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WITCHITA, KA. — A thief who took a purse from a home was confronted by an unlikely pair of crime fighters: a young boy and his dog Roscoe.
Eight-year-old Cade was playing games on his computer next to his mom's purse on the couch when he says a man entered their house.
"When I seen his face,(I thought), 'That's nobody I've ever seen before,'" Cade said.
Disguised by a shirt pulled over his head, the suspect made a grab for the purse.
"He came in and yanked on it, and I yanked back, and he yanked harder, and he ran out the door," Cade said.
Cade yelled for his mom and dad.
"About the second Mom screamed, we realized something's really wrong so we take off running," Cade's father, William Hall said.
Cade's dog Roscoe was first out the door.
"My mom saw our dogs looking, biting this guy so my mom knew it was the bad guy," Cade said.
William Hall took off after the robber, losing his house shoes and running in bare feet. He saw the robber pull out his wife's wallet and leave the purse behind as he chased him across Harry Street. Hall managed to stop a woman in a car and told her to call 911 before he chased the suspect down an embankment where the man ran into the path of an oncoming car.
At the Hall home, the lights were on and everyone was home. William Hall said he has no idea why the suspect chose his house among all the others along the street that's clearly labeled as a neighborhood watch zone.
William Hall calls the crime senseless. There was no cash in the purse, only credit cards and a license.
"I'm very, very, very proud of my son, but like the officer said next time just let him take it," William Hall said.
The suspect is in the hospital with a broken leg, four broken ribs and a collapsed lung. The purse was returned with all its original contents.
