Guy Crashes His Way Into Mom’s Home, Sent Running When She Asks Just One Chilling Question

A Tennessee mother woke up one night to the sound of a home intruder. She jumped into action and did what she had to do to protect her son.

Elsie Lee was asleep at home with just her son in the house when she heard the noise.

“We were asleep, and I thought I had heard something but I wasn’t for sure,” Lee told WBBJ. “I thought I was just dreaming something, and then I heard a big bang again.”

Lee sprung into action and when she saw what was waiting for her in her living room, she was shocked.

“I got up and came running through the hallway and my gun was sitting on the dog cage, and the guy was standing in the kitchen. He had just busted my door open,” she said. 

Lee quickly reached for her guns — a shotgun and a .45-caliber handgun.

“I put the gun in his face and asked him if there was something I could do for him, and he was gone just that quick,” she recalled. “I chased him out the back door trying to look at the tag number on the car, something I could describe other than just him.”

The mother said that the only thing running through her mind was: “Protect my son.”

“I almost killed him,” she said. “One of them could have been dead. Had he not ran, he would have been dead.”

Less than an hour after the intruder left Lee’s home, Madison County deputies arrested four men between the ages of 18 and 21 — Quentin Childress, Jaylon Chiles, Kendrick McMullin and Amor Johnson — and a juvenile male. Each of the suspects has been charged with aggravated burglary.

Madison County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Tom Mapes said: “It’s that time of the year where kids will be getting out of school, bored with nothing to do, so you will see a lot more activities, especially burglaries.”

Lee says that she is thankful for the police who worked so quickly to catch the suspects. 

“I say they were ‘Johnny on the spot,'” Lee told WBBJ. “They were here within three minutes. I congratulate our sheriff’s department for what they did [Monday], and it couldn’t have been done any faster or better.”

Users shared their thoughts on the story on the Mad World News Facebook page.

“Thank God you are a brave hero you go mama that’s the way to handle these useless thugs l am glad to know that you and your family did not get hurt way to go,” one user commented.

“Second Amendment is a life saver. Way to go brave lady,” another user wrote. “Now hope the judge does his job and sends these thugs to jail for a long time.”

Sources: WBBJ, Mad World News/Facebook / Photo Credit: Tony Webster/Wikimedia Commons