer, 80, told police he walked in on a man and woman going through his belongings. 
 
 The pair reportedly tackled Greer, but he was able to get his gun and turned it on the woman. 
 
 Greer told a local news outlet: “She says, ‘Don’t shoot me, I’m pregnant! I’m going to have a baby!’ And I shot her anyway.” 
 
 Investigators won’t say whether the shooting happened inside the house or in the alley behind the home. 
 
 Police say they’re determining whether the homeowner will face charges. 
 
 Neighbor George Romero said Greer is a “nice, old man” who’s been burglarized on multiple occasions. 
 
 “I remember the first break-in. They literally tore down the front door. And that’s where I came in and met him. I said, ‘Hey, what’s going on? You OK?’ And ever since then, we’ve been acquaintances,” Romero said. 
 
 Neighbors say they’ve seen a spike in crime in Bixby Knolls, an upscale neighborhood in Long Beach. 
 
 Romero said: “We have a lot of people who come over here to find something that they don’t have. And, unfortunately, we do live in a good area.” ||||| An autopsy Friday found that a burglary suspect who was killed by an 80-year-old California homeowner was not pregnant, despite claiming to be before the fatal shots were fired. 
 
 Long Beach resident Tom Greer said that the burglar had said she was pregnant and asked him not to fire, but he shot her twice in the back anyway. 
 
 The autopsy later showed that Andrea Miller, 28, was not pregnant, coroner's spokesman Ed Winter said. 
 
 Prosecutors were waiting Friday for the results of the police investigation. Greer said he shot Miller twice as she fled his home and ran down an alley. 
 
 Miller's alleged accomplice, Gus Adams, is facing murder, burglary, robbery and weapons charges. He was being held on bail of more than $1 million. 
 
 The murder charge is possible because Adams is accused of participating in a felcony that led to a death, Long Beach Police Chief Jim McDonnell said. 
 
 Police said Friday that Adams' mother, Ruby Adams, also was involved and was arrested Thursday night on suspicion of robbery. Authorities gave no details on her alleged role or the evidence against her. 
 
 McDonnell said the homeowner came home around 9 p.m. Tuesday and surprised Adams and Miller, who were trying to break into a safe. They assaulted him, breaking his collarbone, before he was able to get a handgun, the chief said. 
 
 Police said he fired shots inside and outside his house. 
 
 Under California law, homeowners have a right to protect themselves with deadly force inside their homes and in the immediate vicinity — such as a patio — if they feel they are in imminent danger of great bodily injury or death, said Lawrence Rosenthal, a former federal prosecutor who teaches law at Chapman University. 
 
 But this case enters a gray area because Greer, by his own account, chased the burglars and fired at them outside his home as they were fleeing, Rosenthal said. 
 
 "The problem here is that all this happens very fast and his legal right to use force probably ended just a few seconds before he did use deadly force," Rosenthal said. "So the question is should you charge somebody on the basis of what really was a series of split-second decisions when he's just been robbed and physically assaulted?" 
 
 McDonnell declined to say how many shots were fired or to confirm that Miller was shot in the back. 
 
 No phone listing was available for Greer and he could not be reached for comment by The Associated Press. 
 
 The Associated Press contributed to this report.
– An 80-year-old Long Beach, Calif., man says he gunned down burglary suspect Andrea Miller Tuesday night as she pleaded for the life of her unborn child, reports the AP. “She says, 'Don't shoot me, I'm pregnant, I'm going to have a baby!' And I shot her anyway," Tom Greer told KNBC-TV. And while cops mull whether Greer will be charged or let off for self-defense in Miller's death, there’s another major question to answer: whether 28-year-old Miller actually was pregnant. Despite her desperate appeal to Greer as she tried to flee, police say she didn’t appear to be with child and that an autopsy will clear up if she was. (Update: That autopsy has found she was not pregnant, reports Fox News.) Miller and her alleged partner in crime, 26-year-old Gus Adams—who were both unarmed, cops say—allegedly pummeled Greer with their hands and “body-slammed” him to the ground when he busted in on the burglary. Greer says he somehow managed to grab his own gun and shot Miller as she ran away. Cops say Adams has been arrested on suspicion of residential burglary as well as murder, because he was involved in a felony crime that resulted in a death. A neighbor tells CBS Los Angeles that Greer is a “nice old man” who’s been the victim of previous break-ins—and Greer suspects that Miller and Adams were responsible for those, too. However, as a legal analyst notes to KNBC, “[Greer] did shoot a person who was trying to get away … he wasn't in imminent danger himself, and the law says you can't shoot somebody under those circumstances.”