Former Customer Caught Breaking Into Auto Repair Shop — Business Owner Shoots After She Refuses To Drop Pry Bar

By James England

LA CROSSE COUNTY, WISCONSIN — At approximately 1:30 a.m., a business owner discovered a former customer in a mask, trying to break into his business with a pry bar. Drawing his handgun, he asked the woman to drop the pry bar. She refused and he shot her in the leg.

According to WEAU News 13, police have identified the suspect as Amy Zielke, 37. Zielke was taken into custody after being treated for a gunshot wound to her leg.

Other news sources corroborate Zielke’s history of criminal behavior. In 2007, she was accused of stealing patient information to obtain an estimated $3,500 worth of merchandise via fraudulent use of credit cards and banking information.

via La Crosse Tribune (2007)

“I don’t want to make excuses for what I’ve done,” Amy Zielke said at her sentencing Friday in La Crosse County Circuit Court. “But I always wanted to buy all of the groceries on my list just once. I wanted to pay all of our bills instead of playing eenie, meeny, miny, moe.”

In that case, Zielke had no prior arrests so she faced no jail time on condition she paid back the debts. That was ten years ago.

Since then, Zielke has …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation