85-Year-Old Woman Shoots and Kills Burglar While Handcuffed to a Chair During Home Invasion

An 85-year-old Idaho girl is being recommended for taking pictures intruder who damaged into her dwelling, tied her up and threatened to kill her.

The incident occurred at Christine Jenneiahn’s dwelling in Bingham County on March 13 round 2 a.m. She was sleeping when an armed man sporting a ski masks, Derek Condon, woke her up in the midst of the night time, in response to an incident assessment from native prosecutors.

“Subsequent investigation signifies a powerful probability that Condon struck Christine within the head as she lay in her mattress, as there was blood on the pillow and ground in her room the place she had been sleeping,” the assessment stated, “She additionally reported he had hit her within the head sooner or later in the course of the incident however was uncertain of what precisely came about.”

At gunpoint, officers stated Condon, 39, compelled Jenneiahn into her front room and handcuffed her to a wood chair. The suspect demanded that she inform him the place her valuables had been positioned, however she initially didn’t. He put the gun towards her head, and she or he knowledgeable him that there have been two safes downstairs.

Throughout this time, Jenneiahn dragged the chair into the bed room, the place she obtained her .357 magnum revolver hidden underneath her pillow, the assessment famous. When she returned again to the lounge, she slid it into the armrest of her sofa and waited for the fitting time to make a transfer.

Whereas ransacking the house, Condon found that her son David, who’s disabled, was additionally in the home. Per the assessment, he threatened Jenneiahn for not telling him, saying that he would execute her.

“She said sooner or later Condon got here again into the lounge and threatened to kill her as he continued to rummage via her dwelling and burglarize it,” officers wrote. “She finally made the choice it was ‘now or by no means’ and drew her hid 357 magnum and engaged Condon, putting him with each her pictures.”

He returned fireplace and hit her in numerous components of her physique, together with the stomach and chest. Condon succumbed to his accidents in Jenneiahn’s kitchen. Nonetheless handcuffed and with a number of gunshot wounds, she was on the ground for hours till her son introduced her the cellphone to name the police. When first responders arrived, they carried out lifesaving efforts.

Investigators discovered a damaged window and a screwdriver subsequent to one of many doorways in her dwelling. Condon additionally had stolen valuables, a handcuff key, and a lock decide set in his possession. Police discovered his automobile parked close to the residence.

“This case presents a simple evaluation of self-defense and justifiable murder. It additionally presents some of the heroic acts of self-preservation I’ve heard of. Condon was nonetheless within the act of his violent dwelling invasion when Christine selected to have interaction him with lethal power,” Prosecuting Lawyer Ryan Jolley stated in a press release.

Jolley continued, “Any affordable particular person would consider it essential to defend themselves on their disabled youngster underneath such circumstances. That Christine survived this encounter is actually unbelievable. Her grit, dedication and can to stay seem like what saved her that night time.”