LOGANVILLE, Ga. — A woman hiding in her attic with children shot an intruder multiple times before fleeing to safety Friday.
The incident happened at a home on Henderson Ridge Lane in Loganville around 1 p.m. The woman was working in an upstairs office when she spotted a strange man outside a window, according to Walton County Sheriff Joe Chapman. He said she took her 9-year-old twins to a crawlspace before the man broke in using a crowbar.
But the man eventually found the family.
“The perpetrator opens that door. Of course, at that time he’s staring at her, her two children and a .38 revolver,” Chapman told Channel 2’s Kerry Kavanaugh.
The woman then shot him five times, but he survived, Chapman said. He said the woman ran out of bullets but threatened to shoot the intruder if he moved.
“She’s standing over him, and she realizes she’s fired all six rounds. And the guy’s telling her to quit shooting,” Chapman said.
The woman ran to a neighbor’s home with her children. The intruder attempted to flee in his car but crashed into a wooded area and collapsed in a nearby driveway, Chapman said.
Deputies arrested 32-year-old Atlanta resident Paul Slater in connection with the crime. Chapman said they found him on the ground saying, “Help me. I’m close to dying.” Slater was taken to Gwinnett Medical Center for treatment. Chapman said Slater was shot in the face and neck.
In February, Slater was arrested on simple battery charges, according to the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office. He has been arrested six other times in the county since 2008.
Kavanaugh was the first reporter at the scene as deputies investigated. The victim’s husband told Kavanaugh he’s proud of his wife. He was on the phone with her as the intruder broke in.
“My wife is a hero. She protected her kids. She did what she was supposed to do as responsible, prepared gun owner,” Donnie Herman said.
He said he’s thankful for his family’s safety.
“Her life is saved, and her kids’ life is saved, and that’s all I’d like to say,” Herman said.
Channel 2’s Amy Napier Viteri learned from Chapman late Friday night that slater has been placed on a ventilator and suffers from punctured lungs, a punctured liver and a punctured stomach.
He said if Slater survives the night, doctors will try to operate in the morning to repair the damage.
Chapman said Slater has four exit wounds.
Slater is currently being charged with burglary.
Intrusion into a home, and approaching (rather than fleeing) an occupant, is nothing less than attempted murder. This is why this brave woman is totally justified in her actions.
Dang woman! Nice shooting! It sounds as though you cured the habitual intruder of his evil ways. Obama your ass is sucking butter milk… Does anyone know how that saying came about?
Good for her. Unfortunately incidents like this often go unnoticed by the media. Maybe it gets a quick spot on the local news or a write up in the police blotter in the local paper. But the mainstream media ignores these stories because they don’t support the agenda of their masters. I have hope for our cause but the propaganda machine has fanned the emotional fires of the public. I’ve been reading more and more anti gun articles from the NY Times to Vanity Fair to various local newspapers. I just got finished reading many anti gun comments on Facebook linked to some girl’s ’cause’ which she is asking people to support. These people are so blinded by the their overblown idealist egos that they refuse to even look in the direction of the smoke screen created by the totalitarians and their propagandists. What these people want is for the gun to be uninvented. These are the perfect suckers for the elite. Their kind think they have evolved beyond the negative attributes of human behavior. Yes folks, slavery has been abolished, the nazis have been defeated and now that humanity has learned it’s lesson, it’s time to turn in all those guns. And all those pro gun people, well they’re just not as evolved and intelligent as we are. These people need to take a good look around the world and they need to realize that it wasn’t that long ago that some of humanities’ worst atrocities occurred and are still happening today. The reality is that humans are capable of some awful deeds, and this is more likely to occur in dire, desparate times. The scary part, is that I’m just speaking on behalf of the common public. Not the democidal maniacs. So as we edge nearer towards what seems to be an imminent collapse, we enter into an era of uncertainty with the possibility of hunger, poverty and violent situations. I should like to see how these highly evolved humanists behave when they are cold, hungry and desparate. I wonder if THEN they will look back and think maybe they should have prepared for this and maybe, just maybe they should have bought a gun.
Five times and he’s still alive? One reason to use at LEAST 38+P or a .357. One shot from my 10mm with JHP anywhere on the body would have stopped him completely.
My thought exactly.
By all rights, he should have been stone cold dead by the time the ‘clean-up’ crew arrived.
(And why is the print so small in the comment section of this article? My eyes aren’t what they used to be)
Precisely why I have .40 hollow points. I don’t want a goddamn prisoner, they talk.