http://www.robesonian.com/articles/2005/06/17/news/news/story02.txt

Home invasion triggers shoot-out

By Matt Elofson – Staff writer
LUMBERTON – Raymond Rogers says he is lucky to be alive after a man broke into his home and shot at him repeatedly early Wednesday morning.

Tyrell Taylor, one of two men accused in the break-in, also survived, although he was struck twice when Rogers returned fire. Taylor, 21, was wanted by police for his alleged role in an unrelated murder. He is in fair condition at Southeastern Regional Medical Center, suffering with a collapsed lung.

Rogers said he was roused from his sleep about 12:30 a.m. Wednesday by the sound of someone trying to kick in the front door of his Greenville Road home. Rogers, 24, grabbed his .20-gauge shotgun and hid in a back bedroom with his girlfriend.

When two men entered the home and found Rogers with a shotgun, one began shooting. Rogers said he shot back, striking one of the men, but the man continued shooting as he lay wounded on the floor. Rogers fired a second time, striking the man in the chest.

“He shot at me about three or four times and he never hit me,” Rogers said. “I reckon’ I’m lucky to be alive. I had my gun to protect myself.” Rogers’ girlfriend also escaped injury.

The gunman and the second man managed to flee the home.

Sheriff’s Detective Neil Tyner said authorities were able to identify Taylor after he was taken to Southeastern Regional Medical Center with gunshot wounds to his left leg and chest. Sheriff’s investigators are still looking for the second man.

Tyner said Taylor and the second man pried open Rogers’ front door with a hammer after repeated attempts to kick in the door failed.

Taylor will face charges from the break-in and shooting, but none had been filed Wednesday afternoon, according to Tyner. Taylor also could be charged with shooting into an occupied home on Paris Street that was struck during the shoot-out. No one at the Paris Street home was injured.

Tyner said Lumberton police had been looking for Taylor in connection with the shooting death of Marshal Locklear on May 17. Locklear was shot to death at a residence at 320 Daisy Circle in Myers Court in West Lumberton. Taylor is charged with felony accessory after the fact of murder.

Terry Ishmale Douglas, 19, is charged with first-degree murder in Locklear’s killing

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