Home invasion captured on Ring Camera. Homeowner protects his family with wife's 9mm

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  • Bosco

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    This is right out of my worst nightmares... Score one for the good guys. Be safe everyone, there are evil people about trying to take advantage of this situation.

    https://www.chicagotribune.com/subu...0200407-mhgurji635b37hghgalk4cnrdu-story.html

    Here's the video (Not graphic other than showing the homeowners buttcrack) https://tuckbot.tv/#/watch/fwtbkk

    As the pair approached the house, which was was occupied by a 50-year-old man, his 48-year-old wife and their two children, ages 11 and 14, the home’s Ring doorbell video camera shows Finnan holding a bag later found to contain zip ties and a blowtorch, court records show.

    After Brodacz tries the doorknob, knocks and sees the Ring camera, he can be heard telling Finnan not to look at the camera, before ringing the bell, court documents show.

    The homeowner allegedly told police he heard a knock at the door and the doorbell ring, and, believing it was his landscapers, he opened the door, authorities said. Then, Brodacz and Finnan pushed their way inside, according to authorities.

    Telling the man they were police officers, Brodacz and Finnan then allegedly pulled weapons from their pockets, prompting a struggle between the male homeowner and Finnan, with the fight ending in the front of the home, before Finnan fled the scene, according to authorities.

    The wife told police she heard screaming and saw two men with guns in her foyer, according to authorities. She ran upstairs to the home’s second floor, with Brodacz chasing her, authorities said.

    Reaching the bedroom where her children were, Brodacz broke through the closed door, grabbed the couple’s son and daughter, pushed them down on a bed and pointed his gun at them, police said.

    When their mother tried to intervene, police said Brodacz pointed his gun at her and pushed her to the floor, where she pleaded with him not to shoot them.

    Brodacz left the room when he heard the man calling out his wife’s name inside of the home, according to authorities. Meanwhile, the man had gotten his wife’s gun from the master bedroom, police said.

    While in the master bedroom, Brodacz hit the man in the back of the head with some kind of blunt object, one he told police he thought was a gun. The two struggled and the male homeowner fired his wife’s gun but didn’t hit Brodacz, police said.

    At some point during the struggle, Brodacz lost his gun but pulled a knife from his waistband, the man told police.

    Authorities said that as Brodacz advanced on the man, armed with the knife, the man used his wife’s gun to shoot Brodacz in the abdomen. Police said the couple’s 14-year-old called 911.

    Brodacz was pronounced dead at the scene and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office later ruled the death a homicide.

    Arlington Heights police arrived shortly after Finnan fled, and found the wife in front of the family’s home, screaming that her husband was fighting someone with a gun inside of the house.

    Arlington Heights police officers found in the home’s master bedroom two 9mm cartridge cases, a knife, a .25 caliber semi-automatic handgun loaded with seven, .25 caliber rounds, and the wife’s 9mm handgun.
     

    RM Holsters

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    In the middle of the day, people all around with people at home and they still moved forward with their plan! That's brazen. No where is too safe. Stay vigilant.
     

    Saintsfan6

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    That is scary shtuff. Happy ending for the good guys. First bad guy got his butt kicked and the second got put 6 feet under where he belongs.

    Like you said, broad daylight with the neighbor across the street mowing his yard. Be vigilant and prepared for the worse y’all.
     
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