Forsyth County deputies were still piecing together Monday evening what happened during a shootout in which a woman was wounded after she said she confronted two burglars in her house.
The Cumming woman was rushed to a Gainesville hospital Monday morning with three bullet wounds, including one to her stomach, Deputy Doug Rainwater said. She was also wounded in an arm and a leg.
Investigators took samples of blood splatters in the house to determine if an intruder was also shot, he said. Investigators believe the two suspected burglars were a man and a woman, Rainwater said.
“We are trying to determine what happened in the gunfight and whether all the blood is her’s,” Rainwater said. “She was shot three times, but she returned fire with her own gun. She fired several shots, but we don’t know if one of them was hit.”
Deputies haven’t released the name or age of the woman but said she was in the house alone before the shooting at Pilgrim Mill Road and Magnolia Avenue.
The gunfight happened around 10:30 a.m. when the then-sleeping woman said she heard noise, armed herself and went to investigate, Rainwater said.
“Most burglars don’t carry guns to their crimes, so this is very unusual,” he said.“They probably knocked on the door to see if somebody was home and she is sound asleep. Next thing she knows she hears all the noise in the house and she gets up to to investigate and she is confronted.”
Rainwater did not have the woman’s medical condition. She was coherent and talking to paramedics after the shooting, but Rainwater suspected she was still in serious condition because of the stomach wound.
She was operated on Monday afternoon, he said.
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