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ROGERS COUNTY, Okla. (KTUL) -- A home invasion turned bad for the two men breaking in.
Sheriff Scott Walton said a woman was house sitting at a home just of west of Inola when Jeffrey Stevenson and Jeffrey Lyon tried to break in.
Armed woman fights off 2 home invasion burglars (Courtesy of the Rogers County Jail)
As she was calling 911, Lyon got inside the home and tried to get the gun she was armed with but she fought back, hitting him in the face.
“There was a challenge there for the weapon,” said Walton. "She was able to retain the weapon."
A neighbor heard the commotion and went to help the woman.
She handed the neighbor her gun, and they fired a warning shot at Lyon, but he already jumped out of a window.
Lyon then headed toward the neighbor so the neighbor fired two more warning shots before Lyon stopped.
Inola police and Rogers County sheriff’s deputies showed up shortly after and tried to take Lyon into custody, having to use force to stop him.
Stevenson, the second suspect, also resisted arrest. Walton said he headbutted a deputy.
Stevenson was tased twice before he was taken into custody.
“These guys are very fortunate,” said Walton. “They are fortunate to not be dead right now. Especially the intruder that was coming in.”
The sheriff said he believes the two men were under the influence of something.
No one was hurt in the situation.
“I’m certain the lady would have been well in her rights had she emptied that gun on somebody who was trying to take it away from her when she was trying to defend herself in a residence that she had legal right to,” said Walton.
Patsy York lives nearby.
“It’s been a wonderful neighborhood,” said York.
York said she’s proud of that woman for defending herself and said many out here would do the same.
“I have went to bed before with a baseball bat, because I don’t mind hitting somebody if they are trying to attack me,” said York.
She even keeps an ice pick near her bed for protection.
“Nobody is going to be able to attack me without me hitting them with something,” she said. “I’m not going to let somebody beat the heck out of me and not fight back. Even if it kills me, I’m going to fight back, like she did.”
Both men face a number of felony charges.
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