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Almost defenseless.(Willie Hancox)(Brief article)
An 84-year-old Orange Mound, Tennessee, man who gets around in a wheelchair heard a crash in his house at about 2 p.m. on January 13, and he grabbed his gun--a gun that his sons had tried to take from him only a short time before--and shot the intruder twice in the head.
The homeowner, Willie Hancox, is "sick of crime," reported wmctv.com. His neighbors were completely supportive of his action, one of them saying, "He did the right thing. People that's law abiding people is getting ...
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