A Park City resident shares his story of holding an intruder at gunpoint until police arrive. The following is directly from the KSL news report:
KSL spoke with the resident, John Santy. He caught the scene on video with cameras he set up to keep an eye on his large dog while at work. Santy said just after 5 p.m., he heard a loud bang, then his roommate start to scream.
“I jump up, I come out of the bathroom and there’s a guy bleeding in my kitchen,” said Santy. He said the man wouldn’t respond, but started pacing and opening doors. Santy reached for a gun he had hidden in his living room.
“I grabbed that and I told him to get the ‘eff’ on the ground, and I said, ‘don’t you move.’”
Santy said after he racked the gun, the man finally responded and put his hands in the air. Seconds later, Santy heard pounding at his front door, “I slowly backed away and looked through a peephole and, I saw that it was the sheriff’s office.”
Deputies swarmed the apartment and arrested the suspect.
Santy later learned that the man had run from deputies and threatened neighbors with scissors before trying to escape using the balconies. Deputies had fired bean-bag rounds at him during the chase.
The video does show officers entering, some of which are using lights mounted on (less lethal?) arms. Presumably the resident, Santy, wouldn’t have expected a man to enter from the second story balcony. In this case, the intruder dropped down from the apartment above.
