{"id":101988,"date":"2018-12-20T13:56:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T18:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=101988"},"modified":"2018-12-20T13:56:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T15:19:26","slug":"assault-leaving-for-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/assault-leaving-for-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Churchgoer Fatally Shoots Attacker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_101990\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/dgu.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"assault-leaving-for-church\" title=\"Female Churchgoer Fatally Shoots Attacker\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101990\" title=\"Female Churchgoer Fatally Shoots Attacker\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-101990\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/dgu-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Female Churchgoer Fatally Shoots Attacker\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/dgu-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/dgu-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/dgu.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-101990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The woman refused to be a victim, and police say no arrests were made. (Photo: Screenshot, WDIV4)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A 55-year-old woman shot and killed a man who attacked her, her daughter, and another 75-year-old woman while they were leaving for church, Detroit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/news\/police-detroit-woman-shoots-kills-man-during-home-invasion-on-sunday\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"assault-leaving-for-church\" title=\"Female Churchgoer Fatally Shoots Attacker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">local media<\/a> reported earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>In what police are describing as a self-defense incident, the man approached the women in their driveway, forced them back inside the house, and refused to leave. The 55-year-old fired two rounds into the man\u2019s chest, and he died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t hear nothing but a gunshot, and then I seen the police officer come down the street,\u201d a man who identified himself as Fraser told local media.<\/p>\n<p>He said at first he thought his neighbors had been shot but was relieved when he discovered the truth. Though robberies in that neighborhood have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/local\/michigan\/detroit\/2018\/12\/03\/holidays-cold-increase-crime\/2190038002\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"assault-leaving-for-church\" title=\"Female Churchgoer Fatally Shoots Attacker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">been on the rise in recent months<\/a>, Fraser said he\u2019s not worried.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still feel safe because I got something to arm myself with too, so I\u2019d do the same thing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h2>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/suppressed-cdc-2-million-defensive-gun-uses-1998\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"assault-leaving-for-church\" title=\"Female Churchgoer Fatally Shoots Attacker\" rel=\"bookmark\">Suppressed CDC Survey Indicates Over 2 Million Defensive Gun Uses Per Year\u2026 in 1998<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>The suspect, who police have not identified, was in his 30\u2019s. Lt. Ron Lockhart of the Detroit Police Department said the women did not know the man, and it\u2019s still unclear why he accosted them.<\/p>\n<p>Other neighborhood residents say incidents like these have forced them to think about arming themselves, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/local\/michigan\/detroit\/2018\/12\/03\/holidays-cold-increase-crime\/2190038002\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"assault-leaving-for-church\" title=\"Female Churchgoer Fatally Shoots Attacker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Detroit Free Press<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t have a gun, I don&#8217;t want a gun, but I might have to have one,&#8221; Cynthia Wright told the paper. \u201cThey&#8217;re getting desperate. You can give them what they want, and they&#8217;ll still kill you. &#8230; You&#8217;re leaving out the house and they charge you back in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another neighbor, Daryl Eckridge, told the Free Press that the women who were attacked are \u201creal nice people\u201d who stay to themselves. Eckridge says he owns a gun because criminals have gotten bolder in recent years. They used to rob empty homes and stay away from the elderly, but now \u201cthey figure you&#8217;re just an easy target.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/chicago-woman-shoots-attacker-gun\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"assault-leaving-for-church\" title=\"Female Churchgoer Fatally Shoots Attacker\" rel=\"bookmark\">Chicago Woman Shoots Attacker with His Own Gun<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;You have to do what you have to do.\u00a0I hope it doesn&#8217;t bother her what happened,&#8221; Eckridge said. &#8220;Who knows what would have happened if she hadn&#8217;t (fired the gun). &#8230; I think it&#8217;s more than justified.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The rise in criminality has prompted more women in the Detroit area to seek training in armed self-defense.<\/p>\n<p>Firearms trainer Rick Ector told the Free Press that he\u2019s seen a twelvefold rise in the number of women who participate in his free annual training classes. In 2012, 50 women signed up. In 2017, that number grew to 600.<\/p>\n<p><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">***<a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/\" campaign=\"BuySellGA_Register\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\">Buy and Sell on GunsAmerica!<\/a>***<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 55-year-old woman shot and killed a man who attacked her, her daughter, and another 75-year-old woman while they were leaving for church, Detroit local media reported earlier this month. In what police are describing as a self-defense incident, the man approached the women in their driveway, forced them back inside the house, and refused to leave. The 55-year-old fired two rounds into the man\u2019s chest, and he died at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":101990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,262,593,240],"tags":[132,291,844,607],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-101988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-defensive-use-of-firearms","9":"category-jordan-michaels","10":"category-this-week","11":"tag-buzz","12":"tag-dgu","13":"tag-home-defense","14":"tag-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Female Churchgoer Fatally Shoots Attacker<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"He forced them inside the house and refused to leave, so one of the women retreived her gun and shot him twice in the chest.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/assault-leaving-for-church\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Female Churchgoer Fatally Shoots Attacker\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A 55-year-old woman shot and killed a man who attacked her, her daughter, and another 75-year-old woman while they were leaving for church, Detroit local media reported earlier this month. 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