Posted on 05/26/2022 12:50:19 PM PDT by simpson96
ORLANDO, Fla. - A 70-year-old woman said she fired a warning shot after a stranger walked into her home Sunday afternoon and wouldn't leave, before ultimately shooting him. The man died at the hospital.
Deputies with the Orange County Sheriff's Office responded to the woman's home Sunday for a "burglary in progress", near Brentwood Street and Farrell Avenue, and found a man, later identified as 38-year-old Ezequiel Rosario-Torres, with a gunshot wound.
"He stepped in, and I turned around, and I said ‘who the hell are you? What do you want?’ Nothing. This guy never said a word the whole time he was here," said Virginia Morrison, 70, who lives at the home with her partner.
Morrison told FOX 35 News in an interview on Monday that she tried to hit the man with a broom, but he would swat it away. She said her partner went to get his gun and fired a warning shot, but the man would not leave.
She retrieved her gun and went to the background, where the man allegedly walked toward her.
"He started coming toward me and I fired a shot above him. ‘Back off dude!’" Morrison said, "and he just kept coming toward me. So I just lowered my gun and shot him."
"I didn’t realize I hit him but once I looked, he had a hole in his t-shirt and I thought I got him," she said.
Deputies transported Rosario-Torres to the hospital where he died.
"I didn’t know what he was going to do, but I knew I was going to protect myself. I’m a fighter. I’m going to defend myself," Morrison said.
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good thinking ma’am. may God protect you now from ‘authorities’ now that you had to protect your life and property alone.
One less democRAT (probably illegal) voter.
Two warning shots and he kept advancing. Dude earned that third one.
Interesting read. A lot of drama and maneuvering between her and her ‘partner’ before the fatal shot. Two warning shots? This was one dumb criminal.
We owe you one, Sis. Thanx for taking out the trash.
she’s going to jail.
a friendly mime is no threat to life or... well, second thought, justifiable cause the mime had all sorts of invisible weapons.
She talks too much.
Suicide by grandma?
Rule #2: Double Tap
A mime is a terrible thing to waste. Except in this case.
Atta girl !
Based on what?
As that hijo de puta entered her house without being invited the criminal justice term "alleged" doesn't apply.
Nope, this is Florida. We don't do that down here.
I recognize the cynicism & sarcasm BUT this is Florida and so, NO, she is not going to jail!
I second (2nd) that remark!!! (pun intended)
i hope she doesn’t go to jail or have antifa visit her, but i am sure she has deterred them tremendously with her accuracy.
Partner?
So she owns a business? Maybe a lesbian?
What is this "partner" stuff?
First time I heard “partner” used for heterosexual couples was while working in the UK in 2010 - basically means you are shacking up without marriage.
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