'The gun just went off...I didn’t mean to shoot [at] her.”
When an 85-year-old Tennessee woman with arthritis in her knees awoke from her sleep in the middle of the night to be greeted by an intruder's gunfire in the hallway of her three-bedroom home -- she answered by drawing a cannon of a pistol and squeezing off two explosive rounds.“He fired at me and I fired back at him,” Emma Tucker told Newsweek in an exclusive interview after she faced down the armed bandit with her trusted .
Before she fired, Tucker said she had heard a rustling in her kitchen and decided right then to not take any chances. The retired laundry cleaner then fired her piece and jumped from its kickback and boom, saying “it sounded like a bomb had gone off in this house.”“All I know is I shot at him and he went back out of the same window that he broke through,” said Tucker.
Evans said he was captured by surveillance cameras attempting to break into another home located on Lark Street and another on Joshwood Street; each a couple blocks from Tucker’s home which she has lived in since 1987.
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