H/T to Cam Edwards, NRA News
Phyllis Maloney is a widow who lives alone in Newport, Kentucky. In recent years, she has been receiving chemotherapy for cancer, leaving Maloney “weak and frail.”
At 1AM, Jordan Risheberger, age 21, entered the back door of her home wearing nothing but boxer shorts.
Maloney was in her kitchen when the intruder came in through her unlocked back door. Maloney repeatedly told the man to get out of her house, but he continued to walk toward her. As the intruder followed her through the house, she grabbed the gun out of a kitchen drawer.
When the man made “an aggressive move” toward Maloney, she fired two shots, [Newport, Kentucky acting police chief Lt. Tom] Collins said. One bullet struck the intruder in the head; he died at the scene.
Collins said Risheberger had been partying earlier and may have tried breaking into another home before Maloney’s.
Good news:
Detectives do not expect to file charges against Maloney because the investigation shows she was defending herself in her own home.
Kentucky self-defense code 503.055 states:
A person is presumed to have held a reasonable fear of imminent peril of death or great bodily harm to himself or herself…when using defensive force that is intended or likely to cause death or great bodily harm to another if:
(a) The person against whom the defensive force was used was in the process of unlawfully and forcibly entering or had unlawfully and forcibly entered a dwelling…
Code 503.085 states:
A person who uses force as permitted in…KRS 503.055…is justified in using such force and is immune from criminal prosecution and civil action…
The Brady Campaign will call this “gun violence,” but a 63-year-old female cancer survivor’s the real victim here.
Very good Phyllis! I like this story!
Me three!
And THIS is one of the many reasons why LAW-ABIDING people should be allowed to be armed to the teeth (or false teeth even).
Go Granny, Go!
A head shot!! Does she offer lessons?
a little tidbit from the article
“Break-ins are unusual in the neighborhood…”
gee, i wonder why?
does it have something to do with the possibility, however slight, that the ole’ granny in the house might turn you into a cyclops?
And she did it with a silencer equipped handgun!!!
You guys need to find another picture.
Think it’s Photoshopped? Seriously, media rarely publishes victim pix; especially true in cases of suspected sexual assault.
On the other hand, I support law-abiding women being armed, and silencers would protect against hearing loss when shooting from a car. I’d write a letter to the ATF about a special dispensation for women on silencers (National Firearms Act restriction) but they seem too busy smuggling guns to Mexico to respond.
Don’t know or care.
What I do know is that, in an open argument before the American people, no aspect is more important than credibility, which the picture undermines. Since the source article doesn’t have the picture, I can only assume that it came from The PJ Tatler.
So, with respect and nothing but good wishes for both The PJ Tatler and the Second Amendment, you guys need a better photograph, Photoshopped or otherwise.
Good point. I’ll mention it to my editor.
It’s definitely a hilarious ‘shopped’ photo because I’m fairly certain that’s Queen Elisabeth’s mug. lmao
Like Dirty Harry said:
Harry Callahan: Well, when an adult male is chasing a female with intent to commit rape, I shoot the bastard. That’s my policy.
The Mayor: Intent? How did you establish that?
Harry Callahan: When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher’s knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn’t out collecting for the Red Cross.
I have to write this, some comments posted above make me literally sick to my stomach “GO GRANNY GO”? “A head shot!! Does she offer lessons?”? Jordan was one of the kindest guys I’ve ever had the privilege of meeting, he has a sister who just got married and two adoring parents who just lost something very precious and irreplaceable to them. Jordan wondered away from a party were he was most likely on some substance and was disoriented and confused. A 21 year kid won’t ever get to grow up and have a family and live a full life because of a mistake he made one night. I’m missing where this is something to be celebrated. He is the victim just as much, if not more than that woman ever will be. She lived a full life and he never will be able to.
@ “a friend” -your buddy Jordan tried to sexually assault an old woman. He’s no victim. Don’t try to make this guy into a sacred saint, or something. When a strange guy in boxer shorts enters the house of a woman, she has no time to sit there and figure out what his ulterior motives are – she needs to act to save her life. She did the only thing she could have done.
“Friend”, don’t try to justify Jordan’s actions. He trespassed with intent to harm, making an “agressive move” toward her. Anyway, he’s lucky. He’s at inner peace with himself, and will be for all time, for all eternity.Espiritu sanctu!
Really, Luis?? Sexual assault? Were you there because there is no mention anywhere from her or the police that he tried or intended to sexually assault her. “Aggresive move” is in quotations in the story but I’m fairly certain if they meant sexual assault they would have put that. Please don’t make this any worse than it already is and get your facts straight before posting.
There were no winners here, including Mrs. Maloney. You people that think this is a good thing need some serious help.
or right, how stupid of me, I completely forgot, you were there that night weren’t you Luis? There for you must absolutely know what went on that night and what Jordan’s intentions were. Oh wait you weren’t? Oh goodness so you have know idea what you are talking about. You strike me as a guy that believes and listens to everything he reads in a 100 word newspaper article, which is frightening type of human being. Don’t talk about things you don’t know about idiot. and josh your a redneck and probably are engaged to your cousin so shut up.
All of that may be true but any Kentuckian can tell you all about Kentucky’s Castle Doctrine. Your friend made a whole lot of bad decisions: going to the party, taking “the substance”, wondering off, walking in to a strange house at 1:00 a.m., somehow ending up in only his underwear…. As a result of those bad decisions, a bad thing happened to him. As a 21 year old adult living in a free country, the responsibility for those bad decisions is his alone. I’m sure this dear old lady would rather not spend the rest of her days reliving this experience just as I’m sure she didn’t appreciate cleaning up the mess or dealing with the hassle of a police investigation.
And this, friends, is why I’m proud to call the Bluegrass State home…
I’m saying she was 100% justified in what she did. She had no time to figure out this guy’s motives. If he had seen that she was armed, he should have gotten TF out of there post-haste. If he continued advancing towards her, even after seeing she was armed, then he had to take the consequences. This guy sounds like he was either brain-fried on dope, or soaked with booze.
What you were saying is he tried to sexually assault her, something you made up and were wrong about. Admit it. You also don’t really know if he “trespassed with intent to harm” that’s only what you ASSUME from your limited reading comprehension.
Was it justified? Perhaps. But no one knows what happened except the two people in that house and one of them is dead. The other one is NOT you, of that I am certain.