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February 28, 2019
Creep tries kicking down front door. Woman in house warns she has a gun — and proves it seconds later.
'He probably had to change his drawers after that'
Image source: YouTube screenshot
Dave Urbanski
One Alabama homeowner had just about enough.
Her family's truck already had been broken into, WALA-TV reported, and that prompted the purchase of surveillance cameras outside the residence in Semmes.
Turns out the cameras came in handy Friday around 12:45 p.m. when a vehicle pulled up near the front door as the homeowner slept on her couch, the station said.
Image source: YouTube screenshot
"They drove up. The dogs started going crazy. ... I hear banging on the door, and I hopped up. It sounded like they were trying to kick the door in," the homeowner, who wanted to remain anonymous, told WALA. "I hollered at them, told them if they come in I was going to shoot them."
Image source: YouTube screenshot
Um, on second thought
With that, common sense apparently wedged its way into the would-be burglar's noggin, as one surveillance camera showed the hooded suspect turning tail and practically flying back down the steps.
Image source: YouTube screenshot
A getaway vehicle was awaiting, but the crook couldn't get in right away and hollered for the driver to unlock the passenger-side door.
The homeowner followed the frightened crook and — to underscore her previous warning — fired a shot, another moment also captured on camera.
Image source: YouTube screenshot
'He probably had to change his drawers after that'
"We've been joking he probably had to change his drawers after that," the homeowner told WALA. "They weren't expecting somebody, and that's obvious they weren't thinking anybody was home."
'It's him or me'
The homeowner added that she wanted to be prepared but never dreamed she'd have to use her gun.
"You always say, 'Yeah, I have it just in case,' but how often does 'just in case' happen, you know?" she added to the station. "For us, I never in a million years until last week though that is what I'd be doing — sitting here like it's him or me,."
She added to WALA that her single shot "really was a warning shot. I wasn't trying to hit them. The adrenaline and fear took over, and I fired the gun."
'I hope they know better than to come back'
In the meantime, the homeowner told the station she'll keep the surveillance cameras rolling and her gun loaded.
"I don't know what they were thinking," she told WALA. "I hope they know better than to come back. I just don't want them to come back."
The Mobile County Sheriff's Office is hoping to identify the suspects, the station said.
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https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/...-hours-later-an-apparent-drive-by-retaliation
Elderly man fatally shoots armed home intruder. But hours later, an apparent drive-by retaliation.
An elderly homeowner in north St. Louis fatally shot an intruder Sunday afternoon. Then hours later, apparent retaliatory drive-by gunfire rang out at the victim's residence. (Image source: WVLT-TV screenshot)
A 74-year-old homeowner told police he was in his backyard Sunday afternoon when Freddric Smith, 26, forced him inside his north St. Louis residence at gunpoint and demanded property, KMOV-TV reported.
But it turns out the homeowner had a gun, too — and once inside the dwelling, the victim retrieved it and exchanged gunfire with Smith, the station said.
Smith was shot in his side and taken to a hospital where he was listed in critical, unstable condition, KMOV reported. He was later pronounced dead, the station said.
The homeowner was shot in the neck but was treated and released from a hospital Sunday evening, KMOV said. A 74-year-old woman was inside the home at the time of the shooting but was not injured, the station said, adding that both guns were found at the scene.
The victim is targeted again
But apparently it wasn't over.
Just hours later — early Monday morning — KMOV said drive-by gunfire hit the 74-year-old homeowner's residence. Bullets shattered glass and pierced a wall and the front door, the station said.
"Two o'clock in the morning, roughly two something in the morning, there was some gunfire in the house," a neighbor, who didn't want to be identified for fear of his safety, told KMOV. "Whether it was retaliation or whatever it was."
'Concerns about young men breaking into people's houses'
The neighbor told the station that the homeowner warned him about criminal activity in the area just before the home invasion, the station reported.
"Had concerns about young men breaking into people's houses," the neighbor told KMOV. "And he had told me that 20 minutes before everything happened."
Now what?
Police have increased patrols in the area to discourage more retaliatory shootings, the station reported, adding that the investigation is ongoing.
