Exercising the Right
The .38 Special
The Herald & Review reported on October 31 out of Decatur, Illinois, about an 82-year-old woman and her .38 Special. The woman was home alone when she heard someone knocking on her door. She looked out her window and saw a man outside her house whom she didn’t know. She chose not to answer the door, but the man kept knocking. She suspected foul play, so she called 911 and also retrieved her firearm. Armed with her pistol and on the phone, the octogenarian waited in her dining room. As she sat there, the suspect began kicking in her back door. The man entered the home through the doorway only to be fired at by the elderly woman. Decatur Police detective Lieutenant Shannon Gutierrez Seal told the Herald & Review that the homeowner fired at the suspect because she feared for her life, but police do not believe she hit him. “So she shot at him.... The bullet hit a window in her house, but there was no indication that she shot the suspect. When she went to check, he had fled the scene,” Lt. Seal told the Herald & Review. Officers arrived on the scene shortly after the shooting and found the elderly woman terrified from what transpired. Lt. Seal did tell the newspaper that when “she felt uneasy she was right in calling 911, calling the police, and taking measures to protect herself.”
Sisters Stick Together
News4Jax out of Georgia reported on September 30 about a man who broke in to the Folkston, Georgia, home of two female senior citizens. The women, who are sisters, were in the home together when the suspect burst into the home and began physically attacking them. Police reported that the man allegedly entered the home and cornered the younger sister, who is 64, in a bedroom and attacked her from behind. She was able to escape, and she retrieved her small-caliber pistol when the man left the room. When the man returned to the room, she shot the suspect three times. The injured assailant fled the home through the front door, only to collapse at the end of the yard. Police soon arrived and discovered the suspect dead, and were able to identify him as 40-year-old Jonathan Green of Folkston. Authorities did say that they found blood inside the home, on the front porch, and in the yard. The woman granted an interview to the Charlton County Herald and told the newspaper, “I’ve always been a strong person. I’ve been through a lot in my life.... I thought I knew what terror was, but I didn’t. I do now.” The younger sister sustained minor injuries, and the older sister, 75, suffered a gash on her head. They were both transported to a local hospital to be checked.
Burglar Targets Home of Prosecutor
NewsOn6.com reported out of Inola, Oklahoma, on December 10 about a prosecutor who shot a man who broke into her rural home. The intruder, who authorities do not think knew the home he targeted was owned by a prosecutor, kicked in the back door of the home to gain entry. Once the suspect was inside the house, he came face to face with an armed Erin Oquin. Oquin, a Craig Country district attorney, was home sick for the day at the time of the break-in. As soon as the intruder entered the home, Oquin fired at the suspect, hitting him in the chest. The injured intruder fled the home into a nearby vehicle and drove away down a road, only to get stuck in a dead-end. An Inola police officer who responded to a 911 call placed by Oquin discovered the injured suspect down the road.
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