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Not again.(robbery)(Brief article)
Eighty-four-year-old Frank Sams' house had already been robbed three times in one week when he decided to do something about it. Late in the evening of May 3, he went outside, sat on his steps, and waited with a pistol for the thief to strike again.
At about 3 a.m., 23-year-old Lakashia Walker "hopped Frank Sams' fence and busted through his garage door," reported WRDW Channel 12. Sams then shot her in the neck. Though she was not in the act of physically attacking Sams, he was allowed to shoot her under a new Georgia law, which states you can use deadly force "as soon as you feel threatened?'
After being shot, Walker was taken to a local hospital, where she was listed in stable condition. Police indicated that this incident was the third such one in less than two weeks of a homeowner shooting a burglar in the Augusta area.
In the reader commentary posted after the online version of this story, a woman identifying herself as Walker's sister rebuked Sams' action, saying ...
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