Another thing I guess I should have mentioned.....Southerners don't take kindly to strangers breaking into their homes, especially if the intruder is a Yankee.
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Elderly Ala. man kills robber in his home | Opelika-Auburn News
Elderly Ala. man kills robber in his home
Associated Press
Published: October 13, 2009
BREWTON, Ala. (AP) — Police say an elderly man shot and killed a masked robber who broke into his Escambia County home.
Escambia County Sheriff Grover Smith says the man and his wife were in bed early Tuesday morning when the suspect kicked in the door of their home. Smith says the 81-year-old man got his pistol from the bedside table and shot 35-year-old Jeremy Paul McCall in the head.
Smith says McCall had been released from a Nebraska jail two days before he was killed. It was not immediately clear why he was in jail.
Smith says he doesn’t believe charges will be brought against the elderly man, who he declined to identify. The sheriff says the man “acted in self-defense
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