Texas homeowner brings his AK-style rifle — and his armed wife — to confront suspected car thieves. One shot is all it takes.



A man brought his AK-style rifle — and his wife, who also was armed — to confront suspected car thieves early Tuesday morning at an apartment complex in San Antonio, Texas, police told KSAT-TV.

Police said the man got a notification from a security monitoring system that someone was tampering with his vehicle, the station reported.

'Good for the vehicle owner. Wish more of these incidents would turn out like this one.'

The homeowner — armed with an AK-style rifle, and his wife, who was also armed — entered a garage just after 3 a.m. and saw two suspects, one of whom was armed, coming around from behind their vehicle, police told KSAT.

The homeowner fired a shot toward the pair, who then fled in a vehicle, the station reported.

Police said they learned after arriving at the scene that a male had been dropped off at a nearby hospital with a gunshot wound to the back, KSAT noted, adding that the male was soon after transported to another hospital, and his condition is unknown.

Investigators are working to determine if the wounded male is connected to the incident at the apartment complex, the station said. Police also told KSAT he matches the description of the alleged suspect, but he's not cooperating with investigators.

Police didn't indicate if any charges were pending, or if the homeowners’ vehicle was damaged, the station said.

You can view a video report here about the incident.

How are people reacting?

A handful of commenters squarely behind the homeowner chimed in underneath KSAT's story:

  • "Slow clap ..." one commenter wrote.
  • "Good for the vehicle owner," another commenter said. "Wish more of these incidents would turn out like this one."
  • "FAFO," another commenter declared.

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Intruder breaks into home in middle of night and enters bedroom, startling sleeping couple. Confrontation escalates before one of them shoots intruder dead.



Yet another crook threw caution to the wind, likely banking on the chance that his victims wouldn't put up a fight — much less end one with a gun.

And it looks like yet another crook guessed wrong.

What went down?

Police in West Palm Beach, Florida, said a man broke into a home in the 500 block of Avon Road around 4 a.m. Saturday, startling a sleeping couple before one of them fatally shot the intruder after an escalating confrontation, the Palm Beach Post reported.

When cops showed up at the residence in response to a 911 call about a shooting, officers found a man inside suffering from a gunshot wound, police told the paper.

Police believe the man — possibly in his late 30s to early 40s — broke into the home through a window and turned on the bedroom light, waking up a 44-year-old man and a 53-year-old woman, the Post reported.

At that point, a confrontation ensued and quickly escalated, culminating with one of the residents shooting the intruder, the paper said.

The intruder was taken by city paramedics to St. Mary's Medical Center where he died, the Post reported.

The man and woman weren't injured, WTVJ-TV reported.

Anything else?

While the investigation is ongoing, police told the paper that the couple did not know or have any connection with the intruder. The Post added that police had not confirmed the intruder's identity as of Sunday.

The paper also said police withheld the residents' names because of the Marsy's Law privacy restriction. Marsy's Law in Florida protects crime victims and their families.

A neighbor told WPTV-TV that the area is pretty quiet and that a random break-in like this is reportedly out of the ordinary.

Alaska couple says FBI raided their home with guns drawn, interrogated them in search for Pelosi's laptop



An Alaska couple says the FBI raided their home with guns drawn at them this week in the search for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) laptop, which is apparently still missing after it was reported stolen following the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

According to the couple, Paul and Marilyn Hueper, the feds left after hours of interrogation, in what the Huepers say is a case of mistaken identity.

What are the details?

The Huepers were at the rally that took place on Jan. 6 prior to the Capitol riots, but were only in Washington, D.C., to "peacefully protest" and never went inside the building, they say.

They told KSRM-AM host Bob Bird on "Bird's Eye View" Thursday that they were awoken at their home at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, when Paul walked out of the couple's bedroom to find "seven guns pointing at him and his wife," the Alaska Watchmen reported.

The agents reportedly handcuffed the Huepers and separated them, interrogating them individually for roughly three hours before releasing them and leaving.

The Watchmen reported that "it appears the FBI were most interested in Marilyn," whom they presented with a photo of another woman who was wearing a similar coat as the one Marilyn was wearing on Jan. 6, and had a similar hairstyle.

Both the Huepers separately told agents that the woman shown in the picture — taken on surveillance footage inside the Capitol — was not Marilyn. The unknown woman was not wearing the same clothes as Marilyn, who said the other woman was wearing "an ugly sweater" that she would never wear.

Paul added, "My wife is much better looking than that."

Marilyn recalled that during her interrogation, agents revealed why they were at the home. "They said, 'We're here for Nancy Pelosi's laptop,'" she told KSRM. "So, I guess it was stolen and it is still at large."

The agents seized laptops and cell phones from the Heupers, but neither have been charged with any crimes, according to the Anchorage Daily News.

A spokeswoman for the FBI in Anchorage did not elaborate, but told the outlet in its request for comment, "I can confirm that April 28, the FBI was conducting a court-authorized law enforcement activity at the location you described." She added, "we just can't discuss the details or existence of an investigation."

While the Huepers are considering hiring legal counsel over the ordeal and feel the need to know their rights after being shocked by the way they were treated by the FBI, Marilyn has found some humor in the situation.

She said, "I still think it's funny that they want to take me as someone who was actually there (at the Capitol), instead of lost, eating hot dogs at the other end of the Mall."

Anything else?

Back in January, another woman was identified by the FBI as being suspected of taking Pelosi's laptop, after a former romantic interest told authorities that she took the device with the intention of selling it to Russia's foreign intelligence service.

But her attorney told The Philadelphia Inquirer his client did not have the laptop, and authorities did not find it in a search. The outlet reported that "it remains unclear whether Pelosi's laptop was ever in [her] possession at all."