I urge you to re-think this based on experience. Here's an example of why wherein there are no names to protect anymore - few places in the world are more rural and law-abiding than Virden, NM. Their doors were unlocked, despite the reporting.
VIRDEN, N.M. (AP) _ Two intruders looted a home, then set it on fire and blocked the only door, killing a 68-year-old woman inside.
Later, two deputy sheriffs were wounded, one critically, as they searched a canyon for suspects.
Police say David VanHorn, 20, of nearby Gilbert, Ariz., and Diane Lynn Wilson, 22, of Chandler, Ariz., were held without bail Monday, charged with murder in the death of Norma Clouse.
They are also under investigation in the shooting of the deputies.
Police say VanHorn and Wilson broke in and ransacked the Clouse home early Sunday before setting it on fire _ and blocking the only escape. They stood in front of the door and threatened to shoot Clouse and her husband, Merlin.
``Only after flames engulfed the residence did the defendants leave the scene, at which point Mr. Clouse was able to escape after repeatedly unsuccessfully attempting to save his wife,″ the document says.
Robbery was the motive, police said.
Neighbor Antonio Burrola said he woke up and saw the house burning and Merlin Clouse, smoke-blackened and barefoot, shouting: ``Help! I need help! They robbed me! The house is on fire and Norma is in there!″
``He told me he tried to get her out, but she had just had surgery, and he couldn’t get her,″ Burrola said.
Neighbors said gunshots were fired at their homes as the Clouse home burned.
``I was standing in the hall, and my wife had just walked by the door with the kids when a bullet came through the glass,″ said Sammy Gonzales. The family spent the night huddled in the back bedroom.
Clouse was released Monday from a hospital, where he was treated for smoke inhalation and first-degree burns.
The two deputies were shot as they looked at the bottom of a canyon for Clouse’s car and truck that were taken in the attack.
One deputy was in critical but stable condition Monday night, with two gunshot wounds to the head. The other was in stable condition with a shoulder wound.
Clouse told police the suspects forced him at gunpoint to swallow a white powder that later was identified as a mix of opiate and methamphetamine.
Then they forced him to load his valuables in his vehicles, which they used to escape from the town of 200, near the Arizona state line.
VanHorn and Wilson were arrested separately later Sunday.
