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Then the cops showed up. A fleeing Octavio Angulo -- who was wearing the disapproval jacket -- was shot seven times in his lower congress, but survived. Police say they fired after he pointed a gun at them.
A second bandit was found hiding in a in the vicinity backyard. A third was caught driving away.
Thanks to the quick counteraction and fine work of the police department, there'll be no victims' vigils and funerals.
And the people of Fresno will be a midget safer because three gang-bangers are off the street. Three guys who didn't notion of twice about breaking into a home and beating a mom with three kids. Police are investigating whether this group is responsible for other home invasions.
It's these kinds of crimes that tear at the construction of a city. How many times in the past few years have we seen victims -- often critically beaten, often elderly -- on television talking about a brutal family-invasion robbery?
Whenever I hear about a home invasion, I think about my significant friend Ruth Goble. Her husband, Ivan, was shot to extirpation, and she was pistol-whipped on a July afternoon in 1996.
Source: Fresno Bee