From the link...
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About 4:30 a.m., after the robbers injured Deloach and took his wallet outside his house in the 5200 block of Bluewater Drive, the affidavit states, they ran around the corner to the 5400 block of Springwater Drive, a dead-end street, where a 52-year-old mechanic was leaving his house to go to work.
The mechanic, Doug Devorde, had noticed an unfamiliar white Chevy Impala parked across the street, as well as signs his truck had been broken into — a light was left on, and the passenger seat was moved.
He called out to the two men as they approached the Impala: “Hey, what are you doing in this neighborhood at this time of the morning?”
The men froze. Devorde walked down his driveway toward the men, repeating his question, until he was about 15 feet away from them.
Suddenly both men withdrew semi-automatic pistols and pointed them at Devorde.
“Back down,” said the man on the driver’s side of the Impala. “Back down.”
“You want me to cap him?” asked the man on the passenger side. “You want me to shoot him?”
As Devorde retreated toward his house, his 27-year-old son opened the front door to leave for work. Devorde yelled for him to call the police.
Suddenly, both men fired their guns, Devorde said. He and his son ducked to escape the spray of bullets.
As the men sped off in the Impala, they fired six to eight more rounds at Devorde’s house, shattering a kitchen window and striking chairs in his living room.
Sheriff’s deputies recovered two .45-caliber and three 9mm bullet casings from the scene, the affidavit states.
“Thank goodness they were bad shots,” Devorde said.
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“Hey, what are you doing in this neighborhood at this time of the morning?”
Talk about asking a question you're not prepared to have answered... and then getting closer to the out-of-place strangers in order to reiterate the question to boot. This sounds like pure "monkey dance" at work to me (see
https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/ccm-columns/features/social-violence-the-monkey-dance/ if the term is unfamiliar to you).
We MUST understand what we're seeing when we see it, and be willing to admit to ourselves that what we're looking at really is there, staring us in the face. We MUST get beyond the ritualized stupidity of the monkey dance, especially those of us who go armed. And we MUST be able to tell the difference in social violence and predatory violence, and react appropriately to each.
This isn't just an issue of training. This is an issue of MINDSET, and establishing a proper mindset is critical. Ignoring clues like strange vehicles, unknown/unfamiliar individuals, obvious signs of B&E on your vehicle, etc. are not what we can afford to be doing.
The first O in OODA is for OBSERVE...