This will become more and more common as time goes by. NEVER open your door to strangers! Use peepholes, side windows, or security cameras to see who is out there. Beware of ruses and pretexts. Home invaders will even send a girlfriend to your door posing as a crime victim or poll taker, while they hide around the corner. DON’T OPEN THAT DOOR, and have a gun ready! And have more guns and knives hidden but in reach, in case they do get inside.
The captors played Russian roulette with the couple’s 5-year-old son Ryan, repeatedly pulling the trigger while pressing the gun up against the young boys head.
‘I was absolutely sure that after I paid them, they would kill me,’ Mr Morais said in Portuguese while testifying.
The horrifying episode did not end until Ms Borges escaped after climbing out of a second-floor window.
As she raced to a neighbour’s house, one of the captors shot her in the back, and the bullet went right through her and hit her wrist on the way out.
Even after all of that, she still managed to get to the nearby house and call for help. The captors fled when she escaped, but three of the four involved were later captured by police.
The investigation that followed established that it was not a random attack, but that the attackers likely followed the family for a period of time before the attack in order to learn more about them and their habits.
In Pensacola on Valentine’s Day a woman was robbed by a guy who showed up at the door posing as a delivery man with flowers and candy................
Good advice!
I used to know a guy in Norman, OK who had an old pump gun here, sawed off to 19" of course, a couple of used Taurus revolvers there and there, and something else somewhere else. Maybe even a single-shot 12 gauge in the garage, standing behind a ladder in the corner gathering rust.
At the time I thought he was paranoid as hell but now I think maybe he was just familiar with the local cops and their stories and was ahead of his time - a case study in the first rule of gunfighting. "Have a gun, and it don't have to be a blingy one."
I had one come the other day who caught me off guard....offering free low cost lighting.....he was going to “case” the joint : )