ATW: Edmonds mom shoots home intruder

By Neil McCabe | 8:44 PM | November 30, 2014

The KING5 news reports:

EDMONDS, Wash. — Edmonds Police is on scene of an attempted home invasion that left the intruder shot and in the hospital.

A 33-year-old mother of three woke up to a man pounding on her front door and trying to break in around 3:00 a.m. Thursday. The suspect, a 22-year-old man, was able to force the door open, causing the woman to struggle with him to get the door closed. The mother had called 911 and armed herself prior to the suspect forcing his way into the home.

When she realized she would not win the struggle, she fired one shot and hit the intruder in the abdomen.

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Neil W. McCabe is the editor of HE's "Guns & Patriots" e-letter and was a senior reporter at the Human Events newspaper. McCabe deployed with the Army Reserve to Iraq for 15 months as a combat historian. For many years, he was a reporter and photographer for "The Pilot," Boston's Catholic paper. He was also the editor of the free community papers "The Somerville (Mass.) News and "The Alewife (North Cambridge, Mass.)." Email him: [email protected] Follow him on Twitter: @neilwmccabe.