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Senior gets in gun fight with teenage litter bug
TUCSON - A gun-toting 66-year-old woman takes matters into her own hands after a run in with a trouble making teen.
It happened around 5:30 a.m. Thursday morning near Midvale Park on the south east side of Tucson.
The woman was just out for a walk when she came across an 18-year-old man throwing trash in the wash. She yelled at him and the man yelled right back with some derogatory comments. The man then went over to a nearby wall and she said someone threw a gun over. It turned out to be just a BB gun, but she thought it was real.
Diane Steen was the woman involved, an active member in the area neighborhood watch. She said, "When I saw the gun come over the wall I thought 'Oh my god, it's a .45!' I thought he was going to kill me."
So she quickly went for her own gun. She said, "He kept coming towards me and I said stop. He just kept coming and he was aiming it at me so I fired a shot and fired a second."
She missed, and he ran away, but eventually fired back. That's when she realized it was just a BB gun and she forced it out of his hands. She waited there for police, during which time the suspect attempted to get his gun back.
Steen said, "He knelt down about 3 feet from the gun and said I'm going to tie my shoe. I said 'You don't need to tie your shoes, show me your hands.' He started reaching for the gun so I fired another shot into the ground."
The police eventually showed up and took him into custody with no injuries, but he still ended up going to the hospital.
Sgt. Matt Ronstadt with the Tucson Police Department said, "He became agitated in the back of the patrol car and smashed his head into the divider, the prisoner screen. It actually ended up causing a laceration to his head that required treatment at the hospital."
Steen said she wished she didn't have to do what she did, but she said that doesn't mean she did anything wrong. She said, "Police are short-staffed. People need to step up and get over the fear of retribution."
The suspect was arrested charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct. Steen wasn't charged with anything but police said it is still under investigation.
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TUCSON - A gun-toting 66-year-old woman takes matters into her own hands after a run in with a trouble making teen.
It happened around 5:30 a.m. Thursday morning near Midvale Park on the south east side of Tucson.
The woman was just out for a walk when she came across an 18-year-old man throwing trash in the wash. She yelled at him and the man yelled right back with some derogatory comments. The man then went over to a nearby wall and she said someone threw a gun over. It turned out to be just a BB gun, but she thought it was real.
Diane Steen was the woman involved, an active member in the area neighborhood watch. She said, "When I saw the gun come over the wall I thought 'Oh my god, it's a .45!' I thought he was going to kill me."
So she quickly went for her own gun. She said, "He kept coming towards me and I said stop. He just kept coming and he was aiming it at me so I fired a shot and fired a second."
She missed, and he ran away, but eventually fired back. That's when she realized it was just a BB gun and she forced it out of his hands. She waited there for police, during which time the suspect attempted to get his gun back.
Steen said, "He knelt down about 3 feet from the gun and said I'm going to tie my shoe. I said 'You don't need to tie your shoes, show me your hands.' He started reaching for the gun so I fired another shot into the ground."
The police eventually showed up and took him into custody with no injuries, but he still ended up going to the hospital.
Sgt. Matt Ronstadt with the Tucson Police Department said, "He became agitated in the back of the patrol car and smashed his head into the divider, the prisoner screen. It actually ended up causing a laceration to his head that required treatment at the hospital."
Steen said she wished she didn't have to do what she did, but she said that doesn't mean she did anything wrong. She said, "Police are short-staffed. People need to step up and get over the fear of retribution."
The suspect was arrested charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct. Steen wasn't charged with anything but police said it is still under investigation.
Watch video - Article from: http://www.kvoa.com/news/senior-gets-in-gun-fight-with-teenage-litter-bug/#!prettyPhoto/0/