myfuturecsi said:
Someone asked about what happened to George when he was 14 (he was almost murdered), so I went back into an old thread and copied the story. I can't remember where I found it though. Grissom would be disappointed, but oh well..here it is ..it's kind of scarey though. To think our George nearly ceased to exist..
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation star George Eads solves murders on TV, but as a boy he saved his mother's life by pulling a .357 Magnum on her attacker.
Eads, who plays investigator Nick Stokes on the CBS hit show, was only 14 when a man who had a score to settle with his prosecutor dad broke into the family's home in Belton, Texas.
"We had a bad run-in one time on a case my dad was trying involving the leader of the Hell's Angels, who brutally murdered a couple of kids in our town," explains the single hunk, now 33.
"Me and my mother were at home by ourselves. A guy kicked the door open so hard that it rebounded and shut back on him.
"We didn't keep the door locked. That's just the way our neighborhood was."
Springing into action, Eads' mother Vivian flung herself against the door as the boy ran to get his father's .357 Magnum gun.
"I held the gun up to the little window in the door, screaming," Eads recalls, "and the guy ran off."
But if Eads thought he would get a hero's welcome from this father, he thought wrong! "I'm 14 years old," he chuckles, "and the first thing my dad asks me is: 'Why didn't you shoot through the door?' "
Not surprisingly, Eads father, Arthur "Cappy" Eads, has a reputation as one of the toughest prosecutors in the country and is a national advocate for the death penalty.
And his son, now on the side of law and order as Stokes on CSI, thinks father knows best when it comes to bad guys.
"I've never really disagreed with my dad about capital punishment," he reveals. "I'm definitely for it. There are just some evil people out there."
Arthur Eads made sure his son could deal with those "evil people" by teaching him to shoot.
"My dad had me shooting his 9 mm automatic in the woods when I was 12 or 13," says Eads. "And I've been hunting since I was 8."
Today, Eads believes that his background in Texas justice helps him play a cop on TV. But he doesn't want to give the impression that he's trigger-happy.
"I definitely lean toward having a gun in the home," he says, remembering that chilling night more than 20 years ago. "If we hadn't had a revolver in the house, I probably wouldn't be here and neither would my mother."