Florida homeowner slashes would-be robber with machete
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A would-be burglar died after a homeowner repeatedly hit him with a machete and police shocked him with a stun gun, investigators said.
The Tampa Bay Times reported that Heather and Steven Aiosa woke up early Tuesday and saw 31-year-old Robert James Alcalde in their bedroom.
Alcalde was acting paranoid and was crouched in a corner before he began throwing things off shelves, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said. Steven Aiosa grabbed a .22-caliber rifle and walked with his wife outside to load it, but the gun malfunctioned and he went back inside to get the machete.
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Alcalde then reportedly went outside and tackled Heather Aiosa, and that's when her husband struck the man with the machete.
Arriving deputies fired a stun gun at Alcalde six times. He was declared dead at the hospital.