(BARTLESVILLE, Okla.) April 23 - A 95-year-old woman is safe after fighting off her attacker with a screwdriver in what would have been a home invasion.
Every time the man would poke his hand through the window she jabbed him until he quit.
"I walk over there. There's blood, busted glass." Over the weekend, Gerri Grindle came home to find police surrounding her neighbor’s house.
"There was busted glass where they had busted out. She had blood on her. There was glass in her hair."
Bartlesville police say 46-year-old Robert Horsley smashed the glass on the disabled woman's door and reached through, but she fought back.
"He was pretty chewed up and one knuckle was almost gone", said Bartlesville police officer Tom Holland.
After an hour-and-a-half of the woman fighting back, officers say the man passed out and that was her chance to call 911. “What do you tell your friends in county jail, where did you get those wounds? I don't know that he's going to tell them he got them from a 95-year-old lady confined to a wheel chair."
Police suspect it will be a long time before anyone trespasses on her property and neighbors like Gerri call her a hero. “She's very sweet. She doesn't want to go to the nursing home and she's doing a pretty good job protecting herself.”
Horsely is charged with a misdemeanor. If convicted he could face up to a year in jail.
The victim did not want to talk about the attack but her family tells FOX23 News she's doing fine.
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It is great that there are women out there at REALLY know how to use a screwdriver. So ladies, if you do not want your sweet little self put in a nursing home, know that you can protect yourself, by yourself. I realised that there are a lot of libs out there that like to play the victim... but any woman in a wheel chair that can beat back an attacker unconscious is a woman that is not bound by ordinary limits.
Mrs. Evil Reagan