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It won’t surprise you that most parents have a strong protective instinct when it comes to their kids. Nothing brings out the mama or papa bear instinct like messing with their cubs. On Father’s day, a 23-year-old man learned that fact of life the hard way. He reportedly accosted an 11-year-old girl in her own backyard in Wilson’s Mills, North Carolina. His problems began when the girl’s siblings ran inside and told mom and dad.

Reports suggest the girl followed her siblings and tried closing and locking the door, with the strange man trying to pull it open violently.

That’s when dad shot the man who was attempting to assault his children.

Here’s the Johnson County Report on the incident . . .

Wilson’s Mills Police say a father fatally shot a man who had just reportedly tried to accost his daughter. The shooting happened on Father’s Day in the Wilson’s Mills city limits.

Wilson’s Mills Police, aided by the Johnston County Sheriff’s Office, responded to Parker Street, at 9:03pm Sunday, for a report of a breaking and entering in progress with someone shot.

Chief A.Z. Williams said, based on the preliminary investigation, the suspect entered the backyard of the home where children were playing outside. The suspect allegedly tried to accost an 11 year-old girl. Other children ran inside the home and alerted the mother and father.

Police said the suspect attempted to follow the children into the residence by pulling on the back door handle and shaking it violently.

Kudos to dad for having the right tool to protect his family. Having and raising twin boys myself, I will say that strange adults messing with my kids in a similar manner would likely meet a similar fate.

Hopefully the girl wasn’t physically injured and the family won’t have to deal with too much in the way of fallout from the incident from friends or family of the deceased attacker. Also, let’s hope the dad has another gun as police probably took the one used in this incident for evidence.

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27 COMMENTS

  1. “His problems began when the girl’s siblings ran inside and told mom and dad.”

    Actually, his problems began long before this by having the idea to get into the backyard to begin with.

    but this incident is interesting to note, as are the thousands of cases annually of the increasing rate of child predators preying upon children since the 2000 election. Every country in history that has become more liberal in its ‘political’ leadership has suffered the same fate of children being preyed upon increasingly.

  2. Brings to mind the old axiom that when seconds count the police are only minutes away. The lesson here? Stay prepared, my friends.

  4. My daughter is on her way to Italy. This causes me distress. My SIL is a strack young man…but still.

    • I have 3 granddaughters. One is 12. The other’s are teenager’s. I’m hoping my ex-military son would do likewise in his Maryland “paradise”🙄 Grandpa & grandma definitely would!!!

  5. Are they marching against the bigot that executed the poor pedosexual identifying person yet?

    Soon enough they will be. The cries to end the “pedo panic defense” can be heard coming down the street.

  7. “Wilson’s Mills Police say a father fatally shot a man who had just reportedly tried to accost his daughter.”

    ‘fatally’ is a good thing in this case.

    Good job Dad.

  8. An unlocked door prevents breaking and entering.
    Can you shute someone for just entering, I spect not says the constipated fly.
    I hope next semester our good President Biden can ban door locks.

  10. This is another example where a sudden and unexpected violent assault occurred. In other words a violent attacker AMBUSHED unsuspecting victims.

    Of course such events are exceedingly rare. So, how should we manage that risk? Classical risk management tells us what to do. If an event is exceedingly rare, the outcome is catastrophic, and a mitigating measure is inexpensive and safe, you most certainly should implement the mitigating measure. And that begs the question, “Is keeping a firearm handy (to repel an ambush) inexpensive and safe?”

    Keeping a firearm handy to repel a potential ambush can be both inexpensive and very safe. The “safe” part simply requires that the owner is a responsible person with a few minutes of education on the subject.

    • “This is another example where a sudden and unexpected violent assault occurred. In other words a violent attacker AMBUSHED unsuspecting victims.

      Of course such events are exceedingly rare. ”

      Huh?

      They are exceedingly common. Unexpected violent assault happens thousands of times daily across the United States. Its just the severity or form or type of assault ‘implement’ that varies. For example, aggravated assaults vs simple assaults or rape vs improper-forceful-touching or shoving-to-cause-harm vs a single-punch-then-run-away – these are just some examples but all are violent assault and most take place from a stance of ‘ambush’ or ‘surprise’ (e.g. the victim was not aware the attack was about to happen).

      • .40 cal Booger,

        Clarification:

        When I stated that violent attacks are exceedingly rare, I was referring to how often they happen to any given single person who lives in a “nice” area and who was not involved in the risky trio “stupid place, stupid time, stupid people”.

        In other words I was using the most optimistic outlook/mindset which someone could have and still made a compelling case to be armed for self-defense.

  11. Dead bad guy SHOULD have read the road signs before going after children in that neighborhood. Seriously, look at the article photo: “Dead End” is clearly visible, just to the right of “Children at Play”.

    I think the writing was on the…er..sign.

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