A college student warded off an intruder with his AR-15 early Tuesday morning in central New York.
Christopher Boise told 13WHAM-TV in Rochester that he heard a noise coming from the basement of his apartment. As he walked toward the source of the noise, he noticed two men standing downstairs. Mr. Boise immediately noticed a gun trained on him.
“They were waiting for me at the bottom of the stairs,” Mr. Boise said of the two intruders, who had entered the home through the basement window.
Mr. Boise screamed, alerting his roommate, Raymond.
“I heard one scream from him, and I knew it wasn’t like a ‘I stepped on a piece of glass’ kind of scream,” said Raymond, a student at Rochester Institute of Technology. “It was like something primal, I guess.”
Raymond, who omitted his last name, started unlocking his rifle when one of the men approached his door.
“By the time I had it out and ready, one of the men came at my door, slowly opened it, saw that there was a barrel on the other side and from there backed out,” he said.
No shots were fired and the intruders left.
Raymond said his legally owned AR-15 is used for sport, and was never needed for anything else until Tuesday.
“Without that gun that day, things could have went differently,” Raymond said.
“I’m happy he saved my life. I was very thankful he had” the gun, Mr. Boise said.
Rochester Police Chief James Sheppard told 13WHAM that BB rounds were found near the broken basement w indow. No arrests have been made.
Disabled Georgia vet scares off intruder with pistol 6:37 PM, Jan 25, 2013 | 0 comments
Paul Crawley
BOGART, Ga. -- There's at least one home near Bogart, Georgia that you don't want to invade.
It belongs to partially paralyzed Iraq War veteran Mark Sikes, who lives on disability. Sikes lost the use of his legs to a roadside bomb.
Wednesday afternoon he was relaxing on his bed watching television when he heard a loud noise.
"All of a sudden the loudest bang," he told 11 Alive News on Friday.
"I knew something was wrong and that wasn't normal," Sikes added.
The bang was caused by an intruder kicking in the front door.
"I sat up on the edge of the bed and the next thing I knew a man was standing in the hallway of my bedroom door," Sikes said.
That's when he reached in a nightstand and pulled out his 9mm pistol, pointing it at the invader.
"I hollered, 'what are you doing in my house?' and kind of pointed it at him and he took off running," Sikes added.
He said he came within a hair's breadth of firing.
"He might have hurt me, 'cause there's no way I could fight him, I mean, I'm a paraplegic," he explained.
Sikes now has a new front door at a cost of $750 that he said has strained his fixed income.
He also had some advice for his uninvited guest.
"If I could talk to him, I'd like to say, 'find something else to do and quit trying to rob what little people's got, 'cause you came real close to losing your life for no good reason," he said.
Athens-Clarke County Police have yet to catch the intruder, but he left behind a pretty good piece of evidence for them - his cell phone, complete with a Facebook page.
Homeowner fatally shoots intruder Man critically injured after being shot UPDATED 5:30 PM CST Jan 25, 2013
OMAHA, Neb. —A homeowner fatally shot a man who forced his way into an Omaha home.
Investigators said the man shot first pounded on the door and then forced his way into the house near 16th and Drexel streets around 11:30 p.m. Thursday.
The man was shot in the knee and chest and died of his injuries at Alegent Creighton Health Creighton University Medical Center.
Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine said Friday afternoon the shooting was justified and the homeowner was acting in self defense.
Authorities identified the deceased as 43-year-old Raul Rivas and said that the shooter's wife knew him.
Kleine said when Rivas entered the home, the homeowner ran upstairs to grab his gun. Rivas then grabbed the wife and was threatening her, saying he wanted to fight her husband.
The husband told Rivas to let his wife go or he would shoot him. Rivas refused and that is when he shot him in the leg, Kleine said.
The homeowner told investigators he felt him and his wife's safety were threatened, so he shot him a second time, this time in the chest.
Masked intruder shot, killed during home invasion in Garfield ID'd
GARFIELD, Pa. —
Police said people inside of a Garfield home may have acted in self-defense when they shot an intruder Wednesday night.
Investigators said they were called to the home on Browns Way around 6 p.m.
Police said a masked man tried to force his way into the home by firing shots through the front door. Investigators said one man inside of the home was shot in the face.
According to police, another man inside of the house grabbed a gun and fired shots at the intruder, Michael Andrews, of East Hills. The second victim was also shot, police said.
