Armed Citizen® Today
A neighbor and Good Samaritan intervened to help a threatened resident of an Elkton, Md., neighborhood when he was faced with an aggressive, threatening stranger late at night.
Just after midnight on Saturday, August 9, a 23-year-old man allegedly began pounding on the door of a residence in the Upland Court complex while yelling and repeating threats to kill the resident inside. The resident called a longtime friend and neighbor and alerted him to the situation, then opened a second-floor window and looked outside to investigate. The suspect saw the resident in the window and shouted, "Come out here, I want to kill you," according to the police report.
The resident grabbed a baseball bat as a defensive tool and went outside after seeing his neighbor walking toward the house. The armed neighbor then told the suspect, "Don't move. I have a gun." The neighbor had instructed his wife to call 911, and dispatchers told responding officers that the suspect was being "detained by a neighbor of the victim at gunpoint."
The neighbor instructed the suspect to lay down, and the 23-year-old aggressor complied and put his hands behind his back at one point. While they waited for police to arrive, the neighbor noted that the suspect "was saying all kinds of things that did not make sense." Responding officers arrested the suspect, who faces six criminal charges, including attempted home invasion. Two days after his arrest, the suspect was released on an unsecured $5,000 bond after a bail review hearing. (Cecil Whig; Elkton, Md.; 8/12/25)
From the Armed Citizen® Archives – October 1983
A would-be rapist awoke Claudine Hale in her Baltimore apartment, grabbed her by the throat and threatened to harm the children sleeping in the same room. Hale struggled with the assailant, then managed to reach a handgun, which she used to halt the attack. He fled after being shot, and a suspect was found dead nearby. Baltimore authorities declined to press charges against the woman. (The Evening Sun, Baltimore, Md.)
