Crime-plagued property owner kills intruder [View all]

A Dayton woman targeted by criminals at least five times in 11 years fatally shot a man she said broke into her home Wednesday morning, the second intruder she has hit with gunfire in about two years.

The 46-year-old woman, who lives in the 200 block of Richmond Avenue, told officers the man smashed a window and entered the second floor of her Five Oaks neighborhood home. The woman’s brother said the intruder initially broke a first-floor window but could not get inside because of metal security bars installed after a burglary last month.

The same female victim, whose name police did not release, also shot and wounded a juvenile who kicked in her back door in June 2013, according to police reports and her brother, 54-year-old Efrim Goldsmith.

http://www.mydaytondailynews.com/news/news/crime-law/crime-plagued-property-owner-kills-intruder/nnbpk/

Interesting firearm self-defense story. A middle-aged woman and law-abiding and legal gun owner has been repeatedly burglarized, and twice has been forced to successfully defend herself against intruders. She apparently took all security measures, including security bars on her windows, and contacted police and cooperated with the relevant investigations. Her only apparent problem has been the misfortune of living in a poor neighborhood.

I'll be damned before I support any measures to disarm people like the victim in the story.