On Jan. 30, 2023, a home invasion at an apartment complex near Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport was thwarted when the 80-year-old victim successfully defended himself with a firearm. The victim was inside his home on West Catherine Avenue when two suspects, one male, and one female, attempted to enter the residence without permission around 10:30 a.m. A physical altercation ensued,…
A 34-year-old man forcefully entered a home in Lady Lake, FL, through a window on January 2, 2023. There was a confrontation between the intruder and the homeowner ending with the homeowner shooting the intruder. The Lake County Sheriff’s Department responded to the call at approximately 5:30 PM and declared it a self-defense shooting. The intruder was pronounced dead at…
On the morning of December 7, 2022, a 22-year-old Chicago woman was shot and killed by a home invader who had taken the woman’s gun away from her. At approximately 3:18 AM at a residence in South Side Chicago, the female victim, a concealed carry permit holder, was at home when a female intruder entered. There was a verbal altercation…
On December 13, 2022, Deputies from the Winston County, Alabama Sheriff’s Office responded to a home invasion in the Poplar Springs area. Arriving Deputies found a deceased male at the scene. It was reported that two males entered the home, and one of the intruders hit a resident of the home in the head with a handgun before beginning to…
If you are a criminal trying to break into someone’s house, do not be surprised when you get shot after being warned to leave. Damon Hammons decided he would go on a little crime spree in Ludlow, KY, and tried breaking into some cars. After he tried to rob the vehicles, he got himself shot when he attempted to break…
In Katy, TX, on the night of November 10, 2022, two men dressed in body armor and attempting to impersonate Houston Police Officers began pounding on the door of a home inhabited by two adult males and their mother. Upon kicking the front door in, the suspects entered the home and promptly began shooting. The adult males, who had been…
This criminal got quite the surprise after breaking into a home he thought was unoccupied. Around 3:30 AM yesterday in Franklin, OH, a man broke into a home he thought was unoccupied. He knew the homeowner and was expecting him to still be at the hospital. But he wasn’t at the hospital. He was home and armed himself with a…
The warning of the police being called and being armed wasn’t enough to deter this home intruder. But a bullet was. This past Tuesday night, a 36-year-old man broke into a home in Edinburg, TX, which a woman and her children occupied. He gained access to the house through the garage. The homeowner must have heard what was going on…
You might think a home break-in would rarely happen when you live on the seventh floor of a condominium. But as this couple found it, it defiantly can happen. A woman woke up around 3:10 AM to get ready for work in her downtown Chicago condo this past Monday. She heard some noises but thought it was coming from another…
If you are considering getting a firearm for personal protection but haven’t pulled the trigger yet (pun intended), then now is the time to get one. Had this woman waited just one more day, who knows how this story would have unfolded? A 22-year-old man with a history of alcohol substance abuse became heavily intoxicated and tried to force his…