Tuesday, December 3, 2013

'She was a fighter. She shot him': Defiant 76-year-old Anderson County, South Carolina woman dies in shootout with gang of three who tried to rob her of bingo money (tma_sierrahills hereby nominates Dorothy 'Dot' Hendrix as our Rosa Parks)


'She was a fighter. She shot him': Defiant 76-year-old woman dies in shootout with gang of three who tried to rob her of bingo money

Fight back: Dorothy Hendrix managed to shoot one of her suspected attackers before she was shot dead

  • Shot: Steven Hagood was shot in the stomach during the alleged attack

  • Bingo hall volunteer shoots suspected robber before dying from injuries

  • Two men and a woman charged with murder after attack outside South Carolina home


A 76-year-old woman was killed in a shootout as a gang tried to rob her outside her South Carolina home in the early hours of Saturday.

Dorothy Hendrix was shot twice by the gang of two men and a woman, but she managed to shoot one of her assailants in the stomach before dying of her wounds. 

Steven Hagood, Tereba Geer, and Bradacious Galloway have all been charged with murder.

'She fought. She was a fighter. She shot him,' the victim’s brother, Ronnie Lollis, told WYFF News Channel 4.

Ms Hendrix, who was known as Dot to her friends, had been returning to her Anderson County home at 1am when the gang allegedly tried to rob her. 

The 76-year-old fired at the group and one of them fired back, hitting Ms Hendrix in the abdomen and the arm.

A neighbor called police after hearing the gunshots, but Ms Hendrix died outside her home while a relative held her hand. . . .