Home Invader Shot Five Times By Georgia Mother Defending Her Kids

A Loganville, GA mother of two fired six shots at a home intruder on Friday, hitting him five times, after he broke into her home and confronted her and her children as they hid in an attic alcove. The gun she used to defend herself and her children was NOT a single-shot musket as someone once witlessly suggested, but a snub-nosed .38 revolver. From the AJC:

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.

“The guy’s face down, crying,” the sheriff said. The woman told him to stay down or she’d shoot again.

Slater, unaware that she had emptied her chamber, obliged as the mother and her children ran to a neighbor’s house.

The injured burglar eventually made it out of the home and into his car, driving away before deputies arrived on the scene. He didn’t get far.

“When you got five bullets in you, it makes you kind of disoriented,” Chapman told the AJC.
Deputies found Slater bleeding profusely in a neighbor’s driveway.

The perp, a Mr. Paul Ali Slater pictured above, has a record of at least 6 arrests dating back 5 years, and was just released from jail last August. Obviously, whatever rights he may have had were left outside the door he forced open with his crowbar.

The shooter and her husband have been offered a free membership at a local firing range.