85-Year-Old Man Fights Then Shoots Intruder

Things got a little western in Riverton, Wyoming, over the weekend when an “irrational” and much younger unexpected visitor began beating and kicking on 85-year-old Wayne Williams’s front door. Around 11 p.m. Friday night, Williams heard violent pounding and shouting at his front door so grabbed a .380 he keeps for home defense from his bedroom and went to see what the ruckus was about, he told the  Cowboy State Sentinel.

Once at the door, he opened it, a move he later admitted to the paper probably wasn’t the smartest thing he could have done, because as soon as he did, the intruder, who Williams described as about 25 years old, six inches taller than him and appearing drunk or under the influence of drugs tried to shove his way into the home.

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