If This Was a TV Show Episode Script It Would Never Sell Because of Implausibilty

4/11/24 East Idaho News.  Short version: bad guy in ski mask with lockpick breaks into 85-year-old woman's home beats her, handcuffs her to a chair and starts burglarizing the house.  While bad guy is downstairs she gets chair to bed, retrieves revolver.  Gunfight between them ends up with bad dead guy.  Ten hours later, her son finds her.  No charges filed