Cape Girardeau woman shoots, kills would-be rapist at her home

[Mugu]

Friday, October 31, 2008
By Bridget DiCosmo
Southeast Missourian

A Cape Girardeau woman shot and fatally wounded Ronnie W. Preyer, 47, a registered sex offender who had broken into her home early this morning with the intention of raping her a second time, Cape Girardeau Prosecuting Attorney Morley Swingle said today.

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Police were actively working the unsolved rape case, Swingle said, and had been frequently driving past the woman's home in case her attacker returned.


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He found a main fuse panel in the basement and shut off the electricity. The victim immediately tried to call 911, but the phone would not work because there was no electric.


Having recently purchased a shotgun, she grabbed the weapon and when Preyer began banging on the basement door, she was ready for him. When he crashed through the basement door into her kitchen, she shot him once in the chest and ran, heading for a neighbor's house, where she called the police.

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[FLAprogressive]

1. Good for her. Couldn't have happened to a nicer person.

[Warpy]

2. That's one way to get a serial rapist off the street.

It's a good thing she bought that shotgun, she'd likely not have survived a second attack.

[cliffordu]

3. Cool. Good riddance.

[charlie]

4. It wasn't Rush?

Damn.

[SmokingJacket]

5. He was going to attack her a second time???!

What a monster.

[LostinVA]

7. It happens rather frequently

[LostinVA]

6. Notice how it's ALWAYS sex offenders who have been released who do this?

It's never their first time. They need to throw away the key on these sociopaths.

I also bet that if men got raped like women and children did, the average rapist would get 500 years in prison.

Good for her. She must have been terrified.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

8. Is that like a chicken before the egg sort of thing?

Very odd.

[MichiganVote]

9. Works for me.

[5thGenDemocrat]

10. Gun control you can believe in

Ronnie Preyer (ironic name, that) got just what was coming to him.
John
Society's a little bit better place in his absence today.

[emilyg]

11. Bravo.

[REP]

12. Why "would-be" rapist? He's a convicted rapist (1989 in New Madrid)

I see it took him a while to die. Awwwwww.

[riverdeep]

13. Every time someone posts stories of some kid shooting himself

accidentally with their parent's gun, which is really the parent's fault, as a way of saying how guns are inherently bad, I hope people remember there are stories like this out there as well. And this was a case where the cops were even doing periodic checks, but they can't be everywhere.

Good for her, and hope she recovers from any trauma quickly.

[marlakay]

17. I know I am real split on the gun thing because of that

I read a story years ago in local newspaper of a 3 yr old who found loaded gun under couch and almost killed his dad playing cowboy. He thought it was a toy.

[AlCzervik]

14. Well she saved other women from the same fate by this monster.

Good on her.

[RamboLiberal]

15. Good for her - just wish she had that shotgun the first time this

SOB broke in to her home.

[marlakay]

16. Ditto the good for her! nt