Al­though she is be­ing hailed as a hero and pub­licly ap­plaud­ed for killing a would-be in­trud­er on Sat­ur­day night us­ing her rel­a­tive’s li­cenced firearm, a Ch­agua­nas woman could now be fac­ing mul­ti­ple charges de­pend­ing on what the in­ves­ti­ga­tion un­earths.

The 45-year-old woman, from Egypt Vil­lage, En­deav­our, was at home around 8.15 pm on Ju­ly 29 with her young daugh­ter when the in­ci­dent oc­curred.

It is al­leged that the moth­er saw the sus­pect open the door to her sil­ver Hon­da CRV in her yard and sound­ed the horn sev­er­al times be­fore walk­ing to the front door and shak­ing it as he at­tempt­ed to gain en­try to the house.

The fear­ful woman re­port­ed­ly re­trieved a male rel­a­tive’s li­cenced firearm and fired a sin­gle shot in the sus­pect’s di­rec­tion, hit­ting him in the head.

As he col­lapsed on the floor of the garage, she con­tact­ed the po­lice.

The oth­er sus­pects fled.

Foren­sic per­son­nel lat­er re­cov­ered one spent nine mil­lime­tre shell cas­ing at the scene.

As news of the shoot­ing spread across so­cial me­dia and news out­lets be­tween Sat­ur­day and Sun­day, hun­dreds cel­e­brat­ed the woman’s brav­ery.

Joyce Ram­box com­ment­ed on Face­book, “Best news ever. Peo­ple do what you have to do to pro­tect your fam­i­ly.”

Tasha Gabriel wrote, “Job well done. Thank to your hus­band for ap­ply­ing for that firearm.”

Ofs Sight rec­om­mend­ed, “Na­tion­al award.”

Mean­while, Sam­bo Har­ris coun­tered, “How ter­ri­ble. This woman need­ed to go to jail for pos­ses­sion and us­ing a gun with­out a FUL and mur­der. The hus­band should have both FUL and gun tak­en away and charged with reck­less en­dan­ger­ment for hav­ing his gun so un­pro­tect­ed, that his wife or any­one else could ac­cess it.”

Con­tact­ed on the mat­ter yes­ter­day, Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, In­tel­li­gence and In­ves­ti­ga­tion Curt Si­mon said, “This in­ves­ti­ga­tion is quite re­cent and there must be some dili­gence ex­er­cised in the con­duct­ing of the in­ves­ti­ga­tions when one takes in­to con­sid­er­a­tion that the in­ves­ti­ga­tors have to start at the end of it, go­ing back to the be­gin­ning ... to the orig­i­nal oc­cur­rence.”

Si­mon stressed that no fur­ther de­tails would be re­leased re­lat­ing to the mat­ter at this time.

An­oth­er se­nior po­lice of­fi­cer said while the pub­lic would nat­u­ral­ly view the woman and her daugh­ter as the vic­tims in this in­stance, that term could be at­trib­uted to the de­ceased who the po­lice iden­ti­fied as Mark An­tho­ny Joseph, 25, of Ch­agua­nas.

Con­tact­ed to pro­vide a per­spec­tive on the law and how the woman’s ac­tion could be in­ter­pret­ed, a se­nior le­gal of­fi­cial ex­plained that she could face a mul­ti­tude of charges in­clud­ing pos­ses­sion of a firearm and pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion.

He added, “De­pend­ing on the cir­cum­stances of the in­va­sion—mur­der.”