Posted on 02/07/2013 10:33:43 AM PST by grundle
BULLS GAP, Tenn. -
An 86-year-old woman grabbed a gun in self-defense when police say an intruder broke into her home. News 5 sat down with this woman today and listened to her tell about the experience.
Louise Howard lives just off a busy highway in Bulls Gap.
She told us she's been the victim of theft many times before, and she's had enough and it was time to take a stand.
"I told different people if I ever catch them, I mean to kill them," said Louise Howard.
Louise Howard may be 86 years old, but she isn't afraid to defend her home or her life.
On Friday afternoon she was forced to do that. Howard said a young woman broke the glass on her door and forced her way inside.
"I was in shock. I didn't know what she was going to do to me!" Howard said.
Howard immediately grabbed her gun, but the two started to struggle down the hall.
"I already had my gun in my hand, and I wouldn't turn it loose for anything," she explained.
Howard's hands are proof she wasn't letting go.
"She stuck a fingernail in there," said Howard. "She moved her hands sort of released me a bit. I moved over like that, and I was going to shoot her in the stomach, but she took her knee and hit my elbow."
The bullet ended up inside the wall where it still hides.
Sheriff Ronnie Lawson told us Howard was in her rights to use her gun for protection.
"All indications [were] the intruder, the female, has a wrench. It was what she used to break the window of the door so she could've defended herself," Sheriff Lawson explained.
Howard said she is a repeat victim of crime, "I decided I would put all of my valuables in my pocketbook, and they would be with me wherever I went and nobody would get it," she said.
But she still came out with a loss. Investigators said the suspect took her purse, that held two sets of keys, some rings, a bank card, and checkbook, but thankfully for her, nothing more valuable than that.
"I was more scared for my cat than I was for me, because I guess I'd give my life that cat I love him so," said Howard.
Sheriff Lawson described the suspect as a white female about 5'9" with a slender build, long dark hair, and a round face.
The suspect was seen leaving in a red car.
:: “I told different people if I ever catch them, I mean to kill them,” said Louise Howard. ::
Something tells me that a future incident may not end as well as this one did for Louise.
The intruder has lost his right to live. The innocent woman had the right to repulse him by whatever means necessary, including deadly force.
Liberals would rather have the women dead and the creep waltz right in and take whatever he wants.
Sheriff Ronnie Lawson told us Howard was in her rights to use her gun for protection”.
...gee whiz. Thanks! I’m sure the sheriff is a good guy that gets “unalienable rights”, but it is pathetic how we have to continue to repeat such an obvious conclusion.
But she still came out with a loss. Investigators said the suspect took her purse, that held two sets of keys, some rings, a bank card, and checkbook, but thankfully for her, nothing more valuable than that.
Pleading ignorance.
Isn't a purse and a pocket book the same thing?
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The intruder was female, not male. And she did lose her right to live.
You don’t give crap
to the old lady from Bull’s Gap.
“I told different people if I ever catch them, I mean to kill them,” said Louise Howard.
That statement could come back to haunt her. Don’t talk to the cops!
I can’t actually read Morse code and rely on an on line translator, here is what it told me:
“There was a character in the text that the translator cannot translate.
The allowed characters are A-Z a-z 0-9 .,:?’-/()”
The offending character has been removed and the rest of the text translated.”
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“NTULLSHTTTNTURENETUT”
I must have a really prudish translator.
Which is not nearly as funny as it was supposed to be!
I don’t care if the intruder had a wrench or not...the lady was still in danger.
Granny got her gun!
I just love those Southern folks.
This is a great story of an elderly woman’s refusal to be victimized. My mother, who lives in Northern CA, also turns 86 on 16 Feb. She has had concealed carry for more than 20 years, as is quite willing to use her weapon on an attacker.
Aw. I was hoping that she killed the little bitch. But at least she got off a shot at her.
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