text: This is the dramatic moment a homeowner was gunned down and handcuffed by police after she blasted her estranged husband who allegedly broke into her house and tried to kill her. Lisa Skinner, 52, shot the male home invader, who has now been identified as her estranged husband Bradley Skinner, 59, after he broke into the house she shared with her mother around 6 p.m. Police said Mr Skinner was armed with both a pistol and a large knife. According to AL.com, his injuries are life threatening but she is expected to survive. Shootings: Paramedics tend to a man, thought to be Bradley Skinner after he was shot by his estranged wife. Meanwhile, a woman, thought to be Mrs Skinner, is handcuffed on the ground . Ambulance: A woman, thought to be Mrs Skinner, is taken away by stretcher to an ambulance after a deadly double shooting at a house in a south Huntsville, Alabama, neighborhood . Response: Paramedics tend to Mr Skinner after he was shot and take him to a waiting ambulance . Police said the incident unfolded when her husband broke the glass out of a back door of the home in South Huntsville, Alabama, to get inside. Mugshot: Mr Skinner, pictured here in a mughsot released by Madison County jail, had been ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation prior to a court hearing next month in the couple's divorce . Officers say Mrs Skinner armed herself with a shotgun then went into the garage, where he followed her and aimed his pistol at her. She then opened fire  with a shotgun, hitting him in the chest, causing life-threatening injuries. Her mother ran from the house in the 2500 block of Bonnie Oaks Drive to a neighbor's house and called 911. Officers from Huntsville police arrived on scene and heard gunshots ring out and saw Mrs Skinner in the garage holding the shotgun. They demanded that she drop her weapon but when she turned toward them with the gun in her hand, at least one officer fired at her, wounding, but not killing her. Mrs Skinner was struck by the police gunfire and both she and her husband were taken to Huntsville Hospital. Lieutenant Darryl Lawson said the shootings took place after the man broke into the rear of the house armed with a gun and a knife. At that time, Mrs Skinner told her mother to run away and call police - so she ran over to a neighbor's house. Several neighbors reportedly heard the gunfire on the normally quiet street, according to AL.com . Neighbor Angela Humlicek, who lives across the street said she heard a single shot and, when she went to see what the noise was, she helped the woman's mother to safety. A spokesman for the Huntsville Police Department, said that the couple was estranged and the woman had been living at the home with her mother. Mrs Skinner also had a protective order against her estranged husband, according to WHNT 19 News. Meanwhile, the officer who shot the woman has been placed on administrative leave. Hospital: Paramedics tend to Mr Skinner and take him to Huntsville Hospital - where he is reported to have life threatening injuries . Restraining orders: Mr Skinner, pictured here, had a history of violent outbursts against his estranged wife. Records show that she had filed for multiple orders of protection against him . Double shooting: Officers put up police tape around the house where the two shootings took place . Shooting: Lieutenant Darryl Lawson, said police officers demanded that Lisa Skinner drop her weapon but when she turned toward them with the gun in her hand, at least one officer fired at her, wounding, but not killing her . According to AL.com Mrs Skinner, a science teacher at Arab High School, lived in fear of violence from her estranged husband. Records show that she had filed for multiple orders of protection against him and planned to take time off from her teaching job to protect her students from his violent temper. Mrs Skinner's petitions to the court describe her estranged husband, who she was divorcing after almost 11 years, as a 'clever, gifted manipulator' who was heavily armed. In February, a Madison County judge prohibited Mr Skinner from going within 100 yards of the Bonnie Oaks Drive home where Sunday's shooting occurred. Police said he violated that order when he broke into the home, which belongs to his mother-in-law, armed with a handgun and a large knife. He was arrested on February 21 on charges of harassing communications and domestic violence by harassment. Home invasion: Police said Lisa Skinner shot a male home invader, thought to be her estranged husband, after he broke into the house armed with a gun . Eyewitnesses: Police interview witnesses after neighbors reportedly heard the gunfire on the normally quiet street . Shock: Local residents crowd around after the deadly shootings which left two people injured . Mrs Skinner described him as a 'mercurial' man who abused alcohol and prescription and illegal drugs and said he had begun speaking about his death. She wrote: 'On [February 18] he began talking about dying and had often mentioned that he wanted to 'take out all of his enemies and die by PoPo,' meaning he wished the police would kill him after he had killed his enemies. I am certainly now an enemy.' The following day she  never returned home after he was obsessively texting threats to her daughter and the daughter's friend saying that he didn't have much time left. 'I left in fear of becoming a victim of murder/suicide,' she wrote. And as recently as Friday, Mr Skinner had been ordered - again - to have no contact with his estranged wife or her family. He was also ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation prior to a court hearing next month in the couple's divorce.
target: Lisa Skinner shot a man now identified as her estranged husband Bradley Skinner after he unlawfully entered the house she shared with her mother .
  She opened fire with a shotgun while her mother ran to a neighbor's house in Huntsville, Alabama and called 911 .
  Police arrived on the scene and heard gunshots ring out as Mrs Skinner stood in the garage holding the shotgun .
  Officers demanded that she drop her weapon but when she turned toward them with the gun in her hand at least one officer fired at her, wounding her .
  Records show Mrs Skinner had taken out multiple protective orders against her husband 'I left in fear of becoming a victim of murder/suicide,' she said .