Posted on 06/27/2019 6:00:54 AM PDT by marktwain
On 17 June, 2019, in Limestone County, Alabama, the police had been pursuing a stolen vehicle. The driver crashed the vehicle and fled. Four hours later, a 15 year old girl spotted the suspect and immediately told her 75-year-old grandmother. Marcia Black got her Ruger 10-22 rifle and confronted the suspect, Cameron Powers, in her driveway. Then she held him for police. From waaytv.com:
About four hours after deputies say Cameron Powers crashed a stolen car during a high-speed chase on E & L Lane, he showed up in Black's grandmother’s driveway.
“He didn’t have a shirt on and didn’t have any shoes on,” Allie Ruth Black said.
Black spotted Powers and immediately called 9-1-1, while her 75-year-old grandmother, Marcia, got her rifle and confronted the man about the crash that happened just down the road from her home.
“He said, ‘No, ma’am, I don’t know what you’re talking about,'” Black said. “And she said, ‘Well, I’m going to need you to lay down in the grass.’”
When the man kept moving closer to her home, Black's grandmother reacted.
“She shot up in the air and he hit the ground as hard as he could,” Black said.
The police came and arrested Powers. We know the rifle make because 15-year-old Allie showed it to the reporter.
The home is in a rural area in Alabama.
Marcia Black fired a warning shot to obtain compliance with her demands to Powers. In this case, the warning shot worked; the suspect complied.
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Man, that 10-22 is sooo much fun...!
I love that thing.
Love a happy ending.
Moral: Don’t mess with an armed Grammom...
Every house in America should have a 10-22 rifle.
L
At least one.
I also wouldn't do it but there's enough aftermarket stuff out there to make one look like Seal Team 6's weapon of choice.
“She shot up in the air and he hit the ground as hard as he could,” Black said.
Years ago I held two poachers at gunpoint while we waited on the Sheriff's deputies. One was meek and apologetic, the other mouthy and belligerent. "I'll get up and walk off, there's nuttin you can do about it!"
I looked at the kid on the ground as his buddy got up to leave and said "Son, I'm sorry, but when I shoot him I'm going to have to shoot you, too. I'll be the only one testifying here."
He tackled his buddy and sat on him until the law got there.
Too bad she didn't drop him like a bag of dirt --- and then call the morgue.
A nicely set-up example!
I’ve been to Limestone county; it’s a nice place. I like that the perp called the granny “ma’am”. Even before she fired the warning shot.
10-22 is nice but I like my Remington Nylon 66.
Perp was involved as a participant in stupid, crazy way men act when a woman is involved.
Nice rifle. But they’re almost impossible to acquire now. And the Ruger has scads and scads of aftermarket goodies available off the shelf. So spare parts aren’t a problem.
Best,
L
When You can,
Order a
10/22 Ruger Compact.
16 inch Barrel
and shorter Stock.
Great.... another 10-22 I “need.”
God bless her.
Recieved with
Parkerized finish
And Trijicon Sights!
Sweet!
10/22 Compact.
You’re really not trying to help me, are you? :)
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