local 85 yr old grandma holds intruder at bay
Aug 21, 2008 22:33:12 GMT -5
Post by BAT*21{usa} on Aug 21, 2008 22:33:12 GMT -5
Year-Old Granny Pulls Gun On Intruder, Makes Him Call 911
Police Find Helpless Suspect Waiting In Fayette County Woman's Home
POSTED: 12:21 pm EDT August 19, 2008
UPDATED: 1:24 pm EDT August 21, 2008
SPRINGHILL TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- An 85-year-old great-grandmother in Fayette County busted a would-be burglar by pulling a gun, then forcing him to call for help while she kept him in her sights.
"Yes, um, there's a ma'am here and she thinks I broke into the house, which I didn't, which I was just coming up here," the suspect told a county 911 dispatcher.
Then, the suspect said, "Here's the ma'am," and handed the phone to Leda Smith so she could explain what was happening at her Springhill Township home.
"You come home and found a boy, a male, in the house that's not supposed to be there?" the dispatcher said.
"Yes," Smith said. "He's right here. I got a gun on him."
When state police arrived, Smith told them that she had walked in on the 17-year-old boy as she returned to her house on Old Lake Lynn Road at about 3 p.m. Monday.
She grabbed a .22-caliber revolver that she said she began keeping by her bed when a neighbor's home was burglarized recently.
"I motioned with the gun -- 'Come on' -- and he went ahead of me in the hallway to the living room, and we got by the telephone and I said, 'Call the cops,' and he picked it up and he dialed 911," said Smith.
Smith was able to hold the teenager at bay until the state troopers arrived.
"I put him on the floor," Smith said. "I said, 'Lay down on the floor, turn your head that way, spread-eagle your arms and your legs.' That's what they told me to do, and I did it."
The suspect will be charged as a juvenile with attempted burglary and related offenses, police said. His name was not released because of his age.
......she was even on Good Morning America on thursday morning but i missed it
Police Find Helpless Suspect Waiting In Fayette County Woman's Home
POSTED: 12:21 pm EDT August 19, 2008
UPDATED: 1:24 pm EDT August 21, 2008
SPRINGHILL TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- An 85-year-old great-grandmother in Fayette County busted a would-be burglar by pulling a gun, then forcing him to call for help while she kept him in her sights.
"Yes, um, there's a ma'am here and she thinks I broke into the house, which I didn't, which I was just coming up here," the suspect told a county 911 dispatcher.
Then, the suspect said, "Here's the ma'am," and handed the phone to Leda Smith so she could explain what was happening at her Springhill Township home.
"You come home and found a boy, a male, in the house that's not supposed to be there?" the dispatcher said.
"Yes," Smith said. "He's right here. I got a gun on him."
When state police arrived, Smith told them that she had walked in on the 17-year-old boy as she returned to her house on Old Lake Lynn Road at about 3 p.m. Monday.
She grabbed a .22-caliber revolver that she said she began keeping by her bed when a neighbor's home was burglarized recently.
"I motioned with the gun -- 'Come on' -- and he went ahead of me in the hallway to the living room, and we got by the telephone and I said, 'Call the cops,' and he picked it up and he dialed 911," said Smith.
Smith was able to hold the teenager at bay until the state troopers arrived.
"I put him on the floor," Smith said. "I said, 'Lay down on the floor, turn your head that way, spread-eagle your arms and your legs.' That's what they told me to do, and I did it."
The suspect will be charged as a juvenile with attempted burglary and related offenses, police said. His name was not released because of his age.
......she was even on Good Morning America on thursday morning but i missed it 
