Huffington Magazine Issue 64-65 | Page 68

HUFFINGTON 09.01-08.13 COURTESY OF MIKE MCMICHAEL INVISIBLE CASUALTIES away and hid. Jackie frantically dialed 911. It took an hour. “I kept calling, begging them to hurry. I told them I have babies here, he will kill us and not even remember it the next morning,” she said. The sheriff’s deputy who arrived went for his gun when Mike burst from the house — bloody from busting his hands on screws and splinters — brandishing what looked like a weapon (it was a broken piece of chair). The officer had his service revolver out, but he hi