Firearms Owners Against Crime
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Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Karen Duncan might be small, and she may no longer be in her youth, but she didn’t let these facts slow her down when she heard an elderly neighbor’s chilling cry for help. Instead, the concealed carrier grabbed her .380 pistol and ran towards the cries, arriving just ahead of another concealed carrier, Ron Childress.
“Help, he is trying to kill me, help me, help me.” Those are the chilling words Karen Duncan heard as she walked up her friend’s driveway in Lawrenceville Monday afternoon.
“She kind of started running towards the house,” said her friend, Ron Childress. “I could tell something was wrong and she hit the doorbell in a panic.”
Childress said when he opened the door he heard the same terrifying words. Duncan said she grabbed her purse with her gun inside and took off to find the man. “As I got closer I realized that there is this elderly gentleman laying on the ground with a younger man on top of him with a knife,” said Duncan. “I see blood and this big old knife.”
Duncan said the man was trying to stab another man around 90-years-old. She said she told him to stop, but he did not listen.
“Finally I said, ‘I’m getting ready to shoot you’ and then he stopped and he looked at me and he tossed the knife away,” said Duncan. Her friend, Childress, who is a former law enforcement officer showed up right behind her.