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GUN CRIME GALLERY 72-year-old Jan Cooper saved her life and the life of her 85-year-old World War II veteran husband, who is confined to a wheelchair. In 2013, a man was breaking into the Cooper's Southern California home, when the grandmother fired one shot from her .357 Magnum Smith and Wesson revolver, which scared the burglar off.
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Jan Cooper, 72, talks to the media as her husband Bob, 85, left, and OC Sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino listen during a news conference at the Sheriff's Department station in Stanton on Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Jan Cooper showed where the Sheriff's estimated the bullet traveled, based on the size of the suspect and the damage to her sliding glass door, when she scared off an intruder at her home in unincorporated Anaheim on Sunday, June 9, by firing a shot from her .357 Magnum during the attempted break-in. (AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Paul Bersebach)
