Posted on 10/31/2009 11:25:51 AM PDT by greatdefender
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Orlando police said that intruders broke into a home Friday night and gunshots were exchanged, putting the entire neighborhood on edge.
The home invasion happened on Mary Church Court at Prince Hall Boulevard in the Richmond Estates neighborhood, police said.
Officers with the Orlando Police Department cleared the scene at about 11 p.m. Investigators took pictures of where stray bullets hit the side of homes nearby. Several officers looked through the trash of one home on Mary Church Court.
Police said that just before 8 p.m., three armed men pulled up to the home, the homeowner saw them coming and ran and grabbed his handgun and started shooting at them.
"There were gunshots everywhere," one resident said. "I wasn't counting, but it sounded like a war."
Police said it's a miracle that no one was injured with stray bullets hitting homes.
Several residents said they've lived in the area for more than 20 years and they've never experienced this in their neighborhood.
"It probably did sound like a war based on all the casings we recovered on the scene," said Robert Anzueto, of the OPD.
OPD said it has contacted all the hospitals in the area in case someone comes in with a gunshot wound.
The men were still on the run Friday night. An officer said they believe the incident was drug-related.
That said, a little range time will save a lot of money. Ammo prices are way up.
You are not kidding. If the only thing you can hit is the house next door ( while the intruders are in your home ) range time should be first on the to do list .
Sounds like the movies with all the bullets flying and no one taking a hit.
Wild, undisciplined shooting, and overpenetrating rounds, are going to bite us in the butt eventually. One can anticipate the shrillness of the anti-gun media and politicians if some innocent bystander (particularly a child) gets harmed in one of these incidents. I’ve neither pity or mercy for the bad guys, but I sometimes worry about the lack of skill and good judgement on the part of the good guys.
The homeowner needs to go to the range and get some practice at aiming.
Of course in the UK it is illegal to interfere with criminals in the course of their duties. lol.
Sounds like a cop shoot-out I read about where bunches of bullets were fired by each side and nobody got hit ....
Apparently in this case there were no “good guys” Drug related. Actually, most home-invasion type crimes are druggie on druggie “crimes”. And most go unreported.
This happens in Chicago all of the time. The gomers can’t shoot for sour owlpoop and wind up hitting some kid playing in their yard or on their porch. The sad part is that these gangbangers are not outsiders but usually local punks. In the interests of “unity,” the neighbors cannot bring themselves to turn these wastes of DNA in.
LOL Yeah, kinda hard for this one to go unreported when all the neighbors homes have bullet holes!
That does appear to be the case olcop. Seems we're living in a scroungier version of the roaring 20's.
My first thought was drug raid. The pattern doesn’t fit any other kind of robbery.
At 8pm, it’s dark here. If the he “saw them coming” he must have known who they were. Would you automatically grab a gun and start shooting at 3 men approaching your house?
Too bad. This is not in a terrible neighborhood, but it’s close to some really bad areas. Only a mile or so from the jail.
Wonder if it’s Mexican related-—wonderful southern imports
diversifying the culture! Just a thought, ay?????
So four people shooting can do no better than hit the sides of houses? Sounds like the folks who hold pistols SIDEWAYS and nearly above their heads in an effort to look “BAAAAAD”! I don’t think range time will help.
If the guy is a drug dealer, he can afford to buy a house in a nice neighborhood, but conveniently close to the slums where some of his customers come from.
In Orlando? Probably not.
Wrong minority for that neighborhood.
In this case it is possible that no "good" guys were involved!
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