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Homeowner Shoots Suspected Burglar

By: Fox S.A. Staff

A neighbor allegedly fires several shots at a getaway car, striking a would be burglar in the foot. Police say around two this morning the neighbor pulled out a weapon after noticing several men burglarizing a home on Jackson and Poplar. The men fled from the scene but not until the neighbor fired several shots into the car. Police arrested seven men.

Monday, August 20 2012, 02:44 PM CD

Pharr police said that the homeowner's wife entered a room when the burglar confronted her.

The woman called out for her husband who came armed with a handgun.

The homeowner followed the suspect outside and shot at the burglary suspect.

Bullets from the gun hit the burglary suspect's left shoulder and right leg.

...takes the law into his own hands and shoots a burglar on his property.

The Walker family woke up to an alarm going off in their bedroom. When they saw the motion detection lights go on outside too, they knew something was on their property. Gerrod Walker didn't waste time thinking about what it was outside, he decided to grab the gun from the safe next to his bed. He ran outside to his garage and to his surprise two men were in the detached garage next to his house.

Walker tried opening the garage door to give them a spook, but with the burglars undeterred he went to approach them. One of the suspects ran off while the other ran to the getaway car. Walker was quick behind and pursued.

"He was able to get a hold of the wheel and we struggled and he turned the wheel, hit the gas and the vehicle started to turn into me and at that point I fired a round," said Walker.

Walker escaped with some minor abrasions from when the car hit him. His family was unharmed as well, but when he went back inside he says he needed to see his son.

"Just to be able to touch him and to know that my family was safe, that's the biggest and most important thing," Walker said.

The investigation has been reviewed with the Winnebago County State’s Attorney’s Office and a charge of burglary was authorized on both men.

The homeowner has a valid Illinois Firearms Owner’s Identification Card. No charges were filed against him.

Items taken from the garage consisted of yard tools.

Later officers received a call about a person shot with a bullet in his buttocks in the alley in the 3800 block of Fairview Avenue. The 28-year-old suspect in the home invasion,
was taken to an area hospital where he was listed in critical condition.

detective believe the man who was killed went to the home intending to harm the resident but was shot to death in the process.

After spending time in the hospital being treated for wounds, alleged home invader Benjamin Prue has been charged.
August 24, 2012

Bishop (Kiii News) - Two people are dead and another is critically injured after a shooting in Bishop. The shooting happened just before two Sunday morning in front of a home on Avenue F near Highway 77. Halo Flight was called in to transport one of the victims, a man in his 20's. He was flown to Christ us Spohn Memorial and was last listed in serious condition. Several agencies are assisting in the investigation. Authorities retrieved a gun possibly used in the shooting from the roof of the home.

VANCOUVER, Wash. – A homeowner shot and killed an intruder Saturday after the man ripped down a fence, went through an unsecured door, and burst through a locked bedroom door


Authorities said the family dog barked and alerted the homeowners that an intruder was in their house.

The family locked themselves in the bedroom and the husband armed himself with a handgun. Billings then burst through the locked bedroom door and the homeowner fired his gun twice while on the phone with police, Allais said