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Masked Gunman Flees Home Invasion After Women Begin Chanting Jesus’ Name: ‘Get Out of My House in the Name of Jesus!’

Jan. 30, 2013 8:05am

Derick Lee, a 24-year-old alleged home invader, was in for a surprise when he purportedly crashed a Premiere Jewelry party that Jacquie Hagler was hosting in her Lake City, Fla., residence on Friday. Rather than scaring the 14 to 18 women he encountered into giving him their money and personal items, it was Lee who ended up fleeing the scene after attendees began chanting “Jesus, Jesus, Jesus!”

Upon entering the room, the young man, wearing dark clothing, a bandana and a ski mask, allegedly pointed a handgun at the women and demanded that they give him cash as well as their phones. Despite this horrifying display, one attendee assumed that the spectacle was a joke; she pushed the gun away and said, “It’s only a water pistol.”

However, when Lee showed the women that the gun had very real bullets, they began to take him seriously, realizing the seriousness of the situation before them. But rather than cowering in the face of fear, Hagler stood up and courageously commanded that Lee leave her home.

“The boldness of the Lord came up in me,” she said. “I stood up and I just pointed to the door that he’d came in from. I said, ‘Get out of my house in the name of Jesus.’”

WTXL-TV has more about the situation:

 

Despite her plea, Lee allegedly threatened the women again, but they weren’t planning on backing down. The attendees began shouting Jesus’ name and, oddly, Lee purportedly responded by looking around the room in terror — and then he fled.

Hagler is convinced that invoking the Lord’s name provided heavenly assistance that ended up keeping the women safe.

“I promise you, I believe he saw angels. I think he saw who was on our side, and he just turned around,” she explained. “The look on his face was just, like, astonishment. He was totally captivated by whatever he saw. He just turned around and ran out the door.”

Donna Bowen, an attendee who was at the party with her 14-year-old daughter, confirmed these events and noted that God’s involvement helped save the women.

“You knew that God’s hand…He was in there,” explained Bowen. “It could have went so differently.”

Lee was also accused of trying to rob a 62-year-old women at a Bank of America ATM later that same evening. He allegedly ran off during this incident as well when the woman started to scream. Both those at Hagler’s party and the women at the bank identified Lee and the suspect was traced back to his father’s home; he has been booked at the Colombia County Detention Center, where he is being held on $200,000 bond.

As for Hagler, she is hoping that Lee will become a Christian and turn his life around.

(H/T: Christian Post)

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  • pickup1988
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 1:36pm

    Man how can some so-called Christians be so stupid.

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    • GuruMeditation
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 5:45pm

      You make little sense yourself.

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on January 31, 2013 at 2:05pm

      A little joke I think about occasionally: Police came to arrest a man being held at bay by a little old Christian Woman who came home from church and found him in her house.
      The police asked what happened and he replied that the lady said she had an AX and two 38′s, when actually she told him to stop in the name of Jesus, Acts 2:38.

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  • Whatmeworry-never
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 1:18pm

    I would just go all Samual l. Jackson on them and say this as I pull out my CCW, “The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.”

    Then call 911 for a cleanup on aisle 3.

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    • Lidror
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:26pm

      Looking for the “Nuclear Like” Button, WhatMeWorry-Never! Thanks for the laugh!

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  • DeavonReye
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 12:11pm

    The man was dumbfounded that these women weren’t cooperating. He wasn’t about to shoot any of them. The gun was for intimidation, but he wasn’t going to harm them. Their “chant” drove him away, not because he “saw angels” or “because he feared god”, but because he knew he wouldn’t get anywhere with these ladies.

    Evidence that he wasn’t “influenced by angels” is that he tried to rob another person . . . running away when she screemed. He is an opportunist who looks for easy targets. That’s all there is to it.

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    • Weiners Wiener
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:41pm

      You have a lot of nerve to speak on behalf of the offender. How do you know what he felt or saw?

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    • DeavonReye
      Posted on January 31, 2013 at 9:43am

      Nerve? No. Just probability. If people want to believe “he saw angels”, that’s their issue. But when we consider human behavior, what I stated is the most likely reason for his actions. There’s nothing mysterious about a story like this.

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  • Youngamericangirl
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 12:08pm

    I can’t believe this even made it on the Blaze. This is in my home town. It’s a small town so we don’t make the news very often. Me and my mom got a good kick out of this when we read it in the local newspaper

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    • Feaglet81
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 11:16pm

      Thank You. This is my home town also and currently still live here. I was one of the guests at the party that was in the home when the incident happened.

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  • nocalifornia
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 12:01pm

    A 357 would have done a better and more permanent job.

