The invaders couldn’t break the window and they couldn’t pry it out. I didn’t recognize them and I refused to let Vicky look at “First of all,” Dunton told me, “the shooting last night was unquestionably in self defense. Security is a concern for me. When I looked into the bathroom at the rear of the house, I could see He had a damned .380 pistol and they had their patrol rifles. , was, in fact, an adaptation of a novel by Gordon Williams. Other cops piled onto the wounded man. This is one of the most shocking home invasion stories. So there was another guy or Slumber Party Home Invasion. Three cops hurried through the door with their guns drawn. A Home Invasion My girlfriend and I stumbled back to my house about midnight, a little bit drunk, from a neighbor’s party in Cocoa Beach. The house was pretty quiet. Lillie and Yleen Kennedy were found brutally murdered in their own home on March 5, 1984 in Houston Texas. By: GhostWriterXX. A “I hope no one was hurt.”. But it might come as some surprise to find that Williams’ novel lacks many of the most brutal scenes in Peckinpah’s treatment. Team Glock, etc. He was doing life without parole and my sister had permanent hearing damage. I pulled on a pair of cargo shorts, shoved a spare magazine into a back pocket and went downstairs to check things out. Vicky slipped a magazine into her 9mm Glock 19. A quick death was too good for them. After much thought and experimentation, I’d settled on a Springfield Armory XD .45 pistol. The door leading from the downstairs bathroom to the family room opened into the bathroom, away from me, and it wasn’t reinforced. I punched a button on the entryway intercom panel. He was holding something in both hands that might have been a weapon. “Please inform the deputies that the homeowner is armed. There’s nothing more vulnerable than when the terror enters one’s sanctuary. The job comes with a few strict rules—no visitors, no nights spent away from the apartment, no interacting with other residents—but it also comes with many strings attached. “Home invasion in progress at this address.” I knew my address was showing on her Caller ID screen and didn’t waste time repeating it. She drew smoothly and engaged the plates, shooting four of them right to left, then swinging back to nail the “stop” plate. Nobody’s going to get hysterical with grief over them. “Okay, I’m in the bathroom. counts of first degree felony murder we can hang on the survivor.” His expression turned grim. remains intact and worthy of turning the pages. indoors. Your head shot was perfect, too. Suddenly, I heard the roar of an engine and the screech of tires from in front of my house. “Great. At the center of the narrative is an apartment building and trademark New York City poverty. grab your girlfriend here,” he pointed to Vicky, “and demand two million bucks in ransom.”, The sheriff nodded his head. Jules has no idea, same as the reader; the thriller offers unexpected domestic terror and will make you see those menacing and amazing Manhattan residential buildings in an entirely different light. And from what he told us, they weren’t planning to let you go. My high-priced alarm system had become erratic lately, disarming itself without warning or refusing to arm at all. targets, 12” in diameter, painted white. “What’s that?”, “How do I apply for a license to carry a gun?”, _________________________________________________________. I brought my cell phone.”. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window), When You Write Your Worst Fears in Your Novel—And Then They Come True, Five Great Psychological Thrillers Set in Isolated Places, 5 Psychological Thrillers You Should Read in November, How One Writer Was Drawn Into a Decades Old Murder Mystery at Harvard, 'Rebecca' at Eighty: The Women Behind the Hitchcock Classic, Emily Temple on the Unfocused Desires of Teenagedom, The Quest for the Origins of the Human Species, Darien Gee on Imposter Syndrome, Food Blogging, and Starting an MFA at 50, What It's Like to Work As a Historical Advisor for, Rewriting the History of 1970s Gay Liberation, November's Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies, Ryan Chapman on Maggie Nelson, Martin Amis, and James Baldwin, November's Best Reviewed Science, Technology, and Nature Books, Five Books That Make You Feel Uncomfortable Under Your Skin, November's Best Reviewed History and Politics Books. We didn’t find it.” He paused, looking at Vicky. They intended to In the movies and on TV, people shoot pistols and rifles indoors all the time and never mention the noise. Privacy photos of men I’d just killed.