Grandmother uses Semi-Automatic Rifle to Hold Suspect for Police

By Dean Weingarten

Alabama -(Ammoland.com)- On 17 June, 2019, in Limestone County, Alabama, the police had been pursuing a stolen vehicle. The driver crashed the vehicle and fled. Four hours later, a 15 year old girl spotted the suspect and immediately told her 75-year-old grandmother. Marcia Black got her Ruger 10-22 rifle and confronted the suspect, Cameron Powers, in her driveway. Then she held him for police. From waaytv.com:

About four hours after deputies say Cameron Powers crashed a stolen car during a high-speed chase on E & L Lane, he showed up in Black’s grandmother’s driveway.

“He didn’t have a shirt on and didn’t have any shoes on,” Allie Ruth Black said.

Black spotted Powers and immediately called 9-1-1, while her 75-year-old grandmother, Marcia, got her rifle and confronted the man about the crash that happened just down the road from her home.

“He said, ‘No, ma’am, I don’t know what you’re talking about,’” Black said. “And she said, ‘Well, I’m going to need you to lay down in the grass.’”

When the man kept moving closer to her home, Black’s grandmother reacted.

“She shot …Read the Rest

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