A dad in Texas took the law into his own hands after catching a “peeping Tom” with paws engaged in a rather different task.
The unidentified father shot and wounded a drunk creep who was allegedly found masturbating outside his young daughter’s bedroom window over the weekend.
The dad and his wife confronted the alleged voyeur after spotting him pleasuring himself outside their Houston home around 10 p.m. on Sunday evening, the Harris County Sheriff’s Office said.
The man “apologized and walked away,” according to deputies, but the parents refused to let the matter at hand rest.
The married couple, who are both licensed gun carriers, grabbed their handguns with a view to nabbing the suspected perv.
The pair followed the man across the street to a gas station, where the woman attempted to detain him as her husband ran inside to call 911, authorities said.
But at that point the dexterous suspect managed to turn the tables, seizing the woman’s gun and pointing it at her.
Spying the reversal in fortune, the father then opened fire with his own weapon, striking the suspect multiple times, according to local media reports.
The dad later told ABC13 that he thinks he shot the man a total of four times, hitting him twice in the chest and once in the stomach.
The suspect was taken to hospital in critical but stable condition, the Sheriff’s Office said.
The case has now been passed over to the Harris County District Attorney’s Office, which will decide whether to file charges.
The father said he now thinks the suspect secretly ogled his underage daughter at least once before.
The girl complained in the past about being watched through the window, but her parents didn’t believe her, AB13 reported.