Mother with baby fatally shoots suspected home invader in Joliet, police say
JOLIET, Ill. (WLS) — A mother with a baby fatally shot a suspected home invader in the south suburbs on Friday night, police said.
Joliet police said officers responded to a report of a home invasion in the 7000-block of Hadrian Drive around 10:30 p.m.
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Police said the woman, armed with a gun, heard someone break into her home. That’s when she took her child and hid in a bedroom closet on the second floor.Police believe that when the suspect entered that bedroom, the woman opened fire, striking him in the head. The suspect was pronounced dead on the scene.
Responding officers found the woman and her child in the adjacent bedroom, police said.
The suspect was wearing gloves and had a screwdriver at the time. The woman did not know who he was, and his identity has not yet been released.
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Mama Bear takes out the trash.
Nothing could be more dangerous than following the popular maxim whereby it is the spirit of the law that must be consulted. This is an embankment that, once broken, gives way to a torrent of opinions.
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Oh, thank god. At first I thought they’d produced a new strain of lethal babies in Chicago….
Editor asleep at the wheel.
Hopefully the fact that she retreated to the closet and was cornered with her child will preclude persecution by some liberal DA. But in a 3rd-world septic pond like Chicago, one is never certain.
Saw that Kuna write up in Shooting Illustrated. Interesting, but I want an AR15 instead.
The AR does not come with cool sunglasses and a “tatical” watch. OTOH, it does shoot straight and consistently.
Hey, I love my “tactical” Smith & Wesson watch! $12.99 on sale at Big 5 sports. Cheap enough you don’t care if you break ’em.
I Iove this story. Love, love, love.
Along with the “would you rather be in the woods with a man or a bear” is the following question –
“Of course you would die for your child but would you kill for your child?”
Unsurprisingly, the same ones who answer bear, hesitate, equivocate, hem and haw over this question. Thankfully this young momma did not hesitate. She answered in the affirmative. Most definitely affirmative.
Equally unsurprisingly, the DRT dirtbag was a career criminal who was on the streets because of the Illinois Safe-T Act.
“He was known to us, and we had him on our radar.”