Two licensed concealed carriers defended a woman and her two children last month when their home in St. Charles was being invaded by a man reportedly high on drugs.
Black Friday morning, officers in Saginaw County, Michigan, got several calls about a man behaving “disorderly” in public.
ABC12 News said that there weren’t even police on duty in St. Charles to respond to such reports. A short time later a responsible citizen got a call that his wife’s friend was having her home broken into.
Neil Woodgate “jumped out of bed, grabbed a gun, and drove to the woman’s house,” according to ABC12 News, where he found a man using his shoulder to ram the door and break into the home. Inside were the 41-year-old mother and her two children, ages 13 and 9.
Another responsibly armed citizen arrived around the same time and assisted Woodgate in subduing the intruder, who was later identified as Toddell Boykins, 32.
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“We both went around the corner, held the guy up, demanded him to go down, found out that was him, he goes down on the ground, he threaded his hands over his tops of head and held at gunpoint until the sheriff showed up and took over,” Woodgate said.
Given that the three officers who make up the entire St. Charles Police Dept. were off that day, the quick responses of the two concealed carriers likely prevented a disaster, according to MLive News.
“Unfortunately, we were not in service on Friday morning when the incident occurred,” said St. Charles Police Chief Julie Church in an interview with ABC 12 News.
Other reports say that before Boykins attempted to break into the home, he was jumping up and down on a woman’s car, engaging in what reports call a “rant.” The victim called 911 and contacted her friends for help.
Boykins has been charged with first-degree home invasion as well as malicious destruction of personal property. He could serve between 5 to 20 years in prison.
Both of the citizens who arrived to help were licensed to carry. Their preparation and willingness to draw on their 2nd Amendment rights may have saved more than one life that day. And according to Chief Church, they’re “heroes.”
“He has a CPL, he is trained, he is certified, he is trained in using those things, he cares about the people in the community, and he stepped up when they needed him to come and protect them,” she said, referring specifically to Mr. Woodgate.
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What do you want to bet that he will be out on the street in a week.
How long before that MI governor claims that the men were racists for restraining a “Black citizen?”
Something has to be done. This kind of crap is on the upswing and we all know why. Maybe its time to deputize citizens and hold harmless when they have to engage these animals. No cops on duty? Theres always a few citizens that are off work that could fill the gaps.