Home Invasion in my Neighborhood

[Joe_K]

UPDATE:

I was home alone the other night watching a Walking Dead episode, and at about 10:30 someone starts pounding on my door ringing the doorbell. I get up go to the door, pull open the curtain and there are 2 teens not from my neighborhood, a white male and a black female (who I have never seen before in my life) standing there on my front porch. The girl is covering her face with a hoodie.
I ask,
"What's up?"

And the boy starts talking frantically a mile a minute,

"Let us in man, we need water, she's been pepper sprayed in the face!!!"

(I highly doubt that she was pepper sprayed, she was calm as could be just covering her face)

I tell them both,

"Call 911."

The guy gets more insistent and repeats his earlier demands with the addition of referring to me as "Bro" multiple times, then starts leaning against the glass panes of the door.

I tell them to leave a few times but they both just ignored me. I was becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the situation. After one last command to leave I produced my 9mm Glock 19 and informed them they were seriously not welcome on the premises. They immediately fled into the night.

I called A.P.D. and US Law Shield. I haven't seen the "Yutes" since and the Police never even came to the house.

That night as I was talking with dispatch I watched 5 patrol vehicles drive by with searchlights on, scanning the public spaces.

U.S. Law Shield Defense Attorney Stan Marks called me the next morning to follow up and get the story. After listening to me he said I was 100% good to go.

Tactically I wish I had instead interacted with the idiots from my second story and had my AR-15 & phone on me and gotten pictures of them.

I do not believe the girl had been pepper sprayed, but rather what they had been involved in some form of illegal activity, knew the Police were on the way and wanted to get off of the street.

Velocitas, Opprimere,
Violentia Operandi

[Skip]

Sounds like you handled it well!

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I do not believe the girl had been pepper sprayed, but rather what they had been involved in some form of illegal activity, knew the Police were on the way and wanted to get off of the street.

Lady is distress is common tactic to gain entry too. A woman is less threatening and a lot of people will throw open their door trying to help. Bad guy can be waiting around a corner or behind a car. Only takes a second for him to run into the house with an accomplice in the doorway.

You probably knew this but worth considering.

There's just no way of knowing what someone is up. Better to be safe and advising them to call 911 was the right thing to do if they were legitimately in need of help.

Bad guys have all damn day to sit around and think of ways to harm people while the good guys are busy at work paying their taxes.