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Mom Fights Gunman - Trinidad, Tobago / Caribbean - Posted: 20th Aug, 2009 - 12:46am
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Mom Fights Gunman
She is surely a brave lady and strong! It seems like her reaction caught the man by surprise, I was glad to read the police also responded quickly.
QUOTE A mother who found a gunman outside her home intent on robbing and killing, saved herself and her teenage daughters on Monday.
In a remarkable show of strength and courage, Dianne Baptiste said she disarmed the thief, knocked him to the ground, and smashed him on the head with her favourite flower pots while keeping him in an arm lock. So bad was the beating that the suspect began screaming for help from an accomplice hiding nearby, but that person never came.
Baptiste, 41, of Williamsville, then helped police with a description that led to the arrest of the embarrassed man within an hour.
The 21-year-old suspect, who gave addresses at Five Rivers, Arouca and Pedro Trace, Valencia, is expected to appear in court tomorrow, facing weapons possession and attempted robbery charges.
Baptiste survived the incident with an injured finger and toe.
She intends helping the State prove its case against the man.
Baptiste, a caterer with two teenage daughters, said her husband was away at work when the man came just after 9 a.m.
"It was while cleaning my home that I heard the dog making a funny sound. I looked out to see a stranger. Someone I never saw before," she said.
Baptiste neither hid nor ran.
Instead, she bolted out her front door.
"I went out to meet him. I asked 'what are you doing here?' He said this is a robbery".
Baptiste said as the man spoke he reached into the waist of his pants for what she later found out was a foot-long sawed-off shotgun.
Baptiste said she felt no fear. She felt anger.
"What was he going to do with this gun. Show it to me? No. He wanted to kill me. So I collared him. I shoved him and he fell backwards and the firearm fell out."
Baptiste said she snatched the gun and threw it behind her, with man now in the muddy front lawn, and her teen daughters frantic and screaming...
In a remarkable show of strength and courage, Dianne Baptiste said she disarmed the thief, knocked him to the ground, and smashed him on the head with her favourite flower pots while keeping him in an arm lock. So bad was the beating that the suspect began screaming for help from an accomplice hiding nearby, but that person never came.
Baptiste, 41, of Williamsville, then helped police with a description that led to the arrest of the embarrassed man within an hour.
The 21-year-old suspect, who gave addresses at Five Rivers, Arouca and Pedro Trace, Valencia, is expected to appear in court tomorrow, facing weapons possession and attempted robbery charges.
Baptiste survived the incident with an injured finger and toe.
She intends helping the State prove its case against the man.
Baptiste, a caterer with two teenage daughters, said her husband was away at work when the man came just after 9 a.m.
"It was while cleaning my home that I heard the dog making a funny sound. I looked out to see a stranger. Someone I never saw before," she said.
Baptiste neither hid nor ran.
Instead, she bolted out her front door.
"I went out to meet him. I asked 'what are you doing here?' He said this is a robbery".
Baptiste said as the man spoke he reached into the waist of his pants for what she later found out was a foot-long sawed-off shotgun.
Baptiste said she felt no fear. She felt anger.
"What was he going to do with this gun. Show it to me? No. He wanted to kill me. So I collared him. I shoved him and he fell backwards and the firearm fell out."
Baptiste said she snatched the gun and threw it behind her, with man now in the muddy front lawn, and her teen daughters frantic and screaming...
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