Jones said he hopes it will teach thieves in the area a lesson. “I’m a military man - I ain’t going to dial somebody and have to wait for an hour while the guy shoots me in the face and is gone,” he told a reporter. Jones said he never considered calling 911 and waiting around for help after hearing the noises in his basement. Witnesses recounted seeing Brad LeBlanc, 32, armed with a pistol and. Not that Jones is worried about what anyone else thinks. According to officials, a 12-year-old boy shot and killed a home intruder in self-defense after two armed suspects broke into a Goldsboro home and shot a 73-year-old woman. A 12-year-old shot and killed an armed robber who broke into his home, saying he feared for his and his mother’s life. But legal experts told NKY.com that Jones appears to be well within his right to pull the trigger under Kentucky’s so-called “castle” doctrine, giving a person the right to defend his or her home with deadly force if needed. Phone calls to law enforcement officials in Boone and Kenton counties were not immediately returned Wednesday. Maxwell’s cohorts now face charges including burglary. “The two uninjured men were brought back to the Boone County Sheriff’s Office and questioned where they admitted their involvement in the burglary on Violet Road,” officials said.
Soon, the glass shattered and an intruder had entered. Clair, 12, was at home alone in Oklahoma, when loud banging began on the door to her family's home. By MARK GREENBLATT October 20, 2012, 5:04 AM Oct. His body was in a Chevrolet Impala two other men were with him. Clair: Oklahoma Girl, 12, Shoots Intruder During Home Burglary The 911 tapes tell the story as it unfolded. Those officers found Lloyd “Adam” Maxwell, 24, of Richmond, Ky., dead of a gunshot wound on a nearby road. Some local outlets in Montana did write about the home invasion, but only to debunk it.Within minutes, however, neighboring Kenton County police responded to a 911 call about a man being shot. A LexisNexis search turned up several news articles about young people stopping home invasions with firearms, including an 11-year-old boy shooting and killing burglars in South Carolina, though none matched the details in the Facebook post.įox News nor any other major network reported the events because they never actually happened. However, there is no evidence that this scenario ever occurred. It also criticizes news networks, including CNN and MSNBC, for not covering the story. Saturday, when two masked men forced their way into the home of 73-year-old Linda Ellis. The boy feared for his mother's life when he used a hunting. WRAL reports the incident happened around 12:30 a.m. A 12-year-old boy in Louisiana fatally shot an armed intruder who was threatening his mother inside their home, local authorities said. The Facebook post, which has been circulating since at least 2007, uses the home invasion tale to promote anti-illegal immigrant and pro-gun political views. Police in North Carolina say a young boy shot and killed an intruder in order to protect his grandmother, after two men broke into their home in the middle of the night. Harrington was alone when the men, allegedly illegal immigrants who had killed a man in a previous burglary, broke into her residence. Patricia Harrington, an 11-year-old in Butte, Montana, shot and killed two burglars with her father’s shotgun during an attempted home invasion, according to the Facebook post. Greg Abbott prompts swift rebukes after calling Texas mass shooting victims illegal immigrants in a statement offering condolences to their loved ones.