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According to an article in the Vindicator (Ohio), an 83-year-old man fended off an attacker in his home.
Walter Swita, of Youngstown, had been robbed and beaten six weeks earlier, and so he had begun parking across the street from his house, rather than behind it, and he had begun carrying a gun, a weapon that he had owned since WWII. This action saved him from becoming a repeat victim.
On October 28, as Swita walked to his house from his car, he saw a man who had been loitering on the sidewalk start toward him quickly, and so he readied his gun and proceeded to hurriedly unlock his front door to enter his house. As Swita got one foot inside the door, the man bounded onto Swita's porch and attacked him from behind, grabbing Swita's neck and shoving him. Swita fell ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Jumped from behind.(robbery)(Brief Article)