Pregnant Woman Uses AR to Shoot, Kill Home Invader
Russ Chastain 01.08.20
Nobody needs an AR-style rifle, right? They’re no good for home defense, right?
Wrong.
A Florida man was reportedly severely beaten by two armed and masked thugs who invaded his home. They threatened the family with pistols, grabbed his 11-year-old daughter, and beat him badly.
Until his 8-month-pregnant wife ended the crime by grabbing an AR-style rifle and shooting one of them.
The bruises and swelling on Jeremy King’s face tell the story of a man on the receiving end of a brutal attack. But his actual account is far more harrowing than his injuries suggest.
‘I’ve got a fractured eye socket, a fractured sinus cavity, a concussion, 20 stitches, and three staples in my head,’ said King, outside his home on Old Welcome Road in Lithia. ‘I took a severe beating.’
King said he was inside his home Wednesday when two masked men armed with guns barged in around 9 p.m. He said he doesn’t know who they are, never met them and has no idea why he was targeted. Both men pointed guns at King while demanding money.
‘They came in heavily hooded and masked. As soon as they had got the back door opened, they had a pistol on me and was grabbing my 11-year-old daughter,’ he said.
‘I’m telling them, “I have nothing for you,”‘ King explained. ‘(A)nd they’re like, “Give me everything you got.” It became real violent, real fast.’
King said one of the men started pistol-whipping him while another kicked him repeatedly in the head. His wife, who is eight months pregnant, was in the back bedroom and peeked out to see what was going on.
His wife gained the unwanted attention of one of the crooks, who shot at her and then went after her. She retreated, got hold of an AR15, and when he approached, she shot him.
The wounded criminal ran out the back door and died “roughly 200 feet out in the front ditch.”
After finding someone willing to shoot back, the other home invader also ran away, apparently unscathed.
‘Them guys came in with two normal pistols and my AR stopped it,’ King said. ‘(My wife) evened the playing field and kept them from killing me.’
Thank goodness for ARs.
