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California man, 80, guns down pregnant home invader: ‘I shot her twice, she best be dead’
Tom Greer killed the woman after she and a man jumped him and robbed his Long Beach house Tuesday night. The couple fled after he showed his revolver, but the woman was killed as she tried to run away.
BY Sasha Goldstein
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, July 23, 2014, 10:54 PM
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They came to the wrong house.
An 80-year-old California retiree shot dead a pregnant woman as she and a male accomplice tried to flee Tuesday night after breaking in and robbing the man’s home in Long Beach.
And Tom Greer has no regrets about plugging the woman with two shots as she begged for her life.
“She says, 'Don't shoot me, I'm pregnant! I'm going to have a baby!' And I shot her anyway," Greer told KNBC-TV.http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Long-Beach-Homeowner-Shoots-Kills-Intruder--268364152.html
The elderly man, wearing his arm in a sling Wednesday as he spoke to a reporter, said he came back to his house in the ritzy Bixby Knolls neighborhood Tuesday evening and found the woman and a man ransacking his home.
"When I went in there, they tackled me," Greer told the news station. "Both of them jumped up on top of me."
During the struggle, Greer fell to the ground as the intruders rummaged through a safe. But the man had pocketed his .22-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver in the chaos of the moment.
"I come back and they see me with a gun, and they run," he told the NBC affiliate.
The man took off but the woman stumbled in an alley behind the home. She pleaded for her life as Greer took aim and fired.
"She was dead,” he told KNBC. “I shot her twice, she best be dead ... (The man) had run off and left her."
Cops have yet to identify the dead woman and her accomplice remains on the lam. Greer, meanwhile, was headed to the hospital to have a shoulder and collarbone injury treated, he told a reporter.
The woman collapsed in this alleyway and Greer shot her dead despite her pleas for life.
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Greer said it was the first time he had shot a person — but wouldn’t be the last if anyone tries to mess with him again.
"I shot her, so that's going to leave a message on (her accomplice’s) mind for the rest of his life," Greer told the station.
It’s unclear if Greer will face charges in the shooting.
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