Car Burglar Accidentally Engages in Running Gun Battle With Federal Agent

By John Falkenberg

COOPER CITY, FL — A man picked the wrong residence to mess with when his attempted car break-in spree wound up at the house of a federal agent with Customs and border protection, according to CBS Miami.

The man was not committing these crimes alone, but he was alone in opening fire on the agent — it was a bad move.

As CBS Miami reports:

Ring video shows a shadowy figure trying to get into a car in Cooper City then running off. Moments later that person may have tried again, choosing the wrong house. He was confronted by a federal agent with Customs and border protection — and she was armed.

“I just woke up to some sounds,” said neighbor Laura Cook, “I didn’t know what a gunshot sounded like, it was just 3 quick pops and it thought I was dreaming it.”

It was no dream. BSO tells us the federal agent and suspect exchanged gunfire. “After 5am a woman was exiting her home when she encountered a car burglar, she interrupted a car burglary,” explained BSO Spokeswoman Joy Oglesby. “There was a brief foot chase and the suspect turned and shot at her, she returned fire.”

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Source:: Concealed Nation