Harrah, Oklahoma

From the Midwest City Sun of August 23, 2006

Resident takes action

Home invaders are shot at during broad daylight

With no phone available, a Harrah resident shot at two home invaders Sunday afternoon, according to the Harrah Police Department.

Police Chief Eddie Holland told The Sun that the homeowner, who lived near the intersection of N.E. 23rd Street and Peebly Road, hadn’t been able to contact them until at least 30 minutes after the incident because he lacked a phone. Harrah police used a canine unit to track the scent of the two men to car tracks leaving the wooded west end of a ballfield across the street.

According to the resident, who declined to be named, two black men — a shorter one with Bermuda shorts and a football jersey and a medium-sized one with longer hair — pulled up into the driveway at approximately 10 a.m. and knocked on the door and rang the doorbell. The homeowner didn’t answer after seeing the two look in through the blinds of the front window. The two men left and later returned and at one point kicked the back garage door and cut open the kitchen screen window.

“I’m watching him from one set of blinds as he peers in another,” the resident said.

Though the license plate of the vehicle was covered, the homeowner believes, the car was conspicuous, a newer model dark-colored Chrysler 300 with dark-tinted windows.

The homeowner said that if one of the men had actually entered the house, he would have shot them with the pistol he owns. Instead, after they pulled into the ballfield and headed for his house one last time, he came outside and fired one shot into the air and one into the ground, he said.

“They couldn’t have gotten more than $50 a piece from robbing my home,” he said. “It’s not enough to risk your life for.”