(LA) Woman kills attacker inside her home 02-17-05
Date: Feb 20, 2005 7:56 AM
http://www.klfy.com/Global/story.asp?S=2961624
East Feliciana Parish woman kills attacker inside her home

CLINTON, La. An East Feliciana Parish woman fired a bullet into the
chest of a man who had broken into her farmhouse, then fought off his
beating until the man died from the gunshot wound.

Georgia Belle Sullivan says she was sleeping before dawn yesterday when
her dogs’ barking woke her up. She retrieved her gun, then saw a shadow
move behind a line of chairs. She told authorities that’s when a man
lunged at her.

She fired once at close range, hitting 44-year-old Arthur Sanford, a
former farmhand who had worked on her cattle farm and lived on her
property near Clinton.

Sheriff Talmadge Bunch says Sanford had a string of arrests and served
time in a state prison for armed robbery. All the doors and windows to
the home were locked, but Bunch says Sanford entered the home through a
firewood storage area that he had probably filled up with wood when he
worked on the farm.

Sanford also cut the phone lines outside the house and had taped a sweat
shirt to his head as a makeshift mask.

In the beating after the shooting, Sullivan suffered bruises to her face
and elsewhere, and lacerations on her arms.

Sullivan says the gun discharged several more times during the struggle.
She says when Sanford realized he was hit, he told her his name, asked
her not to shoot him again and he let her go.

Sullivan says she’s lucky to be alive.