Armed Citizen #11

From www.nra.org.

Seventy-four-year-old Willie Brown had shrugged off the noises downstairs as typical bumps in the night. But then, a man holding a knife appeared in his bedroom doorway. Brown described the ensuing events to a local reporter: “He said, ‘Don’t move, I got a knife.’ I said, ‘You got a knife, huh?’ He said ‘Yeah’ … I reached under my pillow and came up firing my .38 Smith and Wesson. He said, ‘Oops’ and turned and ran down the steps.” An officer later spotted the wounded suspect driving erratically at high speeds and arrested him. “I might be old, but I am not slow,” said Brown. “I think [the intruder] might be through breaking in people’s houses for a while.” (Belleville News Democrat, Belleville, IL, 06/16/06)