Man Robbed Five Times in Six Years Finally Has Enough and Buys a Gun – Here’s What Happened When He Encountered Latest Intruder
ROCKLAND, Maine (TheBlaze/AP) — After five burglaries in six years, a retired Maine lobsterman bought a gun to defend himself and ended up shooting an intruder hours later.
Sixty-seven-year-old Harvey Lembo tells the Portland Press Herald he bought a 1941 revolver Monday.
“I’m tired of it so I went and bought a gun,” Lembo told WGME-TV.
Harvey Lembo (Image source: WGME-TV)
Just past midnight Tuesday, he says he was awakened and saw a big shadow. Lembo says he climbed into his wheelchair and found an intruder near where he kept his pills.
Lembo says he ordered the man to stay where he was while he called police.
“I told him to sit on the coffee table, or I’d blow his brains out,” Lembo said.
But that’s when man bolted toward the front door and Lembo shot him in the shoulder.
“If he’d have sat there, nothing would have happened. But he wanted to leave and I’d had enough of it, I’d had enough,” Lembo told WGME-TV.
Forty-five-year-old Christopher Wildhaber was charged with burglary and violating probation and was ordered held without bail. It wasn’t immediately clear if he had a lawyer.
Christopher Wildhaber (Image source: WGME-TV)