On a warm summer morning in June 2021, most of the houses on a tree-lined street in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, were bustling with activity.
People were getting dressed, eating breakfast and heading off into the sunshine.
But one resident, Alexander Jackson, 20, was on the phone to the emergency services.
During a panicky 15-minute phone call, the business student told an emergency operator that an intruder had broken into his home.
Attacked him and his father Jan, 61, with a gun.
Alexander said that he’d been injured.
Described how, during a violent struggle with the intruder, the gun had discharged and he’d been hit in the foot.
He said that his