Posted on 10/28/2009 1:10:30 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out
PORT CHARLOTTE - Two men, armed with a knife and tire iron, reportedly forced their way inside a Port Charlotte home Saturday night, only to find the occupants had guns.
The botched home invasion robbery ended quickly when one of the suspects sustained a nonfatal gunshot wound to the stomach, according to the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office.
Authorities have arrested one man, and intend to charge the other upon his release from a Fort Myers-area hospital in connection to the attempted robbery at the 21000 block of Beaverton Avenue.
The incident occurred around 10 p.m. as Peter L. Gilmore, 69, and his 25-year-old son, James S. McGlone sat inside their home.
The Sheriff’s Office said McGlone went to answer the front door when it was kicked open by two men wearing stockings over their faces.
The men, later identified as Keith Sowers, 32, of Punta Gorda, and Port Charlotte resident Joshua Eugene Becerril, 29, entered. Becerril reportedly held a large knife at Gilmore’s face and threatened to kill him.
McGlone, however, ran into his father’s bedroom, where Gilmore kept several guns.
Sowers, toting a tire iron, chased him.
Detectives say McGlone pointed a handgun at Sowers and told him to leave, a Sheriff’s Office report said.
Sowers allegedly hit McGlone over the head with the tire iron, at which point McGlone shot Sowers in the stomach.
Sowers reportedly hobbled out of the house with Becerril.
Emergency dispatchers received a call shortly after from a nearby home on Presque Isles reporting that a man had come to the front door saying he had been shot and needed medical attention, according to the report.
Sowers was taken to Lee Memorial Hospital in serious condition, although he is expected to live, sheriff’s spokesman Bob Carpenter said.
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The shooter needs more gun and needs more range time.
Wrong guy got shot, Becerril is registered as a Sexual Offender and the other guy been arrested a couple of times for minor things.
“Detectives say McGlone pointed a handgun at Sowers and told him to leave, a Sheriff’s Office report said. Sowers allegedly hit McGlone over the head with the tire iron, at which point McGlone shot Sowers in the stomach.”
A couple of random thoughts:
-McGlone is lucky that the perp with the tire iron didn’t kill him or knock him unconscious when he hit him, or for that matter even disorient him enough to miss.
-This story could have had a much more tragic end if these guys lived in a state or city where trigger locks and other “common sense” gun storage laws were in place. The perp was chasing him through the house, and likely the guy only had a few seconds to act. A firearm does you no good if you can’t get to it/use it when your life is in danger.
The fact that both perps aren’t dead?
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Man, you gotta shoot the guy BEFORE he hits you over the head with a tire iron!
That might be an interesting IDPA stage. Stand on the line with the target fifteen feet away and then someone hits you with a tire iron. On the beep, fire.
You wouldn’t need to hit me over the head with a tire iron to get me to shoot.
You are supposed to shoot *before* you get hit.
The stage should be ‘fire at the beep or get hit by a tire iron’. :D
How about this stage?
At the beep, run twenty five feet to the “bedroom” while running from a competitor with a tire iron, retrieve your gun from the “nightstand” and then turn and fire at the paper target.
The competitor has permission to hit you on the head for motivation.
That works, but only if the competitor with the tire iron cannot hit you after you’ve got your shot off.
NOME INVASION PEOPLE. The house was full of drugs! This wasnt Susie Homemakers place.
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