Home Invader Wearing Only Underwear Is Shot While Attacking Family

posted on May 23, 2017
** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. **

Harris County, Texas, investigators told ABC 13 that, at around 2 a.m., a man parked his Lincoln sedan half a mile from a pastor’s home, broke in wearing only his underwear, and attacked.

Sheriff’s Sgt. Felipe Rivera said, “The door is kicked in and that’s how the family wakes up to discover the intruder in the residence.” Pastor Lorenzo Martinez and his wife, Gloria, were asleep, along with members of their family. “[He] just started hitting my dad, then he hit my mom, then my brother woke up and my brother started hitting him. He just kept attacking,” said Naarai Olver, Pastor Martinez’s daughter.

Eventually, the intruder kicked in the door where Olver’s brother-in-law was sleeping with his wife and children. The brother-in-law then retrieved his firearm and fatally shot the suspect. Olver added, “We are a Christian family, we don’t believe in killing anybody. But we had to do what we had to do to protect our family and protect our little kids.”

Latest

Robinson Armament XCR-L Standard Tactical Rifle
Robinson Armament XCR-L Standard Tactical Rifle

Gun Review | Robinson Armament XCR-L Standard Tactical Rifle

The AR-15 is the most-sold rifle in America for compelling reasons, like excellent ergonomics, modularity, accuracy and reliability, yet the platform has a few notable shortcomings.

How Gun Confiscation Sparked the American Revolution

We normally think of the British attempt to disarm the American colonists as beginning in 1775, when “the shot heard ‘round the world” was fired.

From the Editor | A Time for Change

Change is difficult for us. We are often shocked by it. We recoil from it when it brings loss and see it as a time for remorse. And it can be, but often what we are witnessing is a step in a transformation.

A Nominee for the Nation’s Dumbest Gun-Control Law

On January 1, 2026 a new gun-control law in Colorado will prohibit anyone under 18 from attending a gun show without a parent or guardian. 

President’s Column | NRA Vision For The Future

WE ARE THE NRA ... Freedom’s Safest Place. We protect, defend and promote the fundamental right of every law-abiding American to safely and responsibly exercise our God-given Constitutional right to keep and bear arms for defense of self, family, home, state and country, as well as for hunting and recreation, now and for future generations.

 

Standing Guard | America Needs A Strong NRA

I get up every morning with one question on my mind: How do we continue to give America the strong NRA it needs?



Get the best of America's 1st Freedom delivered to your inbox.