When an elderly Uniontown, Pennsylvania, resident awoke to a man in a mask standing over him, he grabbed a gun and fired, fatally wounding the suspect.
The incident occurred Friday around 1:30 a.m.
According to the Associated Press, police report that at around 1:30 a.m. on Friday, an “81-year-old Uniontown resident awoke … to find a man in a skull mask standing over him.” There was a brief struggle, after which “the homeowner fired a shot, hitting the intruder in the lower torso.”
Police arrived to find the body of the masked man, “40-year-old Franklin Schrout, of Morgantown, West Virginia,” in a neighbor’s yard.
Lt. Tom Kolencik says the elderly man is “shook up” over shooting Schrout. The resident said that “he wished he was stronger so that he could have fought off the other man rather than shooting him.”
AWR Hawkins is the Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and host of “Bullets with AWR Hawkins,” a Breitbart News podcast. He is also the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
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