Posted on 06/27/2016 12:30:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An Oregon mother shot and killed a home intruder she found in her child's bedroom early Sunday, reports CBS affiliate KOIN.
Police say the 33-year-old woman returned home with her two children, 5 and 10, and found the unidentified intruder, 59. KOIN reports the woman shot the man, a stranger, with her personal handgun after a confrontation.
Police tell the station the woman and her children are victims in the situation. They say the family is traumatized. They were reportedly not hurt in the incident.
The woman cooperated with investigators and the case is being sent to the Multnomah County District Attorney's Office for review, according to the station.
Neighbor Amber Murray told the station the home was vacant for a while before the woman and her children moved in recently.
"I know when the previous renters were there, there was a lot of mischief," Murray said. "After they moved out I think there were a few squatters in and out of there."
Investigators are working to determine why the man was in the home. An autopsy is planned for Monday.
When does she get indicted in whacko Oregon?
Good. This is exactly what the democrats don’t want you to be able to do.
Now THAT is what a call a good shoot..of course the leftists would want this brave mother charged, after all she has no right to defend herself according to liberal loons
I expect the children to be charged as accessories here.
I love a happy ending like this.
Apparently the intruder was alone in the house when the mother and kids walked in. The house had been vacant a while before she moved in, with squatters being a nuisance.
This may be a case of simple trespassing or a cracked-out derelict going into a (unlocked?) dwelling looking to crash.
Is that a justified homicide? We’ll see I guess.
She may not get indicted, but watch DCS try to take her kids away for “intentionally inflicting emotional trauma.”
I’d love to see her and her kids introduced at a Trump rally as the very reason the 2nd Amendment is so important. A great American mom!
She is a HERO, God Bless her, and in Oregon of all places. I believe this county that this woman lives in is pretty left wing(Please correct me if Im wrong) I have a friend who lives in West Linn she says that area is pretty Conservative its Portland that is full of the leftist loons. This woman saved her children Thank God she had a gun..excellent shoot!!
“An autopsy is planned for Monday.”
I’m going to go out on that Redwood limb and say: “Lead Poisoning.”
So what if it was? It's her home and he was an intruder. She was entitled to assume he was a threat to her and her kids.
Is that a justified homicide? We’ll see I guess.
What crap. This is a no-brainer.
now that’s the kind of gun control that works
Are people even reading the story carefully.
It’s a burglary(felony). Good shoot.
Laws do differ from place to place. What flies in Texas won’t fly in New York, etc. Yes, there are non-SYG places. One can be morally justified all the way to jail. One has to know how to choose battles while the stars are not totally in one’s favor.
Actually, she will have to show she feared immediate harm to her children or herself. It sounds like she had a confrontation, and if the guy moved towards her or the kids, then it’s a good shoot.
Here in Virginia, if I walk into my house and find a guy there and just shoot him, I will go to prison for a very long time unless it’s obvious that I had cause to fear immediate grevious injury or death.
"Dead men tell no tales". They're not working too hard as they are Servpro for the state.
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