Jumped from behind.

According to an article in the Vindicator (Ohio), an 83-year-old man fended off an attacker in his home.

Walter Swita, of Youngstown, had been robbed and beaten six weeks earlier, and so he had begun parking across the street from his house, rather than behind it, and he had begun carrying a gun, a weapon that he had owned since WWII. This action saved him from becoming a repeat victim.

On October 28, as Swita walked to his house from his car, he saw a man who had been loitering on the sidewalk start toward him quickly, and so he readied his gun and proceeded to hurriedly unlock his front door to enter his house. As Swita got one foot inside the door, the man bounded onto Swita's porch and attacked him from behind, grabbing Swita's neck and shoving him. Swita fell forward and shot his attacker twice--in the head and chest. When the police arrived at Swita's, they found Swita lying on the floor with minor head injuries. The robber had fatal wounds. Two other men reportedly fled from the scene.

A story on WKBN.com quoted Swita as saying about the incident, "As a rule, I don't carry a gun. I don't want to shoot anyone.... You have to do what you have to do, you know." In Swita's case, after being beaten and robbed, he felt be had one of two options: arm himself or move. Since he has been a Youngstown resident since the 1920s and has a sister in the area, moving was not an option. The city prosecutor has declined to press charges against Swita. The county prosecutor has not yet made a decision in the case.