Posted on 05/23/2013 12:36:20 PM PDT by marktwain
TALLADEGA COUNTY — A man in Talladega received a rude awakening after breaking into his neighbor’s home in the 100 block of Dusty Trail Lane early Thursday morning between 4-4:30 a.m.
Jimmy Lee Garrett, a 48-year-old male residing at 116 Dusty Trail Lane, was arrested and charged for second-degree burglary, but not before a catching a bullet in the foot for his troubles.
According to Talladega County Sheriff Jimmy Kilgore, a female resident told investigators she woke up and saw Garrett in her kitchen.
At that point, she yelled for her husband, who began chasing Garrett throughout their home while wielding a firearm.
The husband fired two shots at Garrett, simultaneously wounding the intruder and thwarting the home invasion.
Garrett, a registered sex offender, had been arrested twice in 1985 for first-degree sodomy and first-degree sexual abuse of a 69-year-old woman.
Read more: The Daily Home - Resident stops home invasion shoots suspect
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Dancin’ with the bullets.
I wish we had happy endings like this in Cananda.
The guy should have been hung in 1985...........
A shotgun is more difficult to dodge
Husband should have stopped chasing and taken careful aim. Crying shame he hit the guy in the foot.
Was the guy breaking in sleep walking? The home owner's had a rude awaking, not the intruder.
One more point for the good guys
Garrett, a registered sex offender, had been arrested twice in 1985 for first-degree sodomy and first-degree sexual abuse of a 69-year-old woman.
I think I've spotted the problem: he should have been locked up.
Says he was arrested, not convicted, but if he did it, that is a sick puppy, raping a 69 y.o. woman when he was 20.
Released a month ago from prison, doesn’t say for which crimes.
If he wasn’t in prison the whole time, I’m betting there are other victims out there.
Like I said.......He should have been strung up a long time ago.
On a personal note, Talladega is an odd place, best known for the NASCAR race and bass fishing, and due southwest from Anniston, Alabama, former home of the now closed US Army Fort McClellan, HQ of the Military Police and Chemical Corps. Nearby is Anniston Army Depot, where all US Army tanks are repaired.
The terrain is odd, because the flat swampland in the area has just a small foothills area before meeting the rather dramatic Cheaha mountain range, covered with dense pine forest.
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