Police Report!
Well. Armed citizen.
Update! This is his IDOC file! S08845 – LASH, GREGORY A. Just search and see.
On Sunday, Sept 20th at approximately 530 AM I was asleep in the apartment area of my shop, and I heard an initial noise which could have been coming from upstairs, and then for several minutes, nothing further. Then I heard noises which were obviously coming from MY hallway, and I pulled on pair of shorts and my glasses and grabbed my .45 automatic from its case under the nightstand and loaded it.
Next thing that happened is that a white male of medium height and build, wearing dark colored shorts and a light colored, maybe tan, short sleeved football jersey entered my bedroom by kicking the door open. I yelled at him “Who the fuck are you and what the fuck are you doing here?”
AT that point he exited my room and went east up the hallway towards the front door, I followed. He discovered that the front door was locked and only can be opened with a key, I heard him jerk on it a few times. He then ran back down the hall towards the back door and found me blocking the hallway with my handgun. I ordered him onto the floor by saying: “MOTHERFUCKER GET DOWN ON THE GROUND WITH YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOU HEAD RIGHT FUCKING NOW!” He complied instantly. I then told him to identify himself and to tell me what the fuck he thought he was doing. He stated with a speech impediment “I’m Greg Lash, you know me, Joe!” He then looked up and I told him to keep his fucking head down. He then told me several different stories about why he was in my establishment, including that he had permission from the owner to be there, then that he was in someone’s apartment cause he had been partying and was going to take a piss. Since there is no access to any other apartment from the alley behind my shop, I did not believe that he was in the wrong place, I am sure that he knew where he was.
I told him to stay flat and not move, and I grabbed my phone and called 911. He saw me on the phone, he then jumped up and ran up the hall to the front door AGAIN, which was STILL locked. He then came back thru my office, struck me in the jaw with his fist. I straight armed him and put him in a choke, and pushed him into the wall. He tried to strike me again, so I struck him in the forehead with the barrel of my handgun. I had thrown the phone onto the desk and was still connected to the county, I’m sure they heard the altercation. He then knocked a computer off of my workbench struggling with me. I lost my balance and had to let go of him, he jumped over me and ran out the back door. I screamed at him to stop again, he hopped on one foot at the back door and removed his sock, then proceeded to take off up the alley to the north, turning west down the main alley.
Later I looked around the apartment and found a neat pile of my ipod, my gps, some jewelry, an external hard drive, and a flash drive on my workbench. All of these items were in the middle drawer of my desk. It was quite obvious that someone had been in my desk looking for something. The store safe, which contained nothing, was also open. Since it was empty it was left unlocked but it is always closed.
Later, it was requested that I come to the office to identify the suspect. I arrived at about 615, was shown in, and positively identified the person shown to me as the person that had been in my residence, although he was NOT wearing the same clothing as he had been earlier.
