Here is a story of a home invasion and the brave response of the home owner and his wife.
It always amazes me the intestinal fortitude that can be mustered in the time of need. In this case the wife pushed a shot gun barrel away from her head and the husband partially disarmed a 300 pound intruder.
Posted on Wed, Sep. 03, 2008
Blue Mound couple: ‘We’re fighting for our lives’
By BILL MILLER
BLUE MOUND — Grappling over a shotgun with a 300-pound man who had just burst into his home and threatened his wife, Keith Hoehn had but one thought.”It was like a horror movie,” he said. “I thought I was a dead man. We’re fighting for our lives.”
The overnight crime spree began late Tuesday when two suspects robbed a family in north Fort Worth and then drove the family’s van to Blue Mound where they tried to do the same thing at the Globe Street home of Keith and Kellie Hoehn.
“Very overt, very crazy” is how Blue Mound Police Lt. Thomas Cain described the fracas.
The Hoehns, both 34, feared that they and their children were about to be killed, so they battled the suspects.
Keith Hoehn struggled to get the sawed-off shotgun, while his wife grabbed the muzzle, trying to keep it pointed away from the rooms of the couple’s son, 12, and 5-year-old daughter.
That went on for about five minutes, Keith Hoehn said.
He finally managed to get the shotgun away from the larger of the two attackers and turned it on both of them.
Dakota Scott Benoit, 20, of Richland Hills was fatally wounded and John Garland Pierson, 25, of Haltom City was in critical condition and police custody at the hospital.
The homeowner summed up his conclusions with this statement:
He [the homeowner] concluded that his family was alive Wednesday through God’s protection and his wife’s courage.
“She’s the one who set things in motion,” he said. “Most people would probably say ‘Take what you want,’ but we thought we were going to die.
“I’m sorry it had to happen, but I can’t help the way people are.”
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