it's 1 30 in the morning at this home in idaho falls
time for lounging watching a little tv and checking your phone
you would hope that anyone who comes calling at this hour is family or a friend not this time
i'm caspian shamel and i'm isabelle shamel and we survived a home invasion robbery
we just got home from a date and i was pretty tired and i was just scrolling through my phone
halfway watching the documentary we went out and did one of those escape rooms so we were pretty
tuckered out from that ready to relax and then i just hear a loud bang and the door flies open i've
got a couple of roommates that live downstairs so having people come in and out at all hours of
the night isn't super odd but i kind of noticed him and i did a double take sit down right now i
just didn't know what was happening at first i was just in shock the intruder orders caspian to take
a seat then he turns his attention and his shotgun toward caspian's fiancee on the couch i definitely
feared for my life whenever i saw that shotgun pointed at me i've never been in a situation where
a loaded gun was pointed at my face and it was a shock and kind of my life flashed before my eyes
caspian reacts in a flash grabbing the shotgun barrel instinct kicked in and
i wasn't letting go of that shotgun at that moment just straight adrenaline i would say
caspian knows his fiancee is still in the room she rolls off the couch he barks an organ
i actually yelled for the roommate and that was all i could musher out
caspian is actually being dragged down the stairs still holding that death grip on the
shotgun barrel as the intruder is now on his own version of an escape room i immediately as soon
as i felt safe enough ran and called 9-1-1 and tried to help the best i could best i knew how
it's becoming painfully clear to this home invader
i told him wrong house buster he was fully in agreement as we hit the stairs it was a
change in power for sure he slipped as it was icy i overtook him got the weapon away from him
the imminent threat is over a moment for the couple to relax caspian is now armed
in self-defense but hopefully won't need to use his weapons but two minutes later an angry
knock at the door and an unbelievable request i opened the door and he was asking for a shotgun
back and so we told him no of course and he tried to force his way back into the house
the suspect finally fled the scene still without his shotgun
which was loaded but never fired caspian turned it over to the police as he relived the sickening
events the police were almost arriving see sirens coming up lights flashing around the block and
he started heading back out the door again and they intercepted him there by his vehicle so
when the police showed up then they wanted me to walk through the situation with them and
i hadn't even really fully processed it yet i just got incredibly incredibly adrenaline high
i mean my whole entire body was shaking i was sweating my face was bright red and so i puked
it kind of all washes over you i mean when when you're in the midst of it you don't feel any of
those things happening but as soon as it kind of calms down you're like holy crap this is
really pretty crazy i'm just glad that you were there and you were able to take action so quickly
and i felt safe before but now i feel extra safe i know that he'll protect
me no matter what having somebody to go through it with is certainly nice too
just days before this attack caspian and isabel got engaged they've since married and tried to
move on with their life together it took me a while to be able to fully sleep without being
super paranoid that someone else was going to break in or something else was going to happen
arrested that night was 28 year old eddie walker he pled guilty to aggravated battery and was
sentenced to a maximum of 11 years in prison the irony of the evening is not lost on these two
and serves as an important reminder for all of us we were watching a true crime documentary when
this happened and now we had to live through it you know you watch all those things and you think
you know what to do and then it really happens and you just don't expect it to happen to you
yeah we're definitely a lot more on our toes now a lot more careful
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