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'I’m a fighter': 70-year-old Florida woman shoots, kills alleged intruder at her home
Fox35 Orlando ^ | 05/23/2022 | Stephanie Buffamonte

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at fox35orlando.com ...


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KEYWORDS: castledoctrine; floridawoman; guns; intruder; rosariotorres; selfdefense; tmrosariotorres
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To: simpson96

There’s your gun control!


21 posted on 05/26/2022 1:19:29 PM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: dadfly
good thinking ma’am. may God protect you now from ‘authorities’ now that you had to protect your life and property alone.


No kidding. Sad we have to think that way.
22 posted on 05/26/2022 1:32:54 PM PDT by Nifty
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To: simpson96

She has more guts than the Texas cops


23 posted on 05/26/2022 1:34:50 PM PDT by roving
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To: simpson96

In communist-controlled eastern states (like NY, PA, NJ, CT, MA, MA, DE, MD, RI, ME) she’d be facing first-degree murder charges...


24 posted on 05/26/2022 2:10:45 PM PDT by SuperLuminal
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To: Clemenza

If they get married it will lower their SS benefits.


25 posted on 05/26/2022 2:27:26 PM PDT by Kenny500c ( )
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

“Don’t Talk,Shoot!”


26 posted on 05/26/2022 2:28:04 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (We Are JONAH)
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To: humblegunner

Her partner is a he. But who knows,maybe the words spouse and husband are verboten now that the Gaystapo is in charge.


27 posted on 05/26/2022 4:39:33 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: simpson96

Rd later.


28 posted on 05/26/2022 9:53:45 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: simpson96

Is there any state where this woman would face charges? Certainly not GA.


29 posted on 05/27/2022 8:01:42 AM PDT by GAgal
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