A young Chicago woman killed a home invader with a firearm Sunday. Reports are thus far unclear if she personally-owned the firearm.
Police say a 30-year-old man broke into a 28-year-old woman’s home early Sunday morning and began to attack her, The Chicago Sun-Times reports. The woman used a handgun to fatally shoot him.
Authorities say the woman was licensed to own a gun and that she knew the intruder. Police are still investigating the death.
A Daily Caller News Foundation investigation of self-defense shootings between July 2014 and July 2015 found that hundreds of potential victims were saved by gun-toting Americans. Many of the defenders in the analysis were young women defending themselves from men, suggesting Sunday’s Chicago shooting is not quite an anomaly.
Unlike Sunday’s shooting, the analysis found that gun carriers were able to defend themselves usually without killing the invader. Of 217 suspects in the analysis, 148 perpetrators survived their encounter with a gun carrier, whether they took a gunshot wound or simply fled. The other 69 were killed, so more than half the suspects involved survived.
See the investigation’s interactive graphic here.
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