Running away from the past

The gunshots rang through the night, as 10-year-old Zerbin Singleton sat outside his home, praying the bullets from a bounty hunter?s gun missed their target ? his mother, who was running from an Alaskan bounty hunter.

The bullets shredded Brenda Singleton?s blouse, missing flesh by less than an inch. But for Zerbin, it was the beginning of the end to the life he knew so well. Brenda went to jail for a parole violation when police seized drugs from the home she shared with her then-boyfriend. For Zerbin, it meant leaving the cold streets of Anchorage for a sweltering Atlanta suburb to live with cousins Carey and Lorine Hall, who is Brenda?s niece.