Refuge in a gun.After hearing glass breaking in her house at 6:00 a.m., a Milwaukee, Wisconsin For other places with the same name, see Milwaukee (disambiguation). Milwaukee is the largest city within the state of Wisconsin and 25th largest (by population) in the United States. , woman called the police, armed herself, and investigated. The unidentified woman, upon hearing the glass break, retrieved the gun she had purchased the previous summer after her older brother was murdered. She then went downstairs to investigate. She knew that she couldn't just hole up in her room and wait for police to arrive because her teenage brother and six-year-old son were downstairs. Downstairs, she discovered a strange man. He walked directly toward her, and she shot at him twice. "The shots sailed over the intruder's head into the wall as he dropped to the ground," she indicated to WISN WISN Wireless Integrated Services Network Channel 12 News. The intruder An attacker that gains, or tries to gain, unauthorized access to a system. See attacker, intrusion and IDS. , an unidentified man from Green Bay, Wisconsin Green Bay is the county seat of Brown County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The city is located at the head of its namesake Green Bay, a sub-basin of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the Fox River. , fled from the armed woman into the living room, where the woman's brother and son were located. A scary scar·y adj. scar·i·er, scar·i·est 1. Causing fright or alarm. 2. Easily scared; very timid. scar incident then became scarier: the intruder grabbed the woman's brother by the neck. She warned the man that if he didn't let go of her brother, she would kill him. She gave him until the count of three to let her brother go. She began the countdown to killing him and she got to the number two when the police arrived at her front door and resolved the situation by arresting the man. The woman was extremely glad that the police had arrived quickly because she didn't want to kill the man, but she knew she would've done it to protect her family. No charges have been filed against the woman. The intruder, a felon An individual who commits a crime of a serious nature, such as Burglary or murder. A person who commits a felony. felon n. a person who has been convicted of a felony, which is a crime punishable by death or a term in state or federal prison. with arrests for theft, claimed that he only entered the house because he believed that he was being shot at by someone outside. |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion