or this
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04261/380685.stm
Woman who shot attacker tells story
Friday, September 17, 2004
By Jim McKinnon, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Her nervous fingers gripped the handle of the .38-caliber revolver tucked in the pocket of her sweatpants.
She couldn't see clearly. Her eyes crossed as they focused on the barrel of a .22-caliber rifle inches from her nose.
Charmaine Dunbar, a 44-year-old mother of three, refocused her gaze in the predawn light. Mental images flashed before her.
"He said, 'Stand there so I can shoot you.' He looked like a devil," Dunbar said yesterday.
The man she said confronted her, Daniel Wesley, 27, is on trial on charges that he raped or sexually assaulted eight women and girls in the East End two years ago.
Dunbar's first encounter with Wesley, whom she identified yesterday in court, was at about 3:45 a.m. Oct. 10, 2002. She survived it. Her second encounter came just a while later, and, that time, she not only survived but conquered.
Dunbar did not know her attacker. He wore a gray hooded sweat shirt covering much of his head, and baggy blue jeans with the cuffs rolled up. The long-barreled rifle had been pulled from his waistband and the roomy leg of his jeans.
Dunbar, who works as a security guard, was prepared for the dangerous Homewood streets. She carried her pistol in her pocket just in case.
Still, she was not quite ready in their first meeting when Wesley pulled the rifle on Murtland Avenue, where she was walking her dog, Jagger. He had been stooped behind a car and stood and raised the weapon toward her when she walked by.
"Please, don't shoot," she said.
Dunbar could not get to her gun. Instead, she ran. With Jagger on a leash and Wesley chasing her, Dunbar began yelling for neighbors to call police.
Eventually a woman looked out a window and dialed 911. Wesley stopped, tucked the rifle back into his pants and walked away.
For about 45 minutes, Dunbar rode around the neighborhood with a police officer searching unsuccessfully for her attacker.
After returning home, she told the officer that she wanted to finish her exercise.
"He had interrupted my walk, my routine. It was almost light outside," Dunbar said. "I didn't know he had raped those other women," saying she believes Wesley is guilty of the assaults.
Each woman has testified and identified Wesley at trial before a jury of seven men and five women in the courtroom of Common Pleas Judge Gerard M. Bigley.
Just two days before the showdown with Dunbar, Wesley had raped another woman in East Liberty after choking her into unconsciousness, according to that woman's testimony Wednesday.
The suspect might not be in custody if not for his second meeting with Dunbar.
She had resumed her exercise when, on Brushton Avenue, she caught sight of a figure in the corner of her eye.
Dunbar said she and Jagger began to run up the hill on Brushton. Wesley pursued, dragging one leg stiffly because of the concealed rifle.
When he got close, she said she commented to him about how trying it was to get up that hill. Wesley agreed, bending at the waist and resting his hands on his knees.
She walked a bit farther and decided she was at a disadvantage with him behind her. So, she stopped near the corner of Stranahan Street, leaned against a fence and took the gun from her pocket. The sleeve of her sweat shirt concealed the weapon.
When Wesley appeared, he was smiling.
Moving into the moon's backlighting, Wesley began to raise the rifle and Dunbar said she fired twice from her .38, striking him in the abdomen.
"He just stood there, like he didn't know he was shot," Dunbar said. "Then he fell."
Dunbar ran home to get her father, Silver Barnett, and to call police. When the pair returned to the scene, Wesley was gone.
They found him about 100 feet away, lying in the doorway of a home.
When officers arrived, he told them that Dunbar and her brother had tried to rob him.
While one officer explained to Dunbar that she had a right to remain silent, other officers searched the vicinity and found the rifle. It had been ditched in the brush between where Wesley was shot and where he was found wounded.
"I was real nervous," Dunbar said of her ordeal. She will not be charged in the shooting.
"I didn't think I'd killed him," she said. "I wasn't trying to kill him. I was just trying to keep him off of me."
"I felt glad that I caught him," Dunbar said after learning that Wesley was the primary suspect in the sexual assaults.
Defense attorney Erika Kreisman said Wesley turned down a plea agreement under which he would admit the rapes and be sentenced to 25 to 50 years in prison. She said he denies committing any of the assaults. If convicted, he faces a possible sentence of more than 100 years.
Testimony will resume today.
or hang it out for a year. Eather way, it was verry suprising.
I know, a sad story 
