One in three mothers is shooting at an invader: "I would have killed if I had to do it"

A mother of three from South Carolina intervened after hearing a man who tried to take her home – and shot her.

Ashley Jones, from Anderson County, told FOX Carolina that she had heard someone knock on her door Thursday morning. The mother said that she had called 911 and got her gun. She said she saw a man knocking on her door when she peeked out the window.

"I yelled," I have a rifle, I'm going to shoot you, run away from my house, "Jones said.

She said that she used her gun after the intruder hit her door to get inside the house. CCTV in front of his house filmed the incident.

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"So he opened the door as soon as he hit and tried to step into my house. It was when I shot him and he ran away, she recalls. "Something just fell on me, I calmed down and my heart slowed down."

The mother said that she "would have killed if I had to do it" if the intruder was trying to break into her home. She said that she was grateful to have had protection because she did not think she could fight against the man.

"Because if I had no weapon, I do not know what I would have done. This guy was a bit fat, she said.

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"I could not fight it. I never thought that I should shoot with this weapon, never, "she continued.

The Anderson County Sheriff's Office said the suspect was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries. The suspect was later identified as Cecil Charles Parnell, 42, of Anderson, charged with first-degree robbery and registered in the Anderson County Detention Center, FOX Carolina reported. The woman who was with the suspect during the incident was not charged, reported the independent newspaper Anderson Mail.

"Any mother will protect her child as she can, and that's what I did," Jones told WSPA.