Don't mess with this Granny either!

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(KSDK) - Police say an 87-year-old East St. Louis woman used a gun to stop a would-be burglar.

This was now the first time she faced an intruder.

One man was shot dead as he tried to break into an East St. Louis, Illinois, home.

Police say this is the second time someone tried to break into the woman's home in the past two months.

The first time the intruder beat the woman. This time the woman shot the intruder. The woman's daughter said her mother told her she had another "guest" overnight,

Police say that guest turned out to be an intruder.

The homeowner, who is 87 years old and lives alone, heard someone breaking into her house around 2:00 a.m. in the 2100 block of Gaty.

Police say the intruder cut the phone lines and removed iron bars from a side window. The intruder was shot as he was trying to get through the front door.

Police say in December, someone got in and beat the woman. Police are not sure if it's the same suspect, but they say there are a lot of similarities.

The suspect has not yet been identified. He was pronounced dead at the scene. An autopsy will be performed Tuesday afternoon.

 

[Standing Wolf]

The first time the intruder beat the woman. This time the woman shot the intruder.

I'll bet he won't try that again very soon!

 

[armedandsafe]

Buy that woman some more ammo and turn 'er loose!

Pops

 

[Red Dragon]

Standing wolf said:
I'll bet he won't try that again very soon!

Given this:

The suspect has not yet been identified. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

I don't think that will be a problem.

 

[Drizzt]

87-year-old woman fatally shoots man in her home
By Doug Moore
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
02/07/2006

An 87-year-old East St. Louis woman fatally shot a man early this morning as he was trying to break into her house.

Police said they found the man, Larry D. Tillman, 49, of East St. Louis on the enclosed front porch of the woman’s house in the 2100 block of Gaty Avenue. He had pulled the telephone wires from the side of the house, then removed security bars from a porch window.

As the man was breaking through a storm door that leads into the house itself, the woman fired several shots through her front door, striking Tillman once in the chest.

Police said the shots were fired from a pistol, most likely a gun that her daughter had given her after a man broke into the elderly woman’s house in December, battered her and stole some items.

The man may have been dead for as long as four hours before police arrived. Police said that the woman was not sure that she had hit Tillman when she fired the shots about 2 a.m. However, she was too afraid to go outside to check and could not call for help because the telephone lines were dead.

When the woman’s daughter arrived about 6 a.m. to bring her mother breakfast, she found the dead man on the porch, police said.

Illinois State Police Master Sgt. Jim Morrisey said evidence taken from the December home invasion would be compared to the break-in today to see if Tillman was responsible for both crimes.


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