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http://www.heraldstandard.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20079819&BRD=2280&PAG=461&dept_id=480247&rfi=6Gun-toting 85-year-old stops thief
SPRINGHILL TWP. - State police said an 85-year-old Lake Lynn woman is being credited with stopping a would-be thief after she caught the teen in her home Sunday afternoon.
Trooper Christian D. Lieberum said Leda Smith held the unidentified intruder at gunpoint until police arrived.
He said the incident began around 3 p.m. when a 17-year-old Point Marion boy broke into Smith's home on Old Lake Lynn Road.
Smith said she had just come home from church when she noticed a door open at her home and an outer door broken.
Lieberum said Smith immediately realized someone was in her home and decided to retrieve her handgun and went looking for the intruder.
"I saw him move by my keyboard near the wall but I just walked right on past him to the bedroom and got my gun," Smith said, noting that she started keeping the .22-caliber revolver by her bed after a burglary at a neighboring home several weeks ago.
Smith said she then found the boy hiding and confronted him.
"I said, 'What are you doing in my house?'" Smith said during an interview Monday with WPXI-TV, Channel 11 in Pittsburgh, a news partner with the Herald-Standard. "He just kept saying he didn't do it."
Smith ordered the teen to turn around and not to run and then had him pick up the telephone and dial 911.
She then ordered the boy to give her the telephone after placing the call and she told dispatchers about the intruder.
Officials from 911 stayed on the telephone with Smith as she had the boy lay facedown and spread-eagled on the floor.
She said it didn't take emergency crews long to respond.
Lieberum said Smith continued to hold the teen at gunpoint until state police arrived at the home.
"It was exciting," Smith said of the incident. "I just hope I broke up the ring because they have been hitting a lot of places around here."
Lieberum said the boy will be charged with attempted burglary and other offenses in Fayette County Juvenile Court.
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