ALPENA TOWNSHIP, Mich.—A 13-year-old Michigan boy who used a slingshot to save his 8-year-old sister from an attempted kidnapping said he was “freaking out” and simply reached for something that could stop the attack.
“So I grab my slingshot and open the window and I grab two things—a marble and a gravel rock or something,” Owen Burns told WWTV/WWUP-TV in Cadillac in northern Michigan.
Police said Owen struck the 17-year-old assailant in the head and chest, and his sister was able to get away.
“I was just lucky. He’s just a big target because he’s not like one Pepsi can,” Owen said….