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“I survived,” says woman who shot stalker after he kicked in her door

A woman in Las Vegas, NV shot her stalker after he kicked in her back door.  The victim says she had been living in constant fear of a man she had only dated fo...
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A woman in Las Vegas, NV shot her stalker after he kicked in her back door.  The victim says she had been living in constant fear of a man she had only dated for a month.

The woman made a post to Reddit asking for advice on what to do, when a restraining order wasn’t stopping his behavior:

“For the past 6 months I have been relentlessly stalked and had threats against my life made from someone I dated for a month. It started with phone calls upwards of 45-50 a day, 50 page text messages and him showing up outside of my house at 5 am. When I wouldn’t not comply or feed the negative attention I began to receive threats, claims that he would murder me and get away with it, all he would have to do is flee the country.”

Not long after she posted a picture of her broken door.  Police say Douglas Eugene Jackson, 22, kicked it in at around 1am:

“I’m writing this staring at the mess the police left for me, in a bit of a fog.  After 6 months of stalking and threats against my life my stalker finally snapped and decided to kick my door in and make good on his promise. Out of fear, the past month I had begun sleeping with a chair propped against my front door, to give myself a few extra precious seconds in case of emergency. I shudder to think how differently things might’ve turned out had I not barricaded the door.”

“I survived,” says woman who shot stalker after he kicked in her door

KVVU reported that Jackson left the scene and tried to hide in some bushes.  Police dogs quickly found the stalker.  He was treated for his injures at University Medical Center of Southern Nevada. Jackson now faces charges of home invasion and aggravated stalking.

“For months of him evading the police I began to question whether he was unstoppable. Untraceable. Houdini, he would murder me and get away with it. As of now I’m in a haze of guilt, surprise, relief and disbelief. I shook as the canines drag him out from his hiding place under a bush.” the victim writes in a post to Imgur.

The victim, does not wish to be identified, has saved many threatening texts and social media posts from her stalker.  She says  he forced her to move, obtain a restraining order and acquire a license to carry a concealed weapon.

After and outpouring of support the victim responded on the Imgur post to say:

“I cant thank you guys enough. Everyone can be a critic and the fact still remains, you dont know what you will do in a situation until its presented in front of you. Those who believe there was other things to be done have never had someone tell you that you no longer deserve to draw breath and mean it. And for the ‘shouldve fired a warning shot’ folks: There are no warning shots, a gun is a deadly force, you only pull that trigger if you are in fear for your life and all other methods of deterring are gone. When he kicked my door in, there was no longer a deterrent preventing harm. Warning shots are dangerous and could hurt the unintended. This is not a wild west movie. That’s what responsible gun ownership is.”

 

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