Woman Shoots Intruder During 911 Call
Oklahoma resident Donna Jackson faced a life or death situation when an intruder tried to break into her rural-area home last Friday.
Home alone, but armed with a shotgun, 57-year-old Jackson called 911 and begged for help, but police couldnt get there before the man was able to break through a glass door with a chair and patio table.
Jackson, who stayed on the phone with the 911 dispatcher, can be heard in the call saying, "I don't want to have to kill this man, but I'll kill him graveyard dead, ma'am."
When the intruder broke through the door, Jackson dropped the phone. A minute later, Jackson was forced to shoot, and the suspect, Billy Riley, 53, was killed. According to the local district attorney's office, Jackson won't be charged with a crime. During the call, the 911 operator told Jackson it was legal for her to defend her home.
Click on the video below to hear Jackson's call, recorded by 911 Dispatch.
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CBS News legal analyst Lisa Boom commented on the legality of defending one's property, mentioning the Joe Horn case in Houston two years ago in which Horn shot and killed two men who were breaking into his neighbor's home. Horn, Bloom pointed out, also wasn't prosecuted.
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Copyright 2009 CBS. All rights reserved. Home alone, but armed with a shotgun, 57-year-old Jackson called 911 and begged for help, but police couldnt get there before the man was able to break through a glass door with a chair and patio table.
Jackson, who stayed on the phone with the 911 dispatcher, can be heard in the call saying, "I don't want to have to kill this man, but I'll kill him graveyard dead, ma'am."
When the intruder broke through the door, Jackson dropped the phone. A minute later, Jackson was forced to shoot, and the suspect, Billy Riley, 53, was killed. According to the local district attorney's office, Jackson won't be charged with a crime. During the call, the 911 operator told Jackson it was legal for her to defend her home.
Click on the video below to hear Jackson's call, recorded by 911 Dispatch.
Watch CBS News Videos Online
CBS News legal analyst Lisa Boom commented on the legality of defending one's property, mentioning the Joe Horn case in Houston two years ago in which Horn shot and killed two men who were breaking into his neighbor's home. Horn, Bloom pointed out, also wasn't prosecuted.
For more with Bloom, click on the video below.
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Thank goodness this was in Oklahoma, and not in a "duty to retreat" state. Where in the heck is a 56 year old woman in a nightgown supposed to retreat in a rural area in December, lugging a shotgun just in case she can't retreat far enough? She would have been either dead in a tiny bathroom after he kicked that door onto her, or she would have been dead of exposure outdoors if she was lucky enough to run fast enough to elude him.
Quite frankly, I personally view any unauthorized entrance into my home as a physical danger to my person. I'm a 53 year old grandmother. I don't feel any need to take a survey: "Are you here to just steal my stuff, or do you plan to rape and rob while your here? Do plan to kill me, perhaps after torturing me and doing a little mutilation during the rape? I want to understand fully why you woke me up in the middle of the night, scream vulgarities, pounding on my door, then throwing furniture through it. I don't want to be accused of not fully understanding why YOU are in my home uninvited and full of anger and violence." Ridiculous! I'm from Oklahoma. I don't take surveys and I don't take prisoners. I also stay in my own home and refrain from breaking into other people's houses.
Thank goodness this was in Oklahoma, and not in a "duty to retreat" state. Where in the heck is a 56 year old woman in a nightgown supposed to retreat in a rural area in December, lugging a shotgun just in case she can't retreat far enough? She would have been either dead in a tiny bathroom after he kicked that door onto her, or she would have been dead of exposure outdoors if she was lucky enough to run fast enough to elude him.
Quite frankly, I personally view any unauthorized entrance into my home as a physical danger to my person. I'm a 53 year old grandmother. I don't feel any need to take a survey: "Are you here to just steal my stuff, or do you plan to rape and rob while your here? Do plan to kill me, perhaps after torturing me and doing a little mutilation during the rape? I want to understand fully why you woke me up in the middle of the night, scream vulgarities, pounding on my door, then throwing furniture through it. I don't want to be accused of not fully understanding why YOU are in my home uninvited and full of anger and violence." Ridiculous! I'm from Oklahoma. I don't take surveys and I don't take prisoners. I also stay in my own home and refrain from breaking into other people's houses.
This is why responsible gun owners are pushing for the right to have guns. Just imagine if she didn't have her shotgun?
Besides this lady has a heart, you can hear it in her voice. She will have a hard time getting past this. She did not want to kill this man.
God be with you Donna Jackson. You did what you had to do.
I choose to not get my ass kicked, and will defend myself.
Its all about choices!
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Well, duh. It is legal to defend your home and it is legal
to defend youself. One less creep on the streets. Good job, Donna.
Law of the jungle, street justice, code of the Wild West are all pragmatic options.
If you want something done right you have to do it yourself.
Self defense if that is what has to be done then it must be done.
Federal and state justice systems have long been turned upside down because they focus too much on criminal rights vs. victim rights.
Majority of crime is perpetrated by a small percent of repeat, chronic offenders who will not change their ways and are beyond rehabilitation. Crime does pay for them.
Tax payers can no longer afford to allow offenders to be a continuous lifelong burden on society.
Damage, injury, death, fear and negative quality of life causing criminals deserve nothing more than a quick fitting dispatch worthy of any varmint caught in the act of intruding or pillaging.
On a side note: I think stun guns and other non-lethal technologies need to be developed to replace hand guns in the long run. Set for STUN (his ass and make him cry like a baby) or BURN BABY, BURN!