Shoot first and call the police later. That’s what happened in Ohio about 3:25 a.m. on November 2. Professional socialist Jeffery L. Carl tried to share the wealth of an unidentified “half-blind” homeowner, recovering from a trip to the hospital. Carl ended up shot in the a$$ and arrested soon after.
Shoot that burglar
One Franklin, Ohio homeowner wasn’t taking chances and decided to shoot first. The good news for Jeffrey Carl is that the worst he suffered was a gunshot wound to the buttocks.
Carl ended up cuffed to a hospital bed in an uncomfortable position after invading a “Boomer’s” castle in the middle of the night. “I got a shot off him. He was coming right toward me,” the homeowner told police when he dialed 911.
Police showed up fast. According to Franklin Police Lieutenant Brian Pacifico, the caller “was unaware whether they hit the person or not and he was clearly scared on the phone and he did not want to get off the phone with dispatch until he saw an officer.”
The Lieutenant also verified beyond a doubt that “the homeowner was justified in firing his weapon.” You bet you have a right to shoot under those circumstances.
It’s not all Dirty Harry time for the homeowner either. He was forced to shoot because he felt his life was in jeopardy, that doesn’t mean that he’s happy about it.
“Oh God. Oh, I’m a nervous wreck,” he told responding officers. Luckily he wasn’t sound asleep when he “just happened to hear the door slide.” He wasn’t expecting visitors.
Burglar got a surprise
It seems that the burglar wasn’t expecting the homeowner to be back from the hospital so soon, indicating he had cased the place while he was gone. Grabbing his handy defense weapon, the homeowner called out “Hey.”
The burglar, the victim relates, “turned toward me, he started walking toward me like, ‘I didn’t know you was in here.‘” The homeowner decided to shoot. “I thought he was going to kill me.”
Police note that the 36-year-old wasn’t expecting anyone to shoot at him. He fled on foot, limping from a wound in his butt and leaving an easy to follow trail of blood. The dog soon tracked the suspect to where he was hiding in a nearby shed.
They cuffed him and tossed him in the cruiser for a trip to the local ER. Joe Lewis, The owner of the shed got a chuckle out of it. “My reaction was, ‘Damn, somebody shot that boy in the a–.’”
Lewis happens to be “a friend of the suspect and Carl also knew the victim, calling him an ‘uncle, pretty much‘ when talking to police.” That’s probably how he learned that the man would be in the hospital for a while. The last thing he was expecting was for his “uncle” to shoot him.
Carl, Lewis tells reporters, “ain’t a dangerous person. He just got issues like all of us do.” Now he has a butt full of buckshot to go with it. Police add that Carl “will be charged with burglary and had a warrant for domestic violence at the time of the incident. He’s being held on a $10,000 bond.“