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Breaking into someone’s home is always a bad decision. In Des Moines this week, it ended with gunfire and a felony charge.
According to KCCI, police say 46-year-old Stannita Wilson forced her way into a home on Guthrie Avenue just before 11 p.m. Officers were dispatched after a caller reported that an intruder was actively attacking the homeowner.
While officers were en route, dispatch was told the intruder had been shot.
When police arrived, they found Wilson inside the residence suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. She was transported to a local hospital with what authorities described as minor injuries and was later released.
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Wilson is now charged with second-degree burglary.
As of now, no charges have been filed against the homeowner.
Police have not released additional details about what led to the forced entry, but the basic outline is clear: someone allegedly broke into an occupied home, an altercation occurred, and the homeowner responded with a firearm.
Defensive gun uses don’t always dominate headlines, but they happen every day. In this case, the alleged aggressor is the one facing criminal charges.
For Stannita Wilson, what reportedly began as a forced entry ended with gunshot wounds and a felony.
For the homeowner, it appears—at least for now—the law is recognizing the difference between criminal conduct and self-defense.
Self-defense doesn’t end when the threat goes down. That’s when the real battle begins. Lawyers. Prosecutors. Headlines. USCCA Members never fight that battle alone. Find out how.
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multiple gunshot wounds, minor injuries? what no lungs came out like biden said they would!?
I am sure you are disappointed she was not killed Herr Hauptmann.
In civilized countries and even in some U.S. States like your State of Ohio it is “illegal” to kill or even shoot and wound someone over property rights. It must be proven that your life was in immediate danger. The recent incident in Cleveland when the young man opened the door of his home with a weapon in his hand and was shot by people trying to steal his car could have landed him in prison if the people trying to rob him of his car “were not armed” and did “not” attack him and he had went on to shoot them when they attempted to steal his automobile. Of course that is not what happened in that incident.
And by the way Paul the Genius Biden was correct when he said that the Shotgun was the best defense weapon. Since you flunked History classes,(assuming you ever had any) during the U,S. invasion and occupation of the Philippine Islands actual battlefield reports by U.S. Soldiers proved that the only weapon used that could be relied on to stop someone was the “shotgun” not the rifle, not the pistol, not the revolver. In fact field reports proved that the 45 Colt revolvers, and the Colt 45 acp pistols worked no better than the 38 Colt pistols that were used in the Conflict. In other words they “all” failed. Of course prostitute Gun Writers down through the years created the .45 acp myth from the Philippine War.
hey folks look, the everytown AI get dumber with every post!
This wasn’t about property rights. She broke into the home and was physically involved with the homeowner in an altercation. This is immediately life threatening to the homeowner. Gun use was completely justified. The homeowner needs more range time.