56yr Old Woman shoots and kills intruder. Audio
 

Wow. Poor lady! listen to the live audio of the 911 call here: http://www.newsok.com/multimedia/video/54313835001

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Wild. I wonder if he thought that was his house, but was to drunk to realize it wasn't... he was calling for Pat?

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I wept for her situation at the end. It was a terrible situation to be put in and no matter how warranted one may feel their actions are there is still the terrible feeling that you have taken a human life.

On another note... I feel that it was TERRIBLY irresponsible to post this audio with her address, where she hides her key to the house, her sons name & phone number as well as where her husbands work place still intact.

That data should have been removed from the audio.

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So sad.

Sounds like his daughter (?) was passed out in a vehicle in a ditch in the road, he was trying to get help, while being in a drunken stupor. It's easy to second-guess the frightened woman who was home alone, and say she should have shot at knee caps, etc... (my first reaction), but she has no idea what the circumstances are. This is a tragedy in many ways.

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Man that is tough. It seems that it took the officers a long time to respond considering the nature of the call. I wonder if they were in a very rural place.

I feel bad for the lady. I wonder, though, if it might have been a good idea to grab the shotgun and announce herself while he was still outside once she saw he was a drunk older man.

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Yeah... a warning shot would have been a good idea. Especially since she would not have to reload to get off another shot. But... I'm not second guessing her though. Hindsight is 20/20 and the heat of the moment is a tough place to make decisions like that. (Do I remember her saying early on that he had a gun? I'm not sure...)

From the call it seemed as though she may have been in a rural area. There is no way of knowing from the recording but it seemed that way.

She has goats and large dogs to guard them.
Her only neighbors were elderly (80 years or so old)
They sent the county deputy (that is often the case in unincorporated areas.)

Several things left that impression with me.

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Dude, a 56yr woman awakened by a man banging on her door and then busting through. She is not thinking anything about reasoning, she is trying to survive.

It's a major tragedy, but I don't know that I would have done different. You never know how you will react in those situations

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Absolutely.

That is what I was saying.

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I'm not trying to fault her, I was just wondering what the pros and cons would have been for announcing to him that she was armed and on the phone with the police. Honestly she did not strike me as a frightened, rattled woman. She was remarkably level headed throughout. It was also not like she woke up and had a man standing over her and did not have time to react, think, or gain the upper hand. It may simply be different for me as a younger man and she as an older woman though.

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I completely agree.

That audio was heart breaking.

I do think that it might have been advisable to try to hide, to give the police more time to get there and deal with it, and/or to announce loudly that she had a gun and would shoot if he came on in. Our pastor's son frightened an intruder away by letting him know he had a gun....it seems like the police or the dispatcher might have suggested something of that sort.

:(