Georgia man who attacked, then rescued, ex-wife after violent home invasion hoped to be her hero

When Morgan Metzer glimpsed a masked figure standing in her bedroom doorway shortly after midnight on New Year's Day 2021, she thought she might just be seeing things. But then —

Morgan Metzer: He's standing there like a soldier, like with his fist clenched and like he was ready to go. … He ran at me and jumped on top of me. And that's when he started pistol-whipping me.

Just hours earlier, she'd been ready to ring in the new year in Canton, Georgia, with her best friend, Nichole Stabasefski.