From: [self defense owner] at [shell.portal.com] Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 16:46:19 -0700 Subject: SDN IL Elgin 1995 07 14 Sender: [self defense owner] at [shell.portal.com] Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Followup-To: [self defense editors] at [shell.portal.com] WHAT: Man Uses Gun to Defend Family WHEN: Wednesday, 14 July 1995 WHERE: Elgin, Illinois APPEARED: Daily Herald, Arlington Heights, IL, 708-870-3600 CONFIRMED: Elgin Police Department, 708-931-6000 BRIEF DETAILS George Kelly, 33, successfully used a 9mm handgun to defend his pregnant wife and 7 year old daughter from a knife-wielding convicted criminal. Joe Lewis, a criminal whose record included several convictions for burglary and one for indecent liberties with a child, crept into the Kelly home and waited in the shower with a butcher knife. When Kelly found Lewis in the shower, the criminal began lunging at Kelly with the knife. Lewis slashed Kelly across the left elbow, delivering a wound that later required 16 stitches to close. Kelly fired his handgun at Lewis and struck him in the chest. The shot didn't seem to immediately affect Lewis, however, Kelly ran out the back door of his home hoping to attract Lewis away from his daughter Natalie and his wife Tricia, who is five months pregnant. Apparently, however, the criminal was more interested in the wife and daughter. When Kelly got around to the front of the house, he could see Lewis inside, leaning against a wall for support and threatening Tricia. Kelly burst through the door and tackled Lewis, then ran upstairs to gather his family. Lewis barricaded himself in the first-floor nursery, where Elgin police found him when they finally arrived. He was transported to a nearby hospital where he died from his wounds. Elgin police Lt. Scott Davis said the father, Kelly, will not be charged. Davis said it was what police classify as a justifiable homicide. COMMENTS Another convicted criminal - loose on the streets - arms himself with a butcher knife and breaks into the home of a young, pregnant mother and her 7-year-old little girl. Why was he waiting in the shower? What did he plan to do? Even more important, what would the father have done without a handgun? Sarah Brady wants to take handguns away from families like the Kellys. Imagine how this story would have been different if the father had been unarmed. As it was, he received a gash that took 16 stitches to close. What if the criminal's butcher knife had been the only weapon? With the father out of the way, what would this convicted child molester have done? What would have happened to the pregnant mother and her little girl?