Woman Defends Herself after Courts and EPO's Fail A woman eluded a gunshot fired by her ex-husband Monday night and killed him with a return shot from her own pistol, authorities said Tuesday. Store owner in gun battle with robber Man's son, maybe intruder too, injured during holdup A gun battle during a robbery late Saturday in Pike County left a storekeeper wounded, and maybe one of the assailants as well. Russell Hall, owner of Hall's Midnight Market at Robinson Creek, said a man armed with a pistol shot his son, Michael Hall. Russell Hall then fired several shots at the robber, which drove him away. Woman kills 1 intruder, other flees A woman shot and killed one of two suspected robbers who had broken into her home before dawn today, a sheriff's spokesman said.
Tenant kills thief hiding under bed.
A burglar undetected during a police search of an East Side apartment early Saturday morning later crawled from beneath a bed and was shot in the head during a gunfight with a resident. The burglar was shot after he shot and wounded Shermaine D. Whitley, who lives in the ground-level apartment on South Street, police said. This month brought numerous reminders of why many Americans own guns. They weren't news to editors of the New York Times, the Washington Post, or the Los Angeles Times. Overlooked by the mainstream media, these accounts show how lives are saved when law-abiding citizens own firearms.