DECATUR, Ala. (AP) — A pistol-packing 69-year-old woman in northern Alabama believes intruders will think twice before messing with her again.
Police say Ethel Jones shot an 18-year-old man in the stomach when she found him inside her bedroom at her home in Decatur.
Jones says she sleeps with her gun under a pillow next to her. She says she grabbed it after hearing a door rattle shortly before 3 a.m. Monday.
Police say the suspect removed a window air conditioner to get inside the home. He is in the hospital and faces a charge of second-degree burglary.
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Photo Caption: 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 Aug. 30. An 18-year-old suspect was taken to Huntsville Hospital with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. (AP Photo/Decatur Daily, Jeronimo Nisa)
