Wash. homeowner shoots, wounds intruder
CHEHALIS, Wash. — A Chehalis homeowner shot and wounded an intruder, then held him at gunpoint until police arrived Sunday morning.
The sheriff's office says the 24-year-old homeowner called 911 a little before 5 a.m., when he heard someone talking outside his home. He armed himself with a pistol and was waiting for police to show up when a man entered the home and started walking toward him down a hallway.
The homeowner told deputies he ordered the man to stop, but the man charged him instead. He fired one shot and wrestled with the man until he was able to get free and hold the man at gunpoint.
The sheriff's office identified the intruder as 51-year-old Brian L. Creed. He was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital and then flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle in stable condition. He was to be held for investigation for burglary and assault.
Deputies said Creed admitted that he used methamphetamine earlier in the day.
The homeowner was not hurt.
You shoot to kill just as the police have been trained. Center mass. As far as the burglar goes, a little advice. Break into homes that anti gun advocates own. Easy targets that won't fight back.
Proper gun control done right. Â This is what we need, not gun-ho hero jerks. Â Bravo to the home owner.
Looks like his gun saved the day for this homeowner. We will never know how this story would have ended had he not had one. Aim seems a bit low though, the crook needs medical care.
Is it easier to buy a gun or a taser?
not all gun people want death.
Should've aimed higher......
I would say he charged me. I remember a south park episode about hunting laws that if attacked by a animal you can shoot it. Dang attack rabbits
The Good: A Chehalis homeowner shot and wounded an intruder, then held him at gunpoint until police arrived Sunday morning.
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The Bad:Â He was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital and then flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle in stable condition.
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The Ugly:Â The homeowner told deputies he ordered the man to stop, but the man charged him instead.
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Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. Â The police can't always protect you, and bad guys are not always afraid of a gun.
 @Siwash Liberals don't want to hear these stories. Conflicts with there desire to disarm America.
 @Liberty4_WA  @Siwash Kumbaya my lord kumbaya.....
A 25-year-old using a gun to detain a tweaker twice his age. The kids these days. This is what America gets to look forward to.Thanks to KATU for reporting this story. The tide is turning.Â
 @Playanekes So the next time KATU reports about a murder with a gun or an accidental death with a gun, you'll remember this, right? We can set aside all the junk about KATU having an agenda (other than getting ratings)...
 @Max Quinn I'd reconsider, it, but, not ready to set it aside. Not all journalists and media editors have the same agenda but that doesn't mean the majority might not.
 @Max Quinn They still an agenda to play out. Should they cease pushing the propaganda stories they'd likely lose their ABC affiliation. It isn't likely you anti-gun panty-wastes will remember stories like this. The liberals will continue running in fear of anything resembling a gun and plead to the government to protect you from all that is scary. Â
 @axpman  @Max Quinn Try to get a grip. I'm trying to be rational about the whole thing. Are you able to do that?
Cripes! 51 years old and smoking meth?
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At that age, you'd think he would/should be thinking about their "golden" years and what they're going to do? Sounds as if someone needs to grow up.
Dang. If ever there was a circumstance that justifies emptying your magazine, this is it. You gotta make sure you stop the threat, because if you don't, you just might end up on the wrong end of your own gun.
 @StealthActivist "Rule #2: Double Tap!"The tweaker is lucky and should be thankful to be alive because the second shot would have most likely killed him.
 @Playanekes  @StealthActivist Unless you have a 12ga.
@Playanekes @StealthActivist Funny, Playanekes, I thought Rule #2 was "Aim for center mass". Or is that Rule #1?
@Conspirator @Playanekes @StealthActivist For the record, Conspirator, I was referring to the rules that apply when it is time to use a weapon.
 @theprodigal  @Playanekes  @StealthActivist I don't recall but there's also "Strippers are only interested in your money"... no, wait, that's Stripperland.
 @theprodigal  @Playanekes  @StealthActivist Rule #1 is to avoid the confrontation. Rulle #2 When the confrontation is inevitable, do the right thing. The object is to stop the threat, not to kill someone. While the latter may well be incidental, it is not the goal JUST BECAUSE YOU WERE JUSTIFIED.
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If the "victim" is down halfway down the hall, I'd say the threat has been neutralized - for the moment.Â
I knew an elderly couple that when a punk on drugs came back to rob them the second time, the lady of the household woke up and he strangled her and violently ended her life. He didn't even remember killing her or being in the home, he remembered being in the neighborhood but that was it. People on drugs don't think straight, this punk is now in prison, and the husband later passed away from a broken heart after giving up fighting his health problems after loosing his wife and best friend of over 60 years. The danger is out there, and you want to take away my protection from me? With the legalization of marijuana (if it happens in Oregon) be prepared for more and more violent home invasion robberies.
