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A Cleveland homeowner is lucky to be alive after opening his front door and walking straight into gunfire.
According to reporting from 19 News, the shooting happened just after 1 a.m. Friday on Schiller Avenue in the Old Brooklyn neighborhood. The homeowner, who asked that his last name not be used, said he heard noises coming from his driveway and believed someone was trying to steal a Kia parked outside.
“I literally flew out of bed,” he told 19 News. His goal, he said, was simple: scare them off before they could take the vehicle.
Instead, the moment he opened the door and popped his head outside, gunfire erupted.
“Boom, boom, boom,” he recalled.
Police say two young suspects opened fire within seconds. One ran down the street while the other jumped into a nearby vehicle and sped off. Investigators say at least nine shots were fired.
One of those rounds struck the homeowner in the calf, entering and exiting his leg and causing heavy bleeding from an artery. The man said panic set in immediately.
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“That was running through my head… I’m leaking blood,” he said, recalling that his brother had been shot and killed years earlier.
The homeowner said he dropped his own firearm (which he never fired) retreated into the house, and yelled for his sister to call 911. Once upstairs, he grabbed a shirt and tied it tightly around his leg in an attempt to slow the bleeding, “like you see in the movies.”
Police and EMS arrived quickly and transported him for treatment. He survived, but the experience left him shaken, especially considering the Kia in question has reportedly been stolen multiple times before.
Police are still searching for the gunman.
The incident underscores a growing problem in many cities: repeat vehicle thefts escalating into violent confrontations. In this case, a homeowner trying to protect his property nearly paid with his life.
As always, this is a reminder that confronting criminals, even on your own driveway, can turn deadly in seconds.
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my take on this……..home owner is lucky to be alive, so the question is should he have done nothing or come out ready to shoot? now you have 3 bad guys that didn’t hesitate to shoot and had no concern for human life, let them get away and next time they will get bolder and kill the next victim. if caught you have 3 of them and they will lie about what happened which seems to carry more weight than the victim’s version. victim most probably will be charged with something to take away his 2a rights the bad guys will plea deal down to easy time and will be back out there to start up again. so basically the criminals are allowed every advantage and the victims will continue to be victims unless the cycle is stopped!
The Homeowner came very close to losing his life. A car can always be replaced. He should have called the cops not confronted an armed gang. Three to One was not good odds even if he had played Dirty Harry with a .44 magnum. Dirty Harry only wins in the movies not in real life.
From a Stanford Study written up in the New York Times: “While victims actively resisted in only 7 percent of the robberies studied, those incidents accounted for 51 percent of the deaths.” Not good odds Jethro.
your a typical cult member…….a nobody trying to be somebody! i’m sure your response will be just more prattle and insults.
so how is the weather there in lala-land? i’m sure the unicorns love it……
Dirty Harry, the one where Mr. Garak says he is going to kill himself an n-word?
He talked a lot about .44 Mag but he mostly carried a .41.
so why ain’t you calling out dankian…..you 2 have tea and crumpets together?
dirty harry didn’t carry a .41……i guess all that gun knowledge you have went to waste.
paul, during the filming of Dirty Harry, Clint Eastwood as often as not was carrying a S&W 57, which is chambered in .41 Mag. I refer to the weapon in the actor’s hand, not the narrative built around Officer Callahan.
Although similar, the .41 fires a 1.04 cm diameter bullet as opposed to the .44’s 1.08 cm. The .41 floats like a .357 and stings like a .44.
And I was calling out dacian. I doubt we’ll share tea anytime soon.
wrong it was a s&w model 29 showcased in 2 barrel lengths. also it wasn’t portrayed to be used a .44 magnum.
Harry himself explained that he carries a .44 magnum (S&W 29) but it’s usually loaded with “light specials” that he loads himself because it gives him “better accuracy and control in a gun this size”.
So what’s the moral of your story? Don’t ever resist because it might get you killed? It depends on the circumstances. If you are in your house (a position of safety), then I agree. But if you are about to be carjacked or abducted then the calculus changes. And I would take with a grain of salt any advice from the NYT. They make no mention of the particulars of any robbery and ignore that the widely circulated figures that there are a million or more defensive gun uses every year.
Hey dacian, both me and Paul live in some areas that are NOT anywhere close to being “White privileged” havens. Cleveland and Chicago
Since you talked on and on about education and then refused to list you higher learning creds, why don’t you share the non-White region that you live in?
