A burglary ended in a very sudden and unexpected way yesterday, in
Orange County, California, when a gang member was killed by a falling
meteorite debris while he was holding three people at gunpoint in a
Santa Ana residence.
According to World News Daily Report, the criminal, Juan Pedro
Sancho Jiménez, had just broken into a house in the Eastside area of
Santa Ana, when a meteorite fragment weighting almost ½ pound fell from
the sky, pierced through the roof of the residence and hit him on the
top of the head.
The well-known gang member who had already spent eleven years in
jail for s*xual assault and armed robbery, was killed almost instantly
as the meteorite passed through his skull, destroyed his spine and
continued its way through many of his vital organs.
Officers from the Orange County Sheriff Department arrived on the
site only a few minutes after the incident, but the assailant was
already dead.
The victims who were held at gunpoint by Mr. Jiménez at the time of
his death, were still shocked went they met the media a few hours
later.
"He kicked our front door open and started threatening us with a gun” says Margarita Sanchez, one of the victims. “It's
still a mystery to us how it all happened. He was asking for money, and
we tried to explain to him that we didn’t have any. I had never been so
scared in my life, I thought I was going to die. Then all of a sudden,
there was blood everywhere, a hole in the ceiling and the guy was dead.
We didn’t understand what had happened until hours later, when the cops
explained it to us. The strangest part is that he saved my life, because
the meteorite went right through the couch where I usually sit to watch
TV.”
Small celestial objects frequently collide with Earth, but most are
of small size and land in uninhabited regions. It was estimated in
2005, that the chance of a single person born today of dying due to an
meteorite impact is around 1 in 200,000, but Mr. Jiménez is the first
human known to have been killed directly by meteor impact.
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