VIDEO: Texas machete-wielding man's intrusion into home thwarted by gun owner

A concerned homeowner successful Texas took up arms and fended disconnected a machete-wielding man who attempted to participate his home. 

Darryl Stevens' location surveillance camera captured nan infinitesimal a machete-wielding intruder approached nan family's Liberty Hill location conscionable northbound of Austin.

"At that moment, I evidently freaked out. I person 2 young children present successful nan location and conscionable went into complete conflict aliases formation mode," Stevens told FOX 7. 

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Darryl Stevens defended his family erstwhile a man pinch a machete attempted to participate his home. (FOX 7)

Stevens' gut guidance was to fastener up his location and drawback his 9mm handgun. 

"I started moving done nan house. I locked each doorway arsenic accelerated arsenic possible, ran upstairs. Luckily, I had a firearm here, truthful I grabbed my 9mm, unlocked it, ran down arsenic accelerated arsenic possible," Stevens said. 

The suspect, later identified arsenic 43-year-old Jerry Escamilla, managed to climb a obstruction and get to nan precocious platform of nan family's home. 

He was greeted by Stevens' handgun erstwhile he arrived. 

"Told him he's sewage to leave, aliases he's going to suffer his life, you know?" he said. "Luckily, aft I did that, he dropped nan machete."

A Liberty Hill, Texas, homeowner captured connected video a man's effort to break into his location pinch a machete. (FOX 7 via Darryl Stevens)

The video showed Escamilla retracing his steps and climbing backmost down arsenic a weapon is seen pointing astatine nan intruder.

Stevens' woman called 911 and section police arrested Escamilla. The 43-year-old was charged pinch criminal trespassing and nonaccomplishment to place and is being held connected a $10,000 bond.

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Stevens explained to nan section outlet that they had precocious moved farther distant from Austin to "feel safe."

"I conscionable had to protect my family, and that's what I did. Luckily, I didn't person to discharge my firearm," Stevens said. "It's conscionable not thing you expect to hap successful Liberty Hill successful nan state aliases measurement retired successful nan state successful nan very backmost of this new, bully neighborhood... we moved retired here, we moved further retired of nan metropolis to consciousness safe."

Jerry Escamilla was charged pinch criminal trespassing and nonaccomplishment to place and is being held connected a $10,000 bond. (FOX 7)

Stevens said that he plans connected upping nan information astatine their home, saying that they will move their location into "Fort Knox."

"We consciousness violated, arsenic a family, we consciousness for illustration our consciousness of information successful our safe place, which is our house, has been taken from us. I almost get a small affectional moreover saying that. It's not fair," he said. "We're decidedly upping security. We're getting a fewer much firearms to person 1 upstairs, 1 downstairs. We are going to beryllium installing much fences and much information features. Floodlights. I'm going to move this spot into Fort Knox astatine this constituent successful time."

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Texas's Stand Your Ground rule established nan correct for weapon owners to use lethal unit to take sides themselves against threats, sloppy of whether it was imaginable to retreat first. The rule notes that nan shooter cannot instigate nan altercation.