Wednesday - March 23, 2011

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Armed Beauty Queen Fatally Shoots Intruder in Florida Home Invasion

When a burly ex-convict forced his way into a posh Florida home last week, he had no idea what awaited him—a 25-year-old beauty queen with a pink .38-caliber handgun.

Meghan Brown, a former Florida pageant queen, shot and killed 42-year-old Albert Franklin Hill during a home invasion March 12 at the 2,732-square-foot house she shares with her fiance in Tierra Verde, Fla.

Hill barged into the home at around 3 a.m. after Brown responded to a knock at the front door, according to a police report. He allegedly grabbed the 110-pound Brown around her nose and mouth and dragged her to an upstairs bedroom. The woman’s fiance, Robert Planthaber, said in an interview that he was quickly awakened by the altercation and ran to Brown’s side.

“I attacked him and took a severe beating to the head,” Planthaber told FoxNews.com. “But I got him off of her long enough for her to scramble to the room where she keeps her pink .38 special.”

TIERRA VERDE—A couple involved in a deadly home invasion on Saturday say they were fighting for their lives. Robert Planthaber and Meghan Brown said they were asleep when someone knocked on their door about 3 a.m. Brown thought it might be a friend, so she answered the door.

“Basically, all I had to do was unlatch the lock and the knob was already turned and that’s when the door was pushed open,” she said, “I turned to run and he grabbed me from behind. He had his hand over my mouth and he’s dragging me up the stairs.”

Planthaber heard what was happening and confronted the man, who has been identified as Albert Hill. A struggle began and Brown ran into the bedroom and grabbed a gun. She returned and shot Hill.

Planthaber said, “We’re glad this guy is off the streets and if it didn’t happen this way, we’d probably both be dead.”

The English press goes a bit more towards the Wild West details, which don’t seem to be in any other news article:

The fight between the two men broke the dining room table and chairs but, as they tussled, Miss Brown produced her pink gun from her bedside table. ‘I had my gun drawn, focused in on him - as he moved, my gun moved. I waited for my shot and when I saw an opening, I fired,’ she told the newspaper. Miss Brown said she was ‘glad’ it had been her, because not everybody else would have been as prepared as she was.

‘The way I see it is, the guy was a really bad guy and if it wasn’t my bullets, it probably would have been the police officer’s bullets,’ she said.

Other online papers also note how well off the couple are. They live in a 2780 square foot Spanish style house in Pinellas County with at least 3 giant TVs in the living room. She wears a $60,000 diamond engagement ring and they routinely pay for delivery pizza with $100 bills. He’s 42, she’s 25. The guy is an arborist - a tree surgeon; a cross between a landscaper and a lumberjack - and makes this kind of money? Damn, I’m in the wrong business.

The burglar had a rap sheet as long as your arm and had spent half his life behind bars for numerous violent offenses.

Here’s the link to the original story.

Posted by Drew458     on 03/23/2011 at 10:11 AM   
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