Putnam County Sheriff H.D. ‘Gator’ DeLoach says an elderly Interlachen, Florida, woman made her “entire neighborhood safer” by shooting and killing an alleged armed intruder around 3 a.m. Wednesday morning.

Action News Jax reported a 67-year-old woman awoke to the sound of the door handle rattling. She thought it was her husband coming home from work, but when she went to the door, 64-year-old Reginald Best allegedly “forced his way in with a gun.”

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