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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Home invasion gone wrong for [illegal] criminals
2007-05-02
Two illegal aliens, Ralphel Resindez 23 and Enrico Garza 26, probably believed they would easily overpower a home alone 11 year old Patricia Harrington after her father had left their two story home. It seems the two crooks never learned two things, they were in Montana and Patricia had been a clay shooting champion since she was nine. Patricia was in her upstairs room when the two men broke through the front door of the house. She quickly ran to her father's room and grabbed his 12 gauge Mossberg 500 shotgun.
"Clack...clack..."
Resindez was the first to get up to the second floor only to be the first to catch a near point blank blast of buck shot from the 11 year olds knee crouch aim. He suffered fatal wounds to his abdomen and genitals.
Nice shooting, Pat
When Garza ran to the foot of the stairs, he took a blast to the left shoulder and staggered out into the street where he bled to death before medical help could arrive.
Patricia - 2, Goblins - 0
It was found out later that Resindez was armed with a stolen 45 caliber handgun he took from another home invasion robbery. The victim, 50 year old David Burien, was not so lucky as he died from stab wounds to the chest.
Posted by:Delphi2005

#16  Wikipedia has an "urban legends" entry. It refers to snopes, which gives us this.
Posted by: gorb   2007-05-02 23:54  

#15  http://tinyurl.com/y8y7jw

Here is a link to about the only Montana home invasion defense I can find:

Teen shoots, kills 2 would-be robbers

An overnight home invasion robbery attempt in northeast Harris County ended in a hail of gunfire that left two suspects dead.

Investigators said a 17-year-old was home with his cousin when four armed men kicked in the door and started shooting.

The teen pulled out a shotgun of his own and fired back at the suspects, killing two of them.

Two other suspects were later caught.

The 17-year-old asked to not be identified.

“Truthfully, it was either them or me, regardless of who was on the other side of that door or whoever kicked my door down, it was either him or me,” he said. “I’m thankful to be standing here today. I thank god.”

Authorities said at this point they are not planning on filing charges against the teen.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2007-05-02 23:51  

#14  I'm sure this would have appeared in the Armed Citizen column if it was true and yet I've never seen it there in my NRA magazines. It just reads....wrong. And how many newspapers and news agencies use the word 'illegal aliens'. They'd be undocumented immigrants.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2007-05-02 23:43  

#13  Almost all the sources reference back to the "NRA files", but as of yet, I don't know if anyone has contacted the NRA to confirm or deny.

The story has been circulating for a while, with the only dispute as to whether the girl was 11 or 9 years old.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2007-05-02 23:38  

#12  So much for that -- Snopes has the story up now. link They don't know for certain, but they think it's an urban legend. They say the Resindez name was used by the now-imprisoned Railroad Killer.
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-05-02 23:06  

#11  I checked Snopes and the urban legends page at About.com. Nothing. Which doesn't mean it's real, just that they haven't checked it out yet.
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-05-02 22:56  

#10  Patricia - 2, Goblins - 0

Sniff, sniff. I love a happy ending.
Posted by: xbalanke   2007-05-02 17:37  

#9  Something like this would have been all over the news outlets. But zero legitimate google hits. An http://email is not a legit source.
Posted by: ed   2007-05-02 16:41  

#8  Hate to be a wet blanket but this has urban legend written all over it. Scroll down in the comments at the link and you'll see one of the commenters pretty much take it apart.
Posted by: Jonathan   2007-05-02 16:05  

#7  I think this story is a hoax. After a quick google search, only emails or I saw this stories are posted. One had details about this happening in Butte, Montana on Nov. 6, 2006. After searching the newspapers for any story on a Patricia Harrington, nothing came up.

Still, it gave me the warm fuzzies.
Posted by: DarthVader   2007-05-02 16:04  

#6  I don't know...it's all a little too pat. I smell a fantasy story here. Why does the article mention a Mossberg 500 by name? The media never gets firearms right, on the rare occasions that they get specific. It doesn't mention where in Montana...etc etc.
Posted by: gromky   2007-05-02 15:40  

#5  The sad thing is that this poor 11YO girl is going to have to live with the knowledge she killed two people. Don't get me wrong--I'm glad she did!--but clay-shooting champion or no, she's still an 11YO girl, likely a fifth-grader, and that's going to haunt her for the rest of her life.

She may also face a legal fight from the families of the two creeps--if there were any justice in the world they will get laughed out of court and loaded into the next bus to the border.
Posted by: Dar   2007-05-02 15:36  

#4  Don't ya just love a happy ending
Posted by: Warthog   2007-05-02 15:34  

#3  Damn good thing she didn't work for the Border Patrol; poor girl would be in jail by now.....
Posted by: USN. Ret.   2007-05-02 15:24  

#2  Clay Pigeons: Another job Americans won't do.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2007-05-02 15:17  

#1  He he.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2007-05-02 15:01  

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