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Jan. 28, 2006, 3:37PM
Man killed kicking in door of wrong house


By PAIGE HEWITT
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle

A "highly intoxicated" Texas City man who kicked in the door of a home he apparently thought was his own was fatally shot Friday night by the man who lived there, police said.

David Wayne Stewart, 26, who officials said was drunk when he left a fast food restaurant Friday night, walked in the direction of his home and stopped at a different house, in the 900 block of 26th Street, where a 55-year-old woman and 74-year-old man lived.

Stewart knocked and banged on the door around 11:30 p.m., and when the resident refused to let him in, Stewart kicked in the door. The resident shot him once in the head, police said.

Stewart was dead when police arrived. The case has been referred to the Galveston County District Attorney's Office without charges.