Good for her

69-year-old Ala. woman shoots 18-year-old intruder
Published - Aug 31 2010 02:19PM EST


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(AP Photo/Decatur Daily, Jeronimo Nisa)

Sixty nine year-old Ethel Jones poses with her .38 caliber snubnose revolver behind the glass door window she shattered when she fired three shots at a burglar who broke into her Decatur, Alabama home Monday, August 30, 2010. An 18-year-old suspect was taken to Huntsville Hospital with a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
DECATUR, Ala. — A pistol-packing 69-year-old woman in northern Alabama believes intruders will think twice before messing with her again. Police said Ethel Jones shot an 18-year-old man in the stomach when she found him inside her bedroom at her home in Decatur. Jones said she sleeps with her gun under a pillow next to her and said she grabbed it after hearing a door rattle shortly before 3 a.m. Monday.

Police said the suspect removed a window air conditioner to get inside the home. He was in the hospital and faces a charge of second-degree burglary.

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Information from: The Decatur Daily, http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/index.shtml