Posted on 08/18/2015 4:11:58 AM PDT by from occupied ga
Atlanta police are looking for a group of home invaders who they say attacked and terrorized a young couple and their children.
The family had just returned from vacation to their home on Sumter Street in northwest Atlanta around 7:30 p.m. Sunday when someone knocked on their door.
Police say four teenagers asked to borrow a jack for their car, then tried to force their way inside.
When Michael Lash tried to close the door, police say the teens shot him in the legs.
Jessica Huffman fought back tears talking about her son-in-law’s bravery.
“He said, ‘I can't let you (in) because my wife and two children are in there.’ They said, ‘We want to go in and see them,’” Huffman told Channel 2’s Amy Napier Viteri. “So they shot him in his leg and then they shot him in his other leg.”
When Lash's wife, Whitney, heard the shots, she grabbed their infant daughter and ran toward the back door. The home invaders fired two shots at her, but missed.
She was able to escape out the back door and run to a nearby home for help.
“He followed her and caught up with her at the gate and she turned around and said, ‘Please don't shoot me, I have a little baby.’”
The couple's 2-year-old son was upstairs asleep when it happened. He was unharmed.
Huffman says the man told Whitney to give him her cellphone as several others ransacked the home, running off before police arrived.
“I just hate it for those young boys that they're doing this to their life, but if they’ve done it once I think they'll do it again,” Huffman said.
Neighbors told Channel 2’s Berndt Petersen they couldn’t believe what happened to their neighbors.
"It was just a shock,” neighbor Rance Jiles said. "Why they picked them out of the neighborhood to do this to, these young people, I don't understand it."
Jiles told Petersen he has lived in the neighborhood for years.
"I've always considered it a safe neighborhood. It's quiet. It's pretty much away from all crime,” neighbor Charlie Powell said.
Many people in the neighborhood say this is the last place they thought this would happen.
"You could pretty much leave your doors unlocked around here. You don't have to worry about anyone breaking in,” Powell said.
"We've had a few robberies, you know, burglaries, but as far as home invasions, this is the first one I know of in the 40 years I've been here,” Jiles said.
Jiles says the crime has him concerned, but not enough to make him change his behavior.
"I'm not gonna make any changes. I've been here 40 years. I'm just gonna watch out for my place and try to watch out for neighbors,” Jiles said.
After the shooting, the home invaders ran off. Police are looking for four males, believed to be teens.
Petersen spoke to Lash's wife Monday, who said he was having surgery and is expected to be OK.
A GoFundMe page has been set up to help out the family if you would like to donate.
Originally reported as four BLACK males now redacted to "four males" total media capitulation and willing conspiracy to hide the race of criminals when those criminals are black as they almost always are in Atlanta
Will Rogers said that America's only native criminal class is Congress, but I think that in the last 90 years -particularly in the last 50 since LBJ's (may he rot in hell along with FDR)Great Society we now have another native criminal class - inner city blacks.
The victims
Feral 1800s Protestant teens again?
More racial healing from Obama.
Time to thin the herd, folks. If they get thinned out due to stupidity and criminality,so be it.
Acrually, there are three—don’t leave out the driveby media.
After the shooting, the home invaders ran off. Police are looking for four males, believed to be teens.
The PC media can all rot. They don’t care one flip what happens to innocent people. They can all rot.
Teens... Atlanta... yup, got the picture.
GA FReeper ping.
Just looking at the location, they’re right across the rail yard from Carver Homes, Hollowell Parkway, etc. I am honestly surprised they haven’t had more crime.
Joe Biden was right, just fire your shotgun through the door. It’s the only thing Joe’s ever said that makes any sense.
Amish run amok again.
#TheirLivesDontMatter
I wouldn’t live inside the perimeter if you paid me the property taxes instead of the other way around, but even in the ‘burbs I don’t answer the door at night unless I have a firearm in hand and then I don’t open it just yell “Who is it?” unless I’m expecting someone.
#whiteLivesDontMatter
Well, that narrows it down...SMH
And blow the head off some girl scout delivering cookies. Sorry good buddy, Xao Bi Den was never right about anything in his miserable parasitic life.
emancipation was a bad deal for America
At totally nauseating article!
A nauseating neighbor says:
"It was just a shock...Why they picked them out of the neighborhood to do this to, these young people, I don't understand it."And a nauseating victim - after he's shot twice and his wife fired at twice - says:
"I just hate it for those young boys that they're doing this to their life."TOTAL VOMIT!
Those pesky Amish juvenile delinquents again.
Where are the cops that pump over 600 rounds at a car during a high speed chase when you *really* need ‘em?
There is again, an easy answer for this sort of feral behavior, which is:
Find the perps.
Indict the perps.
Convict the perps.
KILL the perps, with extreme prejudice, inside of 90 days.
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