Did a homeowner fend-off three armed intruders with a high capacity magazine?

Question

A recent NBC News article, Judge blocks California's ban on high-capacity magazines over 2nd Amendment concerns claims the judge wrote an 86 page decision that included a story that a woman fended-off three armed home intruders using a firearm and a high-capacity magazine.

In the third case, the pajama-clad woman with a high-capacity magazine took on three armed intruders, firing at them while simultaneously calling for help on her phone.

"She had no place to carry an extra magazine and no way to reload because her left hand held the phone with which she was still trying to call 911," the judge wrote, saying she killed one attacker while two escaped.

Did this happen?

As far as I'm aware, the judge's decision did not list the woman by name (but I'm struggling to find a full copy of the decision either), which is why I find the story difficult to fact-check.

Reasons why I'm skeptical are:

• Home invasions involving three armed assailants seem pretty rare in America, unless it's gang or mob violence. It seems more common for one financially-desperate person to go on a solo robbery, target unlocked homes, and give-up if the homes prove to be occupied.
• It seems like ordinary burglars would give-up on a robbery after 6+ shots are fired. I don't see why they would keep persisting at that point unless this were a vendetta. You're better off just looking for a different unoccupied house, and I wonder why they suspected that this house offered some sort of bounty that was valuable enough to brave being shot at by dozens of bullets.
• The whole layout of the situation feels like it was architected to justify a legitimate use for high-capacity magazines.
• Supposedly she wouldn't have been able to reload ordinary-capacity magazines because she couldn't put the phone down, but like... she could put the phone down. When you call 911, you're actually allowed to put the phone down for a bit if you need to.
• It's also kind of hard to accept the justification that an ordinary-capacity magazine would not have been capable of achieving the result "she killed one attacker while two escaped."

Answer 1

This sounds like Chen Fengzhu. In 2016, she awoke to three armed men invading her home, and scared them off after shooting at them, one dying from a gunshot wound in the driveway. The other two escaped, but 18 months later one of them would be arrested and face charges for this.

The gun she used was "a pistol", though I can't identify what type. Other than that, the other details match exactly:

• Pajamas
• Phone in left hand, trying to call police. From what she describes in the interview, at the point when she was dual wielding the phone and the gun, she had not yet gotten through to 911.
• Though Chen owns a restaurant (apparently a seafood market), the incident happened in her residence. She lived there with her employee (and kept a lot of supplies for her restaurant there, as can be seen in multiple shots). According to Shanghiist: "Chen herself told overseas Chinese media that often female Chinese businesswomen are targeted in her area because of their reputation for storing a lot of money at home, rather than at the bank."

There is high quality footage of the attack: Video shows woman shooting at burglars during Gwinnett home invasion

Answer 2

Thanks to Laurel's answer we can check fact what happened and see if that did happen or not.

• Home invasions involving three armed assailants seem pretty rare in America, unless it's gang or mob violence. It seems more common for one financially-desperate person to go on a solo robbery, target unlocked homes, and give-up if the homes prove to be occupied.

It was not a home invasion, but a business/shop. It makes sense.

• It seems like ordinary burglars would give-up on a robbery after 6+ shots are fired. I don't see why they would keep persisting at that point unless this were a vendetta. You're better off just looking for a different unoccupied house, and I wonder why they suspected that this house offered some sort of bounty that was valuable enough to brave being shot at by dozens of bullets.

They did indeed fleed acording to the video, but the woman chased them shooting.

• The whole layout of the situation feels like it was architected to justify a legitimate use for high-capacity magazines.

Totally agree, there are no signs of a high capacity magazine. Assuming an average of 10 bullets for standard capacity and the commentor of the news saying she unloaded the magazine we can conclude checking the video she was using a regular one.

• Supposedly she wouldn't have been able to reload ordinary-capacity magazines because she couldn't put the phone down, but like... she could put the phone down. When you call 911, you're actually allowed to put the phone down for a bit if you need to.

The incident did not last enough to reload the magazine, afet 9 shots there were no intruders and one of the intruders was dead.

• It's also kind of hard to accept the justification that an ordinary-capacity magazine would not have been capable of achieving the result "she killed one attacker while two escaped."

The video Laurel found proves you are right in that assumption

Conclusion

True: That woman did kill one and two fled, using a regular magazine.

False: The judge claims are wrong because clearly was not a high capacity magazine.