LOGANVILLE, Ga. — An intruder picked the wrong home to barge into in Georgia after a mom of two shot down an intruder face-to-face.
It began Friday afternoon when the mom thought it was a solicitor, telling the Atlanta Journal-Constitution “don’t answer the door” to 9-yr-old twins playing downstairs.
The man didn’t stop ringing the doorbell. The woman, who asked not to be identified, called her husband who told her to “get the kids and hide,” the paper reported.
The 37-year-old grabbed her kids and hid in a crawlspace. By this time, the man had managed to get into the home with a crowbar.
According to the paper, he made his way through the home and eventually to the door that led to where her and the children were hiding.
“He opens the closet door and finds himself staring down the barrel of a .38 revolver,” Walton County Sheriff Joe Chapman told the paper.
The woman fired six bullets — five that hit the intruder, who’s been identified as Paul Slater by police.
Slater hit the ground, police said, and the woman told him not to move or she’d shoot again.
The mother and children ran to the neighbor’s house unharmed. Slater eventually made it outside and was taken to the hospital. He’s expected to survive.
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