Posted on 07/08/2016 7:13:12 AM PDT by dennisw
A Florida man was killed Tuesday after breaking into a couple’s home and attacking the wife, a Palm Beach Post report says.
Steven and Heather Aiosa were awoken around 2 a.m. Tuesday and found Robert Alcalde, 31, standing in their doorway.
According to authorities, Alcalde had broken into the home through a front window and was behaving as someone who had taken drugs.
Steven Aiosa grabbed a .22-caliber rifle from under his bed and walked with Heather to the back door and into their yard, but the gun malfunctioned as he tried to load it. He then went to grab the machete that was also kept under the bed.
Alcalde began to attack Heather, which is when her husband began striking him with the machete.
“He tackled [Heather Aiosa] to the ground,” Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said of the attack. “It was a very, very violent struggle at this point. There was a lot of fighting — active fighting, brawling.”
Deputies report Alcalde suffered “gaping wounds on both of his legs” from the machete, and he had to be “hit with an electronic weapon six times before he stopped his behavior and allowed himself to be handcuffed,” the report says.
The Aiosas were unharmed in the attack, and Alcalde was transported to the hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
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A real man has multiple fall back plans! He has a plan B, C and D!!!
woot!
happy ending!
Machetes have a limited range and low muzzle velocity....who knew?
TampaBay A man who crept into a sleeping couple’s home died early Tuesday after the husband hacked him repeatedly with a machete kept under the bed, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff’s deputies say Steven Aiosa retrieved the machete after a rifle also stashed under the bed malfunctioned and the intruder began attacking his wife. Aiosa and his wife, Heather Aiosa of 3063 Terrace View Lane off McMullen-Booth Road, told deputies they had gone to bed around midnight.
They awoke around 2 a.m. Tuesday to find a stranger standing in their bedroom doorway. Deputies say the man, later identified as Robert James Alcalde, 31, who lived at an apartment complex less than a mile away at 1319 N McMullen-Booth Road, broke into the home through a front window. Alcalde was behaving “very characteristic of people who have taken drugs,” Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said during a Tuesday afternoon news conference.
As he stood in the bedroom, Alcalde told Heather Aiosa, 40, he had already called 911 because he believed someone was trying to kill him. Gualtieri said the couple told investigators Alcalde began acting paranoid and irrational, crouching in the corner of the room before throwing things off shelves and trying to climb the walls. The sheriff said Steven Aiosa, 43, grabbed a .22-caliber rifle from under the bed and walked with his wife out the home’s back door to the back yard to try to load it. But the gun was malfunctioning and he couldn’t get a round in the chamber.
Aiosa left his wife outside and went back to the bedroom to grab the machete. When he went back outside, Alcalde followed. “He tackled (Heather Aiosa) to the ground,” the sheriff said. “It was a very, very violent struggle at this point. There was a lot of fighting — active fighting, brawling.” To defend his wife, Steven Aiosa started striking Alcalde with the machete, giving him severe gashes all over his legs, Gualtieri said, but Alcalde continued to fight.
Deputies soon arrived and fired an electronic weapon at him, hitting Alcalde six times before he showed any change in behavior and was able to be handcuffed, Gualtieri said. He called it an “extremely bloody situation” and said Alcalde suffered gaping wounds on both his legs. Paramedics treated the injuries and gave Alcalde medication outside the home, but he stopped breathing on the ride to Northside Hospital in St. Petersburg, where he was pronounced dead, Gualtieri said.
The Aiosas were uninjured. Gualtieri said Clearwater police had responded to Alcalde’s apartment complex an hour before the break-in after receiving a report that he was behaving strangely. “A witness said he was walking around the apartment complex talking to himself, talking about someone being after him who was going to come kill him,” Gualtieri said. He said the officer left because Alcalde did not appear to be a danger to himself or others. Alcalde had an extensive criminal record dating to 2003. It shows charges of trespassing, DUI, credit card fraud, fleeing and eluding arrest, unlicensed telemarketing and several counts of burglary and battery.
Alcalde’s father, Robert Alcalde, told investigators his son was on a “slippery slope” and it was “only a matter of time before he went back to jail or was dead,” the sheriff said. Robert Alcalde told the Tampa Bay Times Tuesday that he thinks his son started using prescription drugs a year or two ago and it just went downhill from there. “My son was a mess,” he said.
Obama's America. This joint is starting to look like Kenya or the Middle East.
Danny Trejo would be proud. Also Max Brooks for the homeowner’s preparedness of a zombie outbreak.
Machete ping.
Maybe he used the ever-useful Ontario.
ALWAYS HAVE A BACKUP PLAN!!!!
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OK, but I think he should have had the rifle loaded.
Obama’s America. This joint is starting to look like Kenya or the Middle East.
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Machetes have been common in Florida for a long time, and I’ve seen them carried in confrontational situations.
Omama will be making a speech about how bad machetes are and that they should be illegal.
Ontario is popular certain circles, much less so with the general public.
I'm hoping it was a Tramontina or Condor, but realistically, it was probally a flaccid Walmart or hardware store machete.
They sure can be useful.
You know, I wonder what was the plan C if the machete didn’t work.... slingshot? Can of aerosal spray and a cigarette lighter? I want to know what else this guy had under the bed!
You don’t need much range to lop a chunk off a guy coming through your doorway.
Someone beat him to it.
New York Senate passes machete criminalization measure
http://www.guns.com/2016/04/07/new-york-senate-passes-machete-criminalization-measure/
Cue the sobbing leftists and sad sisters “what we need is more effective MACHETE CONTROL, that poor drug addled soul didn’t have to die, he might have raped or murdered those people, but he didn’t have to DIE for it!!”
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