They picked the wrong house
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 6:15 pm
California man, 80, guns down pregnant home invader: ‘I shot her twice, she best be dead’
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They came to the wrong house.
An 80-year-old California retiree shot dead a pregnant woman as she and a male accomplice tried to flee Tuesday night after breaking in and robbing the man’s home in Long Beach.
And Tom Greer has no regrets about plugging the woman with two shots as she begged for her life.
“She says, 'Don't shoot me, I'm pregnant! I'm going to have a baby!' And I shot her anyway," Greer told KNBC-TV.
The elderly man, wearing his arm in a sling Wednesday as he spoke to a reporter, said he came back to his house in the ritzy Bixby Knolls neighborhood Tuesday evening and found the woman and a man ransacking his home.
"When I went in there, they tackled me," Greer told the news station. "Both of them jumped up on top of me."
During the struggle, Greer fell to the ground as the intruders rummaged through a safe. But the man had pocketed his .22-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver in the chaos of the moment.
"I come back and they see me with a gun, and they run," he told the NBC affiliate.
The man took off but the woman stumbled in an alley behind the home. She pleaded for her life as Greer took aim and fired.
"She was dead,” he told KNBC. “I shot her twice, she best be dead ... (The man) had run off and left her."
Cops have yet to identify the dead woman and her accomplice remains on the lam. Greer, meanwhile, was headed to the hospital to have a shoulder and collarbone injury treated, he told a reporter.