Racheal told the cops all she remembered,

From the point she began to feel uncomfortable when she went to bed that night, till she heard the thud against her bed: a thud she suspected was the intruder miscalculating her steps and hitting her foot against the bed.

She recounted their struggle for the gun, hitting the intruder, and seeing the intruder’s frame in the brief light from the storm’s lightning.

“If the light was brief, how can you be so sure it was a woman?” The lead cop ...