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North Carolina mother leaned on faith to rebuff crowd

by Associated Press
| May 12, 2020 4:06 PM

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — There were no weapons for Monica Shepard to use to keep a group of armed people out of her home as they sought her son in connection with a missing girl. All there was, she said, was faith to resist and determination to protect him.

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