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A county prosecutor said the woman acted in self-defense and ruled it was a case of justifiable homicide in a case review.
An 85-year-old Idaho woman shot and killed an intruder in her home in what a county prosecutor called “one of the most heroic acts of self-preservation I have ever heard of.”
Bingham County Prosecutor Ryan Jolley said in a case review that the woman, identified Wednesday as Christine Jenneiahn, acted in self-defense and ruled it was a case of justifiable homicide.
“That Christine survived this encounter is truly incredible,” Jolley wrote. “Her grit, determination, and will to live appear to be what saved her that night.”
According to the review, posted on Facebook by the Bingham County Sheriff’s Office, an intruder, identified as Derek Condon, broke into Jenneiahn’s home at around 2 a.m. on March 13. Jenneiahn told prosecutors she was asleep in her Bingham County home when she was awakened by an intruder who was wearing a military jacket and black ski mask and was pointing a gun and a flashlight at her.
She said her disabled son was also home.
The review says Condon most likely hit Jenneiahn in her head while she was in bed, because Jenneiahn said she’d been hit and because investigators found blood on her pillow and on her bedroom floor.
Condon then handcuffed Jenneiahn and took her to the living room at gunpoint, according to the review. There, he handcuffed her to a wooden chair and asked about her valuables. When she said she didn’t have much, he put his gun to her head, the review said.
According to the review, Jenneiahn told Condon she had two safes downstairs. He left her handcuffed in the living room as he looked through several rooms of her home in search of her valuables, prosecutors said.
“At some point,” the review says, “he discovered that Christine’s son was also in the home and became angry at Christine for not telling him.”
Condon started to make numerous threats that he wanted to kill Jenneiahn, according to the review.
While Condon was searching downstairs, she dragged the wooden chair to which she was handcuffed into her bedroom and grabbed her .357 Magnum revolver from under her pillow, the review says. Back in the living room, Jenneiahn hid the gun between the armrest and a cushion as she “waited to see what Condon did next.”
“Christine’s memory of exactly what occurred next remains somewhat unclear,” according to the review…
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