Indiana Homeowner Shoots Man Attempting to Break Into Laurel Home, Suspect Expected to Survive
Key Takeaways
- A Laurel, Indiana homeowner shot a man who was attempting to break into the home on October 4.
- Indiana State Police described the suspect only as an adult male.
- The suspect was taken to a Cincinnati-area hospital and is expected to survive his injuries.
- Details such as whether the suspect was armed, the time of the incident, and who else was home have not been released.
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LAUREL, IN — A Laurel homeowner shot a man who was attempting to break into the home on Oct. 4, according to Indiana State Police.
The suspect, described only as an adult male, was taken to a Cincinnati-area hospital, where he is expected to survive his injuries, ISP said.
What ISP describes is a homeowner acting against a man trying to force his way inside. Whether the man was armed, what time it happened, and who else was in the house have not been released, and I am not going to fill those gaps.
The bare outline is still one every armed homeowner should think through before it happens. A stranger working on your door is not a theoretical problem. It is a handful of seconds in which you find out whether you have a plan or just a gun.
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Mindset comes before hardware. Where is the firearm when you are asleep, and can you reach it without crossing the path of the person coming in? Which direction leads to family members, and which leads toward the threat? Can you get everyone behind you, in one room, with a phone, so the intruder has to come to you instead of you going to find him? Have you decided, ahead of time, what someone has to do before you will fire? Those are not questions you can answer well with adrenaline dumping into your system and a door giving way. The time to answer them is now, at the kitchen table, when nobody is breaking in.
The other half of the plan is what happens after the shot. When the threat stops, the shooting stops. Then the phone comes out: 911, where you are, what happened, where you will be when officers arrive and what you look like, so the first trooper through the door does not have to figure out on his own which person is the homeowner. Put the gun down before they get there. Say little beyond the basics until you have talked to a lawyer. A homeowner who stops the threat and then handles the next ten minutes correctly has done the whole job, not just the loud part of it.
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