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DES MOINES, Iowa -- An Ames man said he wanted to give a burglar a scare.

Authorities said Doug Havlik fired two rounds at the getaway car of a man who allegedly attempted to break into Havlik's home and business overnight.

Havlik said a large piece of concrete came smashing through a window and woke him in the middle of the night Monday.

"I put on my robe, and I heard more glass breaking, so I grabbed my gun, came through the door and there was a guy halfway through the window," Havlik said.

"I've got laser sights. I put them between his eyes and said, 'Man, you should not be doing this. You're going to get killed doing this,'" Havlik said.

Havlik lives and works in a shop where he repairs cars. He said that once he confronted the burglar, the man quickly scrambled back through the window and dove into a car waiting for him outside.

"(I) put a couple shots in the rear tire of the car (and) made sure I wouldn't hurt anybody, but I definitely wanted to scare them, hopefully slow them down," Havlik said.

With several cars lined up outside, Havlik suspects the burglar was searching for keys and didn't expect to find anyone inside.

"If I wasn't here, they could have done whatever they wanted, and we've got a lot of expensive cars stored upstairs. If they would have known what they were doing, they could have caused some real damage," he said.

Ames police said they found one of the bullets fired from Havlik's gun outside his shop, but they have yet to find the second.

"We don't think that anyone was struck as an occupant or the perpetrator of this crime. It appears on the knowledge that we're working on right now that it was probably the vehicle that was struck," Randy Kessel, of the Ames Police Department.

Havlik said everything happened so quickly that he didn't get a good look at the car or the burglar.

"It was scary. I, in fact, I've played back in my mind, and I can't really see the guy's face. I can see why there's such a problem with eyewitness identification," he said.

It would be up to the Story County attorney to determine charges. Police said that under Iowa code, people have the right to protect themselves if they feel threatened.

Police said the burglar is a white man in his 20s.

Ames police are asking those with information to call (515) 239-5133.