Robbery Foiled at Studio A

Sitting in his cousin's Ostrander home for the summer, Marion resident Zack LaDoucer was calm and collected. This was not the case, however, the day of July 22, 2005 when an intoxicated man tried to gain access to his cousin's home.

"Well I was on the phone with DJ Ritchie (his cousin) and someone was ringing the doorbell." Zack stated, reliving his experience. "I figured it was just someone trying to sell something or maybe needed to use the phone so I didn't answer the door. Then he started trying to open the door that was locked so I put the phone down and ran upstairs to get the .40. I grabbed the gun and popped the loaded clip in and he was coming in the house through the back door. He was walking up the stairs and I saw the glimmer of a knife in his hand so I jumped out and pointed the gun at him and yelled at him you know, 'what are you doing in my house?'. He was dumbfounded and drunk."

Meanwhile after DJ Ritchie got off the phone with Zack he proceeded to call his parents to tell them what was happening. While he ran upstairs to get the gun, the downstairs phone was off the hook making it unable for Zack to call the police at this point.

"So I kept yelling at him because he didn't seem to get the message. All he said was 'Whoa! don't shoot me man!'. So I told him to get the hell out of my house and he did as DJ's parents arrived. He then jumped off the back deck and landed on his face in the yard and proceeded to stumble away."

The police came shortly after and questioned Zack. Still relatively shaken by the recent events he was not much for answers. So the case is still left open.

This occurred at DJ Ritchie Studios: Studio A. It was later found out that the robber was brother of DJ Ritchie Studios: Studio B's owner and it was not the first house he had robbed. He wasn't a conventional robber in the sense that he wasn't looking for money or jewels or electronic equipment. He had gone from house to house robbing homes of their liquor and beer. The incident at Studio A detoured his actions as he most likely urinated in his pants.