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    • Ruckus_Tom
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 2:07pm

      Rephrasing Al Capone:

      You can get pretty far in life with the Lord at your side.
      You can get even further with the Lord at your side … and a gun.

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    • GuruMeditation
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 5:46pm

      I prefer both.

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  • commoncents5
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 11:23am

    We have been told in Luke 10:18&19 that through our LORD Jesus Christ we have been given power over ALL our enemies. We have to have the backbone and faith to order evil out of our homes and our lives. Evil is the world that rejects our heavenly Father.

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    • Feaglet81
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 11:18pm

      Touch not thine annointed is in The Bible. There is also Power in the name of JESUS

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  • battles
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:52am

    As a believer, I prefer to shout “Praise the Lord” and then start pulling the trigger.

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  • ckiley
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:47am

    Awesome and amazing. I have no doubt he saw angels and I believe that would be terrifying for an unbeliever. Heck it would be terrifying for a believer!

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  • RamonPreston
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:45am

    A burglar breaks into a house in the middle of the night and starts looking around in the dark. Suddenly a voice says “Jesus is watching you.” Looking around he spots a parrot. “Did you say that?” he asks. “Yes”replied the parrot. “What is your name?” asked the burglar. “Moses” replied the parrot. The burglar laughed and said “What kind of an idiot names his parrot ‘Moses’?” The parrot replied “The same kind that names his rottweiler ‘Jesus’”

    Maybe this guy saw her parrot….

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  • walnutportconservative
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:08am

    We must pray for this lost bandit, he is lost, I too was lost. Hey Paul, before he was found, he too was lost. Acts records paul as saying “I too was convinced that I ought to do all that was possible to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth”.
    After Paul (Sual) had seen the light, he then lifted high that name above all names. Paul, in his letter to the Collosians wrote, “And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
    And the disciples cast out demons “In the name of the Lord Jesus”
    Remember that name folks.

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    • SamIamTwo
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:23am

      How many times did Pharaoh get before God turned his back on him, eh? Sometimes it is like casting pearls to swine…

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    • poorrichard09
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:34am

      She was blessed-she could have just as easily been LIVING with angels permanently.

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    • OldSurfRat
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:44am

      Sam

      This is true but sometimes we must hit bottom so that the only way we can look is UP.
      From there life can change beyond imagination.

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    • The Giver
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:22pm

      I think God helped him through the ladies. This guy was saved twice that day from committing a worse crime. There are miracles happening. As our country goes into further decline, one thing is for sure, God is in control. There is nothing to fear.

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    • Feaglet81
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 11:27pm

      fAITH DO NOT HOLD A GRUDGEOF FAITH AND VALUES DO NOT HOLD A GRUDGE AND WE PRAYED FOR HIM TO FIND gOD

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    • Feaglet81
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 11:28pm

      wE

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  • OldSurfRat
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 8:58am

    Great story!
    Not the first time this has happened.

    Nothing worse for a southern boy gone bad than to walk in on a house full of southern ladies having Bible study and try to rob them. Better off trying to rob the Bloods or the Crips. LOL

    He heard the voice of God and still did not listen so he got caught later that day trying the same game.
    Plus I know Lake City and it is a little town where everybody knows everybody. What a dumb a$$.
    Thank you lord for your help and a good laugh!

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    • Feaglet81
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 11:32pm

      We were not having bible study we were having a jewelry party. but it turned into bible study and the young man tryed robbing the 62 year old lady at the ATM a matter of minutes after Jesus through us ran him off.

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  • TIMEBOMB
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 8:48am

    If I would’ve heard that chant I would’ve fled as well considering who my pops is.

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  • momrules
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 8:39am

    Good for these ladies and thank you Jesus.

    I had a similar but by no means as terrifying thing happen many years ago. I started getting obscene phones calls from some pervert. I kept hanging up on him, he kept calling back. During his last call I started praying for him, quite loudly, asking God to please help his sick soul. That time he hung up on me and he never called back.

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    • OldSurfRat
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:01am

      Mom

      Know what you are talking about. I have had a few times that I was about to go off on a person but heard that little voice that said “pray with them”. Some listened and others ran like a rabbit.
      Either way God gave me the right answer (:

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    • RANGER1965
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:09am

      When you prayed, it wasn’t just you and him on the phone anymore.

      Conviction of sin cuts like a Battle Axe through all the BS. It can put a strong man on his knees, or send him packing.

      When God gets involved play time is over.

