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>> IT WAS INTENSE. HE COULDN’T GET AWAY FAST ENOUGH. DENI: IT W AROUND 11:00 MONDAY NIGHT WHEN BRENT KING GOT AN ALERT ON HIS PHONE. >> CLICKED ON IT, THERE IS A MAN WALKING DOWN MY DRIVEWAY. HE HAD COME FROM MY DOOR. DE: A MOTION SENSING CAMERA ON THE SIDE OF HIS HOUSE IN MOZER FARMS CAUGHT A MAN TRYING THE HANDLE ON HIS DOOR. WITHIN SECONDS, KING WAS OUTSIDE, WHERE THE PROWLER HAD BEGUN MAKING HIS WAY TOWARD HIS NEIGHBOR’S OPEN GARAGE. THEY ENCOUNTER WAS CAPTURED BY ANOTHER CAMERA. >> I YELLED AT HIM. HE TURNED AROUND, SAW ME, HE WAS IN A HOODIE AND COVERED UP, DOCS HIS HEAD AND STARTS HEADING TO HIS CAR. SO I STARTED APPROACHING THE CAR AND YELLING AT HIM TO STOP. IT WAS PRETTY INTENSE. DENI: HE SAYS THE MAN JUMPED INTO A RUNNING CAR AND SPED OFF. HE BELIEVES THE GUN SCARED HIM. IS THE ONLY TIME I’VE NEEDED TO PROTECT MY FAMILY. DENI: KING AND HIS WIFE CALLED POLICE AND FOUND OUT THE MAN HAD ALREADY GONE THROUGH A CAR ON THE STREET. >> GOING THROUGH CARS IS BAD. TRYING A HOME INVASION LIKE WHAT THIS GUY DID, THAT IS A DIFFERENT BALLGAME. DENI: KING SAYS HE STILL FEELS SAFE AND DOUBTS THE PROWLER WILL BE BACK.

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A homeowner in Prospect used a gun to scare off a man attempting to break into houses in the Moser Farms neighborhood Monday night. Brett King was getting into bed around 11 p.m. when he received an alert on his phone from a motion-sensing camera on the side of his house. The camera captured a man, wearing a hooded sweatshirt, trying the handle of King's side door. "Alert pops up, clicked on it, and there's a man walking down my driveway," King said. King said he got up immediately, grabbed his pistol and went out to his driveway. He said he saw the man running toward his neighbor's open garage. "I yelled at him. He turned around, saw me, and he was in a hoodie, covered up anyway. He ducks his head and starts heading towards his car. So, I start approaching the car and yelling at him to stop," King said. King said he brandished the gun and the man got into a running car that was parked on the street and sped off. King said he believes the firearm is what scared the suspect off."It's honestly the only time I've ever needed it to protect my family," he said. King and his wife called the police and officers told them the man had already gone through a car in the neighborhood. "Going through cars is bad. Trying to do a home invasion like this guy did, he tried to come in my house. That's a different ballgame," King said. The homeowner said he still feels safe in his neighborhood and doubts the prowler will be back anytime soon."Maybe in the neighborhood, but not down my street," King said. King turned his home security footage over to the Louisville Metro Police Department's 8th division.