Arizona woman shoots sex offender with long criminal record who is breaking into her home

Aug 18, 2023 | Defensive Gun Use

At 2 PM on August 11th, 54-year-old Sandra Tracy shot and killed Jayson Magrum, who is a registered sex offender with an extensive criminal record, who was breaking into your Three Points, Arizona home. Three Points is a rural unincorporated, thinly populated area of about 5,500 people about 30 miles southwest of Tucson. Houses are very spread out.

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A man deputies say was shot to death while trying to break in to a woman’s home in a rural area near Tucson last week was a registered sex offender who lived nearby, records show.

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Jayson Magrum, 43, was shot dead Aug. 11 when the Pima County Sheriff’s Department says he was trying to get into a house in Three Points, about 30 miles southwest of Tucson.

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Sandra Tracy, 54, was home alone when the incident occurred.

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She told deputies she grabbed a gun and fired a warning shot through the window hoping it would scare the intruder away, according to an initial news release from the department.

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She fired a second time, striking Magrum. . . .

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Magrum had a lengthy criminal record within Pima County, including at least eight charges dating back to 2006. Among them: multiple charges of threatening or intimidating, disorderly conduct as well as assault. . . .

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Charles Borla, “Records: Alleged intruder killed by woman near Tucson was sex offender,” Arizona Daily Star, August 16, 2023.

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