Belleville neighbor shoots armed intruder at apartment, police say

St. Louis Post-Distpatch ^ | 24 December, 2019 | Staff

[marktwain]

BELLEVILLE — The St. Clair County Sheriff’s Department is investigating an incident in which police say an armed intruder was shot twice in an apartment Tuesday afternoon.

Police say that just before 4:30 p.m., a 20-year-old armed man tried to steal a woman's car in a parking lot near Elmway Court.

He wasn't able to steal the car, according to police. The man went to a nearby apartment building, breaking several windows, and held a group of people inside an apartment at gunpoint, they say.

[marktwain]

Very likely the young man was on drugs or alcohol or both.

[eartick]

Just doing some Christmas shopping for his homeys....

[hal ogen]

Good shooting, Citizen. Civilization thanks you.

[Pontiac]

Police believe a neighbor heard a commotion in the apartment and came to the residence armed. The neighbor saw the intruder and shot him twice, police say.

The one time people wouldn’t complain about the paper thin walls in their apartment.

[jazminerose]

A nice bit of Christmas cheer.

Let’s hope his defective DNA was permanently removed from the collective gene pool.

[kagnew]

“Good shooting, Citizen. Civilization thanks you.”

Again, good guy with a gun, stops a bad guy with a gun. Nothing more needs to be said.

[TangoLimaSierra]

Sadly, no.

FTA: "The man has injuries that aren't life-threatening, and police have not reported any additional injuries."

[BuffaloJack]

If you shoot and kill an intruder, are you allowed to take his carcass to a taxidermist for mounting?

[dila813]

Belleville has always been a rough town, I remember when the union was putting bombs on pay phones in town and if you took the phone off the hook a pipe bomb would blow up in your face, they were tiny pipe bombs that wouldn’t kill you but could take out your face.