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"Posted on Sun, Jul. 31, 2005

Suspect shot in robbery attempt

By Bill Teeter

Star-Telegram Staff Writer


EVERMAN -- An Everman resident shot and wounded a would-be home invasion robber Saturday night, police said.

The man was shot three times with a rifle, police said. He was at John Peter Smith Hospital on Sunday, said Randy Sanders, Everman director of public safety. The man appears to have suffered spinal cord damage and may have suffered paralysis, he said.

Names of the robbery suspect and the two adults who were at the home were unavailable on Sunday. JPS reported the wounded man's condition as critical Sunday night.

Sanders said police were sent to the one-story home in the 1000 block of Marlene on a shots-fired call just before 11:30 p.m. Upon arrival, they found the man in the street in front of the house with wounds to the arms, legs and rib cage, he said.

Sanders said two brothers and a woman stay at the home and were expecting another man to be coming over to the house Saturday. The man showed up with another person not known to the brothers, he said.

One of the brothers was in a bedroom at the home, and the woman was asleep in one of the bedrooms, Sanders said. The other brother let the two men in, Sanders said.

"As soon as he came in the door he pulled a handgun saying, 'Give me your wallet or I'll shoot you,'" Sanders said.

The brother said, "Here's my wallet, please don't shoot me," Sanders said.

The other brother heard what was happening, came out of the bedroom with a rifle, and shot the robber, who went back out of the house wounded and collapsed in the middle of the street, police said.

The brother who did the shooting was initially taken into custody, but released after officers sorted out the situation, Sanders said.

James Huddleston, who lives next door to where the shooting happened, said he heard shots, and then looked out the front door to hear the man in the street saying, "Please help, I've been shot."

Huddleston said he shut the door, locked it and called 911.

Michael Gaston, who lives across the street, was watching television when he heard gunshots. He went out to see what was wrong and found the man in the street.

"I asked him, 'Did you get run over by a car?' He said, 'No sir, I got shot,'" Gaston said."