Daughter protects mom from gunshots.Byline: Rebecca Rebecca or Rebekah (both: rēbĕk`ə), wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob. One day, as was her custom, she drew water at the city well; while there she showed kindness to Eliezer, Abraham's servant. Nolan The Register-Guard VENETA - Donna Woodman says she'd be dead today if it weren't for her 14-year-old daughter, Olivia Johnston. Johnston hit, bit and screamed at Woodman's ex-boyfriend as he took aim and fired a .357-caliber handgun at her mother inside their Jeans Road home Tuesday night. All four bullets missed their mark, though one pierced pierced adj. 1. Cut through with a sharp instrument; perforated. 2. Of or relating to a body part that has been perforated for the purpose of attaching a piece of jewelry. 3. the sweatshirt Woodman wore. The ex-boyfriend, William Maxwell A number of people are called William Maxwell:
Neither Woodman, her daughter, nor her 74-year-old father was injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. seriously. "If it wasn't for her and her natural reaction to protect her mother, I would be dead," Woodman said Thursday. Woodman, 46, recently had ended her eight-year relationship with Meier after reconnecting with her high school sweetheart. Meier had never before been violent, she said. He had never uttered a harsh word. Meier could be miserable at times, Woodman said - he had gained a lot of weight and had been unemployed for about a year - and he told a friend that he had contemplated suicide. But he had started a new job at Rosboro Lumber lumber, term for timber that has been cut into boards for use as a building material. The major steps in producing lumber involve logging (the felling and preparation of timber for shipment to sawmills), sawing the logs into boards, grading the boards according to Company on Monday and was still considered part of Woodman's family. "He had talked to my brother and sister-in-law on Monday night," Woodman said. "They had no clue. There was no indication whatsoever." Woodman was smoking a cigarette on her front porch porch Roofed structure, usually open at front and sides, projecting from the face of a building and used to protect an entrance. If colonnaded, it may be called a portico. about 9:40 p.m. Tuesday. She had no idea that Meier had left his motor home a few doors down and was hiding in bushes with a gun near her carport CARPORT Cardiology A clinical trial–Coronary Artery Restenosis Prevention on Repeated Thromboxane-Antagonism Study that evaluated thromboxane A2-receptor blockade in preventing restenosis after PCTA in Pts with CAD. . He pulled the trigger. "I heard a bang and saw a flash," Woodman said. "I grabbed my ears; they were ringing." The bullet lodged near the frame of a sliding glass door. A piece of plastic flew off and hit Johnston in the arm as she sat inside watching TV. Woodman went into the house to turn on exterior lights. Johnston asked her mother what was going on, but Woodman wasn't sure yet. "I told her someone just shot at me or threw something," Woodman said. "As I was grabbing the door to turn on the porch light, I saw him there. I didn't see a gun." Meier had entered the house. He fired a second shot. The bullet went down a hallway, hit the floor, went through a couch A couch, loveseat, sofa, settee, lounge, davenport or chesterfield are items of furniture for the comfortable seating of more than one person. Compare the joiner's settle, with its separate seat cushions. and stopped in a wall that leads to the room where Woodman's ailing father slept. Johnston jumped up and lunged at Meier. At the same time, she pushed her mother out of the way. "She attacked him," Woodman said. "She was grabbing for his arms and screaming, `Bill, please don't kill my mom (1) (Messaging-Oriented Middleware) See messaging middleware. (2) (Microsoft Operations Manager) Software that monitors and captures system and application events throughout the network. !' ' Meier fired twice more. Woodman could feel the bullets fly past her as she lay on the floor. She thought she'd been shot. She thought she'd soon be joining her mother, who recently died. "I put my hand to my head and didn't understand why there was no blood," she said. "He fired at such close range I have gunpowder gunpowder, explosive mixture; its most common formula, called "black powder," is a combination of saltpeter, sulfur, and carbon in the form of charcoal. Historically, the relative amounts of the components have varied. burns on my legs." Johnston continued screaming and jumping at Meier, trying to get the gun. But Johnston is only 5-feet-2-inches tall. Meier stood 6-foot-4. Woodman remembers hearing her daughter yell, "Don't do this, Bill. Please stop." Woodman saw her father moving around at the end of the hall. She knew that if she ran toward her father, Meier would follow and might kill him, too. So she stayed put and tried to figure out how many bullets he had left in the gun. "He pointed the gun right at me. We looked at each other," Woodman said. Her daughter grabbed his arm and tried to pull it down. He swung his arm around, put the gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. He was pronounced dead at the scene. "He never said a word," Woodman said. Woodman cries when she talks about her daughter's courage. She called Johnston a hero. "I owe my life to her," she said. Lane County sheriff's Sgt. Rene Stone agreed that Johnston probably saved her mother's life. "The distraction Distraction Divination (See OMEN.) Porlock a “person from Porlock” interrupted Coleridge while he was recollecting the dream on which he based “Kubla Khan”. [Br. Lit.: Poems of Coleridge in Magill IV, 756] that she caused him probably made him miss Donna," Stone said. Although Meier's body was removed and the spot where he fell has been cut from the floor, the fear remains. Neither Woodman nor her daughter can sleep. Everyone in the house is on edge and jumpy. The bullet holes in the walls serve as a reminder of what happened there Tuesday night. "God had to have put a shield on me," Woodman said. "I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. if that's because I've had a rough life and God wants me to be happy, or if it's because I need to stay here to take care of my dad." CAPTION(S): Olivia Johnston, 14, (right) hit, bit and screamed at her mother Donna Woodman's ex-boyfriend as he took aim and fired a .357-caliber handgun at Woodman in their home Tuesday night in Veneta. Thomas Boyd Thomas Boyd may be
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