Homeowner Linda Orist said that her tenant was forced to defend herself after the home invader refused to stop advancing upon her. A Colorado Springs woman who lives alone in a rented home is shaken up but fortunate to be alive after being forced to shoot and kill a home invader that wouldn’t stop advancing upon her, even after she fired a warning shot.

The criminal—which the media is referring to only as a burglar, despite there being no information suggesting that was the reason he was in the home of a woman living alone—first attempted to breach the back door. When …read more