“Jon Sokol wasn’t trying to be a hero when he confronted a burglary suspect who had brazenly broken through the front door of his home in St. Paul. Sokol, 49, said his adrenaline was flowing as he crept up the stairs, revolver in hand, from the basement bedroom he shares with his wife. … Sokol said he’d gotten to the second step when he saw somebody cross the room upstairs. ‘Oh my, there is somebody in our house,’ he thought. ‘I grabbed our gun, which we keep for protection,’ he said. ‘As I stepped around the corner, he hit me … right between the eyes,’ Sokol said. ‘And I fired the gun.’ ‘Down on the ground he went and I insisted, in a not very nice way, that he not move,’ he said. ‘I held him at gunpoint until the police arrived.’” (05/01/08)