Pro tip. Don't try to rob a gun-owning mom's house using a shovel

Don’t mess with a mama bear. Or bring a shovel to a gun fight. A Hammond, Louisiana woman faced down a masked home invader in her bedroom last Sunday morning. As he beat her with a shovel, she managed to access her pistol and shot her attacker repeatedly to protect herself and her children.

It turns out her attacker had attacked and carjacked a good Samaritan hours earlier. Following the mother’s application of deadly force, the attacker died at the scene.

The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office identified the suspect as Robert Rheams, 51, of Hammond, Louisiana. Rheams, who was virtually a one-man crime wave, had recently been released after serving twenty years for armed robbery.