Andrews, 27, later died at an area hospital.
Both victims fled the home seeking help after the shooting and were rushed to a nearby hospital w here they are listed in serious condition, officers said. Their names have not been released.
Neighbors who live on Browns Way declined to comment on the situation, fearing possible retaliation.
Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to contact police.
Man keeps intruder at bay with shotgun until police arrive
By Jeremy Schwartz Peninsula Daily News
PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles man police said tried to break into the same house at least twice in two days was in the Clallam County jail Tuesday after one of the people living in the home kept the man at bay with a shotgun until police arrived.
Richard Allen Smith, 37, was booked into the Clallam County jail early Tuesday morning for investigation of two counts of residential burglary, said Port Angeles Deputy Police Chief Brian Smith, who is no relation.
“I just did whatever anybody would do to protect their family,” said Clint Lowery, who lives in the home in the 1300 block of South N Street in west Port Angeles with his fiancee, their 2-year-old daughter, brother and sister-in-law.
Lowery said he had noticed the man, later identified as Richard Allen Smith, walking across his lawn at about a little before 2 a.m. Tuesday and met him at the front door with his shotgun.
The man went to his knees without a fight, Lowery said.
Lowery said his 2-year-old daughter was sleeping in her room fewer than 10 feet away from the front door at the time.
Deputy Chief Smith said police initially were called to the house on N Street at 6 a.m. Monday because of a report of a stranger acting suspiciously near the front door of the home.
Lowery said he called police after his brother saw the man on the front porch.
Lowery said that when he was confronted, the man — whom neither he nor his brother had ever seen before — was not able to give a straight answer as to why he was there and eventually left.
Lowery and his brother gave a detailed description of the man to police officers, Smith said.
Officers, however, were not able to find a man matching that description during a search of the surrounding neighborhood.
The next morning, police were called at 1:20 a.m. to the same home because of another report of a man trying to force open one of the home’s doors, Deputy Chief Smith said.
Lowery was not able to get a good look at the man, Smith said.
Roughly 40 minutes later, police were called to the house again and found Lowery holding the man at gunpoint with a 12-gauge shotgun on the house’s porch, Smith said.
Based on the man’s description and other information, Deputy Chief Smith said, police believe Richard Allen Smith was responsible for both early morning attempted burglaries, though no motive has been determined.
“Why was the guy going to come back two different times? I don’t know,” Brian Smith said.
He added that Lowery did not report anything missing from the house or that Richard Allen Smith was actually able to get inside.
Lowery said he and his family have lived in the home, which his sister and husband own, for about five years.
East Ridge home intruder stopped by armed residents Posted: Jan 13, 2013 10:43 AM EST Updated: Jan 14, 2013 9:44 AM EST By Kimberly Barbour, Reporter - bio | email
EAST RIDGE, TN (WRCB) -- An East Ridge family catches an intruder in the act and held him for police. They tell Channel 3 why their guns may have saved their lives.
A 22-year-old Hixson man is behind bars after police say he repeatedly tried to force his way into an East Ridge home early Sunday morning. It happened on South Seminole Drive.
Around 1:45 a.m. Sunday the Davenport family awoke to a banging at the front door. They asked the man what he wanted and he made it clear-- he wanted inside. From there, they called police and jumped into action to protect themselves.
"My husband said police are on the way, I have a weapon and the guy said 'F that I'm coming in this house' and he was breaking the glass and he had his arm inside the house trying to unlock the door," homeowner Melissa Davenport said.
As her husband fought the stranger, now identified as 22-year-old Chas Scruggs at the door, Melissa Davenport frantically called 911. "I was just telling her I'm so scared I'm so scared," Davenport said.
But, the threat of police didn't stop him from trying to force his way in. "Then he broke our middle door pane and you can see his blood here on the door. He was kicking through this pane of glass here trying to get it open," she said.
Her husband got his gun and fired a warning shot. "Actually went through the door here and it's in the casing," Davenport said.
When that didn't scare him, Melissa called her dad who lives just down the street, who is also armed with a gun and a permit to carry. "I jumped across and landed here," Bill Birkhead said.
Then they say Scruggs changed his target to him. "He came at me and I pulled my gun, held it with both hands and said if you come any closer I'm going to have to shoot you," Birkhead said.
