A woman shot a man in the face after he broke into her car with her two children in the back, Fox 4 Dallas reports.
While Michelle Booker-Hicks was paying for gasoline at a Shell gas station in south Dallas, she saw the man, Ricky Wright, 36, get in the driver’s seat with her 2-year-old and 4-year-old sons in the back, according to Fox 4.
The mother ran back to the vehicle and got in the back seat of the vehicle. She then told the driver to stop the car and when he didn’t, she grabbed her gun from the glove compartment and shot him in the face.
The car then crashed, which led to the arrest and hospitalization of Wright.
“I proceeded to jump in my backseat and told the gentleman to stop, to get out the car. He would not get out of the car. He turned around and looked at me,” Booker-Hicks told FOX 4 Dallas. “I reached over the armrest to get my glove compartment and that’s when I fired at him once I got the gun from my glove compartment.”
Wright will likely face kidnapping charges and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle or carjacking.
“I’m not a killer but I do believe in defending what’s mine,” she added, while also saying there was a part of her that wished she emptied the clip. “I hope that woke him up.”