She looked so sweet....
Monice Peterson, who lives in the 600 block of South Home Avenue, was awakened shortly before 1 a.m. Sunday when she heard someone pounding on her back door, she told police.
She went to investigate and found a man — later identified as Earl S. Feathers — kicking a hole in the wall next to the door to her back porch, according to the police report.
Peterson called 911 at 12:58 a.m. While she was on the phone with the 911 operator, Feathers created a hole big enough to enter and came inside the porch, she told dispatchers.
Peterson then warned Feathrs that if he came any further she would shoot him, according to the police report.
He started to move toward her again, and she fired one shot from her .25-caliber semiautomatic handgun, she told police. The bullet missed Feathers and went through the porch wall.
Feathers tried to escape through the opening he had kicked, but Franklin police arrived as he was trying to wriggle out, according to the police report. Officers John Moore and Roger Logsdon dragged Feathers the rest of the way out of the hole and handcuffed him, Moore’s report says.
Feathers told officers he was just trying to get into his own home. He said he thought he was at another address in the 600 block of South Home Avenue, according to the police report.
Moore reported that Feathers’ eyes were bloodshot and his speech was slurred, prompting the officer to administer a breath test to check for alcohol use. The 50-year-old Franklin resident tested 0.136 percent BAC, according to Moore’s report.
Feathers told police he’d only had two beers.
Feathers was taken to the Johnson County jail and released on $4,000 bond Sunday. He faces a Class D felony charge of residential entry and a Class B misdemeanor charge of public intoxication.
Peterson reportedly was not injured.
She looked so sweet....