82-Year-Old Vietnam Vet Fights Back Against Armed Home Invader, Ends With One Person Dead
An Aiken County couple’s day turned sour after an intruder invaded their home.
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An Aiken County couple’s day turned sour after an intruder invaded their home.
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.
“I felt, we’re gone. He’s going to kill us and take what he can take."