However, when he looked in the furnace room, he saw the intruder crouched down, and he finally chambered a round.

"He was clearly in distress. He was panting and sweating and just shaking," Crepeau said. Crepeau believes the intruder heard him chamber a round. "He became very cooperative very quickly."

Crepeau said he wanted a nonviolent conclusion and his finger never touched the trigger throughout the process.

In a tone his wife refers to as his "mean voice," Crepeau said he ordered the intruder to stand up, put his hands up, keep them up, and eventually, come forward slowly. He turned the intruder to make sure he was in front of him, lowered his weapon, and marched him up the stairs.

At one point, he said the intruder started talking, but Crepeau didn't let it last. "I ordered him to keep his mouth closed" with the help of some expletives.

Outside, he alerted law enforcement and turned the man over to authorities. Crepeau said he put down is firearm and got on the ground because he knew he would be handcuffed as part of protocol. He said the authorities quickly verified he was the property owner and let him go.