Owen’s 8-year-old sister was playing in the garden at the same time. Her excitement made her go outside to look for mushrooms near the woods. While the kids were having fun in the garden during the day, when she started screaming, it became a dangerous place.

I thought Owen’s sister was just playing with her friends at first, but her screams made him worry. He was shocked to see someone trying to pull his sister into the woods through the window of his bedroom.

The man grabbed her around the waist and put his hand over her mouth to try to break her speech. Owen knew he had to act quickly when he was by himself and felt like he had to protect his family.

Since Owen didn’t have any normal tools with him, he quickly made do with a slingshot that his mom had bought him for $3. He put anything he could find into the slingshot to try to save his sister. He started with a rock. Even though the stranger was about 200 feet away, he pulled back on the yellow band and shot at them.

Owen’s shot was incredibly accurate; it hit the stranger right between the eyes. Owen quickly loaded his slingshot again, this time with a rock, and hit the man in the chest. These quick efforts gave his sister the chance to get away and run inside to safety.

She cried and told Owen how close she had come to being taken. Her heart was racing. Owen rushed outside, yelling loudly as the stranger started to run away, scared and hurt by the unexpected defense the boy had put up. Owen was feeling a mix of relief and adrenaline.