Texas Couple Turns Tables on Gunmen
BLUE MOUND, Texas (Sept. 5) - 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. There, according to police, Keith Hoehn shot the man with the shotgun and the intruder fell to the ground. Keith Hoehn also shot and wounded the man's accomplice, who had a pistol, police said. That man ran away.
Kellie Hoehn told The Dallas Morning News that she screamed, "Shoot him, shoot him, shoot him," as the man on the ground lunged at her husband a second time.
"Well, I shot him again, and I guess that was it," Keith Hoehn said.
Dakota Scott Benoit, 20, of Richland Hills, was pronounced dead at a hospital. John Garland Pierson, 25, of Haltom City, was in critical condition and in police custody at the hospital.
"I am not happy that someone is dead," Kellie Hoehn said. "But I am glad that my family is alive."
Police said Pierson was shot in the left arm and the bullet pierced his diaphragm and other organs but his condition was improving. He will face charges of burglary of habitation with intent to commit another felony, police said.
Investigators say the couple were just defending their family and probably won't be charged.

Kingofpain89 wrote:
Looks like a damn good place to hole up when zombies come calling.  

jasonw1239 wrote:I seem to recall that there was an article a couple of years back in Wired magazine about one of those "sea-forts".

It was in international waters and the buyer was intent on declaring it a sovereign nation and turning the structure into a secure data-storage center.

Rakeesh sah Tarna wrote:
41 years ago http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand