News Report from Sandy Springs Shows What Not to Do

[mountainpass]

I posted this in training as this is a real world incident where the homeowner is lucky to be alive. The guy finds a teen(teen with a record) inside his home and chose not to shoot him, and the teen then nearly disarms him as thanks.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/teen-breaks-home-confronted-owner/nfsHN/

“I said, ‘If you make one move I’m gonna blow your head off’,” Milner recounted. “He was shaking, he was very shaken.”
Milner said he left his cellphone in another room, so he escorted the suspect at gunpoint down the stairs to his kitchen so he could call 911.
“He came around the corner and hit the gun just like that and there was a struggle,” Milner said.
He showed Petchenik cuts and bruises he suffered during the ensuing fight. Milner said at one point the suspect bit his ear in an attempt to get to the gun.
“It put my life in danger and also his,” he said. “I could have killed him or he could have killed me and got the gun.”

 

[T-Roy]

Dude is very lucky. Listening to the 911 call, his voice commands to "get of the floor" were about as intimidating as as Hello Kitty. I'm no professional leo or anything but I know you have to be a scary mf'er to pull off something like that. My 911 call wouldn't have made the air because there wouldn't have been enough to air between what they bleeped out.

 

[Bulljacket]

Someone else will have to deal with the thief later now, because you can bet this wasn't his first burglary nor his last!

 

[mountainpass]

Raw interview

http://www.wsbtv.com/videos/news/raw-homeowner-talks-about-dramatic-confrontation/vCZkXg/

 

[T-Roy]

Raw interview

http://www.wsbtv.com/videos/news/raw-homeowner-talks-about-dramatic-confrontation/vCZkXg/

Wow. If that's your mindset don't go for the gun, you should run away. Left him alone while he got the phone? Didn't shoot when they were fighting over the gun?

Don't pull it if you're not prepared to use it.

 

[dep411]

He's lucky the perp didn't have a gun

 

[protective measures]

This is why in our classes as well as most of the better schools that I know of considerable emphasis is placed on mindset.

If a person has not made the mental & emotional commitment that they are willing to use their firearm to defend themselves and/ or family with deadly force they can make a bad situation worse in many ways.
One of which is by introducing a firearm that they aren't willing to use into a situation where their attacker very well maybe.

 

[FACE]

I would have a company out today to clean up the mess...glad the home owner was not hurt though

 

[RamRoddoc]

I'm not sure why he had a gun..... just to intimidate?

 

[BackWoods]

I'm not sure why he had a gun..... just to intimidate?

X2....that was about to be another case of someone being killed with their own gun....