Number 9 Incident in Houston
In September of 2019, Lachelle Hudgins had just arrived at her apartment complex,
in southwest Houston, when she was approached by a group of five men. She tried rolling up
her windows but one of the men reached into her vehicle, through the passenger window, and tried
to grab her purse. Looking back on the incident, Hudgins remembered that she couldn’t do anything
except scream. The robber told her to keep quiet but, before he could pull the purse away from her,
Hudgins reached inside and grabbed her gun. She fired two shots, wounding the suspect
and causing the others in his group to flee. The man she’d shot, whose identity wasn’t released,
was later found on the other side of the apartment complex. He underwent surgery for his injuries and
faced charges of aggravated robbery. Number 8 Guillermo Medrano-Sandoval
In April of 2019, a Colorado man was arrested and charged with murder after shooting a rifle at two
suspected carjackers. 24-year-old Brice Fitch took his dogs outside his Denver home, at around 4 am,
when he saw a man and a woman trying to break into his truck. It was at that point
that Fitch retrieved an AR-15 variant from his home. As he came out, the pair got into their
own vehicle and started driving towards him, with the front door still open. According to Fitch,
he fell over and the firearm discharged. The car stopped further down the road, at which point
Fitch fired two more shots at its occupants, one of which shattered the rear window,
as he was reportedly afraid they’d come back to harm him. Later in the day,
26-year-old Guillermo Medrano-Sandoval was found dead, from a gunshot wound to the chest,
in a car in Aurora. The authorities connected the two cases and Fitch was arrested on
first-degree murder charges. Colorado’s “Make My Day Law”, written and signed in 1985, was created
to offer homeowners protection from intruders. They’re allowed to use deadly force but only if
their lives are threatened while inside the house. A homeowner cannot, however, shoot an intruder to
protect their property. Fitch’s trial is ongoing. Number 7 Brad LeBlanc
On June the 30th of 2021, a 12-year-old boy from Louisiana fatally shot an armed invader who was
threatening his mother. The victims’ identities weren’t released but the intruder was reported as
32-year-old Brad LeBlanc. The incident took place near Clinton where LeBlanc forced the boy’s mother
inside her home at gunpoint. The preteen, fearing for his mother’s life, then grabbed a hunting
rifle and shot LeBlanc, inflicting critical injuries to which he eventually succumbed
in a local hospital. Two other suspects were arrested in connection to the robbery. One of them
was Jonathon Barker, charged with second-degree murder as well as principal to aggravated burglary
and principal to aggravated kidnapping, while the other accomplice, Jennifer Bond, was charged as
an accessory after the fact. In the aftermath, the East Feliciana Parish sheriff described the
12-year-old as a hero for protecting his mother. According to the latest updates on the case,
he wasn’t charged in the shooting. Number 6 Andrea Miller
On July the 22nd of 2014, Andrea Miller and her boyfriend Gus Polly Adams
broke into the home of an elderly man, in Long Beach, Southern California. When 80-year-old
Tom Greer returned to his home, he found the couple, both in their late 20s, ransacking it.
Greer would later tell the police that it was the fourth time his residence had been burglarized.
Miller and Adams beat and threw Greer to the ground, inflicting bruises, cuts and a broken
collarbone. Nevertheless, the homeowner managed to retrieve a small-caliber handgun from his bedroom,
causing the intruders to flee through the garage and into an alley. Miller reportedly
yelled "Don't shoot me, I'm pregnant! I'm going to have a baby!” Greer heard the woman’s pleas and,
by his own account, shot her anyway, twice in the back. When interviewed by the police
he claimed that he had no regrets about his actions as he’d done what he “had to do”.
Miller died in the alley and the coroner would later report that she wasn’t pregnant.
Adams fled the scene but was subsequently arrested and charged with five felony counts,
including one relating to Miller’s death. In the aftermath, Greer was cleared of any wrongdoing
as prosecutors concluded he’d “exercised his legal and legitimate right of self-defense”
while Adams was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Number 5 Antonio Leeks
In September of 2016, a woman defended a home in Gwinnett County, Georgia,
from three armed intruders, killing one of them in the process. 36-year-old Chinese-American woman
Chen Fengzhu, a local restaurant manager, was staying with a housemate at a Spring Drive home
when the incident occurred, at around 4 am. Three men forced their way into the residence,
looking for cash and valuables. Chen initially tried alerting the police but the call didn’t
go through. She then took her handgun, which was reportedly a gift from her husband which she’d
only used once before at a firing range. While still in her nightclothes and with the cellphone
pressed to her ear, she engaged the burglars in a shootout. The men tried to return fire but
Chen was unwavering in her defense of the home and kept shooting at them, even as bullets were
whizzing past her. One of the burglars, desperate to escape the home, ran through a glass pane.
