Elderly Woman Shoots Trespasser, Protecting Her Home

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USA –-(Ammoland.com)- The Livingston Parish News reports 9-28-2016 in Walker, Louisiana Deputies with the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to “a suspicious person acting irrationally,” according to Sheriff Jason Ard.

Arriving deputies located a white male, partially clothed, hiding under a residence. The 46-year old had been shot once in the lower leg by the homeowner who reported the incident, the sheriff said, and was transported for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.

The investigators learned the wounded individual went to a nearby home without permission committing a disturbance. The homeowner, an elderly female, made contact with him in her yard. The intruder then removed his pants and shoes and walked towards her.

Fearing for her life, the elderly female produced a firearm and gave a verbal command for him to stop. Instead he fled towards the homeowner’s unlocked residence where another woman …Read the Rest

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