A Mother Defends Her Children

What should she have done? Mississippi mother shoots burglar to protect 3 children

A mother heroically protected her three children from a man who broke into her home wielding a knife.

Monday, Carroll County deputies received a call for help from the mother’s husband, who was at work in Greenwood.

He told deputies that a knife-wielding man was attempting to enter his home in the Gravel Hill area of the county while his wife and three children were hiding in a closet.

When the bad guy, still with the knife, opened the closet, the wife shot him in the arm. At that point he decided to leave.

Other deputies responding to the scene found a vehicle matching the description given by the husband.

A press release says they attempted a felony traffic stop in the parking lot of Acy’s Store. However, Goss ran into the business.

Cops arrested him, took him for treatment for the gunshot wound, and then booked him into the county lockup.

He was then booked into Carroll Montgomery Regional Correctional Facility on four counts of attempted murder and one count of burglary. Goss was already out on felony bond for possession of a weapon by a felon, a press release says.

So maybe we can chalk this up to bail reform as well.

Self-defense is a human-right, and Mississippi has not morphed into New Jersey. Click thru for a statement from the Sheriff. (Hat tip to Concealed Nation.)