Weirdly, I think they’re both lucky he survived. I really expected this to end with OP in front of a jury of her peers while a slimy prosecuting attorney says something like “this poor man was unconscious after the first strike with the tire iron. After that, self defense is off the table.” And “he committed his own crimes, no one is contesting that, but a man’s crimes do not allow a normal citizen to take the law into their own hands”. Really glad OP got away and he got locked up.