Via Misha the Most Excellent -
Two illegal aliens, Ralphel Resindez 23 and Enrico Garza 26, probably believed they would easily overpower a home alone 11 year old Patricia Harrington after her father had left their two story home.
It seems the two crooks never learned two things, they were in Montana and Patricia had been a clay shooting champion since she was nine. Patricia was in her upstairs room when the two men broke through the front door of the house. She quickly ran to her father's room and grabbed his 12 gauge Mossberg 500 shotgun.
Resindez was the first to get up to the second floor only to be the first to catch a near point blank blast of buck shot from the 11 year olds knee crouch aim. He suffered fatal wounds to his abdomen and genitals. When Garza ran to the foot of the stairs, he took a blast to the left shoulder and staggered out into the street where he bled to death before medical help could arrive.
It was found out later that Resindez was armed with a stolen 45 caliber handgun he took from another home invasion robbery. The victim, 50 year old David Burien, was not so lucky as he died from stab wounds to the chest. [link]
Well, there are two criminals who have received swift justice. Good for Patricia - quick thinking and quick actions probably saved her from being raped and murdered.
In my search for more backup than the link from Liberty Forums, though, I did see this caveat linked on Whackbag.com:
Raphael Resendez-Ramirez was the infamous "Railroad Killer" illegal alien / serial murderer. He eventually was captured. I would wager that this is an invented account, and the writer borrowed part of Raphael's name for it. There's absolutely nothing on the web (aside from this verbatim account itself - complete with "Butte" misspelled) to indicate this ever actually happened, or that anyone named Patricia Harrington ever was a champion clay-shooter anywhere...
I hope it's not a false story - the courage of the young lady is remarkable - but I suppose I'm going to have to keep looking for confirmation. Can any of my readers help out? I'll check Snopes, but any googling y'all want to do to see what you can find would be welcome!
UPDATE: It may be probably is apocryphal - check out the thread associated with the caveat - but there are real stories out there about young people defending themselves and their families...
An accused group of thugs were thwarted by a 12-year old with a gun. It happened in Greenville when police say five masked men stormed into a house and started beating up the child's father.[link]
An overnight home invasion robbery attempt in northeast Harris County ended in a hail of gunfire that left two suspects dead.
Investigators said a 17-year-old was home with his cousin when four armed men kicked in the door and started shooting.
The teen pulled out a shotgun of his own and fired back at the suspects, killing two of them. [link]
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Posted by: Tr@mbon | June 01, 2007 at 03:42 AM