12 Year Old Points Gun at Burglars; Group Takes Off
Date: Jul 13, 2006 8:22 AM
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Greenville, SC
12 Year Old Points Gun at Burglars; Group Takes Off

July 11, 2006 11:58 AM

An accused group of thugs were thwarted by a 12-year old
with a gun. It happened in Greenville when police say five
masked men stormed into a house and started beating up the
child’s father.

FOX Carolina’s Jamie Guirola reports, Try and picture it. A
12 year old walks into the living room, sees his mother
frantically protecting the baby, and several strangers
attacking his father. The 12 year old rushes out of the
living room, but comes back pointing a gun at the five
suspects. As of Monday night, all but one are in jail.

These are the alleged home invaders without their masks.
The youngest barely seventeen, the oldest just 20. George
Dickert didn’t have time to think about their ages when he
tells us they broke into his home and tried to rob his
family.

George Dickert/Victim: “F*$# you! That’s what I was
thinking.”

Sunday night, George says, one of the suspects in the group
followed him into his house after he smoked a cigarette. He
tells us the man pulled out a gun, threatening him. When
George reached for a different gun in self-defense, a fight
broke out.

George: “I work five days a week and my wife works six days
a week. We’re an honest couple. We do what we have to do
to make a living and some idiot decided he wanted what I
had.”

When the struggle started, police say, two other men came
into the house and started beating on George. That’s when
George’s 12 year old son made the move credited with scaring
the accused thugs out of the house, and stopping the
burglary without even firing the gun.’

George: “He did what he had to do to protect his family
last night. And a 12 year old child should never have to go
through that. Even if he does know what to do, he should
not have to do that.”

Police later found these four near George’s home sweating
and breathing heavily. Something George hopes they’ll do
again if they’re convicted and sentenced to the max.

George: “…And I will press and push and do whatever it
takes to make sure every individual in it gets it.”

Police aren’t releasing details about the fifth person
they’re looking for. George says he has five guns in the
house. His taught his son how to use each of them.
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