79-year-old man fatally shoots intruder (VIDEO)

By Jennifer Cruz

WBRC FOX6 News – Birmingham, AL
Two men broke into a Center Point, Alabama, home early Wednesday morning, but only one made it out alive after coming face to face with the homeowner, a 79-year-old man armed with a .38 revolver.
John Croft said he was asleep just after 1 a.m. when he heard a noise that he soon discovered was two men breaking into his three-bedroom home.
Croft said he thinks the intruders checked the other two bedrooms first before one made his way to the room where Croft had been sleeping.
“He came over there and said, ‘Don’t move!’”, Croft recalled. “He heard the bed squeak. I was getting my gun. He said, ‘Don’t move’ and he used the ‘N’ word and I shot.”
Croft struck one of the intruders, while the second ran outside where a third person was waiting in a getaway car. Croft later realized one of the intruders returned fire and shot him in the ankle. The injury was not considered life-threatening. The suspect Croft shot, however, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Croft said he has lived in his house for more than 20 years and never had a problem until last summer. Since then, his house has been

Source: Guns.com