Bowie man fights off armed robbers dressed as FedEx workers

Police say Richard Peeks was doing yard work at his home on Elkhorn Lane Monday when a man dressed as a FedEx employee approached him and asked for water. When Peeks tried to oblige, he was confronted with a gun.

Peeks’ neighbor, Troy Lester, watched the violence unfold from his home.

“I look out the window and I see my neighbor run across the street and he’s screaming ‘get out of my house!'”

Peeks was in the garage preparing to mow his lawn when Lester saw a delivery man from upstairs.

“I just mainly remember seeing the purple FedEx shirt and the guy with a box,” he says.

A second man, also wearing a FedEx shirt, approached.

Read more: http://www.wjla.com/articles/2013/10/bowie-man-fights-off-armed-robbers-dressed-as-fedex-workers-95137.html#ixzz2hRSV2AtZ 

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