You VIOLATE ME when you VIOLATE my HOME!!
"Cape Cod retiree defends his home, repels an invader" by John R. Ellement and Stewart Bishop, Globe Staff | Globe Correspondent | September 8, 2010
An 83-year-old World War II veteran fought off a man who had broken into his home and attacked the former Marine with a glass candlestick and his fists, Yarmouth police said yesterday.
The victim, who was not identified, was watching television in his living room on South Street on Monday evening when the suspect broke in about 8:30, Yarmouth police said.
As he was being attacked, the homeowner shouted, which alerted his wife, police said. The woman, who was upstairs, called authorities, but the suspect fled when the retiree fought back, police said.
“I’m very proud of this man,’’ said Lieutenant Detective Steven Xiarhos, Yarmouth police spokesman.
“He’s 83, a US Marine veteran, and he got the best of a 19-year-old punk.’’
Yarmouth and State Police flooded the neighborhood, and Trooper Steven Culver spotted a man walking in the area who matched the description of the attacker, police said.
The suspect was “soaking wet and had fresh blood on his white T-shirt and cuts on his hands, and was found to have property stolen from the home,’’ police said in a statement....
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