A five-year-old boy hailed as a superhero after he single-handedly protected his mother as few armed men broke into their home and started to shoot bullets.

A video of the whole incident went viral on social media. It can be seen in the video that four men were trespassing the house, three out of them were carrying guns. The armed men then broke into Tamika Reid’s (victim) house in South Bend, Indiana.

The five-year-old David Johnson jumped after the alleged robbers/killers to protect his family; mother and sister.

According to the police officials, the gunmen knocked on the door before and a teenager responded.

“A teenager opened the door and four men forced themselves inside.”

The South Bend police shared the video footage of the boy saving his family and wrote,

“You can see a little boy beating up one of the armed suspects as he tries to protect his house.”

“I tried to throw my car at him,” recalled the brave child.

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