After emptying her clip, Chen calmly resumed her call with the authorities. None of the robbers
were wearing masks and one of them, identified as 28-year-old Antonio Leeks, died from his injuries
in the home’s driveway. It was determined that Chen had acted within her legal rights and she
wasn’t prosecuted for the shooting. Footage of the incident, from the home’s security cameras,
became viral, amassing over 23 million views on the New York Daily News’ YouTube channel alone.
Number 4 Joshua Flanagan In January of 2021, while at home with friends,
in Fort Smith, Arkansas, 28-year-old Kelsey Dampier realized that her cellphone was missing.
She was reported to have pulled a purple .380 caliber handgun and vowed to kill whoever had
taken her property. Dampier used an app to track down the phone which led her to father-of-three
Joshua Flanagan. She found him at his home, a different Fort Smith address than the one from
where her phone had been taken. An argument ensued through which Dampier reportedly realized that he
had it. Flanagan had prior arrests for theft and burglary while his brother, Richard, had been shot
dead at a suspected drug house, in 2020. In the argument, Dampier brandished her handgun and shot
37-year-old Flanagan in the stomach, once, before she calmly walked away. He was rushed to a local
hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. In the aftermath, a woman, who was a mother to one of
Flanagan’s children, argued that he could’ve bought the stolen phone from a third party
and was ultimately blameless in the incident. It’s unclear if Flanagan and Dampier knew each other.
Witnesses picked the shooter’s photo out of a lineup and she was arrested on first degree murder
charges. For the extreme act of vigilantism, she was given a prison sentence of 35 years.
Number 3 Jose Antonio Reyes Bermudez In December of 2018, a man was shot outside
a Miami Beach car wash as he was attempting to steal a luxury Mercedes SUV. Surveillance
footage captured 48-year-old Stephen Lott running after his G-Wagon as it started to pull away. He
opened fire and a round fatally struck the accused thief, Jose Antonio Reyes Bermudez, in the head.
It caused him to lose control of the vehicle, which flew across the street, crashing into a
parked car and an Office Depot building. Due to its sheer size, the G-Wagon made a hole in the
wall and struck power poles which rescuers had to shut down before they could pull the driver out.
Prosecutors chose not to pursue criminal charges against Lott for the fatal shooting as they were
unable to prove that he wasn’t afraid for his life at the time. When interviewed by police, Lott
stated that Bermudez was trying to run him over. Moreover, the speed at which Bermudez attempted to
make his escape in the G-Wagon made it a danger for other drivers and pedestrians. Bermudez was
a career criminal, with prior convictions for robbery, theft and aggravated assault.
Lott was deemed to have been within the limit of Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law. Passed in 2005,
it allows citizens to react with deadly force if they believe their lives are in danger. While
some reactions have been in support of the law, critics argue that it encourages vigilantism.
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Number 2 Harold Runnels In February of 2021, 82-year-old
Herbert Parrish and his wife Lois, aged 79, heard a knock on the door of their South Carolina home.
It was a man, later identified as 61-year-old Harold Runnels, who told Lois that he was
looking for a little, white chihuahua. The woman replied that she hadn’t seen the animal but,
as she tried to close the door, Runnels burst inside, pulled out a large knife
and started attacking her and her husband. Looking back on the incident, Herbert remembered "I felt,
we’re gone. He’s going to kill us and take what he can take". Herbert, a Vietnam War veteran, decided
to stand up to his attacker. He took a shotgun that he had hanging on a wall next to the door.
He repeatedly struck Runnels in the face, as hard as he could, with the weapon’s handle. Herbert
would later tell a media outlet he believed he’d struck the intruder at least ten times, until he
was unconscious. Both Herbert and Lois recovered from the injuries they’d sustained in the attack.
Harold, who lived close to their home and whom they’d seen around the neighborhood, was taken to
a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. Number 1 Erik Hood
In July of 2019, Erik Hood stole a Hyundai from outside a Philadelphia pizza shop. As 54-year-old
Hood drove off, three children, aged 7 months, 1 and 5, were still in the car. Their 25-year-old
mother had been visiting the father of two of the children, who worked at the pizza shop. Their
identities were not revealed by the authorities. Hood encountered traffic further down the road
and the parents caught up with him at a red light. The father pulled Hood out of the car and started
beating him. Others from the neighborhood joined in the attack and a mob formed that
started kicking and stomping the carjacker into unconsciousness. He died in a hospital,
less than an hour after the initial car theft. Philadelphia Police Captain Jason Smith held a
press conference in which he claimed that he wasn’t “a fan of street justice”. The
authorities reportedly had footage of the incident and launched an investigation to determine
who’d attacked Hood, with the children’s parents potentially facing charges as well.
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