Virginia Morrison
Mixed feelings abound after an older Florida woman said she shot and killed a man who had broken into her home.
Virginia Morrison, 69, told outlets she was protecting herself and her partner after a stranger—later identified as Ezequiel Rosario-Torres, 38—entered her home on Sunday, said nothing, and refused to leave, even in the face of separate warning shots.
“I have feelings. I have God in my life,” she told WOFL. “That’s my main thing: Wondering if God’s going to forgive me for taking a life. It bothers me.”
But at least one member of Rosario-Torres’ family suggested he wanted this to happen.
“Yes, he was very suicidal and this week especially he was acting very strange and out of character,” his daughter, who did not want to be identified, told WKMG.
“I heard the door handle kind of rattle, and then the door opened, and the guy stepped in my house,” Morrison told WESH. “I didn’t know who he was. I looked at him and I said, ‘Who are you and what do you want?’”
He said nothing, she told the outlet.
“The whole time the guy was here, he never said one word and I never saw his eyes move,” she said. “Total blank.”
She said she ran to the bedroom to her partner Charlie, who is almost 80 years old, and told him about a man being in the house. (Outlets give Virginia’s age as either 69 or 70. Local reporting describes her as a grandmother.) She told Charlie to get his .45 caliber gun. Again, she said, the intruder showed no response.
“That gun never fazed this guy,” she said. “Just a total blank.”
Virginia said she attempted to strike the man…
