Boswell recounted yesterday the invasion, including finding the alleged intruder Dewberry holding his adult daughter, Cynthia Brown, by the neck with a gun in her face.
“I reacted like a father,” Boswell, a 77-year-old military veteran, said Monday. “That is my daughter. You’re not going to hurt my daughter.”
The two — Boswell and Dewberry — are believed to have tussled for the firearm. The Congressman suffered a cracked rib and scratches on his arm, he said.
“We’re thankful no one was killed,” he said.
The intruder fled after Boswell’s adult grandson, Mitchell Brown, appeared in the room with a loaded shotgun. The intruder fled on foot, Boswell and law enforcement said. The doors were unlocked at the time of the attack.
“He was asking for money, or he was going to shoot,” Boswell said.