Woman with gun foils home invasion

 Bearing Arms:

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While I know a lot of strong, capable women who can do plenty on their own, the truth is that a woman alone is always going to be at least somewhat more vulnerable than a man on his own. Add in a baby and now you've got a different sort of thing.

But then again, Rudyard Kipling noted, "The female of the species is more deadly than the male."

A few bad guys in Illinois found that out the hard way.

WAND News has learned new details about a home invasion that left a mother-of-two shot in Decatur.

Alexia Templar was woken up to the sound of shattering glass and footsteps inside her home on the city's east side near Hill Park around 4 a.m. Monday. She was home alone with her two young children when she saw two people standing inside. 

She gathered her children and told the intruders to leave or she would shoot them. According to Templar, they started immediately shooting at her. She shot back, but was hit once in the arm and once in the hip. According to a sworn statement from the Decatur Police Department, this was the same hip she was using to hold her infant daughter.

After the intruders left, her boyfriend arrived and she was taken to the hospital. Neither bullet did serious damage, Templar said.

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Later that morning, officers were dispatched to a home for a report of a man having been shot. The man, 24-year-old Deonte A. Stone, was later interviewed at the hospital by a detective.

Stone was charged with home invasion. His two compatriots--25-year-old Colton L. Clark and an unnamed 16-year-old--were charged with attempted murder.

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I am not surprised that a woman would defend her children from a home invasion.  Fortunately, she survived the home invasion, and the bad guys were subsequently taken into custody.