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Woman shoots attacker four
times Originally ran here
as: MUNCIE - Confronted by an armed robber in her home early Thursday morning, a
Muncie woman managed to shoot her attacker with his own gun, seriously wounding
him. Joel Williams Jr., 35, 301 E. First St. - whom police identified as the
attacker - was listed in critical condition at Ball Memorial Hospital late
Thursday. Williams was shot in the torso, leg, arm and head by his intended victim, who
was able to grab Williams's handgun while he tried to tie her up. The woman (whose name is being withheld) had stopped at her house in the 1900
block of South Macedonia Avenue around 12:45 a.m. Thursday with her friend, Leah
Lopez. Intending only to change shirts, fix their hair and put on makeup, the
18-year-olds left the car running and the back door unlocked while they were
inside. Minutes later, Williams entered the house, police said. For 20 minutes, Williams forced the women to go through the house looking for
money. He instructed Lopez to go to her car twice, first to turn off the engine
and then to retrieve a purse. But the women resisted, and by doing so probably
saved their lives, according to police. Lopez's friend kept insisting she had to go to the bathroom for
"personal" reasons, she offered fake jewelry and she even faked a
seizure as if she had epilepsy. During one forced trip to her car, Lopez grabbed a cell phone, hid it in her
pants and was eventually able to call 911, even though her hands and feet were
tied. Police dispatchers didn't believe her when she told them she was being
robbed. Lopez said they told her, "Ma'am, we don't have time to play games
like this." "They showed extreme calm, given the dangerous situation they were
in," said Muncie police Sgt. Roc Barrett. "I'd say these girls were
very lucky. We normally tell people to cooperate, but what they did worked for
them." While Williams was tying up Lopez's friend, he laid down his gun, Barrett
said. The woman, whose hands were tied in front of her, grabbed the weapon and ran
into the bedroom where Lopez was already tied up with telephone cord. Williams followed her, and the woman fired at him six times. Williams fell on
a television set and a lamp, police said. " It was so dark," Lopez
said. "When we got the light on, there was blood everywhere." Police said Williams was able to drive himself home. A friend then took him
to the Ball Memorial Hospital emergency room, where police - alerted by Lopez -
were waiting. Williams - who police say is active in a gang - was released from prison on
parole in January. He had been incarcerated after an armed robbery conviction,
according to records provided by the Indiana Department of Corrections. According to DOC records, Williams had been convicted of armed robbery in
Lake County three times. He had been in prison since 1985. If Williams survives his gunshot wounds, Barrett said, he could be charged
with burglary, robbery and criminal confinement. When the Thursday morning attack began, Lopez thought at first the masked man
was a friend playing a joke on her, but she quickly realized the danger was
real. "When he tied me up, that was when I realized that this guy could kill
us," Lopez said hours after the attack. "I hate to say this, but I
have no feeling about this. I am just in shock. "If that ever happened to me again, I know that I might not have the
chance to grab a phone or there might not be a gun lying there," the 2001
Southside High School graduate said. "My mom always told me to lock my
doors and nothing good happens after 11 o'clock. I realize now, she's
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