GEORGIA — When a mother heard knocks at the door of her Loganville, Ga., home Friday afternoon, she initially thought it was a solicitor.

Though the persistent knocks evoked suspicion from the 37-year-old mother of two and lead her to hide herself and her children in her home office on the third floor of her home. At that point, the man forced himself into the three-story residence and allegedly began rummaging through the home and eventually made his way up to the office where the mother was hiding with her 9-year-old twins.

“He opens the closet door and finds himself staring down the barrel of a .38 revolver,” said Walton County Sheriff Joe Chapman, who relayed the.

Chapman asked that the woman’s name not be published.

The woman fired six shots at Paul Ali Slater, five of which hit him in the face and neck. Incredibly, he survived but was badly injured. “The guy’s face down, crying,” the sheriff said. The woman told him to stay down or she’d shoot again.