Saved a teenager his little sister from a kidnapping attempt used in the United States last week a slingshot The 8-year-old girl was picking mushrooms in the back of her house in Alpena, Michigan, in the Northern Great Lakes region on Wednesday when a stranger came out of the bushes and grabbed herthe local police said in a statement to AFP on Monday.

However, The little girl defended herself and managed to let go of the individual’s hands. Then his 13-year-old brother witnessed the scene from a distance and he took out a slingshot with which he fired at the subject.

The attacker received blows to the head and chest and fled. Police officers toured the neighborhood and were ready arrest of a suspect with “slingshot-compatible injuries to the head and chest”said the statement.

Authorities indicated that the detainee is 17 years old and is now charged with attempted kidnapping of the minor. He will be tried as an adult.