Exercising the Right
Sisters vs. Burglar
The Pantagraph reported on April 22 out of Bloomington, Ohio, about a terrifying ordeal for two women who were visiting their elderly parents. Kim Sinnott and her twin sister, Tamie Lesher, came from Hamilton to Bloomington to celebrate their father’s 75th birthday. The sisters were staying overnight at their parents’ house when the incident occurred. The parents had recently installed a security system after being the victims of a burglary. Fortunately, no one was home at the time of the crime, and the only thing lost were possessions that were stolen by the burglar. Things would be different this time when the home security alarm went off at 1:30 a.m. The two sisters got out of bed, and Sinnott grabbed her father’s .32-caliber handgun while her sister grabbed a metal pipe for self-defense. The two sisters went downstairs to investigate, and they encountered an intruder in the detached garage.
Sinnott yelled at the man that she was armed and for him to stop moving, but the burglar charged at her. Sinnott said she was “fearing for her life” as the intruder tackled her to the ground. “Anything could have happened by just the way he lunged at me, and I had the gun in his face and told him not to come out because I would shoot.... He probably thought I wouldn’t shoot,” Sinnott told the Pantagraph. She was terrified of the man’s mental state considering that he still attacked her after her warning. “I told him that I had a gun. I was standing there looking at him with the gun pointing at him.... I told him a hundred times not to come out because I had a gun and that I would shoot and that we were waiting for the cops, that we had the cops on the line right now.” Sinnott says that as the man wrestled with her, dragging her to where her sister’s car was parked, she was left with no other option but to fire at him. “When he grabbed me and pulled me down I was fearing for my life.... I shot him just for him to let me go. I don’t know if it was in the leg or in the foot. I was scared to death.”
The injured suspect fled after being shot but was picked up by authorities responding to the 911 calls. The burglary suspect was later identified as 21-year-old Mykale B. Davis. Davis was treated at a nearby medical facility for non-life-threatening injuries and has been charged with one count of burglary and one count of battery. Sinnott said she was not physically injured during the scuffle but expects to feel the emotional effect for some time. She said she’s “still shook up because I had my granddaughter in (the house) with my parents. My folks aren’t doing too well. They’re elderly.” Sinnott explained that she has been raising the granddaughter since her own daughter, the girls’ mother, tragically passed away when the child was two years old. Sinnott also lost her husband to cancer more than a year earlier. Sinnott remains strong even in the face of such losses: “God doesn’t give you anything you can’t handle, but I’m about done.”
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