When a guy attempted to sneak into her vehicle while she and her 2-year-old son were stuck in traffic, a Louisiana mother and Air Force veteran, Charise Taylor, who served during the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, drew a pistol on him.
On Friday, Taylor was going to New Orleans to pick up her husband when she got stopped in traffic on Interstate 10. Then, a group of people in a truck waved for her to allow them into her lane while she was handling the congestion, she obliged. When she agreed to them, a guy appeared at the passenger door and started to tug on the latch.
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“So, as he comes up, he’s close and pretty aggressive trying to get the car door open, makes eye contact with me, he’s still trying to get it open a couple of times,” she detailed the incident.
“It’s locked and loaded,” Taylor warned the thief as she pointed her gun at him.
Fortunately, the perpetrator fled, and she was not obliged to use her firearm, even though she had previously said that she was prepared to keep her child safe.
“The emotions honestly your body takes in a different form. I stayed in my body, of course, but everything transformed.” Taylor continued, “I’m trained to do this. I’ve gone to classes. I’m prior military. If I have to pull this trigger, that’s what I have to do.”
As a mother, she is concerned about safety as she is distressed with using her navigating skills in war, even in her homeland. “The crime is out of control, and it’s terrifying. At this point, having to use the same tactics in an American city that you use in Iraq and Afghanistan simply to navigate through the city, it’s scary, and I’m not the only mom feeling this way,” Taylor said.
WDSU reports that she called the police, but she was bothered that the event was just categorized as a “disturbance.”
There is a police investigation taking on in New Orleans regarding the issue.
