Posted on 06/06/2019 5:06:20 PM PDT by grundle
A Tampa Bay mother held an intruder in her home at gunpoint for a terrifying 13 minutes until police arrived at the scene. Lauren Richards, a mother of four, initially made a call reporting a suspicious person on her property 21 minutes before police arrived.
On Saturday, May 25, 2019, Richards called 911 at 12:41 a.m., according to a Pasco County Sheriff's Office representative.
"I tell [911] somebody just came into my door. He's unfamiliar. I don't recognize him," Richards told WFLA.
While waiting for officers to arrive to the suspicious person call, Richards looked outside her home in Rolling Oaks Estates in Hudson, Fla., and noticed her mini-pig, Milton, had his nose to the ground. She realized the animal had picked up a scent and that someone either had been in her garage or was currently in her garage.
Richards, already afraid the man would break into her home, took her gun and entered the garage. Eight feet away was the intruder, identified as Devin Cooke, 25. Richards realized that her typically open garage door was now shut.
She placed a second call to police at 12:54 a.m.
In audio obtained by the station of the police call, Richards says, "I have a gun pointed and I need the police to show up immediately. I called 10 minutes ago and nobody has shown up."
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When seconds count the police are minutes away.
An episode of the color Dragnet TV series had them say “you don’t need to get your guns out and confront someone in your home——the time you spend doing that you should be phoning the police.” Sure....
When seconds counted, the police were only 13 minutes away.
Great outcome...
That story says it all. Don’t count on the police to be there to save your ass when the SHTF.
She should have told them that she shot him.
They show up faster to do paper work.
I’mmjoking.
I once cocked a slide of a shotgun over phone and the cops were there in a sec.....to lecture me.
I was calling about a drug deal going down in front of my house.
glad I moved from there.
But sure, guns are terrible. *eye roll*
The Pasco cops had to wait for the Live P.D. camera people to charge their video batteries and get their gear in their video truck.
Apparently, it was a Devin...and not a Devon or a Devonia.
Proving, once again, police are not the firstresponders they think they are.
She initially reported a suspicious person TWENTY ONE minutes before!!
That’s a whole sitcom!
... and she’d left her garage door open as she usually did. Ugh, what an idiot.
Where I live it’s like forty-five minutes and that’s if they’re not busy. The sheriff said basically: arm up.
Yeah, when seconds count, the police are almost half an hour away. Good thing her neighbor was there to assist her and had a gun.
The mother appears to have responded with perfect level-headed actions in the face of a intruder of questionable sanity.
She deserves praise for her calm temperament and good judgement.
The later color Dragnet TV series was very anti-gun as it hit the TV screens after Bobby Kennedy was shot.
I remember one show about a man who shot his wife. The weapon, shown in a box, was one of the most expensive revolvers on the market at that time, an SAA Colt .45 with adjustable target sights.
I bet those 13 minutes felt like 2 hours. That woman has bigger balls than most guys I know.
The nearest Sheriff’s deputy is about 2 hours away from my wife and I; we don’t have local Police, just the Sheriff’s Department.
Somebody comes on my property and won’t leave politely, I have a backhoe and lots of room to dig.
Sounds like it doesn’t it.
THERE’S the answer I was expecting!
Milton Rules!
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