The sight of crying children made masked home invaders think twice about burglarizing the place.
On June 3 in Orlando, Fla., masked intruders kicked in the door of a home where children were home alone.
Inside the home, located in the Copper Ridge subdivision in North Lakeland, the intruders found three 11-year-old children.
“As you can see, they are well garbed up, they had masks on, they had gloves,” said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, who is asking for the public’s help to identify the intruders.
The sheriff says the intruders entered the home but left without taking anything.
“When the burglars that did the home invasion heard the kids screaming and crying and noticed it was kids there, he told the others, ‘Let’s go, it’s kids,’ and they left without taking anything,” Sheriff Judd said.
When the intruders left, it took nearly 45 minutes for one of the children, whose parents were not home, to call the police.
Sheriff Judd, who is something of a profound spokesman for Orlando’s crime investigations, said that if the parents were there, they would have been within their rights to shoot the home invaders if they were armed.
“Well, it’s dangerous for the ones who kicked the doors in. I can tell you, if you kick my door in, in the middle of the night, I will kill you graveyard dead, and the owners of the house would certainly have every right do to that,” said Judd.
Gun laws in Florida state that there is no need for a permit when purchasing. However, all firearm sales must be conducted through a licensed dealer, who is required to conduct a background check on the buyer. There is a three-day waiting period between the purchase and delivery of a firearm.
Open carry of firearms is generally prohibited in Florida. However, there are a number of exceptions, such as when the firearm is being carried for hunting, fishing, or self-defense.
