After the news that made headlines last month regarding Amanda Blackburn, the pregnant Indiana pastor’s wife who was murdered in a horrific home invasion, it’s good to see a story where the victim of another home invasion resisted the ruthless bastards with force, succeeding in protecting herself and her family.
Via WRGT Fox45 in Dayton, Ohio:
A home invasion suspect is dead after police say a mother fought back.
Trotwood police say three males kicked in the back door of a home on Atlas Drive. They forced a woman who was doing laundry into a back room with two children. [T]wo other children were asleep on a couch. The ages of the children range from 10 to 16 years old.
While one of the suspects held the woman at gunpoint with a TEC-9 automatic submachine gun [Note: it’s NOT an automatic.–CO2], Trotwood Police Capt. John Porter said the two other suspects tried to steal a safe in the home.
Porter said the woman grabbed a gun in the home and shot the armed suspect and all three then fled the home.
When police arrived, they say they found one suspect dead in a neighbor’s side yard. Police say they found [the] TEC-9 under him.
The other two suspects fled the area in an unknown vehicle.
Police say an autopsy found that the suspect died of a single gunshot to the left shoulder. That bullet pierced a major artery before exiting the right shoulder.
A second gun, a semi-automatic handgun, was recovered in the house. Porter said investigators believe it belonged to one of the suspects who left it behind while trying to carry the safe out of the house.
After the shooting, the suspects left the safe behind. …
Capt. Porter said the suspects now on the run could be held responsible for the third suspect’s death.
The home invasion was caught on the family’s surveillance video.
The woman told 911 dispatchers that one of the men hit her in the head with his gun while she was doing laundry and that all three men appeared to be armed.
WDTN reported that the dead suspect made it 100 yards away from the home before he finally collapsed and died. I’d wager that he didn’t have a permit for that TEC-9.
The man has been identified as Azikiwe Presley, 29, of Dayton, and the coroner’s office listed his death as a homicide. The police have not pursued charges against the woman who defended herself and her kids from further harm.
The woman’s ex-husband, who runs a maintenance business out of the home, told CBS affiliate WHIO:
“You can accept anything, anywhere else, but not my house,” the man said. “I never can conceive that somebody would kick the door in, to put my kids’ life in jeopardy. I just couldn’t. I can’t believe it.”
He also said he was grateful that the ex-wife’s gun was within reach.
Trotwood, Ohio, has an above-average crime rate. Apparently the woman thought it would be a good idea to have something at hand in case of a scenario just like the one she experienced. If the Left had its way, who knows if she would have been able to protect her family and home.
Yet for people like Amanda Blackburn’s alleged murderer, who has now been charged with a second homicide and a rape in two other incidents that took place last month, they would still have their guns. Laws mean nothing to scum like them.
Innocent civilians should have the means to protect themselves. Sheriff David Clarke, for one, bucks the gullible belief that only the police are equipped to handle a potentially lethal situation. Knowing that it’s not enough to simply call 911 and wait is common sense.
As the saying goes, when seconds count, the police are minutes away. Because one Ohio woman understood this concept, there’s one less criminal to terrorize any more families in the future.
