Center Point home invasion victim: 'I hate that boy dead, but I don't hate I shot him'

WBRC ^ | 3/29/17 | Janice Rogers

[Bodleian_Girl]

For 21 years, John Croft lived in his Center Point virtually problem free until last summer.

“I’ve been a prisoner in my house,” he said.

Croft, who is 79, says the burglaries began last June. Since then, he says his house has been broken into 13 times.

The most recent case came around 1:15 Wednesday morning

“When I heard the noise, that's when they opened the window from the basement coming to the level where the bedrooms are,” he recalled.

Jefferson County deputies say there were two men inside. Another, driving the getaway car, waited outside.

“I have three bedrooms. I think they checked the other two bedrooms out and then he came over there and said, 'Don't move!' He heard the bed squeak. I was getting my gun. He said, 'Don't move' and he used the ‘N’ word and I shot,” Croft recounted later Wednesday.

“I hate that boy dead, but I don't hate I shot him,”

[Candor7]

Obviously its now necessary to terminate burglers quietly in England, dispose of the body at the nearest pig farm, and go about ones business normally?

[DH]

If the idiot had shot the first one to climb through his window he never would have had 13 more climb through.

[Therapsid]

The “progressive”...nazi”...leftists”...think this is another form of asset redistribution ......from the old”worthless eaters”...to the young.

[wbarmy]

This is probably the saddest thing I have ever heard of and you are not the only time I have heard it.

You have to dress as the lowest common denominator in your area or they will tear you down.

Just like crabs in a bucket. They keep pulling each other back into the bucket.

[Altura Ct.]

And you know what's been happening to black boys today.

What's been happening to black boys?

[Bodleian_Girl]

That was a sad comment. Here he is, just been robbed 13 times and shot by a “black boy” and he talks about what’s happening TO black boys.

[Red in Blue PA]

LOL!