Posted April 3, 2018 1:37 pm by Comments

By John Falkenberg

BAKERSFIELD, CA — A teenager set on making some easy cash from the shed of a local homeowner may have tried to kill the man who confronted him because he was scared, or because he was enraged.

Either way the young man, who was confronted by the armed homeowner but initially not fired upon, lost his chance to leave the scene without a bullet inside him because when given the chance to back down, he instead attempted murder.

As KBAK reports:

The Kern County Sheriff’s Office said a resident shot a teenage burglar overnight after the teen tried to stab the man. Deputies were sent around 2:20 a.m. to the 1100 block of Webster Street, near Niles and Mt. Vernon. When deputies arrived, the resident, a man, was holding the suspect, a 17-year-old boy, at gunpoint. The resident put his gun away as deputies approached.

The Sheriff’s Office determined the resident confronted the teen about breaking into his backyard shed. That’s when the teen allegedly tried to stab the resident, and the resident responded by shooting the teen in the leg. The Sheriff’s Office said the teen will get medical care before being booked into Juvenile Hall. The resident appears to …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation

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