Heartwarming Story

Stories like this always make us smile:

• The Loganville mother of two assumed the knocks on her front door Friday afternoon were from a solicitor.
  
  “Don’t answer,” she yelled to her 9-year-old twins playing downstairs.
  
  When the visitor began repeatedly ringing the doorbell, she called her husband at work.
  
  “Get the kids and hide,” he told his wife.
  
  As he dialed 911, his 37-year-old spouse, who works from home, collected the children and hid with them in a crawlspace adjoining her office. By that time, the intruder had forced his way into the three-story residence on Henderson Ridge Drive with a crowbar, authorities said. He allegedly rummaged through the home, eventually working his way up to the attic office.
  
  “He opens the closet door and finds himself staring down the barrel of a .38 revolver,” said Walton County Sheriff Joe Chapman, who relayed the woman’s narrative to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He asked that her name be withheld.
  
  The woman fired six bullets, five of which hit Paul Ali Slater in the face and neck area, Chapman said. But Slater was still conscious.

And as it turns out, still alive - the only thing that disappointed us about the entire story. But seriously, who doesn't love a heartwarming story of a mother protecting her children in the face of a career criminal? Always remember, when seconds count, the police are minutes away.