Posted on 10/07/2005 3:03:27 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Man's wife and children had been tied up by robbers
A Corpus Christi man shot and wounded one of several intruders who tied up his wife and small children and ransacked his home early Wednesday morning, police said.
Frank Pizzini, 23, told police he and his wife were sleeping at their home in the 4700 block of Mokry Drive when he heard a crash at his front door about 3:15 a.m.
Police reported that as Pizzini went to the door to confront three men wearing hoods or ski masks, his wife rolled off their bed onto the floor and called 911.
"They threatened Mr. Pizzini," Police Cmdr. Mike Walsh said. "They asked for guns, jewelry, money and the keys to the car."
Walsh said Pizzini got into a struggle with the men while his wife and children were taped up.
"They spent a short while ransacking the house, then ran out the back door," Walsh said.
He said Pizzini followed the men, picked up a pistol one of the invaders dropped near Pizzini's property and fired several shots, hitting one man in the leg.
Andres Aleman, 24, who is on probation for aggravated robbery, was arrested and treated for a bullet wound in his leg, police said. A bond for Aleman, who was under guard at Christus Spohn Hospital Memorial late Wednesday, was set at $100,000.
Walsh said a pistol and two shotguns were recovered at the scene as well as a Chrysler minivan reported stolen in May that might be connected to the crime.
Contact Sara Lee Fernandez at 886-3767 or HYPERLINK mailto:fernandezs@caller.com fernandezs@caller.
We need to spend more time on the range, people!
Must have been a .38,he still has a leg.
Ok, so why do the bad guys go to all the trouble of taping up the wife and kids but don't subdue or shoot hubby? And then they conveniently drop a gun which hubby finds in the dark quick enough to shoot one guy? I dunno about this one, folks.
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motive for lying is???????
You Mean they treated and did not release what is wrong with the police.These kind of punks should have a 45 between the eyes
Obviously these jerks were not too bright or they would not have "invaded" a house in Texas where six-guns outnumber yellow roses.
But I agree. The man made several potentially fatal mistakes.
First, he never should have opened the door in the middle of the night to someone he did not know or recognize.
Second, he should have had a gun, or guns, handy so he would not have to depend on luck to protect his and his family's lives.
Third, he should practice, practice, practice.
The article didn't have all that much information, was the crash he and his family heard someone forcing the door open and he got downstairs to confront them as they were entering the house?
Been nice if he had had a gun and taken them out, but maybe it would not have worked out that way.
As far as finding a gun and shooting the intruder, these guys didn't sound like rocket scientists themselves. They should have tied up the immediate threat to them first, the husband. Then they dropped guns and loot all over the place running away.
It's one thing to criticize someone on what he did or failed to do, but he was there living through it and we were not.
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