Resident with Cane Shoots Dead Home Invader

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Las Vegas, NV –-(Ammoland.com)- KRQE TV 13 reports this week (9/9/2016) in Tijeras, New Mexico, the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department Officers were called to a home on Campo Road about 5:30 in the afternoon.

Deputies found that a 48 year old intruder had broken into a home and attacked a 70-year-old male resident with a bamboo stick and a hockey stick. The victim suffered a severe head injury but was able to shoot the intruder in the chest with his .38 caliber handgun.

The intruder died at the scene. Neighbors were calling the resident a hero.

One neighbor said “He walks with a cane. He’s ‘kind of’ a bit older and has some issues. I think that a strong breeze would push him over”.

Deputies are not releasing where it happened but neighbors pointed out the home to KRQE News 13. They say seeing deputies surround it left …Read the Rest

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