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85-year-old Idaho woman who killed intruder committed 'heroic act of self-preservation'

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The 85-year-old mother of a disabled son committed a "justifiable homicide" in Idaho when she shot an armed burglar who snuck into her home and threatened to "kill her multiple times," a county prosecutor said. Christine Jenneiahn presented "one of the most heroic acts of self-preservation" that Bingham County prosecutor Ryan Jolley has ever heard of when she shot and killed 39-year-old Derek Condon, according to an incident review written Tuesday. The confrontation occurred around 2 a.m. on March 13, when Condon woke Jenneiahn from her sleep at her home...

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