An 89-year-old Des Moines woman this morning fired a .22 caliber handgun at a man who bashed in the front door of her east side house.
Beatrice Turner said the man pounded on her door at about 5:30 a.m. She said she tried to tell the man he had the wrong house.
The man, 37-year-old Nelson McAlpine, apparently broke the glass in the door and then used his fists to break through the wood door.
Turner said she grabbed a handgun and cautioned the intruder that she would shoot if he came inside.
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