The wild scene was captured by a doorbell camera.
A video has surfaced on the internet showing two men posing as maintenance workers and trying to break in by kicking in the front door. The two men were armed with pistols. However, the men were greeted by a barrage of bullets from the homeowner. The wild scene was captured by a doorbell camera.
The video begins with one of the suspects, Aaron Contreras, knocking on the door of Ethan Rodriguez’s apartment. According to the New York Post, he claimed to be a maintenance worker there checking the filters in his air conditioner.
Mr Rodriguez answered the doorbell via a digital doorbell app on his phone and said no one was home. A few minutes later, the suspect returned with a gun and attempted to kick in the front door. Another man appears wearing a mask and tries to kick in the door.
However, things soon took a dramatic turn when Mr. Rodriguez tried to fight them off by opening fire from his apartment through the front door. The images show how the men run away from the door.
The resident fired several bullets and the footage shows bullets hitting the opposite wall.
Watch the video here:
#Texas : On Saturday, August 19, a Ring camera in a Dallas apartment complex captured the moment a man posing as a maintenance worker knocked on an apartment door, claiming “he was there to check the air filters.”
• When the suspect learned that the homeowner was not… pic.twitter.com/UAofUdnf0f
— True Crime with Laura🕵🏼♀️⚖️ (@Lauraonthecase) August 21, 2023
According to the media, the resident fired thirteen shots.
Speaking to WFAA, Mr Rodriguez said he decided to shoot at the suspects when he saw they were armed. “I was hoping I got them,” he told the channel. “That was mostly it, I just hoped I got them.”
The suspect, Aaron Contreras, was arrested the same day on charges of aggravated assault, deadly conduct and attempted burglary of a residence.
He is being held in the Dallas County Jail on $150,000 bail.
