This defensive gun use out of Southeast Houston falls solidly in the ‘Can’t Make This Stuff Up’ category. A couple weeks before this incident, police had arrested the suspect for exposure (walking around naked in public). Tuesday evening, while out on bond, he was au naturel once again…except this time, he was also masturbating on a bicycle outside a woman’s house.
The woman, who is in her sixties, encountered him while taking out the trash around 5:15pm. She told him to stop the lewd behavior. He didn’t. Instead, he watched her walk toward her front door, followed her straight up to it, and started trying to break in. From inside the house, the woman shouted at him to leave, warning him that she had a gun.
The man refused to leave. No doubt thinking of her 14-year-old granddaughter who was there at the time, the woman fired a single shot through her front door.
The wounded man staggered over to his bicycle and tried to get away before collapsing a few feet away from the house.
Once police arrived, he was rushed to a hospital and is expected to survive the shooting. The teenager didn’t witness the shooting and neither she nor her grandmother were physically harmed.
Note: shooting through an exterior door is a bad idea. In this case, the home owner was an elderly grandmother protecting a teenage granddaughter from a deranged attacker, so the optics and the politics of charging her won’t be good. The woman hasn’t been charged so far and we’d be surprised if that happens.
It’s looking like all she’ll need is a new door, and perhaps some psychological support.
A female neighbor who asked not to be named sums up this incident perfectly:
“I would have done the same thing. Protect your family! She did what she had to do.”