AKRON, Ohio -- An 75-year-old Akron woman had problems before with someone trying to break into her home, so when two teens allegedly tried to do the same thing Tuesday morning, she was ready with her gun, NewsChannel5's Brad Harvey reported.

Neighbor Loleta Gill said she knew the boys were up to no good when she saw them walking slowly in front of her neighbor's house at 10 a.m.

"They stopped, and I was looking out the kitchen window, and I could see they kept looking at the house and everything," said Gill.

Within minutes, the two were at the front door of Eleanor Lynn's home, Harvey reported.

"It wasn't five minutes when I was trying to dial 911. I said, 'Oh, they broke in my house,'" said Lynn.

Harvey said the would-be burglars couldn't see into the house, but from where Lynn was sitting inside, she could see in a mirror everything that was going on.

"If you look, it doesn't look like anybody is in here. But I'm sitting back here, so he didn't see me. But I saw him -- and they ran," said Lynn.

The assailants ran when they came face-to-face with a chrome-plated automatic Lynn fondly calls "the peacekeeper."

Lynn keeps it in the chair with her, and one look was all it took.

Lynn's neighbor called the police, who caught up with the suspects not far away. The 15- and 17-year-old suspects have been charged with burglary.