A Florida beauty queen told police that she shot and killed an intruder as he fought with her fiance, after the man broke into the couple’s home earlier this month.
25-year-old Meghan Brown, 2009 Miss Tierra Verde, told cops she opened the door of the home that she shares with her fiance, Robert (Bobby) Planthaber Jr. on March 12, around 3:00 am, believing that it was a friend who needed a bed for the night.
Enter, 42-year-old Albert Hill, the intruder. Hill at first attacked her, Miss Brown told police, then her fiance appeared after she screamed. The two men rolled around and scuffled.
As the two men fought, Miss Brown then went for her pink hand gun in a bedside drawer.
‘I had my gun drawn, focused in on him (Hill); as he moved, my gun moved. I waited for my shot, and when I saw an opening, I fired,’ Miss Brown told the St. Petersburg Times. She shot Hill four times.
She added that she was ‘glad’ it had been her, as she was quite prepared. Not everyone would have been as prepared, she said.
Hill had a long rap sheet dating back to 1986 and has been in and out of prison. Previously he had been arrested for burglary, grand theft, dealing in cocaine and other crimes, reports the St. Petersburg Times.
The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office is still investigating the fatal shooting.
