Calhoun County – The woman who organizes Michigan’s Amber Alert program
had to protect her own family this week. She’s a nationally recognized
crime fighting mom and proved why when she says she was attacked in her
own home.

The Tuesday morning wake-up call for Robin Trumbull was her for sale SUV
on fire.

“I heard a sound,” says Robin. “I stepped out on the deck, looked over
and saw my Tahoe on fire.”

Then Robin says a masked man dressed in black hit her in the chest,
knocking her back in her house.

“He shut the door, grabbed my husband’s ax handle which he uses for a
walking stick and (the intruder) hits me again across the arm and he
hits me again across the arm and I’m stepping back….I’m thinking all
along how can I get out. Where’s my hand gun?”

Robin says when she kicked the intruder, she then scrambled to the
kitchen, shut the door and grabbed her gun.

“I took it out of my holster, took a step back, took aim…and fired. I
aimed where I thought he would be.”

Robin shot and missed the attacker who then disappeared.

“He could have run through the woods. It’s still dark out.”

Robin says she doesn’t know who may have done this to her. But she says
she’s ready if the intruder dares to come back.

Calhoun County Sheriffs have no leads on this case at this point. But
Robin tells WZZM 13 the intruder may have known the layout of her house.
She says she thinks the intruder knew where to find her husband’s gas
cans, which were used to burn her SUV.