The woman who shot a man who allegedly broke into her home early Saturday says she was determined she wasn't going to become a victim of violence.

"I said, 'I'm not going out like this,' " Teresa Martin told Bay News 9. "I'm 50 years old and I'm not going out like this. I just started fighting back, and I don't know if I hit him or kicked him the right way, (but) the gun went off and caught him in the head. And then he hit the ground."

Tampa police say Leonard Denard Porter and two other people broke into Martin's home on North Albany Avenue around 2 a.m. Porter, who was wanted on an outstanding warrant involving another home invasion, was shot and critically injured.

Porter remains hospitalized, and the two other suspects, Johnny Acevedo Jr. and Audra Steadman, were arrested.

Martin says she was lying in bed when she heard a crash at the door. Before she could react, she says, there was a man in her room with a gun asking for money.

"I said, 'you're going to have to kill me because i don't have anything," Martin said. " 'I have nothing.' "

Then came the struggle and the accidental discharge.

Martin says she'd never seen Porter, but she knew one of the other people involved and considered him "family." She said that man knew she recently received a check.

A friend who was sleeping over on the couch slept through the incident, Martin says. She says she's glad her adult son with Down syndrome wasn't home because he would have tried to help and that could have ended badly.