Armed Citizen® Today
Near midnight on March 24, a woman in Brownsville, Pa., called police to report a man repeatedly ringing her doorbell. She called again 15 minutes later to report that he was now beating on her door. The man then allegedly broke through glass with a brick and entered the home.
The woman retreated to her bedroom, but the man followed while yelling at her and standing between her and the exit. The woman told the man to leave, but he reportedly advanced on her instead, prompting her to shoot him repeatedly with her .38-cal. revolver, striking him in the leg and head. A struggle still ensued, but the woman managed to get away from the wounded assailant and run to the officers who were entering her home.
Upon release from the hospital, the 69-year-old suspect faces charges of aggravated assault, burglary, criminal trespass, criminal mischief, terroristic threats, unlawful restraint, possession of an [unspecified] instrument of crime, loitering and prowling at night, simple assault and harassment. (heraldstandard.com, Uniontown, Pa., 3/25/26)
From the Armed Citizen® Archives – January 1987
Two men posing as renters came to Robert and Gladys Delavan's Denver, Colo., apartment house and attempted to rob the couple. One intruder was armed with a sawed-off shotgun, and the pair forced the Delavans to lie on the floor. After removing the couple's wedding rings, the robbers began ransacking a bedroom.
Robert, 68, took a .22-caliber handgun from a drawer and when the intruders emerged from the bedroom, he opened fire. The pair dropped money stolen from the home and fled. (The Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colo.)
