Creep pulls a knife and a bottle of bear spray on a real estate agent at an open house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Agent was in – but the victim was out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The incident took place in Commerce City, Colorado, on August 4. According to a report by 9 News, the man \u2013 later identified by authorities as 43-year-old Ernest Robert Chrisman \u2013 arrived at the open house at about 11:30 am.
\u201cHe asked the right questions,\u201d said Hetzler. \u201cWe talked about loans, what he had to qualify for.\u201d
After picking up a brochure, Chrisman asked to see the upstairs. Once he and Hetzler reached the master bedroom, Hetzler said Chrisman took out a knife and a piece of rope that had bear spray dangling from it.
\u201cHe said, \u2018This is a knife, this is bear spray.\u2019 After he said, \u2018This is bear spray,\u2019 he asked me to take off my ring and get into the closet,\u201d said Hetzler.
At this point, Hetzler began to fear for her life.
Hetzler has a concealed carry permit and had her gun with her at the open house. She drew her firearm, preparing to defend herself.
Chrisman responded to her actions by soaking her with bear spray.
\u201cI couldn\u2019t see,\u201d said Hetzler. \u201cMy skin was burning, my eyes were on fire, I couldn\u2019t see, so I fired.\u201d
She fired in his direction. Chrisman quickly fled from the home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nShooting blind is not ideal – but all’s well that ends with a likely rapist and possible murderer in jail. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Creep pulls a knife and a bottle of bear spray on a real estate agent at an open house. Agent was in – but the victim was out: The incident took place in Commerce City, Colorado, on August 4. According to a report by 9 News, the man \u2013 later identified by authorities as 43-year-old […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[265],"class_list":["post-72336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-victim-disarmament","tag-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72337,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72336\/revisions\/72337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}