Life imitates ...
Posted on 05/10/2012 7:42:38 AM PDT by marktwain
ELIZABETH TOWNSHIP, Pa. —
Police said they caught a home invasion suspect moments after he was shot while breaking into a home Tuesday morning.
According to police, Raymond Hills, 25, fled from the Elizabeth Township home just after 4:30 a.m. when 84-year-old Fred Ricciutti shot him with the German Luger he used in the Korean War.
"I said 'Halt, who's there?'" said Ricciutti. "I'm thinking, friend or foe, he shouldn't be there that time of day."
Ricciutti said he was awoken when he heard Hiles breaking in through an unlocked kitchen window. When he confronted the intruder standing in his doorway, Ricciutti fired.
The bullet grazed Hiles in the back of the neck, as well as a door and storm door window.
Ricciutti said he then called police, and Hiles was caught a few blocks away from Ricciutti's home.
According to police, Hiles had a screwdriver and stun gun on him when Elizabeth Township police arrested him.
Officials said Hiles was taken to jail Tuesday wearing a bandage on his neck from the bullet wound.
Authorities said they don't plan on filing any charges against Ricciutti.
Life imitates ...
A Luger in the Korean War? There is something strange about this claim.
"Get off my lawn".Good film...certainly not the best he's ever done but still good.The Cambodians were really good,so good that I would have strangled those young "punks" myself.
He should have said "Thunder" and fired when he did not get the appropriate response of "Flash."
Yeah that was my thought as well. Maybe it was a Lugar? Actually just kidding on that one.
Good one LD.
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I bet there's a great story behind that ...
“The bullet grazed Hiles in the back of the neck, as well as a door and storm door window.”
I didn’t know doors and storm door windows had necks?!?!
I like it better when they say, "Stop, >>BANG<< >>BANG<< >>BANG<< >>BANG<< >>BANG<<, or I'll shoot..."
I'm feeling bad about the door and storm window.
Just a little...
Which “Elizabeth Twp”? Practically every county in Pennsylvania has one. I lived in one (Lancaster County) and near another (Allegheny County).
I’m guessing Allegheny County. The one in Lancaster County has no police force, as far as I know. Plus you’re more likely to run into a loaded rifle in Allegheny. A lot of Philly transplants live in northern Lancaster County.
Yes, this is at the far southern tip of Allegheny County.
Close to some former steel mill towns where civilization has basically collapsed (Clairton, Monessen, Donora....)
What I thought. Also, the Elizabeth Twp in Lancaster usually gets tagged “Lititz”, which is the nearest significant town.
The reporter said it was a German Luger. He may have simply meant ‘handgun’. You know how reporters are sticklers for those sorts of things.
Dang. I thought I would be the first to post it...:)
An american soldier would obviously not have used a German luger as a sidearm in the Korean War. However, the Soviet Union had huge stockpiles of captured German weapons from WWII that they in turn supplied many commnist forces around the world with.
Mr Ricciutti may have obtained the luger from a NORK or ChiCom that no longer had any use for it.
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