Burglars Enter Avondale House with Owners Inside
Decatur Metro | November 29, 2010Thankfully it sounds like the encounter was more due to poor planning on the burglars part than pure brashness. Still frightening.
From the AJC…
Burglary suspects forced their way through a window and into an Avondale Estates home Sunday morning. But the crime was interrupted when they realized residents were in the home, police said.
In a panic, the suspects got out of the DeKalb County home, but didn’t get very far. Officers arrived at the Kensington Road home just before 8 a.m. and began searching for suspects.
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I’m glad this incident had a relatively happy ending. A colleague of mine was not nearly so fortunate a few weeks ago. She and her husband were awakened in the middle of the night in their home off N. Druid Hills near North DeKalb Mall by an intruder who demanded cash from them. He then shot them both as they lay in bed. They both survived (not clear whether he was trying to slow down their call for help or was just a bad shot) but they were in the hospital for several days and were obviously severely traumatized.
The most remarkable thing was that I never saw any mention of this incident in any media outlet. You would think that a home invasion in which a middle-aged professional couple are shot in their own bed would be front page stuff in this era of “if it bleeds, it leads”, but I couldn’t find anything in the AJC nor any of the TV web sites. Sort of makes you wonder what else goes unreported.
That is surprising. I’ve always had the sense that WSBTV and other local media are all over anything to do with shootings.
It seems to me the reporting depends on who was shoot and where the incident happened.
JE, I’m so sorry to hear this happened to your friends.
K, I’m not surprised at all this was missing from the news, especially as the terrible event happened near a big commercial entity… friends of mine were in Rosa Mexicana several years back when there was a shooting in the bar area of the restaurant. We were meeting them at the movies that night and heard about it when they arrived still in shock. All of us watched the news that night, and not a peep. I called the stations to report/ask why they didn’t cover it, and they said they “couldn’t get confirmation from the police” as to what had happened. um, yeah, I think Atl Station PR put a lid on it. also only a tiny litte paragraph buried in the ajc. I was so irate- people need to have equal access to this type of information. Somehow this story makes me wonder if N DeKalb Mall helped put a lid on this horrible event.