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Robber's Regret--Part I

In Huntsville, Alabama, on February 28, an alleged burglar hopped a six-foot fence, dodged past three guard dogs, including a pit bull, a Rottweiler, and a German shepherd, and broke into the Glover family's home.

The two Glover boys, "17-year-old David and 18-year-old Jerry, were up playing video games and heard the dogs bark seconds before the burglar crashed into their home," reported the Huntsville Times. After a scuffle, David and Jerry got the man in a headlock, and they and their now-awake mother Brenda tried to push the man outside. He wouldn't budge, so Brenda, who because of the fight to get the man outside was now sporting some abrasions, got her pistol and warned the man to leave or she would shoot. The man still wouldn't leave, so she shot him in the buttocks.

The man still wouldn't leave, and so she shot him twice more in the same posterior area. He finally fled--across the street, over another fence, and through the front door of another house where he confronted another family. That family pushed the man back outside, prompting him to flee further down the street and enter a third house by jumping through a window. The occupant of the third house was able to detain the man until police arrived.

The home invader, whom police believe to be 36-year-old Marvin Horton, was not seriously injured from the night's activities. Police believe he was on drugs at the time of the incident.

Part II