Victim fights back in driveway robbery attempt
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:30 am
Proof that calibers and platforms are secondary. What wins is mindset.
Kudos to the gentleman that refused to be a victim.
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Victim fights back in driveway robbery attempt in Ft. Bend County
ABC13 Eyewitness News
(7/13/05 - FORT BEND COUNTY, TX) — A neighborhood was rocked by news that a neighbor was attacked in his own driveway by two robbers Tuesday. But it's how the would-be victim fought them off that has people really talking.
By all accounts, the three-year-old Ft. Bend County neighborhood where this happened has been virtually crime-free, which makes what happened there even harder to believe.
"This neighborhood shouldn't be like that," resident Wen Lin.
Authorities tell us the male victim had just pulled into his garage near Marina Bay Lane and FM 1484 when two masked men ambushed him. One shot him with a stun gun as another tried to hit him with pepper spray.
Meanwhile, the would-be victim fought back.
"He scratched the guy on the neck with his keys and then somehow when he was fighting them off, he hit the horn," said neighbor Nina Panaligan. "And when he hit the horn, that's when they left."
Panaligan spoke to him hours after the attack and he showed her the injury from the stun gun.
"It looked like a red scar," said Panaligan.
And he wanted to prevent her from becoming a victim herself. She's taking his warning seriously.
"Just be extra cautious," she said.
Panaligan and her family plan to put lights up around their home.
The suspects got away with nothing. Police only have a very vague description. The suspects are described as white males in their 20s. They were wearing masks.
If you have any information about this attack, you're urged to call Crime Stoppers at 281-342-TIPS.
(Copyright © 2005, KTRK-TV)
Kudos to the gentleman that refused to be a victim.
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/071305 ... nbend.html
Victim fights back in driveway robbery attempt in Ft. Bend County
ABC13 Eyewitness News
(7/13/05 - FORT BEND COUNTY, TX) — A neighborhood was rocked by news that a neighbor was attacked in his own driveway by two robbers Tuesday. But it's how the would-be victim fought them off that has people really talking.
By all accounts, the three-year-old Ft. Bend County neighborhood where this happened has been virtually crime-free, which makes what happened there even harder to believe.
"This neighborhood shouldn't be like that," resident Wen Lin.
Authorities tell us the male victim had just pulled into his garage near Marina Bay Lane and FM 1484 when two masked men ambushed him. One shot him with a stun gun as another tried to hit him with pepper spray.
Meanwhile, the would-be victim fought back.
"He scratched the guy on the neck with his keys and then somehow when he was fighting them off, he hit the horn," said neighbor Nina Panaligan. "And when he hit the horn, that's when they left."
Panaligan spoke to him hours after the attack and he showed her the injury from the stun gun.
"It looked like a red scar," said Panaligan.
And he wanted to prevent her from becoming a victim herself. She's taking his warning seriously.
"Just be extra cautious," she said.
Panaligan and her family plan to put lights up around their home.
The suspects got away with nothing. Police only have a very vague description. The suspects are described as white males in their 20s. They were wearing masks.
If you have any information about this attack, you're urged to call Crime Stoppers at 281-342-TIPS.
(Copyright © 2005, KTRK-TV)
