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Woman Who Had Never Fired A Gun Before, Shoots And Wounds Burglar In Attempted Robbery<\/a><\/p>\n

A\u00a0North\u00a0<\/a>Carolina<\/a>\u00a0resident named Tarika McAllister fired a gun for the first time last week and it helped put a man who broke into her home behind bars.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0WRAL-TV<\/a>, McAllister, who lives in the city of Dunn, was home alone when she awaken by loud noises and her dog barking around 6 a.m last Tuesday. After hearing the sounds coming from the rear of her house, she went to check if everything was okay. McAllister was stunned to find a man attempting to\u00a0steal<\/a>\u00a0some of her items \u2014including her dog. It was at that moment that she took matters into her own hands.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old yelled for the intruder to get out, but he was unphased. Fortunately, within her reach was the gun she kept stored. And although she had never used it before, she put her nervousness aside and grabbed it.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll I did was turn around and grab the gun,\u201d McAllister told WRAL. \u201cI was fumbling with it. It\u2019s my first time using it.\u201d<\/p>\n

McAllister added that she lifted the safety and did what she had to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just lifted it up, and I started shooting at him, wherever he was moving to, I just shot him out of the house,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

When the police arrived to the scene, they found the thief, who has been identified as 20-year-old Malihk Giles, only about 200 yards from McAllister\u2019s home with two gunshot wounds, one on his right lower leg and the other on his right side. After his wounds were treated at a local hospital, he was taken into custody at\u00a0Harnett County Detention Center<\/a>\u00a0where he is being held on charges of first-degree burglary and possession of stolen property with a $75,000 bond. McAllister and Giles had no connection to each before the incident but according to McAllister, she experienced a similar incident at her home just three weeks prior. Luckily, she was able to just scare the man away.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know a lot of women are scared of guns,\u201d says McAllister. \u201cI feel those are the best protectors for us because we can\u2019t fight a man. We can\u2019t fight an intruder off.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although she\u2019s still shaken up and it\u2019s difficult for her to be alone at the moment, McAllister feels \u201cstronger\u201d now and ready for any other attempt at a home invasion in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Woman Who Had Never Fired A Gun Before, Shoots And Wounds Burglar In Attempted Robbery A\u00a0North\u00a0Carolina\u00a0resident named Tarika McAllister fired a gun for the first time last week and it helped put a man who broke into her home behind bars. According to\u00a0WRAL-TV, McAllister, who lives in the city of Dunn, was home alone when … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29,17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba","category-safety","category-self-defense","category-slugs-for-thugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86543,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86542\/revisions\/86543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}