If she didn’t have a gun, she would have been attacked, held hostage and perhaps raped and killed by home invaders, not to mention robbed. She had a gun and fought them off. Stories like this just warm my heart.
The local police advice is to not answer if you don’t know who is on the other side of the door. Proceeding to break the door down would get the crook shot immediately and at short range in my area.
Wait, Tempe? I thought they checked your papers to make sure you were a card-carrying member of CPUSA before they let you buy a house there. Er, become caretaker for a fir-American companion living space. Whatever.
I looked long and hard and finally found a little more information.
http://www.azfamily.com/news/Tempe-woman-shoots-at-home-invasion-suspects-203691451.html
As general information, these “knock followed by home invasion or not” robberies are all the rage in southern California, first spread up the coast, and are now heading inland.
If someone answers, they use a b.s. question like asking for directions, then bug out. If no one is home, then typically some of them break in and the others act as lookouts unless there is something heavy and valuable to move.
So far, I suspect most of them are Californios. Arizona is going to be one hell of a buffer, however.
Very little data yet, locally. No comment as to whether she perforated any of them.
And kudos to the Tempe PD, as those guys do not dillydally.