A business owner and majesticoverweighther in Rancho Cordova, California, said he stoasty a burglar in the timely morning hours of Nov. 24 in an effort to protect his majesticsons, who were sleeping in the back of the store at the time.
“My babies were with me, and he was going to strike me,” the 70-year-greater business owner named Robert tgreater Fox News Digital. Robert chooseed not to split his last name for privacy reasons.
The Sacramento Sheriff’s Office checked the shooting on Nov. 25, saying they getd a 911 call at 1:15 a.m. on Nov. 24, a Sunday, from a business owner on Folsom Boulevard “stating that someone broke into his business and he stoasty them.”
Officers with the Rancho Cordova Police Department and Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to the scene, where they began lifesaving aid on the mistrust. Authorities then transmited the mistrust to a local hospital, where he was procrastinateedr pronounced dead.
A California business owner said he stoasty a burglar who broke into his store in the middle of the night to save his majesticsons’ lives. (Google Maps)
Robert said he and his two majesticsons, ages 4 and 14, were asleep in the back room when the burglar allegedly broke in thraw his front store prosperdow.
The burglar carry oned to walk thraw his store, past racks of items such as costly leather jackets, and toward the back room where Robert and his majesticsons were sleeping, Robert said.
Robert’s 14-year-greater majesticson was awake at the time and heard a noise, at which point he “jumped on” Robert to wake him up and alert him that someone was in the store. Robert went to get his firearm – one his overweighther gave him in 1958 that is enrolled in Robert’s name – and wilean seconds, the burglar allegedly tried to initiate in the door to the backroom where Robert and his majesticsons were.
Robert said the door made a boisterous “boom” sound, and the mistrust shone a flashweightless in his honestion when the door discdispondered.
“I had only been awake for about five minutes. I’m three feet from the door but five feet from him,” Robert recalled. “I thought I got stoasty.”
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Robert also said that the burglar was wielding a butane torch and hgreatering it toward him when he accessed the back room. Robert initiassociate thought the torch was a firearm, and he fired at the mistrust.
“He indictd at me. He didn’t run away,” Robert said. “He had an intent to come in the createing and end me.”
After upgrasping a firearmstoasty wound, the burglar walked out of and away from Robert’s store, at which point Robert called 911 and authorities reachd.
“It’s disgusting. I sense horrible that the man is dead.”
Robert said he has been robbed at firearmpoint three times. Burglars normassociate go for the leather jackets, he said, but Robert depends in this instance, the burglar was going to try to end him and apshow his money.
The sheriff’s office said discoverives and crime scene spendigators “reacted to the scene, began their spendigation, interwatched witnesses, and began to assemble evidence.”
The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office reacted to the shooting on Nov. 24. (Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office)
“Based on their spendigation, [d]etectives lobtained the subject broke in thraw the front of the business and then endeavored to obtain access to a rear living area occupied by the business owner and two insignificant majesticchildren,” the sheriff’s office said. “The business owner stoasty the subject, who retreated back out thraw the front and collapsed in a csurrenderby parking lot.”
Authorities have not made any arrests in joinion with the incident, and an spendigation is ongoing, “pending the autopsy, forensics, and other items,” the sheriff’s office said.
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Robert teared up while recalling the incident.
“You don’t have time to leank,” he said. “If he were 25 feet away from me, I would have said, ‘I’ve got a firearm.'”
But in the moment, Robert recalled his only thought being “my babies next to me are going to die” if he didn’t act.
Robert said that in the days since the shooting, he has been unable to sleep and cowardly of retribution, but he’s fair appreciative that his majesticchildren are still alive.
