For 90 minutes, he paced throughout their home, peering through blinds, making phone calls and asking for directions.
When he asked for a glass of water, he was accommodated. When he demanded they hand over their phones, they complied.
And, when he asked for a Western shirt and hat, they helped him out there, too.
In fact, when the man who stormed inside their home with an AK-47 decided he wanted a cowboy hat, not a baseball cap, they obliged then, too.
"I got him my least favorite cowboy hat," Larry Swink testified Friday in Pima County Superior Court.
Friday was the second day in the trial of Shawn Edmisten, a 26-year-old Tucson man facing almost two dozen charges in connection with two home invasions and a police shootout.
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According to authorities, Edmisten and three friends stormed a Southwest Side home on Dec. 22, 2005, and robbed the occupants while armed with the AK-47s and a stun gun.
After fleeing that home, Edmisten and at least one of his co-defendants are accused of shooting at deputies before crashing their car near the Swink house.
On Friday, Larry Swink, his wife, Jan Swink and their daughter, Holly Swink, testified how Edmisten stormed into their home, holding them hostage along with Larry Swink's 78-year-old father-in-law and Holly Swink's two young children.
According to the Swinks, Jan Swink was forced to hang up her 911 call when Edmisten spotted her.
In a later 911 call, Edmisten pretended to be Larry Swink and told the 911 dispatcher the armed man had left his home and everything was OK.
Larry Swink testified that Edmisten assured the family he would leave, but first he wanted to watch the 6 p.m. news. When the local TV stations aired details of a search for a group of home invaders, Edmisten became more nervous.
Forty minutes into the ordeal, Larry Swink testified he was able to convince Edmisten they were no threat to him.
"I told him the gun made us nervous, could he please put the gun down," Larry Swink said.
Edmisten removed the clip from the gun, placed it under a couch cushion and then put the gun behind the couch, Larry Swink said.
The incident ended when he went outside — at Edmisten's direction — to get a portable phone left on the porch, Larry Swink said.
There were three or four SWAT officers about 12 feet from his back door, he said.
"I just put my hands up, moved to the side and said 'He's in there and he's unarmed right now,' " Larry Swink said.
When they heard someone yell out "Tucson Fire Department," Holly Swink said Edmisten put his arm around her and her infant daughter.
"He said, 'If that's the police you're going to pretend I'm your boyfriend,' " Holly Swink said.
Moments later, Edmisten was on the ground, handcuffed.
Defense attorney Eric Larsen told jurors during opening statements Thursday Edmisten isn't responsible for his actions because his former girlfriend spiked his drink with a mind-altering drug.
If he's convicted, Edmisten could spend the rest of his life in prison.
Edmisten's co-defendants' cases already have been resolved.
The trial is expected to continue next week before Judge Frank Dawley of Pima County Superior Court.
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