(TX) Woman blasts intruder dead 11-03-03
Intruder dies at hands of armed East Sider By Vincent T. Davis San
Antonio Express-News Web Posted : 11/03/2003 12:00 AM
A 21-year-old man was shot and killed late Saturday on the East Side
when he broke through a woman's front window at the Morningview Oaks
Apartments.
According to a police report, Ernest Flores III broke through Judy
Abram's living room window as she played dominoes with her sisters.
Abram yelled at Flores to leave, but he kept advancing. She ran to her
bedroom, grabbed a pistol, and told him she had a gun. When he continued
to enter the room, Abram, 55, fired two times while screaming, "Can't
you see I have a gun? Get out of here!"
The police report said Flores continued to break through the window as
Abram fired the remaining four bullets at him. She dashed to her bedroom
to reload, but when she returned, Flores was gone.
Staggering next door, Flores crashed through a neighbor's front window
and fell face down on a table where police found him with one gunshot
wound to the upper chest.
Police said Abram acted in self-defense and no charges are expected to
be filed.
The police report said that prior to the break-in, Flores left a
neighbor's house across the street rambling that someone was after him.
The neighbor said the last time she saw Flores he was crawling across
the street and breaking through Abram's window.
By Sunday afternoon, a maintenance man had replaced the bullet-riddled
blinds and two broken windows, but talk of the break-in buzzed on the
street. Several children poked their heads into a television news van
parked at the location, while residents milled around and compared notes
on the incident.
Neighbor John W. Prince didn't join those in the street.
The 79-year-old spent Sunday afternoon listening to 1960s soul music
with wife
Gwenderlyn, 69, in their house on the corner of BookerTee and Morning
View.
When asked about the shooting, Prince said when he heard the gunshots he
did what he had learned during the Korean War - he automatically hit
the floor.
"I can't stand it. It bothers me," Prince said of hearing gunfire.
The 13-year Army veteran and his wife have lived on the corner since the
early 1990s, and both said their neighborhood is usually quiet.
"Somebody showed up at the wrong place," he said. "And that's going on
around the city."
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11/03/2003
Intruder dies at hands of armed East Sider By Vincent T. Davis San
Antonio Express-News Web Posted : 11/03/2003 12:00 AM
A 21-year-old man was shot and killed late Saturday on the East Side
when he broke through a woman's front window at the Morningview Oaks
Apartments.
According to a police report, Ernest Flores III broke through Judy
Abram's living room window as she played dominoes with her sisters.
Abram yelled at Flores to leave, but he kept advancing. She ran to her
bedroom, grabbed a pistol, and told him she had a gun. When he continued
to enter the room, Abram, 55, fired two times while screaming, "Can't
you see I have a gun? Get out of here!"
The police report said Flores continued to break through the window as
Abram fired the remaining four bullets at him. She dashed to her bedroom
to reload, but when she returned, Flores was gone.
Staggering next door, Flores crashed through a neighbor's front window
and fell face down on a table where police found him with one gunshot
wound to the upper chest.
Police said Abram acted in self-defense and no charges are expected to
be filed.
The police report said that prior to the break-in, Flores left a
neighbor's house across the street rambling that someone was after him.
The neighbor said the last time she saw Flores he was crawling across
the street and breaking through Abram's window.
By Sunday afternoon, a maintenance man had replaced the bullet-riddled
blinds and two broken windows, but talk of the break-in buzzed on the
street. Several children poked their heads into a television news van
parked at the location, while residents milled around and compared notes
on the incident.
Neighbor John W. Prince didn't join those in the street.
The 79-year-old spent Sunday afternoon listening to 1960s soul music
with wife
Gwenderlyn, 69, in their house on the corner of BookerTee and Morning
View.
When asked about the shooting, Prince said when he heard the gunshots he
did what he had learned during the Korean War - he automatically hit
the floor.
"I can't stand it. It bothers me," Prince said of hearing gunfire.
The 13-year Army veteran and his wife have lived on the corner since the
early 1990s, and both said their neighborhood is usually quiet.
"Somebody showed up at the wrong place," he said. "And that's going on
around the city."
[email protected]
http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=310&xlc=1078777&xld=310
11/03/2003
