I don't know him at all,
He's just trying to break into my house.
So I just did my best intention
to try to protect my family.
Well, I was just sitting on the
couch playing the game and I had got,
I heard someone knocking on the door
and I had to check the people and I
saw it was something I didn't know.
So I just left it alone,
went back to go play the game
and then he rang the doorbell,
my ring doorbell. So I just got up,
went to the restroom, not restroom,
went to my closet and I answered and I
just told him hey, what's up basically?
How can I help you? Can
I help you? Oh yes.
They came to check your air filters.
I'm not sure This is 38277
telling me that he was maintenance.
Then he needed to come
check my air air filter.
But I knew it was a lie because last
time we had tried to get our maintenance
to get our air filter changed,
they told me they couldn't
do anything about it.
So I guess you could say
he tried to play the part,
but he lied twice whenever he talked to me.
He told me someone came to check the air
filter earlier and then he had said Oh no,
I'm here to check.
I'm here to check your air filter.
So I just,
I felt suspicious about it anyways.
Plus he had on I guess he
looked like a tracksuit.
He had on blue set sweatpants
with the black shoes and a I
think it was a blue sweatshirt.
And then he had the bandana on,
but he was playing the part.
He had the whole notepad and everything.
He was trying to even went to the
back door or the people in front
of us to see act like he's going
to check their air filter too,
but basically told no one's home.
He got to come another day.
He's told me, all right,
I closed my phone,
came back to play the game,
and then
at this point, what are you
thinking is going on? I wasn't
thinking anything. I was just like,
oh, I guess someone just wanted to
get something to just, I don't know,
just maintenance, I guess.
No, no, no, no. Yeah,
we're checking the air filters.
Oh, nobody's home right now.
You will have to wait till
another day. Much appreciated.
And then 3 minutes later
while I'm playing the game,
I hear a loud *** bang at the door.
And then I'm thinking,
someone's trying to knock, but no,
I hear another bang and then another
bang and then I I I just bazz,
I couldn't, couldn't think properly.
I was like, well,
he's trying to get into my house.
My brother was in the restroom.
So I had to hurry up and get up,
go run to him and quietly and
try to hurry up and tell him,
hey, someone's in the house,
we need to do something.
So in that moment I tried to hurry up and
I guess you could say find my firearm.
And it was far away.
So I had to, like, hurry up,
scurry and go grab my gun,
come back.
And I positioned myself by my couch in
my hallway facing directly at the door.
And I was going to wait till he came in,
but whenever I checked my ring
camera I saw he was kicking the door
and he had a firearm in his hand.
So I wasn't going to let nothing
happen to either me or my brother.
So what I I guess he said I did
what my best intentions thought
and I fired at the door and hoping
I hit him and when I I can say
sure enough he left downstairs
and that's basically everything.
Had to call the cops and wait
for them to show up.
Looking at the video, they fired back.
But I'm not. I'm not too sure.
I know he fired back,
but I don't know when. I just know.
I'm wondering why the hell he's
trying to get in my house.
This is a random *** encounter.
He just coming at the door,
acting like he's maintenance
and I don't know him at all.
He's just trying to break into my house.
So I just did my best intentions
to try to protect my family.
What did you think when you
watched that video back?
I was hoping I got him. It's
mainly everything.
I was just hoping I got him.
Then again, I wasn't trying to have
anything bad fall on me because I
realized looking back at the video,
I hit my neighbor's house
and I wasn't trying to.
But luckily, and thank God,
they left 20 minutes before anything
happened, so they're perfectly fine.
I haven't got a chance to speak with
me up because no one's been home
and we haven't been home anyways.
I wouldn't doubt if.
I guess I just,
they don't want to talk to me or
anything because I wouldn't doubt if
they do feel some type of way about it,
and it wasn't my intention
to try to shoot their house.
You're like fairly calm,
all things considered.
I think it's funny.
I mean, what do you make of it?
I don't know what
to think. I'm.
I can't even think properly now.
I don't know. Just.
I don't know. I can't.
I haven't fully processed everything
yet. I'm just waiting.
I guess police have not
found these folks yet.
Yeah, not to my knowledge they have not.
No. They told me they have not.
So if in the off chance the
people who did this happened to
see our report tonight,
what would you want to say to them?
Your dumbest we're not wearing a
mask because I even got your name.
Ever since the video has been
public I got a name and everything.
I'm just waiting on the detective to
call me and I'm and hopefully and
wondering we also have a go fund me
and I'm wondering if anybody could
try to I guess you could help us out.
We're literally struggling in this bad
time and just everything I can say
after this happened that was the the
straw that broke the camel's back.
There we go.
Like everything just fell to hell.
Like everything. What do you mean?
What did you have going on before?
No, I guess you can say we're just
living paycheck to paycheck here.
It's hard to pass by with everything
being so expensive now,
rents getting so high,
and with the heat and everything.
Electricity's been up so much,
we have nothing. I guess you can say despair.
We're living paycheck to paycheck
trying to pay for what we have.
We're moving. Yeah, we're moving out.
We already called the leasing office.
We're trying to get everything
fixed out right there,
but now we're trying to fix the door.
They after the incident, we called them in.
I don't know how.
They don't have no doors to replace.
So we have to wait till today, supposedly.
But I don't even think the door
is going to get replaced today.
So it's just everything's falling apart.
We're trying to figure out where
we're going to stay.
We have to move everything out of this.
And it's like we have no help basically.
It's it's just hard for us.
You can't stay here.
We can't stay here. Yeah, after this.
How?
Why are you going to stay here when
you can't even close the door?
That's sad. How did you feel
coming back in here today? There's
sad looking at it.
Just work so hard for all this.
Just for someone to mess
everything up. Just no words.
No words can be, can be spoken to
express how I feel about this.
You write this place, I assume you own it.
This is my wife's department.
I rent to rental. Yes.
Oh, they told me I let off 13 shots.
I couldn't believe it,
but then again, I did empty the clip.
It's kind of surprising really,
looking at it for being real honest.
I wouldn't have expected me
to let off so many shots.
But then again,
I was in fear of my family's life.
Supposedly this one right here
and this shot over here are the
shots that he let off himself.
If I didn't think fast enough,
me and my brother probably
would have been dead today.
Could have been at all for folks about like.
I mean, you thankfully knew not
to let them in, you had a firearm,
but not everyone is in that position.
Do you have any advice for folks who maybe
aren't as situationally equipped or aware?
Well, I guess you could say the
most advice I can keep give to
people who just be aware of
surroundings Anybody can have.
Anything can happen nowadays because
anybody doesn't care anymore.
Of course you saw today someone tried to
break into my house for who knows what.
I don't even know the man,
but everybody seems to know him. Hell
important for you that he gets arrested.
Yes, very important. Very, very important.