Posted on 03/05/2010 6:07:27 PM PST by marktwain
He's 70 years old, and his health isn't what it used to be, but Raymond Michel is not someone who should be taken lightly.
The south Bakersfield resident shot at a suspected burglar in his house Wednesday afternoon and held the man at gunpoint until police arrived. The suspect, identified by police as John Jenaro Garner, tried to get up twice, but Michel warned him to stay down.
"I told my wife to call the cops because (the burglar) was staying here one way or another," Michel said.
Bakersfield police Lt. Andrew Garner, no relation to the supsect, confirmed that Raymond Michel was the man who shot at the suspect.
Michel and his wife, Dawn, had returned home on Ivan Avenue about 1 p.m. after taking their grandson to a doctor's appointment. The 9-year-old grandson noticed a light on in a downstairs bedroom and asked his grandmother if she had left it on.
Dawn Michel said she looked in the room and noticed some items weren't where they were supposed to be. Then she and her grandson went outside and saw a garbage bag on the ground, along with a window screen that had been knocked out of a second-floor window. Jewelry and money were in the bag.
Dawn Michel told her husband someone had been in the house. Raymond Michel said he armed himself with a handgun and walked upstairs.
(Excerpt) Read more at bakersfield.com ...
The wife was on edge, so she complained that she hadn’t eaten yet ... too much paperwork for the police before she could go to the kitchen.
What was he using? A .44? The hole in the wall was pretty big.
Good job, home owner. I would prefer the burglar be killed, so as to save someone a lot of grief in the future since these drug-addicts who commit these crimes usually repeat their behavior.
He needs more range time.
LOL! I love it!
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