Mom attacks son’s heroin supplier with a bat

Hillsboro, Missouri – A Missouri mother is facing charges, but drawing sympathy, for attacking with a baseball bat a man she believed was supplying her teenage son with heroin. Sherrie Gavan was arraigned on charges of third-degree assault. The judge refused to dismiss the case. Gavan told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that she tried everything to protect her son. When those efforts failed, she drove to the home of 21-year-old Joshua Loyd, whom she believed supplied the drugs, and struck him with an aluminum bat. Full Article