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Monroe-area couple fight off armed intruder with baseball bat
By Leslie Anne Jones
Seattle Times staff reporter


A husband and wife turned the tables on an armed intruder this morning by severely beating the man with a baseball bat after he broke into their home south of Monroe, according to the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office.

At about 3:30 a.m. a man entered the couple's home in the 21600 block of 164th Drive Southeast apparently through an unlocked door, the Sheriff's Office said. The man, armed with a gun, confronted the couple in their bedroom.

But the couple bashed the man in the head with a bat. It wasn't immediately clear if both husband and wife beat the man.

The suspect, who is believed to be a 24-year-old Monroe-area man, was first taken to Valley General Hospital in Monroe and then to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle for evaluation, the Sheriff's Office said. He is under watch at the hospital and his injuries are not life-threatening, sheriff's spokeswoman Rebecca Hover said.

Once released from the hospital, detectives expect to book the man in the Snohomish County Jail on charges of first-degree robbery, she said.