Fawn Walenski rescued Jonathon E. Thays from assault, Venice, California, June 28, 1993. In the hall just outside his door, Thays, 47, was being robbed at gunpoint by a man who had forced his way into the apartment building. Ms. Walenski, 40, with whom Thays lived, went to investigate when she heard noise in the hall. Thays told her to go back into the apartment, and she did, closing the door. Ms. Walenski then picked up a clay flowerpot, opened the door, and confronted the assailant, who held Thays to the floor with his gun pointed at Thays’s head. When the assailant stood and aimed the gun at her, Ms. Walenski threw the flowerpot at him, striking him. The assailant fired the gun at Ms. Walenski, striking her in the shoulder, then fled. Ms. Walenski required hospital treatment for her wound.
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