MEMPHIS Tenn. — A father was thankful his 13-year-old daughter was safe after two men broke into their Germantown home Wednesday.

“She calls me completely hysterical, and she’s like ‘I think they’re trying to come in the house,'” Jason Rhea said.

His stomach dropped as he immediately turned around and sped home.

His little girl was all alone when two strangers tried to get into the family home on River Valley Drive near Kimbrough and Farmington.

“They bashed in and basically just unlocked it,” he told WREG.

Once he saw that, Rhea barged into his home while screaming his daughter’s name.

“The guy comes down the stairs holding the shotgun that my grandfather gave me. I immediately grabbed him, grabbed the gun and took it away from him,” he said.

The suspects ran out of the home, hopped into a truck and sped away.

Meanwhile, the 13-year-old was hiding in her father’s office.

The men never found her, but she was able to provide police with a way to find them.

She got their license plate number.

An hour later, police found the getaway car parked in Mallard Nest Cove in Hickory Hill.

Neighbors told WREG cops swarmed the place and arrested a 19-year-old man.

He is in custody while police look for his partner in crime.

His name has not been released to the media.

If you know anything about this incident, call CrimeStoppers at (901) 528-CASH.