On Friday, hundreds of protesters returned to the home of the couple in St. Louis, Missouri, who confronted previous demonstrators with firearms on June 28.

According to Yahoo! News, protesters marched along the busy public boulevard, Kingshighway, which leads to a private street that is the site of the Renaissance palazzo-style home of Mark McCloskey, 61, and his wife, Patricia, 63.

On June 28, the couple used an AR-15 and a pistol to defend their home as protesters marched through their neighborhood in St. Louis. The protesters marched that “private route” to pass St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson’s (D) house and demand her resignation.

It was reported that there were nearly 300 protesters that day, and the couple appeared nearby Krewson’s, holding their firearms.

“I was literally afraid that within seconds they would surmount the wall, and come into the house, kill us, burn the house down and everything that I had worked for and struggled for the last 32 years,” Mark McCloskey later told Fox News.

Reports say that the protesters that gathered outside the McCloskey’s home stopped at the gate and chanted for about 15 minutes. More than a dozen men in plain clothes walked the grounds inside the gate and peered out from a second-floor balcony of the couple’s house. No one threw anything and showed aggression, except for one protester who briefly straddled an iron gate as if he was trying to break and enter, but did not.

However, it was not known whether the McCloskeys were home when the march happened outside their house.

McCloskey added that what provoked him and his wife to take action was because when they saw hundreds of the protesters marching up to their private neighborhood, he saw his life get destroyed in an instant. “I did what I thought I had to do to protect my hearth, my home and my family,” he claimed.