COLUMBUS, Ohio – Police say a woman sleeping on a couch with a loaded gun fatally shot an intruder who smashed through a front window early Thursday morning.
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“She got him,” a 911 caller said after the confrontation. “She shot him good.”
Christopher Lee Willis had broken into a house across the street and had just jumped out a second floor window, broke a ground-floor window and fell into the house where the woman was sleeping and she shot him multiple times, Sgt. David Sicilian, supervisor of the Columbus police third-shift homicide squad, told the Columbus Dispatch.
Willis, 28, died about two hours later at Mt. Carmel West Hospital.
Columbus police were called just after 5:00 a.m. Thursday by a resident of 110 N. Guilford Avenue, in Franklinton, who said a man had broken into his house through the back door and escaped out a second-floor window.
“Some guy that ran through our back door ran out through the top window, jumped off the roof and ran into the neighbor lady’s house, and she shot him,” the caller yelled to the dispatcher.
He dove through a front window of the other home and Sicilian says the woman sleeping in the front room grabbed the gun and fired multiple shots.
Police say the shooting appears to be a case of self-defense, but the investigation is continuing.