Liquer store granny shoots shoplifter / "I'm fed up!"

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Just call her Granny Oakley :violence-pistoldouble:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/nashville-liquor-store-owner-88-explains-why-she-shot-alleged-shoplifter-im-fed-up

Nashville liquor store owner May Boyce, an 88-year-old widow who stands 5-foot-3 and weighs 115 pounds, according to reports, got “fed up” of her store being robbed so she shot an alleged shoplifter.

She told police she grabbed her late mother Mary’s .38 Smith & Wesson snub-nose revolver and shot a suspect who was trying to steal alcohol last Tuesday, according to an affidavit obtained by McClatchy News Service.

“I did what I had to do, and I hope word gets out on the street that I’m fed up and I’m not taking it anymore,” she told The New York Post Saturday. “You’ve got to stick up for yourself sometimes.”

“I did what I had to do,” added Boyce, now out on $10,000 bond. “After you’ve been played for a fool by people stealin’ from you for years, you get fed up. And don’t put me in the category of a little old lady. I know how to take care of myself.”

She said she wasn’t aiming for the alleged thief but instead shot the suspect in the back.

“I never shot a gun before,” Boyce said, “but I guess it’s something that comes natural. I aimed at the floor to scare him.”

The elderly businesswoman works six days a week at the shop she’s owned since 1994.

“I’m a people person,” she said, “I like to work.”

Authorities said it might be two years before they give her back her confiscated gun.

“I told ’em, s–t, I might be dead by then,” Boyce said. “But the law’s the law.”
 
hell, I would donate her another one and buy her a beer and a shot. I bet a dozen locals offered her another pistola....
 
cool arrow said:
hell, I would donate her another one and buy her a beer and a shot. I bet a dozen locals offered her another pistola....

Hell I will help you donate to the cause. How much? Say $20 and a gofundme account
May Boyce, 88, the owner of Murfreesboro Road Liquor and Wines in Nashville.
 
Appreciate the effort but wonder if she'll be charged for the shooting. No fear of loss of life, shot in back, etc. All for use of force but you have to know the law. That's the best reason to do a CCW class here in AZ even if it isn't required.
 
accidental discharge, shes out on bail, city oughta give her a metal for doing what the gendarmes cant' seem to do. law isn't the law anymore it seems, or they just chooose to enforce what the politicals want them to.
 
What do you guess the manufacture date of a 38 that belonged to an 88 year old woman's late mother is?

I bet the same rounds were in it since 1962
 
She aimed at the floor and shot him in the back.
It doesn't sound like it bothers her too much that her aim was off.
Maybe next time she will aim at their butt.
 
Ballistic Therapy said:
She aimed at the floor and shot him in the back.
It doesn't sound like it bothers her too much that her aim was off.
Maybe next time she will aim at their butt.

I think she intentionally shot him in the back, probably after pointing the weapon at him and he attempting to get away. Then, upon realizing her legal error, made up that she was aiming elsewhere. I'm sure the officer taking her statement knew it was bullshit but took down her statement anyway, thinking "Sure, sounds good to me."
 
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