Cops: Cape Girardeau woman kills man who returned to rape her second time [armed citizen]

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH | 10/31/2008 | Heather Ratcliffe

[grundle]

Oops! I forgot the link: http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/laworder/story/9C58494B45470714862574F3006D0CA6?OpenDocument

[domenad]

Oooh, went to the well one too many times, as Gorilla Monsoon used to say. But at least now the guy can be a productive member of society - I hear rose bushes grow wonderfully in a freshy corpse.

[Abathar]

*sniffle*

I just love a happy ending...

[Malsua]

This appears to be the perp:

[o_zarkman44]

Finished a job the courts couldn’t do.
Justice served.

[KarlInOhio]

He was taken to St. Francis Medical Center, where he died several hours later.

I hope he was awake and in agony those last few hours. We don't have any morphine to spare for rapists.

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

The 57-year-old woman shot Ronnie W. Preyer, 47, a registered sex offender, in the chest with a shotgun

SCORE!

[stockpirate]

God bless this woman.

Ouch, a shotgun blast to the chest has to hurt.

I wondered what type of round she was using, 00, number 2?

[gracesdad]

Good job.

[TonyInOhio]

How’s Hell treatin’ ya these days, Ronnie?

[Larry Lucido]

I hope he was awake and in agony those last few hours.

A few quotes from Pulp Fiction come to mind here.

[Jemian]

Correction: It was the perp. Emphasis on the WAS.

And kudos to Swingle who clearly possesses common sense.

[meandog]

"I will not be filing any sort of charge against this 57-year-old woman, who was clearly justified under the law in shooting this intruder in her home," Swingle said.

What???? ...this is not going to sit well in circles around San Francisco.

[Upstate NY Guy]

Outstanding! Bravo!

Good choice using a shotgun. Probably the best for most people at close range.

[Rummyfan]

Good for her! I would only say she should have shot him again so he would not have been able to leave the scene.

[Abathar]

I hope #8 myself, takes longer but the end is the same.

[USS Alaska]

I wondered what type of round she was using, 00, number 2?

A close range it really doesn't matter.

Give that woman a life time membership to the NRA.

[wombtotomb]

Real woman with excellent”gun control”-all is right with the universe! You won’t see this woman needing to sleep with 13 year old boys to prove it as in previous story thread on here. Bravo!

[stockpirate]

I use number 2 steal shot, high vilocity 3” shells.