Emily Miller describing the details of the burglary that prompted her to buy a gun.
Emily Miller is a reporter for Fox 5 in Washington, D.C. She's also an NRA-backed gun advocate who has sought to purchase a gun in D.C. after claiming she was the victim of a burglary while house-sitting for a friend. But, new information is
casting doubt on her claims:
“[Miller] stated that she left out to walk the dog at 1515hrs and when she returned at 1525hrs she observed [the suspect] exiting from behind the fence which leads to the side of the house. [Miller] asked [suspect] ‘What are you doing here’ and [suspect] stated ‘I am delivering firewood,’” according to a supplemental D.C. police report.
As noted in this blog last week, Miller would subsequently tell far more scary versions of this encounter to gun groups and others. In an “NRA All Access” interview, for instance, Miller stated that “a man — the police believed to be a drug addict — got into the house and started robbing it. So when I came back into the house, he was in there robbing.” The sleek NRA presentation furnishes a reenactment of the scene, complete with night lighting, even though the event occurred just after 3 p.m., according to the supplemental D.C. police report.
Watch Emily Miller recount the scary encounter in this video she made for the NRA.
There are several problems with her account(s). She has at various times claimed the man said he was there to clean the pool. In the police version she says he was delivering firewood and when she followed him to his car, he handed her a business card and she noted he was in a truck with a landscaping logo on the door. No mention of 15 drug addicts waiting to jump her on the dark street (never mind the crime occurred in the middle of the afternoon). And while there were two fraudulent charges on her credit card that police investigated, she stopped cooperating:
Three voicemail messages went unreturned. “The undersigned made several attempts to contact the complainant which ended in negative results. The undersigned request that this report be suspended until additional means of contacting the complainant is provided,” reads the report.
That didn't stop her from
writing a book about the incident and getting a special permit to carry a gun in D.C.
What's the truth? Only Emily and the pool cleaner drug addict firewood delivery guy know for sure.