Crime/Corruption News Keywords: 14 Y/O, GUNS, SELF-DEFENCE
Source: Dayton Daily News/ Activedayton.com
Published: 2-13-2001 Author: Cheryl M Harris
Posted on 02/13/2001 15:25:03 PST by Kazuki

Teen wounded by teen in burglary attempt

Boy, 17, in hospital, facing charges

By Cheryl M. Harris
Dayton Daily News
DAYTON | Monday?s shooting of a burglar by a 14-year-old is related to a
17-year-old suspect found a block away with a gunshot wound to the chest,
police said.

The 17-year-old boy, in serious but stable condition at Miami Valley
Hospital late Monday, is facing delinquency charges equal to felony
charges, Huber Heights police Lt. Herschel Caudill said.

Police responded about 10 a.m. to a call of an attempted burglary at 4370
Powell Road that was stopped short when the 14-year-old boy, who was home
alone in a cast because of an injured ankle, discovered someone climbing
through a bedroom window in back of the brick, one-story house.

The boy shot the burglar using a 12-gauge, single-barrel shotgun, police
said. Half of the person?s body, at least from the waist down, was inside
the house, Caudill said.

“He says he told the person not to come through the window, to back out,
and that didn?t happen,” Caudill said. “. . . He had to actually go to his
father?s room and get the gun and load the gun.”

After he shot the burglar, the boy went to his grandmother?s house nearby
to call police, Caudill said.

The shotgun belongs to the father, who was at work, he said.

The burglary occurred about 45 minutes before neighbors had witnessed a
17-year-old boy, whose chest was riddled with buckshot and leg was injured
in the shooting, wandering the 4600 block of Wayne Meadows Circle, Caudill
said.

The teen-ager was knocking on an apartment door for help, but no one was
home, said Sgt. Rick May. The teen-ager, didn?t know the homeowner, he
said.

No weapon was found on him, Caudill said.

Prosecutors will determine if charges will be brought against the
14-year-old, he said. Police would not release any names because juveniles
are involved.

The situation could have been worse, Caudill said, and sends a message to
would-be burglars.

“It shows what can happen to you,” he said.

Contact Cheryl M. Harris at 225-2215 or e-mail her at
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