Wow
I … have no remorse now for killing a man:
Before the men arrived at his home, someone called Harvey to ask if he had any shipping boxes. Though an unusual request on a Saturday, Harvey told the caller he had some at his home.
Four Spanish-speaking men seeking boxes arrived outside Harvey’s home about 15 minutes later. While showing the men boxes in his garage, they pulled out guns and ordered Harvey and his wife to give them money. Inside, the men rounded up the couple’s five children in the living room and stood guard over them.
The men repeatedly pointed their weapons at the heads of family members as they demanded money. One man vaguely threatened Harvey by telling him not to worry because he would be sleeping after they left.
“I knew he was going to kill me,” Harvey said.
As one man stood guard over Harvey in the kitchen, another took his wife into another room to seek her jewelry.
“After they took my wife I knew I had to do something,” he said. “I felt I had to react.”
He wrestled the gun out of his captor’s hands then shot him dead before the other three men ran back toward the kitchen. A shootout followed as the men fired their weapons at Harvey. He was struck three times as he returned fire until emptying the gun in his hand. His wife and children were unharmed.
“They came out spraying bullets at me,” he said. “I wasn’t trying to dodge the bullets. I was walking right up to the men to shoot them because I thought I was gonna be killed.“
Wow, that dude has some balls. Glad it ended without the deaths of this guy or his family. Though the sensationalist headline doesn’t really clue you in to what happened.
March 23rd, 2006 at 10:17 pm
Three points:
1. The goblins called first to make sure this man would be in his home.
2. Four goblins showed up. Lots more than they might have thought was needed to overpower one man.
3. And, of course, there’s that bit about taking Mrs. Harvey off separately “to seek her jewelry”. Uh huh. “Jewels.” Right.
This was no ordinary robbery; it was a planned home invasion. Harvey saved himself and his family from a long, brutal night, after which none would have seen the dawn.