Woman shoots and kills robber

Ask the 54-year-old woman who shot an intruder dead and wounded another when they came at her from different sides of her house on her Atlantis smallholding. The women, who will not be named for security reasons, said she shot at a man who kept on coming towards her. As he continued to try and attack her, she shot him again.
She told The Argus newspaper: “The dogs were in attack mode with their hair standing up. I first thought they were barking at snakes because we have a lot of snakes in the area,” she said. “Then I looked out of the window and I saw someone walk past… I then grabbed my hand gun.”
She went outside and as she took a wide turn around the garage, a man hit her left hand with a long iron rod.
“He lifted the iron rod but before he could strike me again, I shot him. He turned and ran away and I ran to the front of the house. There was a second man there… I shot at him and when he kept coming towards me, I shot again.”
The men gained access to her property by climbing over a fence.
Police found the body of one of the intruders at the back of the house. A knife was also found in the yard. The second man had fled.
Can we now expect the SA government to open a murder docket against this woman? Yes, police spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Andre Traut confirmed that a murder docket had been opened and the the circumstances were under investigation.
This follows an earlier report by The Argus of the plight of a 47-year-old Belgian-born woman, also an Atlantis resident, after her smallholding was invaded three times in 24 hours. She said she was “angry and ready to fight back”.