Law enforcement officials in Tennessee arrested 40-year-old Victor Rodriguez last week after he told them that he opened fire at a group of men who were allegedly trying to steal his car from outside his home.

The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office charged Rodriguez with one count of felony reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon after the incident last weekend. If convicted, he could face up to 6 years in prison.

Video of the incident showed several individuals “lurking around cars” outside of the home, Fox 13 Memphis reported, adding that the suspected car thieves “used burglary tools and key fob programmers to get inside of a van outside the house.”

Surveillance cameras inside the family’s home notified them that their vehicle was in the process of being stolen when Rodriguez went outside to confront the suspects. The suspects fired multiple rounds at him before he fired back several times, according to security video. At least 28 shots were fired during the exchange.

His wife was baffled by law enforcement’s decision to charge her husband over the ordeal.

“When they were talking to him, from what I saw, it was like they were trying to find ways to charge him,” she said. “That doesn’t sound right. Why would you put pressure on the victim when you should put pressure for the suspects to be found.”

“Right now I’m just thankful that no bullets hit him or my daughters or myself,” she added.

Police say Rodriguez told them that he could not see what he was shooting at and that he even allegedly admitted to closing his eyes while shooting because he was scared, the report.

Rodriguez’s wife was upset that the suspects were not caught and were “probably sleeping or partying” while her “husband was in jail, trying to get released for something where he was innocent.”

She said that she was trying to convince her children that the area was still a safe place to live after the incident.

“For my girls and mom, it was like a movie. It was like we were in a movie,” she said. “When I first told them we were going back to the house, they were like, ‘No mommy, don’t do that to us.’ They said, ‘Mommy, we do not want to stay there. What if they come back and get us?’”

Ty Cobb, a former White House lawyer for President Donald Trump, said that he believes that the former president will get convicted in the federal criminal investigation into his handling of classified materials and that he will ultimately go to prison over it.

Cobb made the remarks during a CNN interview while discussing the case, which he believes is nearing its conclusion with forthcoming indictments set to be made.

“I think that this case is ready to go,” he said. “I think there is a possibility that the obstruction case may be broadened to go ahead and include the Espionage Act and counts and the possession, illegal possession of the classified documents, given the extent that, and solely because of the fact that Trump keeps lying about what the law is.”

Cobb noted that a recent report indicated that some “16 different government officials reminded him of the process” that he needed to take to declassify information and that the former president “totally ignored that and believed that the mere fact he took them declassifies them. It’s not the law.”

On the subject of whether prosecutors could try to indict Trump on the espionage act in addition to obstruction of justice charges, Cobb said that based on his own career as a federal prosecutor he “would not necessarily expand the case to try to prove the Espionage Act piece of it because there’s so much evidence of guilty knowledge on the espionage piece that all they really have to do is show that Trump moved these documents at various times when DOJ was either demanding them or actually present, that he filed falsely with the Justice Department, had his lawyers file falsely with the Justice Department and affidavit to the effect that not existed, which was shattered by the documents that they then discovered after the search.”

Cobb said that he believes that the obstruction part of the case was air-tight, adding: “I do think he’ll go to jail on it.”

Cobb said that he doesn’t think the criminal charges filed by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will have much of an impact on Trump’s political fortunes but he believes federal law enforcement going after Trump will be a different deal altogether.

“Independents, they may not have thought much of the events in New York with Alvin Bragg. I think some have focused in a little bit more on the Carroll case,” he said. “But everybody will be watching if the feds come after him, and the feds are coming, and I think they’re coming fast.”

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