Elderly man kills would be burglar

11/29/2006

http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=140682

Police say a 73-year-old man wasn't doing anything wrong last night in his Coon Rapids home when something wrong came to him.

"While he was in bed he heard someone breaking into the house," Anoka County Sheriff Captain Bob Aldrich said.

A burglar, police say broke in, and when he got to the second floor the 73-year-old man was waiting.

One of the thugs died, and the burglary rate dropped overnight.

Some neighbors of the homeowner are already coming to his defense for defending his safety, and, his home. "I believe that if they broke into his house and he was in there he was within his rights for what he did," said neighbor Jeffrey Hauf.

The homeowner has been questioned by police in the incident and he was never placed under arrest nor was he hurt during the break-in which happened around 11 Monday night.

This is only right.

Police Seek Suspect In Chanhassen Home Invasion

Nov 11, 2006

http://wcco.com/topstories/home.invasion.kidnapping.2.362910.html

This is horrifying. This is beginning of some of my worst nightmares.

Chanhassen, Minn. (WCCO) ― A family of five is safe following a terrifying ordeal after they were abducted and held hostage inside their home. An armed gunman then made them drive him to two banks to get cash before he left with their money and their pickup truck, which was recovered in Minneapolis at around 8 p.m. Friday.

According to police the assailant wearing a ski mask and dark gloves entered the home's garage and confronted the father, who is reportedly in the banking business. Carrying a sawed-off rifle slung around his neck and a knife, the assailant forced his way into the family home and tied up the man, his wife and their three children.