By Timothy D. Naegele[1]

As I have written before, God saved me at least twice from almost certain death.[2]  Yesterday, God saved me again.

I was staying on the ground floor of a motel where I had stayed before in the years past.  All of a sudden, I heard a noise outside of my room, and opened the drapes to see a man at the front right door of a car that was parked there.  The owner had backed into the spot; and the car's rear end was probably 10 feet or so from my door.

I thought he was entering the car, but it turns out he held a small gun[3], which he fired through the window at the woman inside.  It's a miracle that she wasn't killed.  Then, he saw me, and I saw him with the gun in his hand.  I closed the drapes; and he came and banged on my door.  He might have shot at me too, but he didn't.

I called the police and told them what had happened; and the female dispatcher was aware of the situation.  Soon, a "swat team" arrived with an armored vehicle, and lots of heavily-armed officers.  He had gone upstairs, to the room above me, I believe.

They "bargained" with him; and finally, he came down the stairs, with his hands over his head.  How close I came to being shot and killed, I will never know.  But I do know one thing without a doubt: God saved me once again!

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© 2025, Timothy D. Naegele

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[1]  Timothy D. Naegele was counsel to the United States Senate’s Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and chief of staff to Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal recipient and former U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass).  See, e.g., Timothy D. Naegele Resume-21-8-6  and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/accomplishments/   He has an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as well as two law degrees from the School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California, Berkeley, and from Georgetown University.  He served as a Captain in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency at The Pentagon, where he received the Joint Service Commendation Medal (see, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commendation_Medal#Joint_Service).  Mr. Naegele is an Independent politically; and he is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Law, and Who’s Who in Finance and Business. He has written extensively over the years (see, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/articles/ and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/articles/), and studied photography with Ansel Adams.  He can be contacted directly at tdnaegele.associates@gmail.com

[2]  See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/what-and-where-is-god/ ("What And Where Is God?"), n.[2].

[3]  I was an Army Infantry officer, and trained with various weapons at Fort Benning, Georgia.  However, I don't recall ever seeing a pistol that small.