Home Invader Accidently Shoots Himself

Local news reports

She said she was tossing in bed around 2 a.m., thinking about bills she had to pay, a house she had to clean, when she heard her front door get smashed.

She called out to a friend, Jerry Bullard, 52, who was sleeping on the living room couch. Getting no response, she got up and saw the man with the gun.

Martin, who told the Times she relies on government assistance, said she told the man she had no money. She said he pushed her onto the bed on her stomach. And that's when she heard the "click" of a gun cocking.

"I said to myself, 'Oh, hell no. If I'm going to die I'm going to go down fighting,' " she said.

So Martin said she began kicking her feet wildly in the gunman's direction. She heard a boom and looked back. The man was lying on the floor and making gurgling noises, blood oozing from an eye. She ran to get Bullard, whom she had to wake up, and told him there was a dead man in her bedroom.