77-year-old US veteran shoots burglar between the eyes at residence in Catia la Mar

<a href=www.vheadline.com>Venezuela's Electronic News Posted: Friday, June 20, 2003 By: Patrick J. O'Donoghue

US II WW veteran Piskalt Roberts Hestinic (77) is under arrest for shooting and killing Omar Antonio Aristiguieta (23) as the latter attempted to enter and burgle his house.  The incident took place at 4.30 in the morning in Quinta Loma de Las Tunitas (Catia la Mar) when Aristigueta allegedly scaled a window in the kitchen to enter the house.

Roberts is said to have taken his Browning 6.35 mm pistol and shot the intruder between the eyes. 

Thinking that he had missed but scared the would-be thief, Roberts found the man at 6.00 a.m. on the floor in the patio with a tube stuck in the head. Vargas State Metropolitan Police agents say Aristigueta received a bullet between the eyes and must hit the tube when he fell back. 

Roberts has told investigators that the dead man had been harassing him for a long time and had stolen his war medals, offering to return them for 20,000 bolivares, which the veteran had refused ... Roberts, who lives alone, has been here in Venezuela for 52 years.