Not again.

A robber attempted to break into an 87-year-old woman's house in East St. Louis, Illinois, on February 7, but failed.

At about 2:00 a.m., Jacksie Mae King woke up when she heard someone trying to break into her home. She grabbed the pistol her daughter had given her following a home invasion two months earlier. In the earlier incident, she had been beaten and items were stolen. This time, King fired several shots through her front door. One shot hit the intruder, Larry Tillman, in the chest and killed him.

With her phone dead because Tillman had disconnected the wires outside, King waited in fear for the next four hours inside her house, too afraid to even look outside to see if she had hit someone. When King's daughter arrived at 6:00 a.m. with breakfast, Tillman was found on King's porch.

Evidence shows that Tillman had removed security bars from a window to get onto King's enclosed porch and then tried to break through her front door, reported the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Tillman's death will not likely be lamented by society because he was a public menace. According to the News-Democrat, "Jail records show Tillman was found guilty of 21 of 25 cases filed against him," largely robbery and burglary cases. Police are investigating to determine whether Tillman was the man who had attacked King two months earlier.