SURPRISE CONFRONTATION CAUSES BURGLARS TO FLEE VICTIM'S HOME.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Daily News Staff Writer Antelope Valley's latest in a string of home-invasion robberies occurred when two men kicked in the door of a Lancaster home, apparently believing the occupants were gone, deputies said. Just before 9:03 a.m. Wednesday, two burglars broke into a home in the 800 block of Avenue J-11, awakening a 25-year-old man who was upstairs sleeping. When the occupant occupant n. 1) someone living in a residence or using premises, as a tenant or owner. 2) a person who takes possession of real property or a thing which has no known owner, intending to gain ownership. (See: occupancy) came downstairs to investigate, the robbers pointed a gun at him and ordered him to lie down. Instead, he ran back upstairs, grabbed his 3-year-old son and climbed out a second-story window onto the roof. From there he saw the two men run out of the house, sheriff's deputies said. Although no one was injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. in the incident, sheriff's deputies said they usually recommend victims cooperate with their assailants. "What we tell people is that if you think all they want is to rob you and leave you alone, then cooperate," said Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County sheriff's Deputy Paul Ullman. "But if you think your life is in danger, then you need to take action." "In this case it worked out fine," he said. "They (the robbers) were just as surprised as the victims were. We think that this was possibly going to be a burglary burglary, at common law, the breaking and entering of a dwelling house of another at night with the intent to commit a felony, whether the intent is carried out or not. . The robbers didn't know that anyone was home." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Ullman, the robbers fled empty-handed. The home-invasion robbery came five days after a robbery in which four men were tied up and held hostage hostage, person held by another as a guarantee that certain actions or promises will or will not be carried out. During periods of internal turmoil, insurgents often seize hostages; recent examples include seizures of Americans and other foreigners by militants in in a home while four women were raped by two armed men. Sheriff's deputies have arrested one man in connection with Friday's crime but are still searching for a second. |
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