Heart-stopping moment grandma shoots intruder who burst into her home while she was watching a Taylor Swift movie with granddaughter

A New Mexico grandma has been hailed as a hero for shooting a burglar who burst into her home and attacked her while she watched a Taylor Swift movie with her granddaughter.
Anissa Tinnin, 45, was elated that her granddaughter was spending the night at her Albuquerque home. She was planning to take the little girl to school the following morning.

The duo ate dinner, bathed and cuddled on the couch as they watched Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour film.

‘We had our popcorn and M&M’s, dancing and singing along, when our lives were about to suddenly change,’ Tinnin wrote on Facebook as she recounted the evening of March 21.

But things took a terrifying and violent turn when a man Tinnin had never seen before barreled through the front door. The grandmother would later learn that he had hopped a fence on the property, his every move captured on a Ring camera.

‘I jumped over this couch and we met there by the front door,’ Tinnin.

‘That’s when he grabbed me and was upset and said to give him my keys. He said he didn’t want to go to jail. He did threaten to hurt my granddaughter and me.’

Unbeknownst to her, the man, 32-year-old Joseph Rivera, was a convicted felon with a lengthy rap sheet. He was being chased by police just before bursting into Tinnin’s home and broke into it in a bid to evade detection.

Once inside Tinnin’s home, he demanded she hand over the keys to her Range Rover Sport.

As Tinnin frantically looked for her keys, she dialed 911. ‘I told him to not hurt us, that I would do whatever he wanted. I would give him keys, money, whatever it took,’ she explained.

Rivera finally grabbed a key fob and headed to the car, and Tinnin began to plead with the 911 operator.

‘This guy came into my house and tried to take my car. Please help me,’ she begged in a released recording of the call.