The Armed Citizen® March 24, 2025

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posted on March 24, 2025
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A violent, late-night home invasion in Rio Rancho, N.M., was stopped by an armed homeowner, according to local police.

Just before midnight, officers responded to calls of a shot being fired during a home invasion. An investigation revealed that all the occupants of the home, two adults and three children, were asleep when an unknown suspect violently kicked the front door of the house multiple times, eventually forcing his way inside. Upon hearing the noise, the homeowner armed himself and went to investigate the noise, finding the suspect inside the house. The man fired a single shot, which hit the suspect in the torso, stopping the intrusion.

The suspect was transported to a local hospital, where he succumbed to his wounds. The homeowner was released, and an investigation is ongoing. (KRQE News; Rio Rancho, N.M.; 1/27/25)

From the Armed Citizen® Archives – January 1986

Crouching in the bedroom of her Sacramento, Calif. apartment, Judith Scott heard burglars break down two doors as they tried to elude the police who interrupted their burglary of her adjoining video store.

As they approached her room, Scott opened fire and wounded one. The burglars were arrested. Scott, who had been robbed and her store burglarized previously, had taken a firearm course offered by Sacramento police. (The Union, Sacramento, Calif.)

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