Posted on 08/22/2018 9:59:45 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
IRON TOWN, Utah -- An elderly couple in southern Utah shot an intruder, but the fight didn’t stop there.
Investigators say the man then stripped naked and confronted deputies.
Iron Town is a very small community just west of Cedar City.
Barbed wire fences and no trespassing signs greet the few visitors that venture that way.
“Really, really quiet," resident Walter Enz said. "Nice.”
But it wasn't quiet on Tuesday.
“I saw the sheriff deputy come up on a pickup and he was coming at me like he was shot out of a cannon," Enz said.
The Iron County Sheriff's Office had received a call for a burglary in process in Iron Town.
Deputies say 24-year-old Christian Holbert kicked down the door of the house and confronted the couple inside.
“They are a little bit elderly, they do have some disabilities," Lt. Del Schlosser said.
Elderly but not defenseless.
A sign at the home reads, "Smith and Wesson spoken here."
“They did fear for their lives and they did shoot at him," Lt. Schlosser said.
After being shot several times, investigators say Holbert stripped naked, walked out of the home and confronted four deputies.
“Taser was used multiple times" Lt. Schlosser said. "He did not respond to that but the deputies were able to subdue him.”
After a medical helicopter took Holbert to Dixie Regional Medical Center in serious condition, Iron Town returned to quiet.
“Things happen and you just have to hope they don’t happen to you," Enz said.
The homeowners were not hurt, and deputies say they were within their rights to defend their lives.
Investigators think Holbert was on some kind of drugs that allowed him to keep going despite being shot and tased.
I would have thought the 'stripped naked after being shot' would have confirmed the drug use.
True dat.
"Truly, yours is a dizzying intellect."
This would qualify as a Darwin Award Test Run
Meh. You make the argument that it was meant as a deterrent - if you find you need to say anything at all.
Just put out a huge dog bowl with a moose femur in it.
Obviously, the perp ranked on intelligence scales somewhere between a chicken and a bowling ball.
Add in the one sentence paragraphs and you begin to think this article was written by a 7th grader.
Who’s we?
Me, Smith and Wesson.
A possibility not to be discounted. The stripping naked bit goes along with it.
Any idea what caliber was used?
I guarantee Holbert was too high on drugs to comprehend what Smith and Wesson referred to. Being naked was a clue to his mental state. He probably thought Smith and Wesson was a reference to a foreign language.
Too small caliber, or poor shot placement? They appear to need some more range time.
In Utah, you’d expect them to be fluent in John Moses Browning. But hey, that’s just me.
LOL!
True and I’m a firm believer in demonic possession controlling a good portion of our population, drugs open those gateways.
Mixture of both in this case IMHO.
Gun control means good grouping.
Don’t care what you are on, if you can put a couple in the pump ring of the target profile, it will go down.
Insurance will cover the clean up.
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