Cancer Survivor With Concealed Carry Permit Drives Off FIVE Home Invaders In Detroit

By Bob Owens

By the nature, most criminals are craven predators, preferring to target those that they see as being weaker. Unfortunately, known survivors of long or chronic illnesses are often targeted by home invaders hoping to score prescription narcotics.

That was the likely motive early yesterday morning when a band of robbers forced their way into Dietta Gueye’s house and started shooting.

They quickly discovered that while her body may have been weakened by cancer, she retained the will to fight:

She was in bed when five men burst through her windows at 2:30 a.m. But they didn’t know that Dietta was locked and loaded and not afraid to start firing.

Dietta got her CPL three years ago when her house was robbed. After hearing the men come in, she grabbed her gun and started firing.

“Imagine being woke up out of your sleep with somebody (holding) a gun in your face,” she told FOX 2’s Amy Lange. “My first reaction was survival. My first thought was shoot.”

She was tucked into bed and sound asleep, when the first man crashed through her bedroom window.

It’s likely he nor the men that followed knew she was in there or that she had a gun.

She said they avoided …read more

Source:: Bearing Arms