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    79-year-old sends burglary suspect to the hospital
    Homeowner fires warning shot into ceiling; bullet ricochets, hits intruder in head


    By SARAH NEWELL
    Record Staff Writer
    Thursday, July 5, 2007

    HICKORY - A would-be burglar got more than he bargained for after attempting to rob the home of a 79-year-old Hickory man late Tuesday.

    At about 10:15 p.m., Dwight Cook and his wife were watching TV in the den of their home on Eighth Street Drive, NE. They heard banging on the sliding glass doors, followed by knocking on the front door, said Lt. Hank Guess with the Hickory Police Department.

    When Cook got to the front door, no one was there. About three minutes later, he heard the sliding glass doors break. Cook sent his wife to a neighbor’s for safety and went to investigate, Guess said.

    “He tried to throw a big flowerpot into the (glass) door ... but it bounced off, so he grabbed a rock and broke the door with that,” Cook said. “He came in and I saw him go into the spare bedroom.

    “I went to get my .22 caliber gun that I keep in the hallway. I had it in my hand, and I asked him what he was doing. He turned around, and I saw that he had something in his hand. I didn’t know what it was, so I fired a warning shot up into the ceiling,” Cook said.

    The bullet ricocheted off the ceiling and part of it hit the intruder in the forehead, Guess said. The suspect fell onto the bed, and Cook held the gun on him while he called 911.

    “I wasn’t aiming for him. I’ve handled guns since I was 12, and (I) was a sharpshooter in the Army. If I wanted to hit him, I would have. If he’d moved, the next shot would have stopped him,” Cook said. “I stood to the side of him until the police got there.”

    The intruder, Derek Scott Frenceschini, 23, of Hickory, was arrested for felony first-degree burglary. He was transported to Frye Regional Medical Center, where he was hospitalized for the bullet fragment in his skull and a fractured right hand injured during the break-in.
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    Oh, that is cool!

    Age over youth...

    Smarts over dumb!

    Don' come into my house un-invited...

    and at night...

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    I can see PPP's alarm system at his house.


    when he gets ready for bed he pushes a button and a voice is heard saying "

    Shooter ready?


    and he pushes a "yes" button.

    and goes to sleep.


    heven forbid the alarm system should go off at night (BEEEEEP)





    (lame attempt at IPSC/IDPA joke.)

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    id buy one of those
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    Mr. 7idl...

    How'd you know????????
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    Last edited by Atrain; 07-06-2007 at 08:24.

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    Call me anything you wish but I would have put a bullet through his head first shot not at the ceiling.

    I don't play pool and make bank shots with home intruders.
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    I saw a story on the news tonight where some 20-something guy tried to pickpocket a 72 year old man at a convenience store. The 72 year old beat the crap out of him. Turns out he was a Marine and a golden gloves boxer in his younger days. He said he wasn't about to lose his wife's cash that he got out of the ATM.

    Here it is;
    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,286847,00.html

    They had video on the 10pm news. The old man was getting some seriously good shots in on the guy. From what I saw, he drilled the punk in the kidneys and caught him in the side of the head just behind the ear.
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