When that didn't work, he fired a warning shot into the ground. "I think he was high just by the way he acted. He had no fear," Birkhead said.
They were finally able to corner him on the porch. "He said ok man, you got me," Birkhead said.
Several East Ridge officers arrived on scene within four minutes of the call and arrested Scruggs.
"Thank God East Ridge Police got here so fast because I was just in fear I was going to have to shoot and kill him and I did not want to do that," Birkhead said.
Now cleaning up the mess, Melissa says it's unnerving to think what would've happened if they didn't wake up before he got in, or weren't armed.
"I will always have a gun so that we can protect ourselves because you never know what someone's crazy enough to do," Davenport said.
Melissa says their home was burglarized in 2008 while they weren't home. She also says a man, that looked like Scruggs came to her door this summer, but ran off when she answered.
Scruggs is charged with aggravated burglary and vandalism.
Intruder fires at woman; she fires 2 shots back Jan 12, 2013 |
Ted Shockley Gannett/Eastern Shore News
BLOXOM, Va. — An Accomack County woman surprised an intruder who had broken into her Mason Road home Friday morning by drawing a gun on him and firing off two shots after the armed suspect fired at her first.
The man and an accomplice fled the scene, prompting a large manhunt that included a Marine Police airplane and a Maryland State Police helicopter.
The search continued for hours. The two men, described as armed and wearing black clothing, remained at large Friday afternoon.
The broad-daylight home invasion and ensuing search was chronicled on police scanners as rapt residents listened.
The victim, whose name is being withheld by the News, recounted in a Friday interview several harrowing minutes in which she thought a daylight banging at the door was a delivery driver.
But then she saw a man kneeling — apparently a lookout — near a woods as an intruder broke through a door. The woman had armed herself and had words with the intruder.
"Look what I've got," she said she screamed at him.
"I was just showing him my gun."
The man, as he left the yard, whirled and fired a shot at the woman, she said. She returned two shots herself.
Police established a perimeter, observed roads and searched with canine units.
"'Cops' is filmed on location with the men and women of law enforcement. The suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law."
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Updated: Tuesday, 22 Jan 2013, 12:37 PM EST Published : Tuesday, 22 Jan 2013, 12:37 PM EST
Julian Grace
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - IMPD is investigating a home invasion in the 2000 block of North Exeter Avenue. According to investigators, a gunman forced himself into the home and fired a shot.
There were three people inside of the home during the invasion. One of the victims suffered a gunshot wound to his right shoulder.
During the commotion, a woman asleep inside the home told investigators she pulled her gun out of a purse and fired several shots at the gunman.
The suspect escaped. The condition on the victim has not been released. Police are requesting anyone with information on the shooting to call Crime Stoppers at 317-262-8477.
Bradenton man fatally shoots masked intruder By CARL LISCIANDRELLO | TBO.com Published: January 21, 2013
A Bradenton man fatally shot one of three men who approached him Sunday night at gunpoint.
According to the Manatee County Sheriff's Office, Joshua M. Pinkham, 39, and Roy D. Potter, 38, were sitting in a carport at 4208 24th Street West in Bradenton when three males, dressed in black with masks over their faces, came around the corner of the duplex and approached the victims.
One of the suspects, James M. Brady, 26, pointed a handgun at Pinkham and ordered him to the ground, deputies say.
Pinkham pulled out a handgun and gunfire was exchanged between the two, deputies say.
Brady was shot while the two other suspects took off on foot, and deputies say he was pronounced dead at the scene.
No other injuries were reported.
No charges have been filed, and an investigation is ongoing.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Manatee County Sheriff's Office at 941-747-3011, ext. 2216, or Crime Stoppers at 866-634-TIPS.
Bad boys, whatcha want Watcha want, whatcha gonna do? When sheriff John Brown come for you Tell me whatcha wanna do, whatcha gonna do?
Bad boys, bad boys whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when they come for you? Bad boys, bad boys whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
When you were eight and you had bad traits You go to school and learn the golden rule So why are you acting like a bloody fool? If you get hot, you must get cool
Bad boys, bad boys whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when they come for you? Bad boys, bad boys whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
And as we see the cops weren't there to protect and serve, if it wasn't for the 2nd amendment we may have had more victims of the liberal agenda. That is why you are going off topic because you hate these stories admit it.
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
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