Shotgun-Packing Elderly Couple Ruins Dangerous Fugitive’s Escape Plans with Deadly Shot

http://www.theblaze.com ^ | august 21, 2013 | Jason Howerton

[lowbridge]

An escaped inmate was shot and killed Monday by an elderly couple he had been holding at gunpoint for around four hours.

Rodney Eugene Long, a dangerous prison escapee suspected of shooting and injuring a Taylor County deputy, broke into a couple’s home in Bedford, Iowa, at around 10:15 p.m. Monday night and held them for four hours, Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation Special Agent Mitch Mortvedt said during a news conference.

Jerome and Carolyn Mauderly said Long was armed with a semi-automatic handgun. Long, 38, also disabled the phones in the Maulderlys’ home as he apparently gathered supplies to aid his escape.

At around 2 a.m. Tuesday morning, Jerome, 71, was somehow able to retrieve his shotgun and shoot the fugitive dead. The couple immediately called 911 and police responded to their home.

[lowbridge]

I love a happy ending.

[JRandomFreeper]

Don't mess with an old man after his bed-time. We get grumpy when we get tired.

/johnny

[MeganC]

“I love a happy ending.”

It’s kind of romantic that the older couple took this jerk down together. It’s really sweet!

[kaehurowing]

Stand Your Ground

[Beowulf9]

Rodney Long, now known as Rodney Short.

[gorush]

:{)

[jazusamo]

Good for them. Like they say, don’t mess with old people, they just may kill you.

[SkyDancer]

Well now, Obama can’t claim that if he had a son ......

[popdonnelly]

And the World’s a better place today.

[loungitude]

Rodney Long, now known as Rodney Short.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Or, ‘Leaky’.

[elpinta]

Can someone ‘splain this:

“Long, 38, also disabled the phones in the Maulderlys’ home...”

“The couple immediately called 911...”

More to this, perhaps if I read more?

[Old Sarge]

The Bride and I fully intend to re-enact the scenes of “Secondhand Lions” often.

She’s Garth, I’m Hub.

[brewcrew]

I heard that he cut the land line before entering, and also confiscated their cell phones. Chances are the old man just took his cell phone back.

[knarf]

I can't fight, can't see to aim a dot, but a shotgun in my hands is a death warrant

I ain't skeered, just desperate.

[Black Agnes]

Or Rodney Long Gone.

[tiki]

I hope he wasn’t black!

[allendale]

He did a Joe Biden.

[ErnBatavia]

"Morty! How're we going to get all this red goo off the walls?"

[Mr. K]

“I need to go to the bathroom”
seems like a reasonable request- and a good place for hidden self defense

[CrazyIvan]

One of the best moviea ever.