Fearing for his Life, Jacksonville Homeowner Shoots Home Intruder

By Jenn Jacques

It was late Tuesday afternoon when the owner of a vacant house on Prospect Street in Jacksonville, FL’s Woodstock area went to check on his rental property, as he does every day.

But when he entered the house, he found the television on and the place ransacked. That’s when he began searching the house room to room, eventually finding the culprit: a stranger hiding in a back bedroom.

“I said, ‘What are you doing here?’ He seemed surprised. I told him, ‘Freeze. Both of your hands behind your back or behind your head,’” the man said. “I took out the gun and I said, ‘Just don’t move.’ I was trying to call 911 with the one hand with my phone, it wouldn’t do it. I told him two times.”

When the intruder refused to comply, the homeowner took aim and shot the man, who police later identified as 19-year-old Anthony Deshawn Burnem.

“I feared (for) my life because I don’t know if he has an accomplice or something because I could not see what was going on in that first bedroom, bathroom,” the homeowner said Wednesday.

He continued to hold the gun until police arrived and Burnem was treated at the scene then take to …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms