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Fairfield man kills would-be robber
By LACHLAN MACLEAN, Times-Herald correspondent
FAIRFIELD - Police say a father shot and killed an armed intruder in self-defense Tuesday night during a botched home invasion robbery.
Ahmad Rashad Mahdee, 28, of San Francisco was airlifted to John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, where he was pronounced dead from two gunshot wounds to the torso, police said Wednesday.
Citing safety concerns, police are withholding victims' names.
At about 10:30 p.m., Mahdee and three other men approached a home on the 1700 block of Indiana Street, where the father and a friend were standing in the front yard, police said.
The four forced the father and his friend into the home at gunpoint, police reported. The father's young daughter was inside at the time.
Once inside, Mahdee took the father into a bedroom at gunpoint and demanded money, while his companions held the friend and daughter at bay, police said.
Fearing for his life, the father reportedly grabbed a registered .38 snub-nose revolver from his nightstand. After a struggle over the weapon, the father fired his gun several times, hitting Mahdee twice in the torso, police said.
The other three men heard the gunfire and fled on foot. Suspect descriptions were "sketchy," Lt. Tony Shipp said, but investigators are gathering information on possible associates of Mahdee.
The father, his friend and the young girl all escaped injury, police said, and
investigastors at the scene determined that the father had acted lawfully in self-defense, so he was not detained.
Alexander Hubbard, 68, who lives nearby, said he dialed 9-1-1 when he heard four shots, followed by "hollering and screaming." He said he went outside to find his neighbor's young daughter in hysterics.
Hubbard said he was surprised by the incident because the neighborhood is generally peaceful.
He called the father a "nice, caring and generous neighbor," who sometimes invited Hubbard over for barbecues. "I couldn't ask for any more in a neighbor," he said.
Three houses down, Randy Benton, 53, was sitting in his living room when he said he heard gunshots and the young girl's screams.
The short, dead-end street is generally pretty quiet, Benton said, but he often notices suspicious activities in a nearby parking lot. He also recalls several shots being fired on the block last summer in what he called a "gang shoot-out."
"I'm not all that worried," Benton said, "But ... I've always got my eyes open."
- E-mail Lachlan Maclean at lmaclean@sfsu.edu or call 553-6825.
By LACHLAN MACLEAN, Times-Herald correspondent
FAIRFIELD - Police say a father shot and killed an armed intruder in self-defense Tuesday night during a botched home invasion robbery.
Ahmad Rashad Mahdee, 28, of San Francisco was airlifted to John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, where he was pronounced dead from two gunshot wounds to the torso, police said Wednesday.
Citing safety concerns, police are withholding victims' names.
At about 10:30 p.m., Mahdee and three other men approached a home on the 1700 block of Indiana Street, where the father and a friend were standing in the front yard, police said.
The four forced the father and his friend into the home at gunpoint, police reported. The father's young daughter was inside at the time.
Once inside, Mahdee took the father into a bedroom at gunpoint and demanded money, while his companions held the friend and daughter at bay, police said.
Fearing for his life, the father reportedly grabbed a registered .38 snub-nose revolver from his nightstand. After a struggle over the weapon, the father fired his gun several times, hitting Mahdee twice in the torso, police said.
The other three men heard the gunfire and fled on foot. Suspect descriptions were "sketchy," Lt. Tony Shipp said, but investigators are gathering information on possible associates of Mahdee.
The father, his friend and the young girl all escaped injury, police said, and
investigastors at the scene determined that the father had acted lawfully in self-defense, so he was not detained.
Alexander Hubbard, 68, who lives nearby, said he dialed 9-1-1 when he heard four shots, followed by "hollering and screaming." He said he went outside to find his neighbor's young daughter in hysterics.
Hubbard said he was surprised by the incident because the neighborhood is generally peaceful.
He called the father a "nice, caring and generous neighbor," who sometimes invited Hubbard over for barbecues. "I couldn't ask for any more in a neighbor," he said.
Three houses down, Randy Benton, 53, was sitting in his living room when he said he heard gunshots and the young girl's screams.
The short, dead-end street is generally pretty quiet, Benton said, but he often notices suspicious activities in a nearby parking lot. He also recalls several shots being fired on the block last summer in what he called a "gang shoot-out."
"I'm not all that worried," Benton said, "But ... I've always got my eyes open."
- E-mail Lachlan Maclean at lmaclean@sfsu.edu or call 553-6825.
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