Terrified Dayton, Ohio, Woman Shoots Home Invader When Police Fail To Show Up After 911 Break-In Call


A woman in Dayton, Ohio, shot and killed an alleged intruder into her home last week, after she called 911 — but police never showed up. Information later emerged that the delay was caused by the fact that her initial 911 call was classified as a low priority, apparently because the home invader was not actually inside the house at the time.

The 43-year-old female homeowner has not been named publicly, but a transcript of her first 911 call, which came in at approximately 3 a.m. on September 9 has been released, showing the woman clearly relating the situation to a 911 dispatcher, according to a report on Dayton TV station WTDN.

Caller: Someone is trying to break into my house

Dispatcher: Can you see someone or hear someone, what’s going on?

Caller: Someone is banging on the door.

The call continued for several minutes, according to the WTDN report, as the dispatcher ran through a list of standard questions. And then the 911 operator abruptly ended the conversation saying, “Keep an eye out for the officer and call us back if you hear anything else.”

The dispatcher then assigned the call a priority of “three,” meaning that it was treated simply as a “suspicious person” report, rather than a report of an active crime in progress.

But the intruder did not go away. The woman’s home has been the subject of repeated break-in attempts — in fact, according to a WHIO-TV report, the same homeowner shot and wounded a teenager attempting to break in to her home in June of 2013.

The homeowner’s security measures, such as barring downstairs windows, kept the intruder out. But the man, later identified as 22-year-old DeBrandon Jurrod Dickerson of Detroit, Michigan, was persistent, continuing for the next hour to attempt entry into the home.

According to the homeowner’s brother, Efrim Goldsmith, she hid in a bathroom as the intruder tried to throw a brick through an upstairs window, then climbed into the roof of the house and smashed a storm window, removed the window behind it, and entered the house.

On hearing the intruder enter, the woman emerged from the bathroom, saw a man in her upstairs hallway, and fired at him. Goldsmith described his sister as “scared, very scared” during the obviously terrifying incident.

Dickerson fled the home but later collapsed from his wounds and died.

The homeowner then placed a second call at about 4:10 a.m. to report that she shot an intruder in her home. That call was given high priority and an officer arrived within minutes. DeBrandon Dickerson was in town to visit his cousin who lived in the same neighborhood where the break-in took place. A third 911 call came from the cousin, reporting that Dickerson had been shot.

[Image: WHIO-TV Screen Capture]

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