Florida woman whacks half-naked attacker with baseball bat: ‘He better be glad I didn't have a gun’
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A baseball bat-wielding Florida woman slugged a man after he attempted to break into her parked vehicle and then charged at her Sunday.
Clarese Gainey, 65, of Gainesville, told WGFL she heard a noise coming from outside her home and peeked out the window. That was when she says she saw a large man -- dressed only in his boxers -- attempting to get into her car.
"I grab my bat, I brace myself, and I ease the door open," Gainey told WGFL.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}At that moment, the man -- identified by police as 37-year-old Antonio Mosely -- charged at her, authorities said, according to WGFL.
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"I took that bat and hit him upside the head, like, 'pi-yah!' He said, 'Ow!'" Gainey recalled.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The man reportedly fled to a nearby mobile home park but left behind a sock, shirt and pants.
“He was in his drawers,” she recalled.
A K-9 unit was able to track Mosely to a mobile home where officials said he was found with a pair of pants on. WGFL reported cocaine was found his pocket, and he was brought to Gainey for identification.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}“I said, ‘That’s him right there,’” Gainey said.
Officers said they also noticed a large bump on the suspect’s head.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Mosley was charged with “attempted burglary to both an occupied and unoccupied conveyance and possession of a controlled substance,” the media outlet reported.
Gainey had a warning for the suspect, saying he “better be glad I didn’t have a gun.”
"Because I would have shot him," she said.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Then, pointing at her baseball bat, she added: "But this is my gun right here. Because I would have gone 'pi-yow!'"