These posts are based on our Good Guy with a Gun calendar. Today’s post is essentially the same as the calendar version.
The Good Guy with a Gun in this one was just eleven years old.
Sometime after 11 PM on a Wednesday, a man broke into a room at the InTown Suites just off I-77 in west Charlotte and started attacking the boy’s mother. She was 27 and pregnant, and she knew him: Police called it a domestic violence situation.
The boy saw his mother getting attacked, rushed in, and shot the man.
That’s all of the action the record gives us.
She came out of it with bruises and scratches. She and the man were both taken to the hospital.
None of the coverage names the aggressor, but police had warrants out for him, among them assault by strangulation, assault on an unborn child, and false imprisonment. The boy wasn’t facing any charges, police said.
Sources
News
Queen City News covered it on the web and on air.
Charlotte boy shoots hotel intruder while defending pregnant mother, police say (web; syndicated on FOX8, WAVY, and WSPA)
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That poor child, to be forced into such action. Thank the Lord he was willing to defend his mom, but he's just too young to have to. I hope he's doing okay.