When seconds count...

...the police are only minutes away.

Speedway Police Department Lt. Trent Theobald says the woman called 911 around 4:18 a.m. saying her ex-boyfriend was beating in her front door and she had a gun and feared for her life. She had two young children inside the apartment in the 5800 block of West 25th Street.

“She called 911 to let us know she heard the door being kicked in so obviously she was in fear of her life, especially knowing we’d had previous domestic runs at this apartment before, and she did have a gun in the apartment and fatally wounded her ex-boyfriend,” said Theobald.

The woman fired once and killed the man after he made his way into the front room of the apartment. He died at the scene.

That's not the fault of the police, but the reality is if you depend on the police for your safety in a volatile situation you may be fatally disappointed. The police exist to assign blame in the aftermath, and clean up the mess.

Get a gun and learn how and when to use it.