When Kat Khalid heard gunfire coming from inside a bank where her son was cashing a check, the 48-year-old didn’t stop to think.
Instead, she rushed straight into the shooting spree, terrified for her son’s life.
Once inside the bank, she saw a wounded security guard covered in blood and kneeling on the floor, desperately fighting a bank robber armed with an Uzi machine gun.
Unconcerned with her own safety, Kat thought of her son, 23-year-old Brendan, and her maternal instincts took over. And even though she is crippled by rheumatoid arthritis, the 5-foot-6, 160-pound Kat – who was wearing a pair of Tinker Bell flipflops – charged the 6-foot-tall bank robber and body-slammed him to the ground!
“That was my son in there, my only child. I’ve heard it said that you never come between a lion and her cubs. Well, I’m a Leo, and my name’s Kat!
“As far as I’m concerned, if you are going to go into a bank with a loaded gun when my son’s in there, then I’m going to go down trying to stop you – and I’m going to take you down with me!” she said.
On July 28, 2008, Kat and Brendan went to a Wells Fargo bank in Van Nuys, Calif.
“He’d gone inside to cash a check, and I was sitting in my car in the handicapped parking spot when I saw this guy dressed like Abraham Lincoln going into the bank,” she told The ENQUIRER.
“He had on a black wig, a really bad one, and a fake beard that looked like it hooked over his ears, and he was carrying a big canvas bag. I felt a chill go through me. I thought: ‘He’s going to rob the bank, and my son’s in there!’ ”
She then heard gunfire.
Pick up the new issue of The ENQUIRER for all the details of what happened next!
