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Homeowner
Kills Would-be Intruder
by
Tracey Christensen Originally reported on http://www.11alive.com,
Atlanta, GA Police in Fulton County say a homeowner fired
back on some would-be intruders, killing one of the men. Follow-up Report from Atlanta
Journal-Constitution Man, dog foil home invaders
An Atlanta man shot it out with three home-invasion robbers Wednesday night,
killing one and critically injuring another. And Christopher Quilling says he survived the
shootout because of his Rottweiler named Guinness.
The ordeal began around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday
when three armed men snuck up on a house in a dark, wooded lot on Browns Mill
Road in southeast Atlanta.
Using a 24-year-old resident of the house as a
shield, they forced their way inside.
The robbers ordered the woman and Quilling to
the floor, pointing guns to their heads as they demanded to know where money and
marijuana was hidden in the house. The woman said the robbers must have mistaken
them for someone else. "We're not drug dealers," she said.
Then Guinness, one of Quilling's dogs, attacked
a robber, Quilling said. It was enough of a distraction for him to jump up and
grab his own gun --- a 9 mm Glock. "My dog saved my life," Quilling
said.
One robber shot Quilling in the leg. Quilling
returned fire. The gun battle left one robber dead with a gunshot wound to his
head and one other critically injured with shots to his head and shoulder.
By Thursday afternoon, police still did not
know the dead man's name. The survivor, who was in critical condition at Grady
Memorial Hospital, was Victor A. Middlebrooks Jr., 20, of Atlanta, police said.
The third man ran out of the house and drove away. Middlebrooks was charged with
murder because he was involved in a felony that ended in his partner's death,
said Atlanta police Lt. Mike Smith.
Quilling was also treated at Grady and sent
home Thursday. Police did not charge him, saying he shot the robbers in
self-defense.
"Unfortunately one of them got
killed," Quilling said Thursday afternoon, his lip quivering as he held
back his emotions.
"But they shouldn't have been robbing
us."
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