Christopher Palmer (left) and Kyle Wilson

SCHOOLCRAFT, MI -- With an alleged burglar in her home and a dispatcher urging her to lock herself in her room, a Schoolcraft woman took just seconds to decide to shoot the intruder, 911 recordings reveal.

Police say the woman is the wife of a Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety officer. Her husband was working when the woman saw two male suspects knocking on the front door of her home in the 800 block of West VW Avenue around 11:30 p.m. Saturday.

"Someone is pounding on my door and I have no idea why," the woman told a Kalamazoo County dispatcher in recordings obtained by the Kalamazoo Gazette via the Freedom of Information Act.

The woman then told the dispatcher that two men were outside her home, where her four children were sleeping inside.

"It sounds like they're trying to break in," she said.

A few minutes later, the woman told the dispatcher that one of the men was inside her home. Police have identified the man as Christopher Allen Palmer.

The dispatcher then told her to lock herself in a room. But the woman said she was unable to do that. Moments later, she can be heard yelling, "Get out of my house!"

Police said Palmer looked at the woman, who was at the top of the stairs, and he began walking toward the stairs, prompting the woman to fire a shot that struck Palmer in the shoulder.

After a single gunshot is heard on the recording, the woman told the dispatcher that she had shot the alleged intruder.

Within minutes, Kalamazoo County Sheriff's deputies were on scene and took both men into custody. Palmer, 26, and Kyle Robert Wilson, 27, both of Kalamazoo, were charged with first-degree home invasion.