by WSBTV
GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. -- An intruder who was shot and killed after a confrontation with a Duluth woman in her shower. He was likely stalking her for days and may have other victims, Gwinnett police said.
The 53-year-old woman was alone at the time of the Wednesday morning attack. She was getting out of the shower when she was met by a strange man with a kitchen knife, police said. They said there was a struggle in the bathroom, and she fell in the tub.
"The male was armed with a kitchen knife, a struggle ensued between the two of them. She fell in the bathtub injuring herself," Gwinnett police spokesman Edwin Ritter said.
The woman tried to fight the man off with a shower a rod, and he forced her into her bedroom, police said. They said she told her attacker she had money in the room. But she grabbed a .22-caliber handgun and shot the man nine times, police said.
Police said the man ran out of a back door and collapsed in the yard. He later died at the Gwinnett Medical Center. The victim, who was injured in the scuffle, was also taken to the hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. Police have not released her name.
"He basically stalked her until he found the right moment to act on it," said Ritter.
Dan Tucker, a friend and neighbor, said he was amazed at how the victim defended herself against the armed intruder.
"She's smart, she's witty and obviously well prepared," Tucker said.
Police later identified the man as Israel Perez Puentes, a Cuban national. Police said that neighbors had spotted Puentes' car in the neighborhood several days before the attack but did not report it. Puentes' estranged wife told Kavanaugh he had been arrested for burglary in Johns Creek in December.
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the guy was shot in the back as he was running away and outside the house. She should have been charged with murder
ReplyDeleteNowhere in the article does it say that the intruder was shot in the back. And even if he was, it is not necessarily murder.
ReplyDeleteAnd HERE in the future, may19th,2014; An insane killer stabs and kills three roommates, who did Not have a gun for self defense,and shoots three innocent people, and then hinself. If the roommates were armed as this Lady was, 6 lives would have been saved.
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