Woman sees hand under her bed, grabs gun

WIS TV ^ | 17 January 2008 | Chantelle Janelle

[aomagrat]

LAURENS COUNTY, SC (WIS) - In the Upstate, a woman shot and killed a man who broke into her home. That's according to the Laurens County Sheriff's Department.

Deputies say the woman was getting home from work when she heard a noise in her bedroom. When she went to investigate, authorities say she saw a hand under her bed. That's when she grabbed a gun and started firing, eventually killing 23-year-old Richard Vanderford.

Deputies say Vanderford was a neighbor of the woman, but should not have been in her home.

Authorities are now trying to decide if any charges should be filed.

[aomagrat]

Shoot first, ask questions later!

[snippy_about_it]

Sam says, better to be tried by twelve than carried by six!

Of course this is a no brainer. I’d shoot too!

Good to see you.

[Anonymous Rex]

Charges? To hell with that give her a medal and some more ammo.

[Moonman62]

Authorities are now trying to decide if any charges should be filed.

Charges? The authorities should chip in for new carpet and a bed.

[rockabyebaby]

Charges? If you’re in my house uninvited, you pay the consequences.

[Tax-chick]

Deputies say Vanderford was a neighbor of the woman, but should not have been in her home.

Gosh, you think? Maybe he wanted to borrow a can of chopped tomatoes, and he was just waiting under the bed until she got home.

[tx_eggman]

Authorities are now trying to decide if any charges should be filed.

That's when she grabbed a gun and started firing, eventually killing 23-year-old Richard Vanderford.

The only possible crime here is wasting ammuntion ... but she got the job done.

[353FMG]

Boy, is she ever lucky that he didn’t find the gun first.

[coloradan]

Wasting? Can you suggest how it might have been put to better use?

[Moose4]

Maybe the boxspring deflected the first couple of shots.

}:-)4

[hgro]

An award is in order for straight shooting.

[Larry Lucido]

(Giggety giggety...OUCH!)

[Jeff Head]

In his other hand?

...12 dozen roses and a bottle of wine.

Ooops...wrong door...wrong bed. [/inappropriate humor]

Seriously, if charges are filed, the woman should be absolutely no billed at the grand jury. Alone in the home with her children, she should not expect anything toward from someone hiding under her bed. She should expect and respond to such a situation as if though in grave danger and her life was at stake...because it was.

[SoldierDad]

Well, maybe she should have waited to see what the man’s intentions were before she started shooting. /sarc

[Wings-n-Wind]

Shoot first, ask questions later!

*******

R.I.P......

He got caught in the wrong flat...
Trying to be sharp...

[Centurion2000]

Sounds like a totally clean shoot based on the info.

[stevem]

Authorities are now trying to decide if any charges should be filed.

It seems like a waste of taxpayers' money to file charges against a dead man.

[rintense]

Yep!

[knarf]

"Authorities are now trying to decide if any charges should be filed."

They're trying to decide?

Lemmee help y'out, Keystone Kops ...

There's a guy under a lady's bed laying in a pool of his own blood ... ya' can't get anymore justifiable than that !!!

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