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Showing Original Post only (View all)80-year-old woman shoots and kills young intruder after he stabs her husband [View all]
A man from Gold Bar, Wash. a town of about 2,000 broke into the womans home around 8:30 p.m. Thursday while she was enjoying an evening with her husband, 75, and son, 45. According to a Komo News report, police said the man broke in through the back door. After hearing a noise, the woman walked into the back room, where the 25-year-old intruder stood, wielding a large knife.
Her husband was on the ground.
The intruder had stabbed her husband in the abdomen, felling but not killing him. Before calling 911, the woman took matters into her own hands, according to the Snohomish County Sheriffs Office. She snuck in the back bedroom, presumably unnoticed, where she grabbed a gun she hides there.
She returned to the main room, took aim and fired several shots into the intruder, killing him.
Her husband was on the ground.
The intruder had stabbed her husband in the abdomen, felling but not killing him. Before calling 911, the woman took matters into her own hands, according to the Snohomish County Sheriffs Office. She snuck in the back bedroom, presumably unnoticed, where she grabbed a gun she hides there.
She returned to the main room, took aim and fired several shots into the intruder, killing him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/04/29/80-year-woman-shoots-and-kills-young-intruder-after-he-stabs-her-husband/
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TeddyR
Apr 2016
OP
"And I'll just bet you and I are nowhere near alone in that." You certainly aren't!
friendly_iconoclast
Apr 2016
#30
All 80 yo women are expected to have the stamina and strength to defeat a knife armed 25 yo...
Marengo
Apr 2016
#27
This news situation rarely happens. So, "what if possession saves ONE precious life"?
vkkv
Apr 2016
#11
Wow, that come back has GOT to be the most childish thing anyone could come up with.
vkkv
Apr 2016
#34
Semi-auto refers to the loading of the next round AUTOMATICALLY by blow-back method.
vkkv
Apr 2016
#38
I wonder if that one would be okay with legislating women's reproductive rights...
Marengo
May 2016
#56