Daughter has to pull her pistol ...

[OldBroad44]

So for the second time in about a month my daughter has had to pull her pistol. The first time an ex-boyfriend broke into her apt. She put a laser on his forehead until the police arrived to haul his @$$ off.
Yesterday she was in the Beaverton Costco parking lot when a very large, black, crackhead tried to break the window of her car to get to her. The little Keltec p32 has a crimson trace mounted on it. Apparently the p.o.s. wasn't too thrilled to find a red dot over his heart and ran into the store. She called the police, told them what had transpired, that she was armed, and that she would remain that way until they arrived. Said when she saw them drive up she would unload her piece, place it on the dash and have her hands up when they approached. Two Beaverton officers showed up, located and arrested the guy. They said they were glad she had her weapon with her as this guy was very high and in Superman mode. They escorted her to Cornelius Pass and told her to keep her weapon loaded and next to her on the seat until she got home. She told me she was ready and willing to shoot the guy, and it was a very sickening feeling.
Another happy ending for a well trained and awake lady shooter, who just happens to be my little girl.
p.s. don't scoff at .32acp or Keltec. Has saved her bacon twice now. Oh, and lasers work!

Can you tell us more about the incident with the ex boyfriend? Did he break in while she was there, i.e. a home invasion? Or did he break in and was waiting for her when she came home? Did he still have a key and had told him not to come back, or was it was it actually a break-in, and if so, how did he get in? What were his intentions? Rape her, get her back, steal her stuff, trash her place, get his own stuff back? Try to catch her with someone else? Can you tell us the full story.?

 

[P7M13]

Glad she's OK. Is she a member here that we can lavish her with congratulations and applause?

Recommend, like @JRuby, that she evaluate if she's sending signals or something like that where scum might take her for an easy mark.
I have a laser on my Kimber, but never activate it. I should practice that. Also will make sure my kids have lasers when they head off on their own.

 

[Caveman Jim]

When I was a kid, I talked to a deputy who said in 22 years, he never had to draw his gun.

Fast forward 25 years and Im in my 14th year and my gun comes out several times every month. Things are different.

Be careful out there man you have a precious little one to go home to now.

 

[tourproto]

First kudos to your daughter, she sounds like a well-prepared, cool cat

And the Beaverton Costco? Really? The one on Jenkins? My wife and I go there a lot, never encountered anything even remotely sketchy like that. Just so surprising... but that is also why I carry everyday now too. You just never know. I would expect this on the east side and I am always cautious over there, but the Beaverton burbs? Sheesh...

 

[Certaindeaf]

.And the Beaverton Costco? Really? The one on Jenkins? My wife and I go there a lot, never encountered anything even remotely sketchy like that. Just so surprising... but that is also why I carry everyday now too. You just never know. I would expect this on the east side and I am always cautious over there, but the Beaverton burbs? Sheesh...

Dat's where da good stuffs at man!

 

[bivy53]

Thank you all for you encouraging words. Pray for her continued safety, please. So to address as many questions as I can ... she carries on her hip.
Next, the ex. He broke in when she was gone at a work meeting. Found him late at night standing in her kitchen fixing himself a meal and drinking a beer. This was after she ran him off and told him to never come back.
This last incident happened while at work. She is currently a professional shopper (who knew?) and was getting ready to go in and fill an order.
I am counseling her to help her through the trauma.

 

[tkdguy]

So for the second time in about a month my daughter has had to pull her pistol. The first time an ex-boyfriend broke into her apt. She put a laser on his forehead until the police arrived to haul his @$$ off.
Yesterday she was in the Beaverton Costco parking lot when a very large, black, crackhead tried to break the window of her car to get to her. The little Keltec p32 has a crimson trace mounted on it. Apparently the p.o.s. wasn't too thrilled to find a red dot over his heart and ran into the store. She called the police, told them what had transpired, that she was armed, and that she would remain that way until they arrived. Said when she saw them drive up she would unload her piece, place it on the dash and have her hands up when they approached. Two Beaverton officers showed up, located and arrested the guy. They said they were glad she had her weapon with her as this guy was very high and in Superman mode. They escorted her to Cornelius Pass and told her to keep her weapon loaded and next to her on the seat until she got home. She told me she was ready and willing to shoot the guy, and it was a very sickening feeling.
Another happy ending for a well trained and awake lady shooter, who just happens to be my little girl.
p.s. don't scoff at .32acp or Keltec. Has saved her bacon twice now. Oh, and lasers work!

Great result! But disgusting state of society and the conduct of some men!

 

[tkdguy]

He must mean the Costco in Aloha. I was at the Costco in Tigard a few years back when encountered an aggressive vocal male unrelenting and in threatening space to a women who may have been his wife or gf. The verbal assault was escalating when I notified Costco admission front door checkers who immediately sent damn quick two large male employees out to the parking lot to neutralize the situation and protect the woman. I do not know what I would have done if he started hitting her. This was a noon time or early afternoon incident in late Spring or Summer with very clear skies. No call for how awful the guy was towards the woman. When I first saw this situation, I feared she was going to slap him in the face and then he would attack her. Another disgusting man.

 

[Camelfilter]

First kudos to your daughter, she sounds like a well-prepared, cool cat

And the Beaverton Costco? Really? The one on Jenkins? My wife and I go there a lot, never encountered anything even remotely sketchy like that. Just so surprising... but that is also why I carry everyday now too. You just never know. I would expect this on the east side and I am always cautious over there, but the Beaverton burbs? Sheesh...

