This is a true story.
My husband walks our 13 year old dog twice a day. I guess you might say he is a Citizen on Patrol. You get to know your neighborhood pretty well when you walk it twice a day. There's never been any reason to be suspicious of anything before.
But this past Friday morning, he was walking the dog about two blocks from our home and about a half a block away, he saw a woman running out of her house screaming. She ran across the street to the neighbor's house. Of course, he didn't know exactly what was going on, but she seemed like she was in extreme distress.
We are members of a neighborhood Crime Watch Group and our NPO (Neighborhood Police Officer) has told us many times, when in doubt, call 911. So that's what he did.
Our city has a class that teaches you all aspects of our Police Department. One of the activities is going on a shift with a police officer, it's called a cop ride along or a police ride out. A friend of mine was on a ride out that morning and they received that 911 call. She did not know my husband had called 911 and he had no way of knowing that someone he knew would be involved with the call.
Later that day, she called me and informed me what had happened and I immediately knew that it was the same situation that my husband had called about. So she filled me in on the details. The woman was a mother of a young child and she had taken her to school. When she returned home, she entered her home to find a young Hispanic man in her house. He tried to cover her mouth with a Chloroform. soaked cloth to knock her out. In addition to that, he had a knife. More than likely, he was going to knock her out and rape her. Somehow, she managed to get away from him and that's when my husband saw her running out of the house.
The Outcome
Pretty scary situation. I found out today that the same day about 3 blocks away he was seen in the back yard of another house. But he managed to get away. However, the police were able to find and arrest him. So our neighborhood is able to breath a little easier knowing that he is behind bars.
That's all it takes is a concerned citizen, taking the time to call 911 to report something that's out of the ordinary. It could be something as simple as seeing a strange person in the neighborhood who looks like they don't belong there and is acting nervous or suspicious. Or an obvious emergency situation. It really doesn't matter. A neighborhood crime report is also available from your Police Department.
The bottom line, if you have doubt whether you should call 911, that's the time to take action. Someone's life might depend on it.
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