Good Guy with a Gun #26: Frisco, TX
Original incident: November 26, 2023. A drug-addled man tries to break in to a home, gets shot, still forces his way in, and finally submits. Maybe the spirits really did make him do it.
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Frisco, Texas is a relatively affluent city north of Dallas. It’s known for its explosive growth, having gone from about 34,000 residents in 2000 to 243,000 in 2025: a factor of six in twenty-five years.
Even being in a “super quiet neighborhood” in Frisco — the words of a neighbor who heard the gunshots — doesn’t eliminate the possibility of crime.
On the Sunday after Thanksgiving in 2023, at 8:00 in the evening, a homeowner noticed someone in his back yard. The person took a ladder off of the house and broke a window with it.
The homeowner called 911 and told the police what was happening. They said they were on their way, but before they got there, the intruder tried to enter the house. The homeowner brandished his gun and got him to lie face down on the patio.
It didn’t last. The intruder jumped up suddenly, and the homeowner fired a shot that entered his back. Even wounded, the intruder kept going, ultimately entering the house.
Two thoughts about that:
1. People who want to restrict magazine capacity don’t understand what it can take to put a person down — assuming you don’t miss. Drugs, adrenaline, clothing, and luck can make a big difference when someone is coming at you.
2. When someone keeps going after being shot, I always wonder whether they’re on drugs. Though the news sources don’t mention a toxicology report, WFAA tells us that the intruder “had several words written on his forearms in red and black marker, including the word ‘Lucifer’” and that he told medical personnel something like “the spirits made me do it.” I’ll let my readers decide for themselves whether the man was influenced by demons or drugs or both.
We hear no word of the homeowner being hurt, so I would guess that the shot at least slowed the intruder down. Even so, somewhere along the way, a fish tank in the living room was shattered.
When officers arrived, the intruder was at the front door. They told him to crawl out of the house and into the front yard, where they arrested him.
18-year-old Clinton Montgomery was charged with burglary of a habitation, a felony for which he could be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
Sources
Because this case was resolved so quickly, most of the coverage was contained in a single article. Those sometimes got updated with new information.
WFAA has the most complete coverage, with a single article that brings all the important parts together, including information that wasn’t in the police report. They’re clearly trying to give a complete picture and not just the bare bones.
They also had a video segment with reactions from the neighborhood.
Frisco.com gave a screen capture of the police report, which they then rewrote.
Coverage from Fox 4, CBS News, Irving Journal, and My Texas Daily was functional but perfunctory, just summarizing the police report. I get it: They’re trying to summarize facts and not oversensationalize. Still, if you want people to understand the news, it helps to cover the human factors, like the intruder’s self-decorations and talking to spirits, as well as neighbor commentary.
The Frisco Enterprise was by far the worst. Here’s their entire story.
Frisco police arrest burglary suspect who was shot
The Frisco Police Department announced that is has arrested a burglary suspect who was shot and wounded by a homeowner. Police allege that the suspect was attempting to gain entry into the homeowner’s residence.
In the 2A community, this story was covered by Colion Noir and AWR Hawkins from Breitbart.
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