{"id":1352,"date":"2011-07-11T03:08:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T03:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brownfamilyreunion.org\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2011-07-11T04:00:31","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T04:00:31","slug":"gun-toting-granny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brownfamilyreunion.org\/?p=1352","title":{"rendered":"Gun toting granny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RG5vjzBdvnI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>By Lisa Rantala &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/wtol.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=5684868\" target=\"_blank\">bio<\/a> | <a href=\"mailto:lrantala@wtol.com\" target=\"_blank\">email<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 20 year old burglary caused a Toledo grandmother to be dubbed a \u201cSenior Sharp Shooter.\u201d\u00a0 Now that grandmother says one man apparently didn\u2019t know her reputation and broke into her home.<\/p>\n<p>According to Toledo Police, 50 year old Byron Layson broke a window in 82 year old Mattie Snow\u2019s Hamilton Street home Sunday morning.\u00a0 Snow has lived in the home since 1957, has been burglarized before and knew exactly what to do.\u00a0 \u201cI hollered who is it and they didn&#8217;t say anything so I shot,\u201d Snow said.<\/p>\n<p>Police say Snow fired two shots before she called 911.\u00a0 When police arrived, they say they found Layson laying near Snow\u2019s car outside the home.\u00a0 They say Layson jumped out the same window he came in to dodge the gunshots, hit his head and knocked himself unconscious.\u00a0 Layson was charged with burglary.<\/p>\n<p>Snow had an almost identical experience 20 years ago, and reacted in the exact same way.\u00a0 Snow said a neighbor broke a window and crawled through. \u201cI could see him dodging like this and I was steady pulling the trigger,\u201d\u00a0Snow said.\u00a0 \u201cHe ran to police and jumped up in their arms saying there&#8217;s a crazy woman in that house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Snow\u2019s daughter, Pat Parker says her mother has not fired the gun since that day.\u00a0 \u201cIt has not been shot since the last incident 20 years ago.\u00a0 It had the same bullets in it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Snow said her husband made her keep the gun in the nightstand since their neighborhood was experiencing more crime.\u00a0 Her using it generated praise from her community and a featured spot on the CBS show Rescue 911.<\/p>\n<p>She said she has not been a crime victim since, until this weekend.\u00a0 While she laughed at the irony, \u201cMaybe he hadn&#8217;t heard it.\u00a0 Maybe he hadn&#8217;t heard the story. I&#8217;m sure he knows the story now,\u201d Snow says she wants to retire from her \u201csharp shooting\u201d days.<\/p>\n<p>Layson is now on a $20,000 bond and could face up to eight years in prison if found guilty.<\/p>\n<p><em><em>Copyright\u00a02011 WTOL. All rights reserved. <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southtoledo.wtol.com\/news\/crime\/gun-toting-granny-not-fazed-would-be-burglar\/59245\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/southtoledo.wtol.com\/<wbr>news\/crime\/gun-toting-granny-<wbr>not-fazed-would-be-burglar\/<wbr>59245<\/wbr><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By Lisa Rantala &#8211; bio | email A 20 year old burglary caused a Toledo grandmother to be dubbed a \u201cSenior Sharp Shooter.\u201d\u00a0 Now that grandmother says one man apparently didn\u2019t know her reputation and broke into her home. According to Toledo Police, 50 year old Byron Layson broke a window in 82 year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brownfamilyreunion.org\/?p=1352\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gun toting granny<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownfamilyreunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownfamilyreunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownfamilyreunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownfamilyreunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownfamilyreunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/brownfamilyreunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1366,"href":"https:\/\/brownfamilyreunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions\/1366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownfamilyreunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownfamilyreunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownfamilyreunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}