Posted on 10/15/2009 12:09:45 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out
HOUSTON-A Harris County man who shot an intruder in his home said pulling the trigger is the most difficult decision anyone can make.
“It’s a weird feeling,” Jorge Guzman said as he walked through his bullet-riddled home on Lima Drive. “I don’t care who it is or who they think they are, when you’re in that position, it’s totally different.”
The break-in occurred in the early morning hours last Monday. Only Guzman and his uncle were home at the time.
The chilling encounter was captured in a call to 911.
“Please, they’re breaking the windows,” Guzman told a dispatcher.
Guzman, who had barricaded himself in a back bedroom with a handgun, described the scene as it unfolded to dispatchers.
“I hear somebody in the house. They’re trying to open the door. Hurry! Please hurry,” he said.
The dispatcher continued to reassure Guzman that sheriff’s deputies were on the way. At one point, Guzman was instructed to lay down his weapon.
“Go and put your gun down because if you hear anything, it’s going to be the deputies,” the 911 dispatcher insisted.
Then, moments later, the sound of gunfire was caught on tape.
Guzman told 11 News he fired the shots because the intruder was trying to kick down the door to his bedroom.
“As soon as he put his foot there, that’s when I shot, because he had a big tattoo on his face and when the lady was telling me that’s the sheriff’s department, when he came into that door I said that’s not the sheriff’s department,” Guzman said.
Guzman said once he shot the suspect, the 19-year-old ran around his home trying to find a way to get out.
Deputies arrested the wounded suspect, along with a woman they say drove his getaway car.
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Yea, put that weapon down sir and die!
They are coming with powdered donuts to make a chalk line of your body.
Good thing he didn’t listen to the dispatcher.
Great story!
Shoot first, then call 911.
OK, how would the dispatcher know that? If the dispatcher knows exactly how many bad guys are in and around your house why didn't he/she send the cops earlier? /semi-sarc
Still like the story of the woman who was asked by the police
Q. “Why did you shoot him six times:
A. Because when I fired the seventh time nothing happenedl
The dispatcher should be charged with attempted murder.
As soon as he put his foot there, that’s when I shot, because he had a big tattoo on his face
How could he see the guy's tattoos through the door?
I always thought if someone broke into my house I would barricade my bedroom door, get my gun, go to a corner call 911 and keep my gun pointed at the door.
You know, and people would call you paranoid...but I have a big knife in my bedroom, figuring I’d wake up if they got through my door...and lock the bedroom door...
Nonetheless, I always leave my phone in the living room.
All this whole plan...it makes no sense.
There once was a book called “Dial 911 and Die”
Something is making no sense.
I would suggest moving away from Illinois to some place where the state does not place the rights and life of a criminal above your own.
Yep, just proves the adage:
When seconds count, the cops are only minutes away.
The man would have been dead if he had followed this asinine instruction.
We’ve had to call 911 to the Harris County dispatcher before as well. We had a neighbor outside screaming (frightening, chilling screaming) at 2 AM. My wife grabbed the phone and called 911. We live in Harris County and outside city limits. My wife told the dispatcher what was going on and was very calm and clear.
The dispatcher started telling her that she was too loud. My wife got quieter and slowly explained what was going on and where the house was. The dispatcher started arguing with her that she was too excited and that she should just shut up. My wife hung up and called 911 again. Funny thing, the new dispatcher understood everything.
That’s one of many stories about Harris County’s pathetic system. We had to call 911 on vandals destroying our neighbor’s property. After an hour, they called back and asked for directions on how to get there.
We called on suspicious vehicles on our street. The police didn’t respond for a long time and when they did, they had their lights on a long way around the corner. The perps could see the lights before they turned the corner and they speed off. The police told us it was nothing. The next morning we found hundreds of credit cards on the ground where the car was sitting. It was a gang that was breaking into cars where women had left their purses sitting on the seat. They had been trying to catch them for a while. There was their chance. When my wife called the police back, we were under suspicion because we found the cards. My wife was pissed.
We had a drunk guy screaming at us and try to drive over my wife and son with his vehicle and our neighbor’s vehicle and home broken into. Out of all our calls to 911, they made 1 arrest.
You need to move man
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