Posted: 8/20/2008 6:17:42 PM EDT
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Anyone see this news story: Gun-toting 85-year-old stops thief By Josh Krysak, Herald-Standard 08/19/2008 Updated 08/20/2008 12:06:07 AM EDT SPRINGHILL TWP. - State police said an 85-year-old Lake Lynn woman is being credited with stopping a would-be thief after she caught the teen in her home Sunday afternoon. Trooper Christian D. Lieberum said Leda Smith held the unidentified intruder at gunpoint until police arrived. He said the incident began around 3 p.m. when a 17-year-old Point Marion boy broke into Smith's home on Old Lake Lynn Road. Smith said she had just come home from church when she noticed a door open at her home and an outer door broken. Lieberum said Smith immediately realized someone was in her home and decided to retrieve her handgun and went looking for the intruder. "I saw him move by my keyboard near the wall but I just walked right on past him to the bedroom and got my gun," Smith said, noting that she started keeping the .22-caliber revolver by her bed after a burglary at a neighboring home several weeks ago. Here's the link to the story: www.heraldstandard.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20079819&BRD=2280&PAG=461&dept_id=480247&rfi=6 |