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The homeowner surrendered to police and told officers he had shot one of a number of individuals that he believed had attempted to break into his house.

An 82-year-old Vietnam War veteran beat an armed home invader to death with the butt end of a shotgun to protect his 79-year-old wife after the invader attacked her in their home in South Carolina on Monday. According to local authorities, Herbert Parrish grabbed the gun off a wall mount when the suspect, later identified at 61-year-old Harold Runnels, forcibly entered his home wielding a knife. Runnels knocked Parrish’s wife, Lois, to the ground and sliced her forehead in the attack, Fox 57 reported. “I felt, we’re gone. He’s going to kill us and take what he can take,” Parrish tol...

“I felt, we’re gone. He’s going to kill us and take what he can take."

The 82-year old man came to the defense of his 79-year old spouse when a stranger attacked her in their home.

An armed home invader who attacked a 79-year-old woman is dead after the victim’s 82-year-old Vietnam War veteran husband beat him down with the butt end of a shotgun, officials say.