Its really hard for me to go to sleep after such an ordeal...Attempted robbery

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I am still pretty shaken and the entire thing keeps replaying through my mind again and again. Please oblidge me while I spill and try to get some ease. I was siiting at the computer some time after nine O'Clock this morning trying to edit my brother's resume. He (my brother) had just washed some dishes and went outside to assist my sister and mother with removing the trash as they were raking the yard. My 7yr old nephew was outside with them. I had my a hand over my left eye and as I tried to figure out how to edit a scanned document. I heard someone ssay something like "Dont move" or "Dont make a sound". God... I turned my head only to see a guy right there crotching on the floor not far from me (just a single settees length away). I was staring right at a gun and a masked young man. I couldnt believe it. It took me just a few seconds to figure it out. Initially I thought it was my brother pulling a prank but no... It was the same guy who has been holding up and robbing people in their homes for a little while now. Reality hit me with a great force but some how (onlt God knows how) I was able to stay calm through it all. He wanted money. Thats all he has been demanding so far from allhis robberies. I spoke to him told him there was no money in the house (which was true save a little change). I opened my handbag to prove this to him. Of course he wouldnt believe so I showed him two more hand bags and told him to search them himself. All this time I was careful to keep him in view of the window just so my brother could look up and see something was wrong. What nearly went wrong was that my nephew came inside to get something his uncle sent him for. The gunman was demanding that I "call the man" referring to my brother. He wanted me to do so from anther room but I just had to keep him in the living room. I couldnt risk having my brother come inside. I told my nephew to tell his uncle to come here quickly. That sort of rosed his suspicion. Why would I want him quickly when he just went outside. Good thing my nephew was out of the house again. Bad thing when I looked up (after positioning myself so the gunman would be in full view formy brother to see) my nephew was back inside heading towards me to ask for what his uncle sent him for in the first place. I ordered him back outside saying go to your uncle now. By this time my brother looked upand saw the guy inside with the gun. The guy upon realising he was seen ordered my brother not try anything funny as he had his sister. Well there was a door between us but I wasnt going to play hero. My sister based on my brothers facial and body reaction was able to sense that something was wrong and sillently beckoned my nephew to her. My brother swiftly went for two stones and I made a dash outside with a cell phone which I threw to my mother. My sister called for her to head to the road which they both did with my nephew and they alerted the police. That left my brother myself and the gunman. The gunman had fled back through the back room door and back the way he had entered the property. Through the back. That is how he has entered all the properties so far. All the houses hit (we were the 4th as far as I can tell) are somehow connected geoghhraphically by our backlands. The entire community was on the alert for this guy plus from his last house breakin he was caught on camera. The police had taken in costody a guy we were suspicious of but here was this guy in my own house. Masked and all pointing a gun at me. I'll end by saying the police were absolutely fabulous in their response. Some community men jioned forces with the police and they combed the area fo the guy. An alert was made to the nieghbouring community but the police got there too in no time. Shots were heard whilethe police were here taking statements. The police I speaking to at the time called back later to say the shots we heard was from a policeman who lived in the other community. The same gunman had gone knocking on the policeman's door and telling him not to move. The policeman was able to get his gun and fire shoots at him but he escaped. The search party also came upon him (the gunman) in the bushes and he fired in the air. They located the house where this guy and his croonies had been hiding out. Finally something concrete. Pity no arrest was made but we know more about this mystry guy who has been plagueing the community. I'll say this much about the guy... He seems somewhat mild mannered and no very aggresive by nature. He is not quick to use the gun at all. He becomes maybe flustered and a aggression shows when he is not getting what he wants. Why are young men so taken to this way of life? I hope no one here has had to suffer a similar ordeal. Now I am scared to have every1sleeping at the same time. Guess I'll just mylot untilmy eyes just cant hold out any longer. Its just after two in the morning so there's a little way to go before daylight. But then the robbery attempt did take place in the morning. Thanks for listening.