Grants Pass, Oregon

From Portland’s KGW.com of August 31, 2006

Woman shoots ex-boyfriend breaking into her home

GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- A 42-year-old Grants Pass woman called 9-1-1, telling dispatchers her estranged boyfriend, 50-year-old Nicholas Lazares, was breaking into her house to assault her.

Josephine County sheriff's deputies responded to Summit Loop Road.

Virdiana Combs stayed on the phone until dispatchers heard the sound of breaking glass and her screaming. Then the dispatcher heard a gunshot.

According to reports, the man threw an eight pound concrete object through the woman's sliding glass door at the back of the house.

By this time, she locked herself in a bathroom.

Combs says Lazares continued to try to get into the bathroom. That's when Combs shot Lazares in the shoulder.

She then escaped and contacted nine-one-one again.

Officers arrived. Lazares was treated at the hospital then taken to the Josephine County Jail.