it's 1 30 in the morning at this home in
idaho falls
time for lounging watching a little tv
and checking your phone
you would hope that anyone who comes
calling at this hour
is family or a friend
not this time
i'm caspian shamel and i'm isabelle
shamel and we survived a home invasion
robbery
we just got home from a date and i was
pretty tired
and i was just scrolling through my
phone halfway watching the documentary
we went out and did one of those escape
rooms so we were pretty tuckered out
from that
ready to relax and then i just hear a
loud bang and the door
flies open i've got a couple of
roommates that live downstairs so having
people come in and out
at all hours of the night isn't super
odd but i kind of noticed him
and i did a double take sit down right
now
i just didn't know what was happening at
first i was just in shock
the intruder orders caspian to take a
seat then he turns his attention
and his shotgun toward caspian's fiancee
on the couch
i definitely feared for my life whenever
i saw that shotgun pointed at me
i've never been in a situation where a
loaded gun was pointed at my face
and it was a shock and kind of my life
flashed before my eyes
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caspian reacts in a flash grabbing the
shotgun barrel
instinct kicked in and i wasn't letting
go of that shotgun
at that moment just straight adrenaline
i would say
caspian knows his fiancee is still in
the room she rolls off the couch
he barks an organ
i actually yelled for the roommate and
that was all i could musher out
caspian is actually being dragged down
the stairs
still holding that death grip on the
shotgun barrel as the intruder is now on
his own version
of an escape room i immediately as soon
as i felt safe enough ran
and called 9-1-1 and tried to help the
best i could
best i knew how
it's becoming painfully clear to this
home invader
i told him wrong house buster he was
fully in agreement
as we hit the stairs it was a change in
power for sure
he slipped as it was icy i overtook him
got the weapon away from him
the imminent threat is over a moment for
the couple to relax
caspian is now armed in self-defense but
hopefully won't need to use his weapons
but two minutes later an angry knock at
the door
and an unbelievable request i opened the
door
and he was asking for a shotgun back and
so we told
him no of course and he tried to force
his way back into the house
the suspect finally fled the scene still
without his shotgun
which was loaded but never fired caspian
turned it over to the police
as he relived the sickening events the
police were almost arriving
see sirens coming up lights flashing
around the block and
he started heading back out the door
again and they intercepted him there by
his vehicle so
when the police showed up then they
wanted me to walk through the situation
with them and
i hadn't even really fully processed it
yet i just got incredibly incredibly
adrenaline high i mean my
whole entire body was shaking i was
sweating
my face was bright red and so i puked
it kind of all washes over you i mean
when when you're in the midst of it
you don't feel any of those things
happening but as soon as it kind of
calms down you're like holy crap this is
really pretty crazy
i'm just glad that you were there and
you were able to take action so quickly
and i felt safe before but now i feel
extra safe
i know that he'll protect me no matter
what having somebody to go through it
with is certainly nice too
just days before this attack caspian and
isabel
got engaged they've since married and
tried to move on with their life
together
it took me a while to be able to fully
sleep without being super paranoid
that someone else was going to break in
or something else was going to happen
arrested that night was 28 year old
eddie walker he pled guilty to
aggravated battery
and was sentenced to a maximum of 11
years in prison
the irony of the evening is not lost on
these two
and serves as an important reminder for
all of us
we were watching a true crime
documentary when this happened
and now we had to live through it you
know you watch all those things and you
think you know what to do and then it
really happens and you just don't expect
it to happen to you
yeah we're definitely a lot more on our
toes now a lot more careful
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