Eighty-five-year-old Idaho woman saves herself and son from burglar in ‘heroic act’

Eighty-five-year-old Idaho woman saves herself and son from burglar in ‘heroic act’

Christine Jenneiahn shot and mortally wounded a man who broke into her home at night and handcuffed her to a chair

At 85-years-old, Christine Jenneiahn might have seemed particularly vulnerable to the man who broke into her Idaho home, pistol whipped her and handcuffed her to a chair.

But investigators say Jenneiahn saved herself as well as her son – whom authorities described as disabled – from the intruder by grabbing a revolver she had hidden under her pillow, shooting and mortally wounding the violent burglar.

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