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A message in another says: "It's absolutely about time criminals got what they deserved--quick justice."18000 btu ac heater window unitAnd yet another: "You should be given a hero's medal. . . ."carrier 15 seer ac unitTo his friends, neighbors and to those victimized in one of America's most crime-ridden cities, Manny Roman is a folk hero. lg 9000 btu portable ac unitHe is lauded for killing a burglar who broke into his auto-repair business late one night nearly three years ago.But the state of Florida has charged him with second-degree murder.The state has offered him a plea bargain with community service instead of prison time, but he wants to keep his record clean.Roman says he is willing to put his fate in the hands of a jury of his peers."

I feel it was self-defense," Roman said. "I don't think I should plead guilty."Roman isn't your Charles Bronson-movie, vigilante type. Well-mannered and slight, the Cuban immigrant speaks softly but rapidly, often switching from English to Spanish and back again in one sentence.The 57-year-old Roman, who is divorced, came to Miami from Cuba in the late 1960s in the Freedom Flights. He proudly shows photographs of his three grown children and grandchildren.His business is a hodgepodge of auto parts--a pyramid of Honda steering wheels, car doors stacked three rows deep, a plethora of auto innards from carburetors to radios.The shop is nothing fancy, but for a burglar it offers plenty of equipment for the taking. His shop had been burglarized several times before the shooting--and has been broken into twice since.On Nov. 14, 1992, Roman says, he was between residences and decided to spend the night in a room adjacent to his receptionist's office rather than go back to his mother's home across town.

At 1:30 a.m., he heard the crash of a window being shattered in the garage and then another crash in the office. He grabbed his gun, a 9mm Beretta, and opened the office door."When I opened the door we were face to face," Roman said. I just kept shooting and I went back and closed the door of the office and called 911. You have no control, really."When the police arrived and turned on the lights in the receptionist's office, they found Stanley Dixon--a known cocaine user with a long list of previous arrests--dead.A hammer lay by the 35-year-old's bullet-ridden body. Police assured Roman he did the right thing; he would not be arrested.The day after the shooting, Roman closed the business early and went to take his 18-month-old granddaughter, Alexandria, for a walk.It was then, as he was looking into the innocent child's face, that he fully understood the impact of the events of the previous 12 hours."I was thinking how nobody wants to kill anybody," he said, fighting back the tears. "I remember that day, when I was carrying my granddaughter, thinking how fragile she was, trying to understand how people can stray, how this individual ruined his life and ended up ruining mine."

Eight months after the shooting, police arrived at Roman's business and arrested him. He sat for 13 hours in jail as nearby inmates fought over the phone and food."That was the biggest scare of my life," Roman said. "I was thinking, 'Why do I have to be here? I defended my life."'The state attorney disagreed.Prosecutors say that while five bullets struck the front of Stanley Dixon's body, six others hit him in the back. Roman fired 13 shots from his gun.The Beretta holds 15 bullets in the clip and police found five unspent cartridges when they arrived. The prosecutors' conclusion: Roman reloaded.There also were questions about why Roman was at his business at that hour. Was he tired of being robbed and looking for justice? Or was he there because he was indeed between houses? Investigators say he has said both."You can't go around shooting people like that," Dade County Assistant State Attorney David Waksman told the Miami Herald before he stopped talking to the news media about the case.