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    • walnutportconservative
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:28am

      Mom,
      Of our seven children, one was troubled, prehaps I felt at the time, tormented by a spirit not welcome in our home. The son was in early twenties. Sitting on our couch, I laid hands and rebuked that spirit, as I called on the Name of Jesus. That son is now helping lead middle school aged boys Sunday School Class at our church. He has made strives in the Right direction.
      It is because of that Name, JESUS, that the rotten spirit of diablo had to leave. We did not just sweep the house, we cleansed it. White washed it with the Name of Christ.
      True story
      Thanks be to God

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    • OldSurfRat
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:37am

      Ranger and Walnut

      Yep AMEN!!

      I just posted this to Valman but I love these lyrcs from Tobymac’s”Lose my sould”

      Not because of 22′s on the range,
      But Christ came in range, we said yes now we changed,
      Not the same, even though I made a fall,
      Since I got that call, no more Saul, now I’m Paul

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  • bamanana
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 8:36am

    God is Great!

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  • vaman
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 8:32am

    Their stupidity almost got them shot. The crook was a coward, so those people are alive. Jesus had nothing to with it. Luck was the major player in this incident, but to some, calling forth a mystical creature surely made the difference.

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    • bamanana
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 8:43am

      Prayers for the non-believer.

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    • OldSurfRat
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:33am

      Vaman

      You might be suprised at the power of the word.
      I once was like you but I saw the light.
      Here are lyrics from TobyMac “Lose my soul” which I felt when I saw the light.

      “Not because of 22′s on the range,
      But Christ came in range, we said yes now we changed,
      Not the same, even though I made a fall,
      Since I got that call, no more Saul, now I’m Paul”

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    • RRFlyer
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 11:08am

      Jesus had EVERYTHING to do with it. If the women had been shouting Allah or Buddha the outcome would have been different.

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  • HOOT_OWL
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 8:32am

    It’s sad we Christians didn’t ‘stand together’ and say ‘get out of OUR house’ ..Last election.

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  • thetawake
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 8:32am

    Oh no! Now the lefties will try to ban Jesus……oh wait

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  • Gail
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 8:26am

    This is my hometown. I first heard about from a friend on facebook who was at the party. I am not surprised at all. There are a lot of good spiritual people there….we could use a lot more in this country! That is the answer to all of these shootings…..we need to value life and morals. In the name of being tolerant, morality has gone out the window. Having high standards used to be a good thing! God bless those ladies for standing up for what is right!

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    • Youngamericangirl
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 12:15pm

      @Gail

      This is my home town as well. My mom read it on Facebook as well and the we read it in the Lake City Reporter. And i completely agree, it’s a very spiritual town so I’m not very surprised. I’m glad they’re are okay though, it could have easily gone wrong.

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    • Feaglet81
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 11:25pm

      I was there at the home and you RE SO RIGHT ON ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS

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  • ares338
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 8:26am

    Hey, I saw that movie on the Sci-Fi Channel.

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  • RANGER1965
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 8:23am

    Don’t discount the possibility that the Fear of God literally came over this man. The Bible says that when 2 or more are gathered in my name I am there also.

    Rather than give the thief money, or try to talk him down, the women called on the Lord. He might not have seen anything, but I’ll bet he felt it, God’s presence.

    “For we know him who said, “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge his people.” It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
    -Hebrews 10:30-31

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  • oneillptgd
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 8:21am

    There is no other name given in heaven or earth. Most of the time people look to other sources first. Way to go sister. How about America, for that matter the world, turn to God.

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  • Diane TX
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 8:16am

    He must be an Obamanite. Any mention of Christ terrified’s them.

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    • Bohump
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:14am

      To: “DIAE TX” If you think that Scare’s the Obomanite’s, … you should see what happen,s when you Read them … the Bill Of Right’s !

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  • am123
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 8:13am

    If spoken in faith, there is power in the name of Jesus, the name above all names.

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    • DougHuffman
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 8:33am

      Yes, “The Power of Christ Commands You!” The Rituale Romanum rite of Exorcism includes driving the Lord of Lies, Lord of Flies from homes also. Obama, be warned. The Power of CHRIST Commands You. We are aware of the Fly Guy’s presence. His pretense has collapsed at this breakpoint. The Deamon’s voice babbles as “we always go skeet shooting.” The clash has begun with the Lord of Lies now revealed. Let us pray for his expulsion. The Power of Christ commands you. MOLON LABE Lord of Lies, Lord of Flies.

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    • GuruMeditation
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 5:48pm

      His name alone makes demons shudder in fear, how much more a human with working senses and the ability to accept truth.

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  • Mapache
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 8:09am

    Some people are just not cut out for a life of crime. It is not always as easy as it looks. Of course if he came into my house, he would be seeing Jesus about now.

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  • The Jewish Avenger
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 8:09am

    Awesome!

    You go girls!

    LOL!

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