Oscar and Mario Romero were in their AREA Oklahoma City rooms Monday morning when home surveillance video caught someone at the front door.The person kicked in the door, and the Romeros and their parents heard the noise.“They just came and scared the crap out of us,” Mario said. “They got him at gunpoint, asking him for money.”The home-invader pistol-whipped Oscar, and a gunfight broke out. The home soon was riddled with bullets and shattered glass after a second burglar broke in through the back.“I got out of my bed, grabbed my handgun,” Mario said.Mario then exchanged gunfire with one of the burglars.“His partner had a gun on my father, and that’s when I pointed a gun at him and he shot me,” Mario said. “I went to the floor, but I was able to return fire.”He was shot in the pelvis, and the blood-stained floor and piles of broken glass throughout the home are a painful reminder of how deadly Monday’s break-in could have been.“It’s getting too common, and people need to start arming themselves,” Mario said. “We would have been 6-feet under or seriously injured.”The Romeros believe a third person was involved in the break-in.

Oscar and Mario Romero were in their AREA Oklahoma City rooms Monday morning when home surveillance video caught someone at the front door.

The person kicked in the door, and the Romeros and their parents heard the noise.


“They just came and scared the crap out of us,” Mario said. “They got him at gunpoint, asking him for money.”

The home-invader pistol-whipped Oscar, and a gunfight broke out. The home soon was riddled with bullets and shattered glass after a second burglar broke in through the back.

“I got out of my bed, grabbed my handgun,” Mario said.

Mario then exchanged gunfire with one of the burglars.

“His partner had a gun on my father, and that’s when I pointed a gun at him and he shot me,” Mario said. “I went to the floor, but I was able to return fire.”

He was shot in the pelvis, and the blood-stained floor and piles of broken glass throughout the home are a painful reminder of how deadly Monday’s break-in could have been.

“It’s getting too common, and people need to start arming themselves,” Mario said. “We would have been 6-feet under or seriously injured.”

The Romeros believe a third person was involved in the break-in.