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Today
By MikeSouth
June 3rd, 2015
I have been contemplating whether or not to write about this since Saturday morning when it happened. I decided that I have shared the details of my life here for more than ten years and that this is a detail that maybe others need to hear. However you come down on it it?s word for word exactly what happened.
My friend Melissa Wolfe called me Wednesday night to spend the night with her because she had a break in to her apartment and she was scared. I went and stayed the night. There were no further incidents, I went home.
She called me again Friday night to spend the night for the same reason, she was to leave town on Sunday to visit her boyfriend in texas (yes he knew I was staying and approved.) As always when I can I help my friends even if I don?t think they need to worry, I mean it?s really no skin off my teeth and if it makes her feel better it?s worth it.
As always I took my .45ACP had it by the bed when we went to bed.
Saturday AM at approx 6:15 I woke to a bang and the building shaking?my first thought was why is someone slamming a door that hard. Then I heard it again and realized it was at Melissa?s front door. I woke her and said call 9 1 1 NOW! She was on the phone quickly as I grabbed the .45 and went out the bedroom into the hallway?carefully. I could see the door was almost broken in..he was still trying. the only thing holding it was the four hotel type latches she installed top to bottom.
I moved into the hall doorway which is a little to the right of the front door and about 15 feet away. He hit the door again, I thought about shooting through the door but immediately dismissed that because the bullet could easily go through the door, him and into the adjacent apartment. Instead I crouched low in the doorway and waited. I had the hammer back and the gun aimed at where I expected the head to be.
The thing I noticed was that I was dead calm, no nervousness, no shaking no nothing, I announced ?If you come through that door I WILL kill you.? A few seconds later he hit the door again for the last time.
I heard a lot of commotion and realized that it was the police. They had caught him. I eased back the hammer and returned the .45 to the bed stand.
In the end the cops were on it, they got there within about 2 minutes of the 9 1 1 Call. had they not things could have been oh so different today.
There is no question that I would have killed him had he breached the door and come in.
I told my friend Frank, a cynical person about it and he laughed. He said ?Had you killed that scumbag you and Melissa would be ALL OVER the news for a month. You see Melissa was the ?Mansion Madame? here in Atlanta and of course I am a local pornographer. He suggested next time we might hold off on calling 9 1 1 and revive our careers. Now I know he is being humorous about it and I am happy with how it played out, I really don?t ever want to have to kill anyone.
But one split second could have made things so very different.