A sensational gun story about a little girl from Montana killing home invaders still makes the rounds: Phillip Morris

Stories about using guns to protect the home aren't always true. Marvin Fong, The Plain Dealer A friend forwarded an email earlier this week that I had received from others at least twice before. The subject line read, "11-year-old shoots two illegals." 

I re-read the piece because I wanted to see if the story had changed in any way since I last read it a few years back. It hadn't. 

The story goes like this: 

Patricia Harrington was home alone in Butte, Mont., when two men, Ralphel Resindez, 23, and Enrico Garza, 26, broke through the front door of her house. 

When the girl, who was upstairs in her room, heard the commotion she ran to her father's room and grabbed his 12-gauge Mossberg 500 shotgun.