Ready the second time.At 2 a.m. on Saturday, April 22, several armed robbers entered a home in Katy, Texas Katy is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. The city is located partially in the counties of Fort Bend, Waller, and Harris. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, Katy's population was 11,775. , tied up a teenage girl and her boyfriend, and then tried to make off with a safe. The robbers were interrupted in·ter·rupt v. in·ter·rupt·ed, in·ter·rupt·ing, in·ter·rupts v.tr. 1. To break the continuity or uniformity of: Rain interrupted our baseball game. 2. by the arrival of the homeowner, and so the robbers fled, leaving the safe behind them, one of them shooting as they ran. The robber's gunfire grazed graze 1 v. grazed, graz·ing, graz·es v.intr. 1. To feed on growing grasses and herbage. 2. Informal a. To eat a variety of appetizers as a full meal. "the head of one of the homeowners," reported Click2Houston.com. Obviously thinking that they'd left behind a significant sum, the robbers tried to invade in·vade v. in·vad·ed, in·vad·ing, in·vades v.tr. 1. To enter by force in order to conquer or pillage. 2. the same house again the next night, this time at 10 p.m. But the homeowner was ready for the second bout, and he shot it out with the robbers, killing a female assailant instantly with a shot to the head and sending the others fleeing. Police concluded that the "homeowner was targeted by a disgruntled dis·grun·tle tr.v. dis·grun·tled, dis·grun·tling, dis·grun·tles To make discontented. [dis- + gruntle, to grumble (from Middle English gruntelen; see former employee who knew he had a safe in his home," said Click2Houston.com. The police also believe that the homeowner killed a second assailant, a man who was found dead alongside the road about 30 minutes after the incident. The man, who died of a bullet wound, was wearing a bullet-proof vest, but the bullet that killed him missed the vest. |
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