Spanaway man who shot, killed home intruder tells Dori, ‘If it comes to you, protect yourself’

Jerahme Smith had less than 60 seconds to decide how to respond when he heard intruders breaking into his Spanaway home around 4 a.m. Thursday.

One day after the break-in, Smith tells Dori Monson Show listeners how his mind worked in the brief juncture between the break-in and the moment he fatally shot one of the two home invaders.

Ten to 20 seconds after awakening to sounds of an outdoor gate opening outside his bedroom window, Smith – a Pierce County husband, father of three, and brother — recalls hearing his home’s back door kicked in.

“I sat up in bed,” Smith, 31, told Dori. “I always have my

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