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BLUE MOUND — When two gunmen smashed through the front door of her suburban Fort Worth home, Kellie Hoehn didn't think twice about what to do.
The 34-year-old mother of two grabbed a shotgun that had been pointed at her face, starting a struggle that ended with one intruder dead and another in the hospital.
"I wasn't going to let them get to my babies," she said, recalling the moment early Wednesday when she pushed up the muzzle of the shotgun, pointing it away from her children's rooms.
Although the intruders told her to keep quiet, she screamed for her husband. She told her 12-year-old son, who was awakened by the sound of the shattering glass front door, to get his 5-year-old sister and hide.
"It was like a horror movie," her husband, 32-year-old Keith Hoehn, was quoted as saying in Thursday's Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "I thought I was a dead man. We're fighting for our lives."
With Kellie Hoehn clinging to the weapon's muzzle, her husband tackled the man who held the shotgun. She knocked the intruder in the head with a jar candle, giving her husband a chance to wrest control of the shotgun.
By then, the tussle had spilled out onto the front lawn. There, according to police, Keith Hoehn shot the man with his own shotgun and the intruder fell to the ground. Keith Hoehn also shot and wounded the man's accomplice, who had a pistol, police said. That man ran away.
Kellie Hoehn told The Dallas Morning News that she screamed, "Shoot him, shoot him, shoot him," as the man on the ground lunged at her husband a second time.
"Well, I shot him again, and I guess that was it," Keith Hoehn said.
Dakota Scott Benoit, 20, of Richland Hills was taken to the hospital after he was shot on the lawn and died. John Garland Pierson, 25, of Haltom City was in critical condition and in police custody at the hospital.
Police said Pierson was shot in the left arm and the bullet pierced his diaphragm and other organs but his condition was improving. He will face charges of burglary of habitation with intent to commit another felony, police said.
"I am not happy that someone is dead," Kellie Hoehn said. "But I am glad that my family is alive."
Investigators say the couple probably won't be charged. They said they were just defending their family.
Police said they thought the intruders had broken into the garage of another house nearby earlier in the night.
The 34-year-old mother of two grabbed a shotgun that had been pointed at her face, starting a struggle that ended with one intruder dead and another in the hospital.
"I wasn't going to let them get to my babies," she said, recalling the moment early Wednesday when she pushed up the muzzle of the shotgun, pointing it away from her children's rooms.
Although the intruders told her to keep quiet, she screamed for her husband. She told her 12-year-old son, who was awakened by the sound of the shattering glass front door, to get his 5-year-old sister and hide.
"It was like a horror movie," her husband, 32-year-old Keith Hoehn, was quoted as saying in Thursday's Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "I thought I was a dead man. We're fighting for our lives."
With Kellie Hoehn clinging to the weapon's muzzle, her husband tackled the man who held the shotgun. She knocked the intruder in the head with a jar candle, giving her husband a chance to wrest control of the shotgun.
By then, the tussle had spilled out onto the front lawn. There, according to police, Keith Hoehn shot the man with his own shotgun and the intruder fell to the ground. Keith Hoehn also shot and wounded the man's accomplice, who had a pistol, police said. That man ran away.
Kellie Hoehn told The Dallas Morning News that she screamed, "Shoot him, shoot him, shoot him," as the man on the ground lunged at her husband a second time.
"Well, I shot him again, and I guess that was it," Keith Hoehn said.
Dakota Scott Benoit, 20, of Richland Hills was taken to the hospital after he was shot on the lawn and died. John Garland Pierson, 25, of Haltom City was in critical condition and in police custody at the hospital.
Police said Pierson was shot in the left arm and the bullet pierced his diaphragm and other organs but his condition was improving. He will face charges of burglary of habitation with intent to commit another felony, police said.
"I am not happy that someone is dead," Kellie Hoehn said. "But I am glad that my family is alive."
Investigators say the couple probably won't be charged. They said they were just defending their family.
Police said they thought the intruders had broken into the garage of another house nearby earlier in the night.
