Posted by JerryS on September 17, 2012 at 13:33:06 from (68.18.28.20):
My newspaper ran a story today with some very disturbing numbers: here in this mid-sized southern city, there have just this year been �30 to 40� home invasions, with a startling five homicides resulting, and several assaults. Three have been killed just this month. I have been hearing and reading about these all along, but until the numbers are tallied you just don�t realize the extent of it
These started out as inner-city ghetto events where everyday violence is a way of life and where the victims were thought to have been keeping drugs and/or drug money. Now the perps have branched out into a more innocent clientele in middle class environments. Their MO ranges from the basic kicking in the door to shouldering the door open when someone answers a knock, to the latest incident where some people were accosted while sitting on a patio for a birthday celebration. A young man, the honoree, had been out on an errand, returned and found the thugs holding guns on his guests. He heroically but foolishly fought the invaders but took a slug in the head for his efforts.
In another case an elderly woman was locked in a closet while the crooks ransacked her apartment. Problem is, they didn�t let her out and after about a week she died there.
I can recall only one case, two or three years ago, where the inner-city predators took their act outside of town into the country to more isolated victims. In that case they tied up a man�s mother, and when he walked in and surprised them, they shot him and set him on fire. I look for more and more of this to happen, and I�m kinda surprised there haven�t been more, because lots of people here live back off the road, out of earshot of neighbors. Some 50 years ago I read the Truman Capote account of the murder of the Herb Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, and I�ve never forgotten the lesson that it can happen.
When I was just a kid back in the 40s someone came into our secluded farmhouse while we were sleeping, walked right past my bed. Dad, awakened by the dogs, went to the front door, S&W in hand, only to hear the side screen door slam shut as the intruder exited. We began locking our doors after that.
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