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Arm chair quarterbacking has no place in issues like this, the intruder was lucky this time, as was the homeowner, as he did not end up taking a life in protecting his own, hopefully he can get beyond this and not have it haunt him for the rest of his life.
 @Roy Johnson "With the legalization of marijuana."B----h please. This is Nancy Pelosi kinda logic here. Marijuana becomes legal and so suddenly that's going to cause people to become violent outlaws and breaking into homes?Are YOU high?!
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See the above, save your name calling, put down you pipe and think about it.
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 @Roy Johnson How many people have your heard that acted aggressively solely because of marijuana. My guess is you haven't.
 @Conspirator Aggressively, Not many. Stupidly......Um, MOST...
 @Conspirator the news reported a legal medical grow operation having punji pits dug in their back yard and nails poking out of the fence, luckily the fire fighters answering a call to a fire in this idiot's back grow operation didn't get hurt, The punji pits were illegal, and could possibly kill someone. We already have home invasions on grow sites and drug houses. Why buy it it they can just steal it. I don't know the cost of marijuana these days, but it's not free. I expect home invasions to increase from this.
Any gun owner sue an intruder after a shooting for post traumatic stress afterward
Sounds like a responsible gun owner
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 @gunnutz Versus how many committed by other means?  You are talking about means to commit crimes here, so why NOT cite all of the means?  Why cite just ONE means? Why cite only recent occurrences?  Why not cite all overall statistics based on annual data?
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The FACTS are:  "Gun crime has been declining in the U.S. Firearm murders are down, as is overall gun violence â even as gun ownership increases."
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 @gunnutz That's called deflection.  Gunnutz and his Police State ilk don't want people to pay attention to the instances where guns are used to protect people's lives, so when a story like this makes it through the editorial staff, the anti-gunners have to deflect your attention by spouting some dubious and deceitful statistic that has more to do with gang violence than situations and of the rest of America has to worry about.
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 @gunnutz  @Playanekes Who's a mall cop? You're making stuff up again. That invalidates any argument you're trying to make.
 @gunnutz  Thank you for reminding the ignorant masses of the inherent evil of firearms. Too often they try to hold the person responsible. Thankfully, you and I know better.
 @gunnutz guns can commit crimes? I've never heard of a gun committing suicide.
 @axpman  That's because you're not reading the stories the right way. The headline included the word "shoots". The use of that word was supposed to cause fear and trembling and an utter dismissal of logic. If it did not work with you, then perhaps you need to drink a bit more KoolAid.
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Help is no further away than your television. Simply change the channel to MSNBC or CNN.
@S_O_P_A What headline? The comment he posted on said directly "crimes were committed by guns". Maybe you should check your own reading comprehension skills there s o a p box.
This is how guns should be used. It takes lot of guts to pull a trigger, it also takes lot of self control to pull trigger once in this case, you are my heroe, young man.
He was on meth. Â No surprise. Â Just think what will happen if they take our guns. Â This type of thing will become more common than it is now. Â For some it will, for some of us, it won't. Â Depends on which side of the aisle you are on. Pro-gun people will always have ways to protect themselves, anti-gun people won't. Â Â
 @Shadow No one is taking your guns.
 @darren vandervort  @Shadow No one is taking my guns, but they might try to take yours.
 @darren vandervort Not yet.But it could happen.
Too bad the homeowner had a gun. Just "shot the hell" out of the ban guns argument! Actually surprised K-2 put this on?
LIberals dont  want people defending themselves.  They defend the criminals.
It's too bad the intruder was only wounded. The homwowner appears to have acted as responsibly as one could expect under the circumstances. Good job!
watch out for the snaggle teeth when a meth head wants to wrestle. they're known to be biters
Another successful defense of ones home by a law abiding gun owner. Notice he called 911 and waited for police but was forced to act once the intruder entered the house.
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Antigunners would love to paint the homeowner as a blood thirsty killer who was chomping at the bit to kill this guy.
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This also emphasis's the need for learning how to shoot in the weapon retention position. Personally I would have fired till the threat had stopped which was not the case here. I don't want to second guess the homeowner as it appears he did a good job.
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@RalphCramden Not really. It seems he did everything right. Called the police and waited inside his house. If you are going to own a gun for defense, that's how you should use it.
 @Max Quinn  @RalphCramden Yes, I agree with that! "Another responsible gun owner..."