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 you
