On Monday, New York police officers admitted they released a man suspected of a home invasion too quickly, after a 7-year-old girl who lived in the home told officers the man had raped her.
On August 11, a homeowner under attack in Lorain, Ohio, was able to retrieve a handgun hidden by his front door and kill the alleged intruder.
On the morning of July 31 Ron Henrick heard someone “bust” into his home. Henrick grabbed a 12 gauge shotgun and said, “I was going to shoot his a**.”
A 94-year-old World War veteran living in Modesto with his wife was brutally beaten in a home invasion on Friday–and is fighting for his life. Richard Iverson was left in an induced coma at the Memorial Medical Center after a man
On July 10, an Eldorado, Ohio, father shot and killed an alleged intruder after his three-year-old son came to him and said, “A robber’s here, daddy.”
On June 30, two suspects allegedly invaded a home in northeast Vegas. One suspect was severely wounded and the second was killed by a resident who kept an AK47 in the house.
Nearly 18 years ago, Susan Gonzalez heard a noise at her front door and began walking toward it just before the door was literally kicked off the hinges from the outside. Two masked men lunged into the house, opening fire on Gonzalez and her husband.
On June 24, a Fort Myers, Florida, man put a gun to ex-wife’s head, only to have her take it from him when he tried to manipulate the slide and clear a jam. She then reloaded the gun and ordered her ex-husband out of the house.
On the morning of June 12, a Pasadena, Texas, homeowner reportedly shot an alleged intruder five times in the face with a semiautomatic pistol at 3 a.m.
On May 18 at around 1:00 PM, a 77-year-old man shot and killed one suspect and wounded another after the men allegedly invaded his Redland, Florida, home.
On Tuesday, a Jacksonville, Texas, woman shot an invader who allegedly broke into her home, fought in the front yard with the husband, then broke into the home again.
On May 13, a woman shot an alleged home invader twice to save children who were sleeping in the apartment when the suspect forced his way inside.
On May 11, a man in Gwinnett County, Georgia, shot and killed an alleged home invader and injured another to protect a mother and baby.
On May 1, a Pittsburgh homeowner shot and killed two at the same address where police arrested four people for an alleged home invasion earlier in the week.
On April 29, a homeowner in East Knox County, Tennessee, reportedly awoke to the sound of glass breaking, drew a bead on the alleged intruder, and blew the suspect out of the house with one shot. When police arrived, they found him dying on the porch.
On April 25 a Tinicum Township, Pennsylvania, an alleged armed home invader confronted a couple in their kitchen to demand money, holding them at gunpoint for approximately 20 minutes. The boyfriend was eventually able to retrieve a gun and held the suspect at gunpoint until police arrived.
On April 23 an alleged 18-year-old home invader ‘chose the wrong house’ for a daylight robbery in Arlington, Texas, and was shot and killed by the homeowner, who was in the residence at the time.
On April 13, a 17-year-old allegedly broke into an Gadsden, Alabama, home and raped the female homeowner at gun point, only to be shot and killed by the homeowner’s neighbor. According to WBRC 6, the 17-year-old and two other suspects
A black judge, offended by a white family’s concern that their toddler was frightened of black men after a violent home invasion and robbery, publicly shamed them and let off the convicted man with mere probation.
At about 3:40 a.m. on March 30, a Detroit female homeowner retrieved her gun and ran downstairs, where she fired multiple shots and wounded one of two alleged intruders, leaving him in critical condition.
On March 23, a suspect with a knife was shot and killed while allegedly trying to invade a home in southwest Albuquerque.
On March 11 a Newport News, Virginia, mother who was home alone with her daughter shot an alleged home invader, surmising, “It was either him or me [and] I have my daughter to protect.”
On February 27 a North Lauderdale, Florida, homeowner shot and killed an alleged home intruder trying to break into the house.
On February 23, a burglary suspect allegedly kicked in an interior door and charged a Catawba County, North Carolina, homeowner only to be shot with a 12 gauge and killed.
On February 19, a widow in Columbus, Ohio, shot and killed an alleged burglar one week after her son gave her a gun “to keep her safe.”
On February 9, a woman home alone in Madison County, Alabama, pulled a gun and opened fire on four suspects who allegedly forced their way into her home.
On January 25, Slate magazine ran a column to disprove once and for all NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre’s talk about the need for Americans to arm themselves for self-defense.
On February 2, an unnamed Forsyth County, Georgia, woman was cornered in her home and shot three times before she returned fire and sent the suspects fleeing.
On January 30, a home invader reportedly went door-to-door inside a Lapeer County, Michigan, home until he opened a closet and found himself looking down the barrel of a shotgun held by an 11-year-old girl who was home alone.
On January 27, two alleged home invaders forced their way into a Village of Alafaya Club apartment by the University of Central Florida and were holding the boyfriend on the floor at gunpoint when the girlfriend emerged from a back room with a gun and sent the suspects fleeing.
On January 29, an armed intruder broke into the home of a Detroit, Michigan, cancer patient and was shot and killed by the patient’s 74-year-old husband.
On December 29, an Indianapolis home invader was shot and killed after a pregnant woman took away his gun.
On December 16, a 14-year-old boy in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, shot and killed a home intruder to save his grandmother’s life. According to WBTV.com, the boy–Anthony Hernandez–was visiting his grandparents when he heard “loud banging” outside their house around