New Orleans

At 2 a.m. on July 26, 2013, Merritt Landry, his pregnant wife and small child were asleep in their house in New Orleans when their dog started barking. Someone had climbed over the locked front gate of their property and was rattling the window shutters. The noise awakened Mr. Landry, whose house in the Marigny neighborhood had been burglarized multiple times. Calling 911 might bring help, but far too late. He took his…