“Don’t shoot me! Don’t kill me!” screamed a
terrified Frances Scott as heavily armed men broke down the door of her
home near Malibu, California shortly after midnight.
Donald Scott, the 61-year-old homeowner, was startled awake
by his wife’s screams. Although he was groggy from sleep and the effects of a “nightcap,”
and his vision was blurry because of recent cataract surgery, Scott grabbed a
loaded revolver and hurried downstairs to defend his wife. A few seconds later
he was dead, fatally shot by an intruder later identified as Gary Spencer.