Police: Wife's warning shot scares off robbers
Police: Wife's warning shot scares off robbers
Updated: Monday, 26 Jul 2010, 6:18 PM EDT
Published : Monday, 26 Jul 2010, 11:47 AM EDT
According to an IMPD report, two men came to the door of 8000 block of Shetland Lane just before 3:30 Saturday afternoon.
The men, acting as workers for a landscaping company, told the homeowner they accidentally struck a water pipe in the neighborhood and needed to check his backyard for water damage, the report says.
But homeowner told the men they received their water from a well, not a water system and demanded that they leave his property.
The homeowner told police that he left for dinner and when he returned roughly two hours later, the men were standing on the road in front of his home.
The homeowner again insisted that the men leave after the men tried to him another excuse to work on his property.
That's when the men turned from annoying to violent.
The homeowner, who didn’t want to be identified, spoke to 24-Hour News 8. He described what happened next.
"The black guy on the porch he stood back came out at an angle and when he turned back the other way he had a 9 mm gun in his hand pointed at my face. So, what I did, I went under his arm with my hand and pushed it up towards the ceiling, so, he couldn't shoot me," he said.
The homeowner then yelled for his wife to get their gun. Then, one suspect hit the homeowner in the head with the gun.
Just then, according to police, the homeowner’s wife fired a round from her 9mm Glock into the wall of their bedroom, scaring off the attackers.
Both suspects ran off in an unknown direction.
One suspect is described as white male, 5’11”, 160 lbs, wearing a bright green vest and white hard hat at the time. The other is described as a black male, 6’1”, 220 pounds, wearing a black shirt with black pants.
The police report says the homeowner told police that he had seen one of the suspects doing yard work on their neighbor’s home.
He told 24-Hour News 8 the same men had gone to other homes in the neighborhood.
“Yeah, they had been to a whole lot of houses in the neighborhood, especially one young girl up the street here and she is all by herself. She let the black guy in her house and gave him something to drink and she didn't know. I mean she could have been killed."
The men did not demand or take anything.
Police: Wife's warning shot scares off robbers
Updated: Monday, 26 Jul 2010, 6:18 PM EDT
Published : Monday, 26 Jul 2010, 11:47 AM EDT
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According to an IMPD report, two men came to the door of 8000 block of Shetland Lane just before 3:30 Saturday afternoon.
The men, acting as workers for a landscaping company, told the homeowner they accidentally struck a water pipe in the neighborhood and needed to check his backyard for water damage, the report says.
But homeowner told the men they received their water from a well, not a water system and demanded that they leave his property.
The homeowner told police that he left for dinner and when he returned roughly two hours later, the men were standing on the road in front of his home.
The homeowner again insisted that the men leave after the men tried to him another excuse to work on his property.
That's when the men turned from annoying to violent.
The homeowner, who didn’t want to be identified, spoke to 24-Hour News 8. He described what happened next.
"The black guy on the porch he stood back came out at an angle and when he turned back the other way he had a 9 mm gun in his hand pointed at my face. So, what I did, I went under his arm with my hand and pushed it up towards the ceiling, so, he couldn't shoot me," he said.
The homeowner then yelled for his wife to get their gun. Then, one suspect hit the homeowner in the head with the gun.
Just then, according to police, the homeowner’s wife fired a round from her 9mm Glock into the wall of their bedroom, scaring off the attackers.
Both suspects ran off in an unknown direction.
One suspect is described as white male, 5’11”, 160 lbs, wearing a bright green vest and white hard hat at the time. The other is described as a black male, 6’1”, 220 pounds, wearing a black shirt with black pants.
The police report says the homeowner told police that he had seen one of the suspects doing yard work on their neighbor’s home.
He told 24-Hour News 8 the same men had gone to other homes in the neighborhood.
“Yeah, they had been to a whole lot of houses in the neighborhood, especially one young girl up the street here and she is all by herself. She let the black guy in her house and gave him something to drink and she didn't know. I mean she could have been killed."
The men did not demand or take anything.
