Candidate holds home invasion suspect at gunpoint
By Eric Fossell
WAYNE COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) – A retired high school teacher who’s running for office is being praised in his neighborhood for catching a suspect accused of trying to get into homes.“Emotions were sky high crazy here, just fear,” Katelyn Kelly said. “In that moment, you don’t know what his intentions are, what he’s wanting to do.”
Kelly lives on Rice Avenue in Prichard. She says before 9 a.m., she heard someone opening her car door. She looked out her window and saw a man walking onto her porch.
“He looked a little out of his mind,” Kelly said.
Kelly says she put her daughter in her room, and then the man tried to get in through the front door.
“The dog was right there and jumped at him,” Kelly said.
She says then the man went across the yard toward her neighbor’s house, and he opened the door of an outbuilding. She called 911 and her neighbor.
Retired teacher and unopposed District 28 House of Delegates candidate Mark Ross lives nearby and got a call the suspect had been seen heading toward his daughter’s house.
Ross says at the time, his wife was babysitting their grandkids there while his daughter was at a doctor appointment.
“That made it even more special to me,” he said. “They’re not going to bother my grandbabies for sure.”
Ross grabbed his pistol and went to his daughter’s house and looked around. He says he spotted the suspect trying to get in through the basement.
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That assclown is damn lucky he didn’t get ventilated.
You endanger a loving grandfather’s grandchildren, and you just think Mama Bear is bad…
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I feel your pain.
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