+1 on kudos!

...as to the burbs, "they" have been there for a long while.

Near on a decade ago I called in a meth head bothering folks aggressively as they were loading up there cars at the Beaverton Town Square Fred Myers on a weekday morning. Stopped to do a shop after work.

If I recall correctly, Sherrif deputy took the call (could be mistaken on that though, it's been so long now). Anyways whomever it was that took the call, called me at home afterwards (probably to see if there was more info vs dispatch). Anyways apparently the guy ran & resisted. No LEO's injured, but dirtbag was.

That was near a decade ago.

I figure it to be worse now everywhere anyone assumes is "nice", given the poor mental health system (many mentally ill self medicate with "whatever" spiraling worse), the revolving door judicial system and the obscene proliferation of highly addictives.

Nice places are where people go that have money. Junkies want money anyway they can get it.

 

[OldBroad44]

Recommend...she evaluate if she's sending signals or something like that where scum might take her for an easy mark.
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I don't think a woman in a parked car sends signals except the basic unavoidable ones as to what size and gender she is. Any woman in a car is automatically presumed to be in the easy victim class. This is a fact of life women have to deal with. Likewise, such signals are irrelevant when dealing with an ex boyfriend.

 

[JRuby]

I don't think a woman in a parked car sends signals except the basic unavoidable ones as to what size and gender she is. Any woman in a car is automatically presumed to be in the easy victim class. This is a fact of life women have to deal with. Likewise, such signals are irrelevant when dealing with an ex boyfriend.

I have been married going on 34 years and share some of these concerns in regard to my wife. Though no ex boy freinds I worry about her safety.

 

[Wombat of Doom]

A guy I work with shot and killed a guy a few months ago. He was talking to me about it and he said killing the dude didn't bother him. What bothered him was the gun that was pointed back at him and realizing how close his kids came to being fatherless.

For me it was nightmares and the fact that cops let said dirtbag go and that he threatened me later with a portable skilsaw and oddly enough I was breaking up lumber with a cold steel bad axe. I just raised the axe and backed away. It was a bad situation.

There was some sort of dispute and bad guy stabbed 3rd party with a piece of lumber from a pallet and knocked him down. Bad guy got a baseball bat and forced 3rd party to his knees and declared he would bash his brains out. I got my gun and told him to stop through blinds from the 2nd floor. I called 911 and held him at bay for 29 minutes till officers arrived. Thankfully the wife and I were moving the next morning. The victim refused to press charges so bad guy walked off. He wasn't sure it was me but he still made death threats. It was lovely. The cops wouldn't believe I intervened because I don't like people being murdered around me.

 

[P7M13]

I don't think a woman in a parked car sends signals except the basic unavoidable ones as to what size and gender she is. Any woman in a car is automatically presumed to be in the easy victim class. This is a fact of life women have to deal with. Likewise, such signals are irrelevant when dealing with an ex boyfriend.

While you are right, I don't completely agree here - while this happened on arrival, this is not always the case. In my experience from where I grew up, assailants will identify you, follow and then attack when you are most vulnerable. In spur of the moment gang attacks (or getting jumped by one perp) that I and other family members experienced, they were chaotic, fast and brutal.
As far as the boyfriend, him breaking in, fixing a meal and making himself at home - he obviously didn't take her seriously nor believe her. Either he didn't know she owned a pistol, was that stupid to think she wouldn't use it, or truly believed her to be that manipulable.
Not being there, I'm just armchair quarterbacking.

 

[RVTECH]

Ditto on all the praise for your daughter and GLAD she is OK! Like you I too have a 'prepared' daughter.
I am sure we all wish this daughter had been similarly prepared ....
Mollie Tibbetts murder suspect ID'd as Cristhian Rivera, 24, living in US illegally

 

[bivy53]

First kudos to your daughter, she sounds like a well-prepared, cool cat

And the Beaverton Costco? Really? The one on Jenkins? My wife and I go there a lot, never encountered anything even remotely sketchy like that. Just so surprising... but that is also why I carry everyday now too. You just never know. I would expect this on the east side and I am always cautious over there, but the Beaverton burbs? Sheesh...

I may be assuming the Beaverton store as it was the Beaverton popo that showed up.

 

[bivy53]

Glad she's OK. Is she a member here that we can lavish her with congratulations and applause?

Recommend, like @JRuby, that she evaluate if she's sending signals or something like that where scum might take her for an easy mark.
I have a laser on my Kimber, but never activate it. I should practice that. Also will make sure my kids have lasers when they head off on their own.

She is not member here, but feel free to shower me with congratulations and applause!

 

[P7M13]

She is not member here, but feel free to shower me with congratulations and applause!

Good Job, DAD! You and your daughter are an inspiration!

 

[titsonritz]

A guy I work with shot and killed a guy a few months ago. He was talking to me about it and he said killing the dude didn't bother him. What bothered him was the gun that was pointed back at him and realizing how close his kids came to being fatherless.

Plus some people just need to be shot.

 

[bivy53]

I was able to speak with her tonight. Said she is ok and went right back to work today. I raised some tough kids.

 

[bivy53]

Now my wife decided she wants a laser on her heater too!