Three home invasions stress that only you can protect you

Gun ban extremist Toby Hoover has voiced her support for making CHL-records public by insisting she needs to know if anyone she hires might be carrying a firearm. This story fairly screams what most reasonable Ohioans think – when hiring, be concerned about the criminals amongst us - not the background checked law-abiding citizen. There is no media list of criminals, so perhaps Toby can explain to us where to get a list of those home handy-men that have criminal records, drug abuse, or child abuse history?

Dayton: Trotwood home raided by thugs

Three men kicked in the door of a Trotwood home and held its residents — including a man in a wheelchair — at gunpoint in the early Tuesday morning, according to Trotwood police.

"I'm not going to let this keep me down," said Harold Dillard, the paraplegic man whose family was held at gunpoint. "I'm more concerned with my son than anything."

Police said the home invasion occurred around 3 a.m. on Scottsdale Road off Hoover Road.

Dillard said they heard a loud banging and then the men were inside the house pointing guns at the family.
None of the residents were harmed but flat screen televisions and cash were stolen and the house was ransacked. Police were questioning one man as of Tuesday afternoon, said Trotwood Detective Archie Swanson.

Detectives suspect the home was targeted by contractors who had done work in the past for the family and knew the homeowner was disabled.

Details in the following tragic home invasion are still extremely sketchy.

Cincinnati: Chimney sweep shot dead while sleeping
Note:Although it occurred suburban Cincinnati, this shooting actually took place across the border in Kentucky.

Crime-scene investigators were scouring a log cabin Tuesday after a well-known Campbell County chimney sweep was gunned down in his bedroom as his children slept.

The shooting happened at 5 a.m. in the 11000 block of Alexandria Pike, just south of A.J. Jolly Golf Course, and police were awaiting autopsy results on the victim, Robert Bosley, 42.

His wife and children, a 6-year-old boy and 9-year-old girl, were whisked away to a relative's home, where no one would speak with a reporter.

The children were in their bedroom in the second-floor loft when someone smashed through a double-pane window of the back door, entered the parents' bedroom and fired repeatedly at Bosley.

His wife, Amy Bosley, was in bed and called 911 from a bedside phone but was unable to give police a detailed description of the male attacker.

Investigators were still at Bosley's business on Tuesday night, combing through records looking for anyone who might have had a motive, Hill said.

They also examining were Bosley's gun collection, which he kept at the business, he said.

How many accounts of domestic violence turned homicide must Ohioans read before people in such situations take precautions to protect themselves?

Cleveland: Man killed, estranged husband arrested

Even with two locks and a chain on the door, Laurie Sales didn't feel safe, and for good reason. The Cleveland woman lived in fear of her husband, Willie Sales Jr., after they split up about a year ago, she said. He showed up at her apartment on South Moreland Boulevard early Monday and fought with an old friend of hers who was visiting, she said. The friend, Sterling F. McNair, was shot dead and Willie Sales Jr., 34, is being held by police on suspicion of murder.

Laurie Sales, 34, said she and McNair, 40, of Cleveland, were in her living room about 12 a.m. Monday talking. "He was telling me about his new job," Laurie Sales said. "He had his own desk." She heard a key hit the lock. She thought of her estranged husband but she would never give him a key, she said. The door opened, but the security chain caught it. Then it was kicked open. Laurie Sales saw her husband with a gun in his hand, she said. Willie Sales Jr. and McNair tussled. Laurie Sales heard gunshots. The brawl spilled into the hallway and she heard more shots, she said. McNair was taken to Huron Hospital with a gunshot wound to his head and died at 12:46 a.m., said Cuyahoga County Coroner Elizabeth Balraj. A few hours later, Willie Sales Jr. turned himself in to police, said Lt. Thomas Stacho.

"I'm hoping they don't let him out on bail," Laurie Sales said. "I'm in fear for my life."

Three more examples of how police cannot be expected to arrive in time to help, and three more reasons why you should remember that only you can protect you.