Rancho Cordova homeowner shoots it out with intruder

[Common Sense Party]

With her toddler in the SUV, the woman, 28, arrived home around 3 a.m., Ramos said. She pulled her vehicle into the garage.

The Sheriff's Department working narrative describes what happened next: A man or men were either lying in wait within or followed the woman into the opened garage. She was then struck in the head with an unknown object. The child's father emerged from the house, shooting one or two assailants in the garage. The woman got back into the SUV and drove off, busting though the partially closed garage door. The male homeowner, suffering a gunshot wound to the hip, called 911.

"He defended his property and his woman and his kid," Ramos said. "I guess you could describe it as heroic action. Things could be a lot worse for her and for the resident."

When squad cars arrived, they found a battered garage door, the injured homeowner, an unknown man shot in the head and two handguns.



Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/06/17/3707465/rancho-cordova-homeowner-shoots.html#ixzz1Q59hvoyH


3 a.m. -- not the kind of homecoming I'd want.

[GreenStormCloud]

1. Good shooting under extreme stress.

There are some posters here who claim that gun owners wouldn't be able to do that and would shoot randomly in any direction hitting the woman and child before they hit the bad guy. Obviously this gun owner didn't read those posts.

[Common Sense Party]

3. If only he had...

Then one more bad guy wouldn't have had his constitutional right to attack or terrorize people in their homes at 3 am trampled by this insensitive toter.

[ileus]

2. sounds like great shooting....must have been a 5" 45

good job on defending his family....must not have known his gun was secretly wanting to kill his family.