I suspect he lives in a UK microsoft server…..
dacian claims that he “got my first .22 rifle, pistol, and 16 gauge shotgun in 1962.” Which made him about 14 years old with a firearm and this is also his claim to being knowledgeable gun owner. Although he will also claim that firearms are easier to get than a “hamburger” without explaining the hypocrisy between his claim of being a 14 year old gun owner and his wanting to make gun ownership more restrictive.
Then dacian is an advocate for a book “The Second” by Carol Anderson where the author claims that the 2A “was designed to empower white (sic) Americans while suppressing the rights of Black individuals.” So, by his own reasoning, dacian, grew up marinated in White privilege. What amends has he made to Black America for exercising his 2A rights?
Then dacian throws around a multitude of insults about education but when asked what his educational qualifications were, he goes silent.
just AI nonsense from him…..most of the posts are repeating now.
You should drop in on the Nior “Buying a Gun Isn’t Like Buying a Gun” just to note what he is saying, and he thus far has NOT said. IMHO he is not AI just natural ignorance. I thought he would brag about his supposed brilliant education and where he lived among the non-Whites and how he imposed a gun ban on himself, the chatter box has gone silent.
I would have dialed 911 first to report the attempted theft. I doubt KIA is worth a gun battle and maybe a legal battle. If I did go out to confront the assailants, and started taking fire, sure hope I would return the fire even with the leg wound. The homeowner was probably still half asleep and did not weight his options of this altercation. If I might bleed out, I would want to have put a few rounds on that guy climbing into the getaway vehicle and send him to the same hospital.
calling 911 probably wouldn’t do a thing around here, cleveland and some suburbs, they don’t respond until well after the shooting. it looks like he had turned on lights inside the house……i sure hope half asleep i don’t ever make that mistake! kias, heh-heh, around here are like electric scooters that are free to use for the hood rats.
Yes, the homeowner should have turned out the lights and maybe the front door was not the best approach. He seemed surprised that the assailants let off a burst of fire as the driver made his way back to the car. He probably thought that the thieves would just scatter. He had a boat in the backyard and all sorts of other items scattered around that will attract attention.
A guy who lives near me said that he woke to the sound of some guys cutting his catalytic converter off his car that was in his driveway. He did not go out, I wondered but never asked if he was a gunowner. He had to shell out a few hundred for a replacement. I usually have all cars in the garage overnight.
I know, calling 911 throughout most of the US no longer gets a response as in the past. Part of that might be because LEO’s know that they might face all sorts of charges. Still, the call might serve as a CYA if you are involved in a defensive shooting.
How about the sister? She let him run upstairs to get a torniquet.
i’m waiting for the home owner to get charged for something and probably a harsher charge then the “potential” car thieves…..thats how the left rolls around here. now before i hear anything about voting, their are never any republican candidates in the local elections.
I know how that works. People who live in a state that currently has some Republican candidates believe that they are untouchable. Instead of being glad that there are pro 2A people fighting to flip blue states they act all high and mighty. Every state is in danger. In Illinois the only Republican is on the license plates, he got that honor for being shot in the head by a Democrat and so they call it the “land of Lincoln.” It should be named the land of Saul Alinsky.
to Paul (Jethro)
Since there are no Republican Candidates in your area this obviously proves that there are some very well educated people living there. How is it that they let you live there in their civilized neighborhood?
I suppose if you had been the man that had his car about to be stolen you would have shot it out with them and sprayed bullets all over the neighborhood and in turn they would have done the same. Brilliant idea Jethro. You must have seen too many Dirty Harry movies.
I still remember the two cops in Cleveland that were chasing a man for a minor crime when one cop told the rookie cop to “shoot the bastard” and his bullet missed and went through a wall of a house and killed a baby in his father’s arms. This is what happens Jethro when you start a gun battle or start spraying bullets randomly in a neighborhood.
Guys like you Jethro seldom think about the legal ramifications of a shootout even if you are in the right. And I might add Jethro that if you would have killed or even injured “any” of the thugs you would have been broken the law and subject not only to prosecution but also to lawsuits because in Ohio it’s “illegal” to shoot someone over property. Or did you forget about this law in Ohio Jethro.
It’s easy Jethro to boast and swagger about on the internet but in “real life” it’s not like it is in a Dirty Harry Movie.