It reads like a plot straight from a horror movie. A bad guy storms the family home, stabbing the father and holding the wife and child hostage at knife point.
Thanks to the Second Amendment, this scary story had a happy ending for the good guys.
A murder suspect who had escaped from a Mississippi jail used restraints to hold a couple and their toddler hostage for hours before one of the couple managed to break free, get to the family handgun and kill the suspect, authorities said Thursday.
The intruder was identified as Rafael McCloud, 34, who escaped the Warren County jail a week ago by overcoming an officer with a homemade shank, setting off an intense manhunt.
Vicksburg Police Capt. Sandra Williams said that McCloud confronted a 30-year-old man and his 5-year-old son with a knife as they entered their garage about 4 a.m. Thursday.
McCloud fought with the husband and wife, stabbing the man in the shoulder, Vicksburg Police Chief Walter Armstrong said. McCloud forced them back inside and held the man, his 24-year-old wife and son in a bathroom.
Williams says McCloud allowed the wife to leave the bathroom and she returned with a family handgun, shooting McCloud. She cut loose her tied-up husband, who then shot McCloud multiple times.
Deputy Warren County Coroner Kelda Bailess says McCloud was hit at least once in the head. He was found dead, slumped over the bathtub.
The police were called at 7 a.m., more than two hours after the ordeal began.
Police did not know of any connection between McCloud and the family, who lived on a street of small homes that runs along a ridge north of downtown Vicksburg. On side of the ridge looks out toward the Mississippi River, while the other looks onto part of the Vicksburg battlefield, a key position captured by Union soldiers during the Civil War.
At the one-story cream-brick house, a crime scene van was backed up to the single-car garage. The home is less than a mile from the jail.
McCloud escaped March 2 by using a homemade shank to get a jump on a jail officer and forced the officer to give up his keys, radio, pants and jacket, authorities said. He went out a door to freedom because the century-old jail in downtown Vicksburg has no perimeter fence.
Officials combed the town for days, interviewing family members and friends of McCloud and poking through abandoned buildings. Schools bolstered security, and Vicksburg police warned people to bring in guns from vehicles and make sure their houses hadn’t been forcibly entered.
McCloud was indicted on murder and rape charges in the January 2015 death of Sharen Wilson. He had been held in the jail since his June 29 arrest, and has prior felony convictions for auto burglary, grand larceny and armed robbery.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Way to go.Let this be a lesson to the trash of society to not think not all of us are afraid of you scum.
Join the NRA and http://www.modernmilitiamovement.org The latter RIP Ed Le Stage 1952-2015
I’m a life member and proud of it.
I agree completely!
Me to been a hunter since I was12. Now 81 and a good shot yet.
Atta girl, Lilly……but you’re from somewhere in the south. Am I right?
True Americans doing what our courts, and politions can’t or won’t do. They executed a mad dog.
Another Happy Ending!
Now the press will show a high school photo of the mutt at a prom or something and his family will sue the hostages for wrongfull death. Just wait.
Justice prevails????????????????
That is the only type of justice a thug like that deserves.
You said it! Way to go Wife of family! All family members should know about guns, take Gun safety and know how to shoot.
The perp got what he deserved. Hooray for the good guys…
This is definitely why a home owner should have a firearm in the home. Despite all the gun control laws enacted by the O’Bama administration none of them protected this family from the criminal element. Ask any police officer and he will tell you police DO
reccomend home owners have a weapon for exactly that situation.
it pleases me to see things turn out right sometimes. I am just surprised that Obama is not trying to lay some phony charges on the home owner.
One less person for whom the Taxpayers have to provide free room, board, entertainment and obamacare. Was the shank actually home-made or was it jail-made?
Wait until Obama finds out! He will probably go to the creeps funeral, then blame that family! If not Obama, then killery or old commie Bernie!
Depends if the perp was black
I agree
Diane, You got that right on the money.
He will!
Yea exactly, just another situation Obama has no business becoming involved in….He can’t take care of the things that are his business…..
Good. This one for the legal gun owners and the legal use of a firearm in defense of one’s family!
I see two things happening here:
1. The mainstream media totally ignoring it because it illustrates, once again, that law-abiding gun owners can thwart (exponentially) more crime than you see in these “gun-free zones”.
2. Hillary and her ilk condemn the actions of this wife and calling out for stricter gun laws.
I just love Happy Endings.
If mainstream news told this—all anti gun laws would be reversed.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Dead cons tell no lies. What a fitting end for the sob.
Seeing this story absolutely made my day. My house is armed, and I will not hesitate to do the same to any piece of scum that tries to break into my home, and threaten the lives of my family. These are the stories that should be spread and praised. Thugs will think twice knowing that every household is armed and the home owners are trained to shoot and kill.
