A 69-year-old grandmother in Florida shot and killed a home intruder on Saturday, according to authorities.
Virginia Morrison told reporters she was relaxing in her Azalea Park home with her 80-year-old partner, Charlie, on Saturday when she heard the front door open.
That’s when she quickly grabbed a broom handle and hit the intruder twice in the face while yelling at Charlie to go grab his handgun. He then shoots near the uninvited guest’s feet before calling the police.
The suspect, identified as 38-year-old Ezequiel Rosario-Torres, retreated to the backyard and refused to leave the property.
Fed up with his stubbornness, Morrison retrieved her own pistol from a cabinet near her bed.
“I went out the back door and I came to the fence and he sees me,” she said. “He starts toward me. I fired a shot above him. ‘Back off, dude, I’ll shoot you.’ He just keeps coming toward me. So I shot him.”
Responding cops found him on the ground in a pool of blood and was later pronounced dead at a local hospital.
“I didn’t know what he was going to do, but I knew I was going to protect myself. I’m a fighter. I’m going to defend myself,” Morrison told reporters.
The sexagenarian is no amateur when it comes to guns, claiming that she’s been shooting guns since she was a kid.
“I’ve been shooting guns since I was 10 years old — I grew up on a dairy farm in Tennessee. We had to know how to shoot rattlesnakes,’” Morrison said. “I’ve never had to pull a gun on anybody.’”
Similarly, a mother in San Antonio fatally shot an intruder who broke into her home while her three children were asleep.
The incident happened around 10 p.m. at the woman’s home on Kashmuir Place in San Antonio when she heard someone was trying to enter the main door from the laundry room.
The homeowner then saw the burglar, 41-year-old Roman Rodriguez, and shot him twice in the chest, killing him.
Both Morrison and the unidentified mother are not facing any charges due to the so-called “Castle Doctrine,” which allows the use of force against another person who is: unlawfully and with force entering or attempts to enter your habitation, vehicle, or workplace.
