An 18 year old woman who lost her husband to cancer was able to protect herself and infant son by firing on a man who broke into her house. He knew she would be there alone, and there was no way that anyone could have made it to her home before the pair kicked in the door.
While on the phone with 911, the dispatcher told her she should do what she needed to protect her kid. She did. She was forced to choose between the bad guy and her son, and it wasn't going to be her son. A good illustration of the saying "when seconds count, the police are minutes away." via Yahoo!
A young Oklahoma mother shot and killed an intruder to protect her 3-month-old baby on New Year's Eve, less than a week after the baby's father died of cancer.
Sarah McKinley says that a week earlier a man named Justin Martin dropped by on the day of her husband's funeral, claiming that he was a neighbor who wanted to say hello. The 18-year-old Oklahoma City area woman did not let him into her home that day.