They might get into trouble. She could have held him at gunpoint rather than shooting. After he was shot and the husband freed, they could have left the area or held him at gunpoint and called the police. She, and even more so he could be charged with murder.
You’re wrong Chuck, and they would have made a mistake if they didn’t shoot to kill. Grow a pair.
Right, so we can support the low life while he sits in jail at the tax payers expense. Get real!
Chuck S. : what toilet did you crawl out of??
Get real, a murderer on the loose and he deserves leniency?
Any violent offender should get the same opportunity that he gave the
victim, precisely: NONE.
That’s why the jails and prisons need to be emptied, match their crime
with the punishment. Too many repeat offenders out there.
Why? He’s already proven himself to be a rapist and a murderer. Do you think he was going to stop there? No doubt he would’ve gotten off on a technicality And go out to rape and kill again! Liberals don’t want to seem to punish anyone allowing these people to become multiple repeat offenders. Criminals like that do this because they are empowered by the left-wing who refuse to punish them. That’s why children should be allowed to be punished by their parents instead of being charged with assault so kids grow up realizing there are consequences to their actions.
I agree , raised 5 and they al are model citizens !
Chuck, you sound like a bleeding heart liberal!! The thug needed killed and that is what he got! Well done to the family that ended the scums life of crime!!!
Always shoot below the belt!!!
BS! I would have done the same thing that they did and saved the taxpayers money! He was in their house, armed & dangerous! They did it the right way!
Only the cool aid drinking liberals would make your statement
Mainstream media will not even
Pick this up! They don’t want people to know that they have the right to defend themselves! Remember, the commie Soros owns Obama, killery, sanders, cnn, msnbc, etc., liberals & the Dem party! He wants no arms to allow his subjects to defend themselves! The 2nd amendment was designed to defend against government tyranny, what Obama has created! No one in government will put him in prison for treason because they know the cities will be burned & looted! ..
If the perp is still breathing he is still a threat.
That has to be one of the stupidest answers. If someone threatens to kill you, it is your constitutional right to kill them. Your attitude on force is what is wrong world-wide. If you are afraid of guns and don’t want one, then don’t get one. The reason ISIS is so strong is because the good guys did nothing. If attacked you kill the enemy. 70 some years ago America dropped 2 bombs on Japan. We have not had any trouble with them since. Lesson learned. Now America has feckless leaders and will not even acknowledge that war has been declared on us. I look at history and what is happening today and only 1 word comes to mind, PATHETIC.
you are a mouse chuckie, also if it was your your house you would be a dead chuckie. mabey you could have hit the scum w/ your power puff.
After getting loose and getting their gun you want them to leave their house??? Why the Hell would they do that? NO! They did exactly right killed the home invader.
Were are the “the americans against owning a weapon” howcome this didn’t make headline news?going back to cowboy days were responsible people are trained and own a weapon would deter terrorist,criminals,idiots from commiting crimes in the first place ,who deters action police who have weapons help out your law enforcement don’t be a victom arm yourselves.
Hallaluhah and Amen, to the home owners.
This story ended just as it should have. The man had already killed and raped, how much more would he have done before he would have finally ended in jail for the rest of his worthless life.
Great DRT story. Dead Right There. Love it. What a bonehead.
Here’s hoping come liberal prosecutor doesn’t take it into his tiny mind to prosecute the home owner for the crime of permanently defending his family.
The only thing I wonder about is if the male homeowner will be charged because he shot the intruder multiple times, seemingly after the fact. Of course it would be nice to know the details, too soon to pass any sort of judgement. He**, if the feds can do it to LaVey Finicum,….
It’s wonderful to read GOOD NEWS! Good for the family for defending themselves and for being prepared to do so.
If they do try to prosecute the parents, they will find the biggest crowd they have ever seen outside that courthouse. We look out for our brothers and sister firearms owners.
He got what he deserved. Let them beware !!!
What about the murders civil rights? We should be hearing that from the press shortly. He only had a knife, when the family had a gun.
This is how backwards our world has become because of the gun hating , felon living.media!
I am glad the family shot and killed this jamoke. He won’t be a threat to anyone else.
What if though, they did not have a gun? Who knows what this piece of crap would have done to them!? Not blaming them, but law enforcement was not there to protect this family, as so many rely on the cops being there. First, one has to be able to call them, which apparently they could not. Even if a 911 call is placed, a majority of the time, the cops don’t get there in time, like people think they will.
T h e best answer is what happened here, in which there was a loaded gun accessible to there family for protection.
The good guys won out here—very cool!!!
Oh, well…too bad, so sad. I have no sympathy for the “bad guy.” For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, plus you reap what you sow. Had this family lived in a state with more stringent gun-control laws, the family members might be dead now. Remember what occurred in San Bernardino, California? I hope this family can recover and come through this horrific experience. I offer them my very best wishes!
Glad to see someone mentioning the family’s horrific experience. Having to kill someone or watch someone be killed is a terrible thing. I pray that God heals their hearts so completely that they have no scars.
It won’t take long for the anti-gun lobbyist to put out a wrongful death arrest on the couple or at least try to crucify them in the media. I am glad they took care of this low life and saved the taxpayers millions on apprehending, then a trial, and then appeals and incarceration. You watch though, some idiot will say “well, why couldn’t they have just shot him in the foot or something”, I cannot stand bleeding heart liberal democratic pinheads who want you to just sit there and wait to either die or for someone else to save you. Good for this family for taking their freedom seriously and exercising their right to protect themselves and their property.
The media did acknowledge the one best part………The pepr got one at least, in his head. Make sure they don’t get up…B|
Karma for this creep. Glad they got the upper hand. Wish It happened to the low life more often.
This woman did the taxpayers a favor. She was able to protect society from a violent criminal, unlike law enforcement, and she did it much less expensively. Thanks to this woman the people of Mississippi will not have to pay to keep this murderer alive or pay for a trial. She should be named citizen of the year.
be nice if they lightened the NYC laws on owning a gun.
Just think, if every responsible citizen was encouraged to keep a gun in the house, what kind of criminal would be fool enough to break in? I am English and remember being told at school that an intruder was killed by the householder using a Zulu spear hanging in the hall. The teacher said the householder was not prosecuted because the moment an intruder enters a house without permission and in order to commit a felony, they are outlawed and an outlaw can be killed without consequences.
My views are that “Thou shall not kill” except to save a life. If we in England allowed a hand gun to be kept by a responsible crime free citizen after official training, our gun crime would fall. A gun can be bought in London by a crook for very little money but a law abiding person is not allowed to keep a gun without convincing the “authorities” that it is for sporting purposes and must be kept under lock and key and subject to inspection at any time. What crook would break into a house knowing that the owner could shoot him on sight?
NYC sides with the criminals. For some reason they do not want the criminals hurt; but don’t care about the normal citizen.
That’s why I keep 1or2 in every room in the house concealed,including the one duct taped underneath my bathroom sink,there are 18 hidden in my home and garage,I’m 81 and handicapped. ,an easy mark ? Don’t bet your life on it.bad boy.
Another one bites the dust. Well done lady.
He was Black and Obummer will.
I have many guns all kept under lock and key EXCEPT 1 which is loaded at all times ready to protect my family . I’m 79 years old and expect OLD AGE to kill me not some idiot that breaks in on me . Through the years I have had several instances where I had to show a gun to keep myself and or my family from being hurt and possibly murdered . No I didn’t have to use a gun only show I had it ready to use . DON’T MESS WITH MY GUNS !
The lady was right leave her alone .
All right yeah! The prisoner went to a better place. Another evil guy added to Hell. I hope he likes his new home. Thank God for Hell. It’s such a wonderful place. My favorite this is when the police kill these evil people and they go straight to Hell, no parole, early releases or repeating crimes or anything. I love it! Right now this killer is in the section of Hell for murderers where he will hang on meat hooks in a human butcher shop. Then the demons will put him on a cutting board and dissect him and rip all his organs out one by one and gut him. Then he will have his limbs cut off into small pieces. This will go on for at least 1000 years until he reaches his ultimate destination: The Lake of Fire in which he will burn for all eternity. He has a great future in store for him. You don’t get away with anything in this life. Not one single thing will go unseen or unpunished. This is a more fitting punishment than life without parole. Like I said, he went to a better place. This is what really happens. See this video for proof, skip ahead 8 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWXkBBIaiVc
I do hope that the”powers that be” leave the family alone.Most likely nothing will happen unless the dead bottom feeder is black
.I wish I could by the family dinner….!They deserve a medal & I thank them for their service !
Why this story from, what, January 2005?
http://www.mainehuntingforums.com/threads/fugitive-shot-by-family-he-took-hostage.60473/
Hands up, who thought it was breaking news.
Way to go lady!!!!! That piece of garbage is no longer a problem. It is a shame she did not get a shot at his crotch first………. maybe he would have leaned over in agony so she could get a better head shot. She should get several awards, one for saving the taxpayers millions of dollars by not having to house and care for that piece of garbage. AMERICA,ARM YOURSELVES WITH REAL GUNS AND REAL BULLETS. CHUCKIE, YOU GET A PILE OF ROCKS TO PUT BY YOUR BED, BUT BE SURE YOU GET SOFT ROCKS, YOU DO NOT WANT TO INJURE THE RAPIST/ MURDERER. ABJ
To NYC-It is not surprising that a large criminal class (government) would protect criminals; why wouldn’t they?