“They both fled. One of them ended up in my pool and I tried to keep him. He broke loose, I got his shirt,” Ostermann told a 911 dispatcher after the incident, according to WKMG. “The one that got away — I don’t know whether he dropped it or not — had a crowbar.”
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Danny White, one of the man’s neighbors, said he thinks Ostermann’s home was targeted because it’s on the fringe of land near a recently abandoned country club.
“Kinda scary, but definitely keep and eye on things and spread the word around the neighborhood, let people know what’s going on. Make sure this doesn’t happen again,” White told the news station about the incident.
A shirtless man was spotted on a camera at a local CVS not long afterward, but WKMG reported that police don’t officially consider that man a suspect yet.
This image captured by a nearby CVS surveillance camera showed a shirtless man who could match Osterman's description of one of the intruders on his property. Police are looking for this man to question. (Image source: Volusia County Sheriff's Office/Facebook)
This image captured by a nearby CVS surveillance camera showed a shirtless man who could match Ostermann’s description of one of the intruders on his property. Police are looking for this man to question. (Image source: Volusia County Sheriff’s Office/Facebook)
The Volusia County Sheriff’s Department released the surveillance image of the man on its Facebook page, saying they want to interview him even though there “isn’t enough evidence yet to positively tie” him to the break-in.
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