YES anti self defense crowd, She KNEW her attacker!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO what! Does this fact make this any LESS a self defense?!?!?!?!?

DON’T THINK SO!
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(IN) Woman shoots stalker who abducted her 10-09-03
Date: Oct 9, 2003 3:21 PM
Northwest Indiana News: nwitimes.com – News
Address:http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2003/10/09/news/top_news/0a91cc8ee75bfe2086256dba00002243.txt
Thursday, October 09, 2003
Woman shoots alleged abductor
Gary woman says she believed she was going to be killed. BY DEBORAH
LAVERTY
Times Staff Writer

MERRILLVILLE — A 28-year-old Gary woman said she knew what it meant
Tuesday when she noticed the man holding a gun to her head was wearing
gloves.

She figured she was going to die.

“I’ve called police on him before. He’s tried to threaten me and my
entire family. … He was going to kill me,” she said. “He’s a friend
who wanted to be more than a friend, and it’s not possible.”

But, the outcome of the incident took a turn when the woman pulled out
her own 9 mm pistol and shot her abductor in the mouth, police said.

The woman, whom The Times chose not to identify, remained shaken
Wednesday afternoon and said she hoped the three-hour ordeal would be
the end of seven months of harassment.

The 24-year-old Merrillville man who allegedly abducted her was taken to
The Methodist Hospitals Northlake Campus in Gary, Merrillville police
Detective Cmdr. Tim Wardrip said. His condition was unavailable
Wednesday, and Wardrip said he had not been arrested or charged. The
incident remains under investigation.

The identity of a second man, who fled when the shooting took place, is
not known at this time, Wardrip said.

The woman said she was sitting in her car about 9 p.m. at CVS Pharmacy,
5301 Broadway, when two men in another vehicle blocked her car from
moving.

A security officer came out of the pharmacy, and the men moved their
vehicle, she said. But once the security guard went back inside the
building, the men allegedly blocked her vehicle again and forced her
into their car at gunpoint.

She said they then drove to an isolated wooded area in Gary and parked,
with one of the men continuing to point a gun at her head.

While they were still in the car, a man came out of a nearby house and
approached the vehicle.

She said while her abductor rolled down the car window and was
momentarily distracted, she pulled out a handgun she had on her hip.

“I shot him and took his gun,” the woman said.

“I keep my gun on my hip, and I had it where I could ease it. It paid
off. I had one in the chamber so I was able to get one round off,” she
said.

The woman said she started carrying the gun because of the harassment
involving her abductor during the past seven months. She said she
believes the man was wearing gloves because he intended to kill her and
didn’t want to leave fingerprints behind.

She said time seemed to be standing still during the incident and she
prayed to God to take control of the situation.

After the shooting, she said she grabbed the man’s gun and ran to a
nearby house in the 4200 block of Tyler Street to call police.

“It wasn’t luck. I’m blessed, honestly blessed. It was God’s grace. I
had an angel with me,” she said.

Gary police responded to the 11:55 p.m. call, but the case was turned
over to Merrillville police because the abduction took place in
Merrillville, Wardrip said.