No training (probably) No Practice (almost assuredly)
Yes, training and practice are nice, and I always advise people to get as much of both as they can, but they’re not necessary, no matter who’s doing the talking, when the time comes you need to TCOB.
Woman who had gun for one day fatally shoots stranger in her Patterson home
A Patterson woman who had gotten a handgun just the previous day fatally shot a stranger who was grappling with her husband Saturday night at the door of their home, the Stanislaus County sheriff’s office said.
In a 911 call at 10:20 p.m., a resident of the Wilding Ranch subdivision on the city’s east edge reported that a neighbor had called and said she had just shot an intruder at her house.
When deputies arrived, they found a dead man near the home’s front entry. The residents — a 50-year-old woman and her 45-year-old husband — said that the apparently intoxicated stranger had tried to force his way into their home.
According to the sheriff’s report, as the husband fought with the intruder near the front door, his wife ran to the bedroom to get a revolver, which she said she had brought home on Friday. Returning to the entry, she fired all its rounds into the intruder.
The husband suffered minor scrapes and scratches to his back.
Investigators said surveillance video from inside and outside the house corroborated the couple’s account. There were no children or other family members in the house.
The dead man was identified as Angelo Santana, 22, of Patterson. The sheriff’s report said interviews indicated he had a history of getting drunk and showing up unannounced at the homes of acquaintances, including some in the neighborhood where the confrontation occurred.
The homeowners are cooperating with the investigation, the sheriff’s office said, and “findings will eventually be submitted to the Stanislaus County district attorney’s office for review of the legality of the homicide.”