A involved homeowner in Texas took up arms and fended off a machete-wielding man who tried to enter his home.Â
Darryl Stevens’ home surveillance digital camera captured the second a machete-wielding intruder approached the household’s Liberty Hill home simply north of Austin.
“At that moment, I obviously freaked out. I have two young children here in the house and just went into complete fight or flight mode,” Stevens told FOX 7.Â
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Darryl Stevens defended his household when a person with a machete tried to enter his home. (FOX 7)
Stevens’ intestine response was to lock up his home and seize his 9mm handgun.Â
“I started running through the house. I locked every door as fast as possible, ran upstairs. Luckily, I had a firearm here, so I grabbed my 9mm, unlocked it, ran down as fast as possible,” Stevens stated.Â
The suspect, later recognized as 43-year-old Jerry Escamilla, managed to climb a fence and get to the higher deck of the household’s home.Â
He was greeted by Stevens’ handgun when he arrived.Â
“Told him he’s got to leave, or he’s going to lose his life, you know?” he stated. “Luckily, after I did that, he dropped the machete.”
A Liberty Hill, Texas, home-owner captured on video a man’s try to interrupt into his home with a machete. (FOX 7 through Darryl Stevens)
The video confirmed Escamilla retracing his steps and climbing again down as a gun is seen pointing on the intruder.
Stevens’ spouse known as 911 and local police arrested Escamilla. The 43-year-old was charged with felony trespassing and failure to determine and is being held on a $10,000 bond.
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Stevens defined to the native outlet that that they had lately moved farther away from Austin to “feel safe.”
“I just had to protect my family, and that’s what I did. Luckily, I didn’t have to discharge my firearm,” Stevens stated. “It’s just not something you expect to happen in Liberty Hill in the country or way out in the country in the very back of this new, nice neighborhood… we moved out here, we moved further out of the city to feel safe.”
Jerry Escamilla was charged with felony trespassing and failure to determine and is being held on a $10,000 bond. (FOX 7)
Stevens stated that he plans on upping the safety at their home, saying that they are going to flip their home into “Fort Knox.”
“We feel violated, as a family, we feel like our sense of safety in our safe place, which is our house, has been taken from us. I almost get a little emotional even saying that. It’s not fair,” he stated. “We’re definitely upping security. We’re getting a few more firearms to have one upstairs, one downstairs. We are going to be installing more fences and more security features. Floodlights. I’m going to turn this place into Fort Knox at this point in time.“
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Texas’s Stand Your Ground legislation established the proper for gun house owners to use deadly pressure to defend themselves in opposition to threats, no matter whether or not it was attainable to retreat first. The legislation notes that the shooter can not instigate the altercation.
