An armed robber comes face to face with an armed mother protecting her children – her weapons were better

Sean Connery, as cop Jim Malone in the 1987 film The Untouchables, once accused a would-be attacker of being stupid enough to bring a knife into a gunfight. (Okay, technically he accused him of being so Italian that he brought a knife to a gunfight, but the meaning was clear enough.)

I wonder what Malone would say about the guy who brought a wrench and a shovel to a gunfight. Nothing positive, I guess.

Yet that is exactly what happened early Sunday morning in Tangipahoa County, Louisiana, about 45 miles east of Baton Rouge and about the same distance west of the Mississippi border.

According to a Facebook post by the Tangipahoa County Sheriff’s Office, 51-year-old Robert Rimes armed himself with – if you can call it that – a couple of household tools and then “broke into the home of the victim and her two young men.” children.”

Except that it was one victim who refused to be a victim.

An unnamed resident of Hammond, Louisiana, was involved in an unspecified “physical altercation” with the attacker. Result: homeowner 1, burglar 0.

Reims was shot in what Chief Jimmy Travis called “a landlord exercising Second Amendment rights to protect himself and his children from home invasion,” according to a Facebook post.

The coroner’s office pronounced him dead at the scene.

Reims was recently released on parole after spending nearly 20 years in prison for armed robbery. But that’s not all.

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Local investigators also suspected Reims of the crime. car theft just a few hours before home invasion the robbery went wrong.

Travis said no arrests were made and that the district attorney’s office would review the case after the investigation was completed.

The full announcement from the sheriff’s office is below.

Comments on the Facebook post were mostly supportive of the homeowner’s actions.

“This lady did exactly what she had to do to protect herself and her family! Leave her and don’t follow her! Facebook user Alia Ross wrote. “How about giving her much needed therapy right now due to the fact that she needs to do this! Well done mom!”

User Helen Tarwater said she knew the deceased and while she understood and supported the mother’s actions in defense of herself and her children, she couldn’t help but be saddened by the death of a man she considered a friend.

“I am in no way defending him or what he did. I worked with him and he really tried to change his life, but unfortunately the streets still flowed through his veins,” she wrote. “I helped him with work clothes and put on clothes to help him. [It’s] what happened to the landlord and her children is tragic and I justify what she did to protect her and them. [It’s] sad situation around, and, in the end, she is fine, as are her children. He did a terrible thing, and now he can only answer to God for his sins.”

“I would do the same if he broke into my house,” she added.

“That’s why crimes like this are so sad,” user Carolyn Beeson replied. “No matter how HORRIBLE one person can be, there is ALWAYS someone who cares about them. I am sorry for your loss, but I am also glad that this mother and her little children are safe!”

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