: (WA) Homeowner foils burglary 04-05-04

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> Homeowner foils burglary attempt
> 03:58 PM PDT on Monday, April 5, 2004
> KREM 2 News Staff
>
> SPOKANE – One man living in northwest Spokane had quite a scare Monday
> afternoon.
> Before the homeowner living on north Five Mile Road could answer a knock
> at his door, two white men kicked it down.
>
> The owner grabbed a .22 caliber pistol and fired it to scare them away.
> The men were not hit by the gunfire and they fled the scene .
>
> “They may just have thought that this was an empty home,” said Spokane
> County Sheriff’s deputy corporal Dave Reagan. “I mean an unoccupied
> home, and it was just luck of the draw that he happened to be here
> today.”
>
> The homeowner told law enforcement officials the two men left in a
> purple compact car, possibly a Honda or a Neon with a license plate
> ending in 318.
>
> One intruder reportedly had brown hair. The other had a shaved head.
>
> If you have any information about this case, please call Crime Check at
> 456-2233.