With its high wrought-iron fence, multiple security cameras, jailhouse-style mirrors and a fierce rottweiler in the backyard, Perry Pearce’s home is easily the best fortified building in the 5700 block of South Ada.
But the armed robbers who targeted the Englewood home Thursday morning didn’t count on the biggest threat of all — Pearce himself.
Pearce, 53, a truck driver for the Chicago Department of Water Management, was hailed as a hero by his neighbors Thursday after he told how he flipped the script on two gunmen who he says jumped him as he prepared to drive to work about 6:30 a.m.
Pearce told police and friends that he managed to snatch away the gun of one of the attackers, then used it to shoot one of them in the abdomen.
City Worker Shoots Robber
Hopefully, the offender develops a raging bowel infection and dies a painful death. We can hardly wait to see his rap sheet when it comes out.