A 56-year-old great-grandmother from Detroit has a permit to carry her 9 mm handgun, and when she was assaulted on a city bus, she used it.
Ramona Taylor Kamate, 56, boarded a bus Thursday at Northland Mall in Southfield, Mich., Click on Detroit reports. It was there she came face to face with her attacker.
“He was saying ‘you smell good, looks like you have money’ and I said no I don’t,” Ms. Kamate said. “He grabbed my book bag and I grabbed it back and we started tussling, I bit him on his left hand. When he struck me in my head we started fighting.”
No one tried to help her.
“It’s sad you have all those men on the bus, and no one helped me,” she added.
The assailant ran off the bus with Ms. Kamate’s purse, and the grandmother ran after him.
“Somebody said he had a gun, and when he turned and faced me he went down, and when he went down I just pulled my 9 out and started shooting him,” she said.
Ms. Kamate said she fired 11 shots, but he still got away. Her purse was later found, minus the cash in her wallet.
“At first, I felt remorse because I have grandchildren,” she told Click on Detroit. “If my grandchildren are out here doing what these punks are doing, they need to get the same thing.”
• Jessica Chasmar can be reached at jchasmar@washingtontimes.com.
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