Dave Thomas was getting ready for work Monday afternoon when he heard women screaming in his apartment building in Oswego.<\/p>\n
Thomas, a gun instructor, peeked out the door and saw blood in the hallway. He went to his bedroom, where a handgun and an AR-15 assault-style rifle were lying on the bed. He picked up the rifle.<\/p>\n
“I teach people how to defend themselves, and it was just a reaction to grab the AR-15,” he said.<\/p>\n
Police said Thomas confronted a man who was stabbing another man in the apartment complex on the 100 block of Harbor Drive. The man with the knife ran off when Thomas threatened to shoot him.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was a half a breath away from getting his head blown off and he knew that,” Thomas, 41, said. “That’s why he put the knife down.”<\/p>\n
Kendall County sheriff’s deputies arrived about 5 p.m. and arrested two people, the man suspected of stabbing his neighbor and a woman with him. The neighbor was treated and released from Rush Copley Medical Center in Aurora, according to the sheriff’s office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
“No good for self defense”< they keep telling us.<\/p>\n
Suspect the victim might disagree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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