"I Shot Her Twice,She Best Be Dead!"

Sky Valley Chronicle ^ | 24 July, 2014 | NA

[marktwain]

(LONG BEACH, CA.) -- They came to the wrong house to do a B & E (break and enter) that night and they most certainly frightened and roughed up the wrong 80-year old man.

For one of the invader-robbers that night, a woman, it was indeed a fatal error in the victim selection process.

Tom Greer, an 80-year-old retiree arrived at his home in Long Beach Tuesday night to find a man and a woman in the middle of a late night break in, ransacking the place.

Greer told L.A.'s KNBC-TV as soon as he got inside both robbers tackled him, "Both of them jumped up on top of me," after they threw him to the ground he said.

The next day he had to be treated at a hospital for a severe shoulder and collarbone injury.

But during the attack on Greer the robbers didn't know that somehow he had gotten a hold of his .22 caliber revolver.

A .22 is a terribly puny, underpowered cartridge for self-defense, most firearms instructors would say, but in a pinch it's better than throwing a rock.

Greer told the station, "I come back and they see me with a gun, and they run," he said.

The man got away, but as they were both running in an alley behind the house. Greer fired his weapon at them and the woman fell after being hit by a bullet.

Greer said the woman pleaded, 'Don't shoot me, I'm pregnant! I'm going to have a baby!' And I shot her anyway," he said.

Greer said after he fired the shots, "She was dead. I shot her twice, she best be dead ... (The man) had run off and left her."

[Durus]

What if you are a cop?

[Oberon]

What if you are a cop?

In that case the law is the same, but the entire system is biased in your favor... so the outcome is anybody's guess, depending.