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HOMEOWNER FIGHTS BACK
WJBF News Channel 6
Augusta, GA

Thursday, Apr 26, 2007

The Mount Vernon subdivision is usually quiet, but that peace was broken in this Lexington Drive home this morning. Detectives say 19-year-old Justin Brent Haynie got into his neighbor's home while she slept and put a knife to her throat.

Sgt. Calvin Chew, Richmond County Sheriff's Office: "He jumped on the bed and he started trying to cover her mouth because she was shouting."

During the struggle Sgt. Chew says the victim, a 57-year-old woman who lives alone, somehow managed to grab her .357 off the nightstand. That was something Haynie didn't know.

Detectives say as Haynie walked behind her with a knife to her neck, she quickly spun around and shot him in the stomach. Haynie grabbed her gun and ran. But he didn't get far.

Haynie is in serious condition in a local hospital. He's expected to be o.k. A list of charges is waiting on him when he gets out. They include burglary, kidnapping aggravated assault and weapons charges. The homeowner is not facing any charges.

I'm surprised she got to her gun soon enough, and even more surprised he didn't shoot her with it.

Another young life in ruins.

Hope recovery is quick.

THREE CHEERS FOR .357's.

Only problem I see is this...

Haynie grabbed her gun and ran.

That could have easily turned out badly for her. She should have continued to shoot until he was no longer a threat. If he was still capable of taking the gun from her he was still very much a threat. She's lucky he didn't use her own gun on her.

Mike from Texas wrote:Only problem I see is this...

Haynie grabbed her gun and ran.

That could have easily turned out badly for her. She should have continued to shoot until he was no longer a threat. If he was still capable of taking the gun from her he was still very much a threat. She's lucky he didn't use her own gun on her.

Agreed,


Still, its easy to understand how a .357 to the abdomen would take a lot of the "want to" out of you (assuming the BG was not chemically enhanced).

Mike from Texas wrote:Only problem I see is this...

Haynie grabbed her gun and ran.

That could have easily turned out badly for her. She should have continued to shoot until he was no longer a threat.

I second the motion.

But, Bill. As to the title of the thread, why "Granny"?

"Someday someone may kill you with your own gun, but they should have to beat you to death with it because it is empty."

(from various versions of the "gun rules" list)

it was the vision of my grandmother packing her sidearm around the hunting camp