Posted on 09/05/2008 10:43:16 AM PDT by Pistolshot
BLUE MOUND, Texas — When two gunmen smashed through the glass front door of her suburban Fort Worth home, Kellie Hoehn didn't think twice.
The 34-year-old mother of two grabbed a shotgun that had been pointed at her face early Wednesday, starting a struggle that ended with one intruder killed with his own weapon and another in the hospital.
"I wasn't going to let them get to my babies," she said, recalling the moment when she pushed up the muzzle of the shotgun, pointing it away from her children's rooms.
Although the intruders told her to keep quiet, she screamed for her husband. She told her 12-year-old son, who was awakened by the sound of the shattering glass front door, to get his 5-year-old sister and hide.
"It was like a horror movie," her husband, 32-year-old Keith Hoehn, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "I thought I was a dead man. We're fighting for our lives."
With Kellie Hoehn clinging to the weapon's muzzle, her husband tackled the man who held the shotgun. She knocked the intruder in the head with a jar candle, giving her husband a chance to wrest the shotgun.
By then the tussle had spilled out onto the front lawn. Keith Hoehn shot one of the men who had a pistol, police said. Wounded, that man ran away.
Then the intruder who initially had the shotgun charged Keith Hoehn.
Kellie Hoehn told The Dallas Morning News that she screamed at her husband, "Shoot him, shoot him, shoot him."
Her husband fired the shotgun and the man fell to the ground. Then the shot man lunged a second time.
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I only post them the way FOX prints them.
Better discription of the events and the crime spree these two criminals were on that night. This wasn’t the first job they did that night, but their last or last for at least one of them.
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/880230.html
Whew!! At first I thought it might be one of 60+ year old aunts, but they would have shot him with their OWN gun.
One of MY 60+ year old aunts....dang no edit.
POTUS should give this guy some type of medal.
The 12 year old son was hiding in a closet with his 5 year old sister armed with a pellet gun. This family has guts!
The Texas husband is the one that shot and killed the home intruder.
Maybe the headline is correct but part of the story was edited or omitted by someone else. Maybe it was a double barreled shot gun and the second shot left the weapon empty. Then the woman grabbed the gun out of her husbands hands and beat him to death with the stock by swinging the gun from the barrel.
There. In my version the perp was still alive when the woman got ahold of the gun.
FAIL
Probably won't be charged? I hope this is only reporter error. How could they even conceive of charging someone with a crime who shot a home intruder with the intruder's own gun?
While a brave act on both their parts I hope they buy a gun so that if there is ever a next time it won’t be so dicey.
It’s the woman who was the gun-grabber!
Good thing.
You get an A+ for creativity. The apparent modern journalistic standard seems to have been met squarely. I like your version better.
But then again, I thought we were trying to stay inside the MSM goal to create a headline and then print a story that goes with it.
How much for the movie rights?
All I can say is WoW! Go Texas MoM!!!!
From another article [Henderson being a Ft. Worth Police Department Lt.]:
Henderson speculated that Keith Hoehn probably won’t face charges for killing Benoit, although it is common for a grand jury to review such a case.
Hey, the wife helped. She did clock the intruder in the head with a candle jar. That helped the husband get the upper hand!
FoxNews has edited the title. It’s now:
Texas Man Kills Home Intruder With His Own Gun
O:K that is scary. I went and got my firearm from the other room and have it right here beside me. Scary.
I'm trying to pull the trigger, but the safety is on.. Dang..
Chalk one up for the good guys.
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