{"id":79045,"date":"2017-09-11T14:23:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T18:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=79045"},"modified":"2017-09-11T14:23:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T07:06:20","slug":"chicago-woman-shoots-attacker-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/chicago-woman-shoots-attacker-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Woman Shoots Attacker with His Own Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_79046\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Carter.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"chicago-woman-shoots-attacker-gun\" title=\"Chicago Woman Shoots Attacker with His Own Gun\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79046\" title=\"Chicago Woman Shoots Attacker with His Own Gun\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-79046\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Carter-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Chicago Woman Shoots Attacker with His Own Gun\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Carter-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Carter-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Carter.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-79046\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;I had to do what God gave me the strength to do: Defend myself.&#8221; &#8212; Martina Carter (<em>Photo: Chicago Tribune<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Chicago woman survived an attempted murder last week, but she didn\u2019t let the perpetrator get away unharmed. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After wrestling the suspect to the ground, Martina Carter, 54, shot the much younger man in the hand with his own firearm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;I had to do what God gave me the strength to do: Defend myself,&#8221; she told the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/breaking\/ct-woman-shoots-robber-met-20170910-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"chicago-woman-shoots-attacker-gun\" title=\"Chicago Woman Shoots Attacker with His Own Gun\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chicago Tribune<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carter\u2019s strength soon began to wane, and Dennis Evans, the 23-year-old would-be robber, retrieved his gun and pointed it at Carter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;(Expletive), you shot me with my own gun,\u201d Evans said, according to the police report. \u201cNow I&#8217;m gonna shoot your (expletive).&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carter lay on the ground near her South Side bus stop. People had noticed the altercation, but no one had the courage to step in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;I thought, &#8216;This is it,&#8217; &#8221; she recalled. \u201cI thought, &#8216;I&#8217;m saying goodbye to my kids.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But when Evans pulled the trigger\u2026 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">click.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;I was shocked that it didn&#8217;t go off again,&#8221; she told the Tribune a day after the attack. &#8220;It was the Lord \u2014 that&#8217;s what it was.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Evans didn\u2019t stop to clear the jam in his gun. He fled, and police arrested him later that day where he lives with his mom and two sisters. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carter told the Tribune that Evans had accosted her at the bus stop and demanded her purse and bag at gunpoint. Even before he pulled out a gun she thought he was drunk or mentally ill. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe minute he pulled it out, he cocked it. And I thought, \u2018I have to think of something,\u2019\u201d she said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She called for help, but no one came, so she decided to take matters into her own hands. She grabbed the gun and managed to take control of it momentarily.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;That&#8217;s when I closed my eyes and just pressed the button,&#8221; she said, describing the trigger.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She shot Evans in his left hand, but the wound wasn\u2019t serious enough to make him stop his attack. He recovered his gun but, fortunately for Carter, it didn\u2019t fire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Tribune called the gun a \u201cblue steel 9 mm\u201d and said police found six rounds of live ammunition in the gun after the incident. Carter says that Evans \u201ccocked\u201d the gun, which might indicate he was carrying a revolver. But the round count disqualifies the majority of revolvers, and it\u2019s almost impossible for revolvers to \u201cjam.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The most likely explanation is that Evans was carrying a semi-automatic steel-framed handgun that failed to go back into battery after Carter shot Evans\u2019 hand at close range. The empty case may have also jammed the gun or the round may have been a dud. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Evans has been charged with attempted murder and attempted robbery. \u00a0He is being held without bail.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe minute he pulled it out, he cocked it. 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