Exercising the Right
Caught in the Act by an App
The CBS affiliate 10News reported on August 30 out of Tampa, Florida, about how new technology is changing the way security companies notify their customers of break-ins. Twenty-five-year-old Jordan King was away from her house when an alert on her cellphone notified her that her home was being broken in to. The burglary suspect had unknowingly tripped a motion sensor, which alerted the security company that provides the app. This caused a video camera in the house to begin recording the suspect, while simultaneously sending a live feed to Jordan’s phone. Jordan was able to view a real-time video of an intruder rummaging through her house. The young woman immediately called both 911 and then her father, Jerry King, for assistance. King, who lives near his daughter’s house, grabbed his pistol as soon as he learned what was happening and ran to the scene of the crime. Jerry King confronted the suspected burglar in the fenced-in backyard and shot him after King said the suspect made menacing motions. Authorities are still investigating, but they believe the suspect may have had something in his hand that put the father in fear for his life and resulted in the father shooting the suspect. Authorities arrived on the scene shortly afterward, and the injured suspect was transported to a nearby medical facility with serious injuries.
10News interviewed 90-year-old Samuel Sanders, who lives down the street from the crime, and Sanders explained that, at first, he didn’t realize that the gunshot he heard was related to a break-in. “When I heard the shot, I don’t know, I thought somebody might have been shooting at a possum.”
Tampa Police spokesman Steve Hegarty spoke with 10News about technological advances that have greatly improved dealing with burglaries. “The technology has really come around.... We’ve had some burglaries where video was very helpful. But that was helpful after the fact.... In this case, the woman was actually able to see someone as they were inside her home.”
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