Posted on 01/19/2008 5:28:57 AM PST by Glenn
DARLINGTON — A Darlington man shot one of two intruders inside his home early Friday, state police said.
Sheri McCue, 21, of 800 Plumb St. said she woke up around 5 a.m. after hearing one of her crated pit bulls barking. She then saw the silhouette of a man inside the second-floor bedroom she shares with her husband, Keith.
Keith McCue, 23, said the burglar passed his rifle, which had been downstairs, to another burglar. The burglars made it about five feet from the bed when Keith said he grabbed a handgun he keeps at his side.
The burglars quickly retreated, he said.
“As soon as I moved out of my bed, they were pretty much fighting to get the hell out of there,” he said, pulling from a cigarette inside his home Friday afternoon.
The burglars rushed downstairs and threatened to kill Keith, he said. It was then Keith shot one in the head.
“I didn’t want to shoot anybody,” he said. “But I wasn’t letting them pull the trigger before me.”
The burglar, whom police didn’t identify, dropped to the floor, Keith said.
He crawled halfway out the front door, which had been pried open, and collapsed. He was later flown to UPMC Presbyterian in Pittsburgh. The man’s condition wasn’t available Friday night because he hasn’t been named.
The second burglar, who police believe fled with the rifle, ran out to the street. He was picked up in a car by a woman and drove out of the borough heading north, Keith said.
The McCues, who have a 1-year-old daughter and are expecting a second child in a month, said they were stunned by the break-in.
“We lived here almost a year,” Sheri said. “It’s a good neighborhood. It was all quiet, with no problems until this morning.”
Cory Nealon can be reached online at cnealon@timesonline.com.
Atta boy.
First problem was the crated dogs. Second was leaving the rifle out where anyone in the dark could find it.
What a waste of resources. Burglar? A regular meat wagon would have been fine.
Who pays for the air ambulance service when a scumbag burglar is flown to the hospital?
Got a kick out of your tagline. I’d say Patti Radle suffers from artificial intelligence.
Yeah, amazing how some people can say such things...
On reading "crated pit bulls, I thought it was a type of pit bull. From your reply I infer that they were caged and am wondering why have pit bulls in a cage.
On reflection, they would sound a warning but a burglar alarm would too and you wouldn't have to feed it.
Ping
Good shootin' Doc!
Honestly what’s the point of owning a pit bull if your going to keep it caged up all the time. Doesn’t that defeat the purpose? Those perps wouldn’t of made it through that door alive to get to the rifle to begin with.
> “pulling from a cigarette inside his home Friday afternoon.”
This statement above had to be added by the writer to make the homeowner look bad so that the perp is now the victim. It serves no other purpose in this article.
That was my first thought. Then I remembered the writer’s strike. This is an audition...
The hospital. The police make it a point to never place an injured person in custody, until after they are released from the hospital. That way they don't get stuck with the bill. Sometimes they even refuse to provide an officer to watch the person, while they're being treated.
The best I can figure, a person being arrested should just feign a heart attack and then walk out of the hospital.
New Hampshire has a high rate of firearms possession, which is why it has a low crime rate. You don’t have to own a gun, and there are plenty of sissy arms-are-for-hugging granola-crunchers who don’t. But they benefit from the fact that their crazy stump-toothed knuckle-dragging neighbors do. If you want to burgle a home in the Granite State, you’d have to be awfully certain it was the one-in-a-hundred we-are-the-world panty-waist’s pad and not some plaid-clad gun nut who’ll blow your head off before you lay a hand on his seventy dollar TV.
Our Border Collie sleeps in his cage at night. He is one busy guy and I don’t trust him to be quiet or to stay out of mischief. But then ... he’s crated, kind of no earthly good if anything should happen. hmmm.
ping
the second-floor bedroom she shares with her husband, Keith.
The "bedroom she shares with her husband"? You'd assume that. Why not just: "woke her husband."
Isn't it obvious the real crime here has not been mentioned..... smoking inside his home.... ;^)
Yes!! LOL!!
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