The 2nd amendment comes to the rescue again.Meghan Brown, the 2009 Miss Tierra Verde, shot and killed 42-year-old Albert Franklin Hill when he invaded her home in the middle of the night.
Brown answered a knock at her front door at 3AM. Hill forced the door open and grabbed the 110-pound woman dragging her to an upstairs bedroom.
Brown's fiance, Robert Planthaber was awakened by the noise and attacked the assailant but was knocked down with a blow to the head. Planthaber told police, "But I got him off of her long enough for her to scramble to the room where she keeps her pink .38 special.”
Brown struggled to control her fear. Shaking, she snatched her gun from a nearby bedroom. She turned quickly and shot the suspect several times – hitting him in the chest, groin, thigh and back. Hill was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police later reported that Hill was a career criminal with a record stretching back nearly three decades -- including arrests for burglary, battery, drug possession and grand theft.
