Feisty Grandmother Uses Unlikely Weapon to Fight Off Intruders: 'I Just Kept Smacking One of Them

"All I thought was, 'you're getting away from my grandson.'"

Melinda Walker took the definition of "Guitar Hero" to another level after three men allegedly broke into her Fort Wayne, Indiana townhouse on Sunday.

A robbery victim twice in the past, Walker was with her five-year-old grandson when she said she was awakened by three young men demanding money and her flat screen TV.

"All I thought was, 'you're getting away from my grandson,'" she recalled in an interview with WANE-TV.

(Photo: WANE-TV)

Though the men claimed to have a gun and were allegedly threatening to "take it out and clean it" on her, Walker said she suspected they might be bluffing. They were all wearing hoodies with the strings pulled tight, she said, making it impossible to see more than a few inches of their faces, and the purported firearm wasn't visible.

As the demands continued, Walker said she spotted the miniature toy guitar that came with her grandson's "Guitar Hero" game.

"I just reached down and picked it up, and I told them to get the hell out of my house. 'Get out of my house. Get out of my house!'" she said. "I just kept smacking one of them."

After the suspects began shying backwards towards the stairwell, Walker said: "I pushed the one that wouldn't shut up down the stairs...."

And as the scene grew more public, the men fled empty-handed in what was described as a champagne-colored sedan.

When asked if she has a message for the suspects, Walker said defiantly: "I may not be a strong woman. I may not be a well woman, but you're not going to get my stuff."

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