You NEVAH know when you might have to charge out of bed to defend one’s own and property and find oneself living one of those weird dreams that percolate up from time to time (“Where’s my clothes!”). Betcha this guy wishes a robe had been as close as his sidearm (reformatted, emphasis mine):
Eric Martin was in bed at about 4:30 a.m. Thursday when he heard a commotion in his house, according to Sgt. Sam Despain with the St. George Police Department. Martin took his handgun with him to find the source of the noise, and encountered an intruder in his home. “I’m in bed sleeping, I get up, I retrieve my sidearm, I chase him out the front door. I’ve got him pinned on the ground. It’s 4:55 in the morning and I don’t have a stitch of clothing on,” he said. “I’m basically telling him at this point, ‘Stay on the ground, don’t move, because if you do move, I will shoot you.’ Martin said the man, later found to be St. George resident Clinton Keller, had stockpiled items from the house on the front lawn. He said he chased Keller from his home and out the front door, at which point Keller tripped over the items on the lawn — allowing Martin to catch up to him.
“I said, ‘Do you know what I have pointed at you?’ He said, ‘No,’ and I said, ‘Do you want to know?’ and he of course doesn’t respond to that one, so I tell him, ‘Let me explain, I’ve got a .9mm pointed at you with high-velocity hollow points in the chamber,’ and I explained to him what that will do to him if he moves,” Martin said. “He tried to get up once, and I explained again that this was the last time I was going to have this conversation with him, and he stayed on the ground at that point,” Martin said.
