Chalk one up for the good guys!
CENTER POINT, Ala. (WBMA) —
The burglary suspect who was shot and killed earlier this week was positively identified as 22-year-old Nicholas Attwan McDonald.
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John Croft returned in a taxi to his home Wednesday morning in crutches, with a flesh wound from a gunshot to his ankle. The body of the burglar he killed hours earlier had been taken away. It was a night the 79-year-old man had feared for more than a year was coming.
“I wanted to live my whole life without killing anybody because I believe in the Ten Commandments,” said Croft moments after returning home from the hospital. He says his house on the 2400 block of Ormond Drive had been broken into more than a dozen times in the last year, mostly while he was not at home.
Wednesday's break-in happened around 1:00 a.m. This time Croft was home in his bed. A self-described light sleeper, Croft said he heard the two men break-in and soon found them inside his bedroom. The burglars ordered him to stay still. Instead he grabbed his .38 caliber pistol and shot the closest one. “I think he was going to make me tell if there was any more money in the house but when he said don’t move and heard the bed creaking, I had the gun in my hand and I just shot him.”
Croft, who lives alone, said he chased the other burglar out of the house where a getaway car was waiting. Jefferson County Sheriff's Deputies have not yet released the name of the dead burglar. The case is still being investigated and so far no arrests have been made.
Croft said he plans to use his next retirement paycheck to add burglary bars to his windows and other security upgrades. After Wednesday night, he hopes he won't need them.
http://abc3340.com/news/local/homic...-in-center-point-after-possible-home-invasion
CENTER POINT, Ala. (WBMA) —
The burglary suspect who was shot and killed earlier this week was positively identified as 22-year-old Nicholas Attwan McDonald.
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John Croft returned in a taxi to his home Wednesday morning in crutches, with a flesh wound from a gunshot to his ankle. The body of the burglar he killed hours earlier had been taken away. It was a night the 79-year-old man had feared for more than a year was coming.
“I wanted to live my whole life without killing anybody because I believe in the Ten Commandments,” said Croft moments after returning home from the hospital. He says his house on the 2400 block of Ormond Drive had been broken into more than a dozen times in the last year, mostly while he was not at home.
Wednesday's break-in happened around 1:00 a.m. This time Croft was home in his bed. A self-described light sleeper, Croft said he heard the two men break-in and soon found them inside his bedroom. The burglars ordered him to stay still. Instead he grabbed his .38 caliber pistol and shot the closest one. “I think he was going to make me tell if there was any more money in the house but when he said don’t move and heard the bed creaking, I had the gun in my hand and I just shot him.”
Croft, who lives alone, said he chased the other burglar out of the house where a getaway car was waiting. Jefferson County Sheriff's Deputies have not yet released the name of the dead burglar. The case is still being investigated and so far no arrests have been made.
Croft said he plans to use his next retirement paycheck to add burglary bars to his windows and other security upgrades. After Wednesday night, he hopes he won't need them.
http://abc3340.com/news/local/homic...-in-center-point-after-possible-home-invasion
