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WEBVTT TODAY ARE COOLER. >> A LOCAL MOTHER ARRESTED TODAY IN CONNECTION WITH A DEADLY SHOOTING LAST DECEMBER. SHE SAYS SHE SHOT A MAN WHO PUSHED HIS WAY INTO HER HOME ATTACKING HER WHEN SHE WAS PREGNANT. >> POLICE SAID THE SHOOTING WAS JUSTIFIED. BUT 40-29’S BRETT RAINS HAS MORE ON WHY PROSECUTORS ARE NOW PURSUING NEW CHARGES AGAINST HER. BRET BRETT: THE 21-YEAR-OLD MOTHER YOU’RE ABOUT TO MEET COULD SPEND DECADES IN PRISON IN CONNECTION WITH THIS SHOOTING IF SHE’S FOUND GUILTY. BUT IT’S NOT BECAUSE OF THE SHOOTING IT’S BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED LONG BEFORE THE SHOOTING. >> YEAH I’M READY FOR IT, I MEAN, GOTTA DO WHAT I GOTTA DO. >> KRISSY TRAN HAD HER HUSBAND BY HER SIDE AS SHE REPORTED TO JAIL. PROSECUTORS ARE REVOKING A PREVIOUS SENTENCE FROM A FELONY DRUG CONVICTION AFTER SHE USED A GUN TO DEFEND HERSELF. TRAN NOW HAS A TWO AND A HALF MONTH OLD SON NAMED COLIN. >> I’VE GOT TO STILL TAKE CARE OF HIM NO MATTER WHAT’S GOING ON, YOU KNOW. I STILL HAVE TO DO MY JOB AS A MOTHER NO MATTER WHAT’S GOING ON. >> ON DECEMBER 7, TRAN WAS 11 WEEKS PREGNANT AND HOME ALONE WHEN A MAN SHE DIDN’T KNOW KNOCKED ON HER DOOR, HE TOLD HER HE WAS FRIENDS WITH HER HUSBAND. THE MAN LEFT, BUT RETURNED, AND SHE SAYS WHEN SHE OPENED THE DOOR HE FORCED HIS WAY IN AND TRIED TO COVER HER MOUTH WITH A CLOTH ND BEAT HER. >> HE HAD ME LEANING OVER THE COUCH HE HIT ME A FEW TIMES THEN HE HAD ME IN THE CORNER ON THE GROUND HE WAS STRADDLING ME. HE HIT ME IN MY STOMACH A COUPLE TIMES AND THEN HE UH THAT’S WHEN I WAS THINKING I GOT TO DO SOMETHING. >> TRAN GRABBED HER HUSBANDS GUN. >> I FIRED ONE SHOT IN HIS SHOULDER HE STILL CAME AT ME I WAS HOPING HE’D RUN OUT THE DOOR THAT’S WHAT I WAS HOPING FOR. >> BUT SHE SAYS THE MAN KEPT COMING AT HER AND SO SHE FIRED TWO MORE TIMES. >> THERE WAS LITERALLY NOTHING ELSE I COULD DO. >> DYLAN STANCOFF DIED. ACCORDING TO THE POLICE REPORT, STANCOFF HAD A ROLLED UP DUFFLE BAG IN HIS POCKET AND HAD DUCT TAPE WITH HIM WHEN HE ENTERED HER HOME. WE’VE ALSO LEARNED THAT STANCOFF WAS CONVICTED OF ASSAULT IN CALIFORNIA AFTER POLICE SAID HE SHOT A MAN IN THE NOSE WITH A B.B. GUN. STANCOFF’S SHOOTING DEATH WAS RULED AS JUSTIFIED BY THE PROSECUTOR. >> I THOUGHT IT WAS ALL GONE AND OVER WITH. >> BUT IT’S NOT OVER. TWO YEARS AGO TRAN PLEADED GUILTY TO POSSESSING MARIJUANA WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE AND FOR HAVING DRUG PARAPHERNALIA. THE FELONY CONVICTIONS MEANT TRAN WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE OR USE A GUN. SEBASTIAN COUNTY PROSECUTING ATTORNEY DANIEL SHUE RELEASED A STATEMENT SAYING A PERSON HAS A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO DEFEND THEMSELVES BUT IN THIS CASE THE PROSECUTOR SAYS TRAN COULD HAVE CALLED 911 WHEN STANCOFF RETURNED TO HER HOME. NOW TRAN AND HER HUSBAND ARE STRUGGLING TO PAY FOR AN ATTORNEY AND FIGHT THE NEW CHARGES WHICH COULD MEAN TRAN WON’T SEE MUCH OF HER SON. >> RIGHT NOW I’M LOOKING AT THE MAX, 24 YEARS. THAT’S MY BABY’S LIFE, I MEAN, I’M GOING TO MISS 24 YEARS OF MY CHILD. I WON’T EVEN I WON’ EVEN KNOW MY CHILD, I’LL MISS OUT ON EVERYTHING. >> TONIGHT TRAN IS OUT OF JAIL ON BOND AND BACK HOME WITH HER HUSBAND AND SON. TRAN’S HUSBAND IS IN THE NATIONAL GUARD AND WORKING TWO JOBS. A GO FUND ME ACCOUNT HAS BEEN SET UP HELP WITH LEGAL EXPENSES. LIVE IN FORT SMITH BRETT R