'I just shot the man': Boy, 14, kills intruder after gang of FOUR men try to break into house (NC)

The Daily Mail Online ^ | 5 January, 2012 | Paul Thompson

[marktwain]

Yet another teen has used deadly force to protect his home from intruders.

Police in North Carolina revealed a 14-year-old boy shot dead an intruder attempting to break into his home while he and his sister were alone.

The teen opened fire with a shotgun while his 17-year-old sister hid in a closet as a gang of men attempted to smash their way into their home.

Investigators released a 911 call with the teen calmly describing how he shot the intruder.

In the call, the teen, says: 'I just shot the man. He came around the corner. I shot him. He broke the whole glass out (of the back door).'

He continues: 'I don't know how many it was (who broke in). Just one came around the corner. I got one more in the chamber. I'm going to shoot again,' the boy said.

The incident took place two days before 18-year-old Sarah McKinley shot and killed an intruder breaking into her home in Oklahoma

While on the phone with 911, the young mother shot and killed one of the intruders with a 12-gauge shotgun after he forced his way inside her home.

The teen, who was told to do what she could to protect her three-month-old baby, has been flooded with messages of praise from well wishers.

In the North Carolina incident, police said the 14-year-old and his sister were at home in the rural town of Henderson when four men tried to break into the house.

Michael Anthony Henderson Jr, 19, was shot dead.

He staggered away from the house and collapsed where he was found by police.

His brother Seneca, 20, and one other man Andrew Terry, 23, have already been charged in the case.

Police are still searching for a third man named as 21-year-old Jatwaun Davis.

[VietVet]

“...why do stories like this get published by UK papers and wevsites and not in the US where the events actually happen?”

Perhaps because the press over there has this image of the US as the Wild West, and are using these stories as ‘horrible examples’ of the need for civilized British anti-gun laws here. Hence the closing of comments when the responses were overwhelmingly positive.

[MasterGunner01]

The way things are going in the UK, they're going to be locked in mortal combat with their mushrooming Muslim population (while the ruling elites rearrange deck chairs on the RMS Titanic ship of state). The Brits have outlawed self-defense so who will protect them from the Muslim hordes? Their government will surrender without a shot.

[MasterGunner01]

The way things are going in the UK, they're going to be locked in mortal combat with their mushrooming Muslim population (while the ruling elites rearrange deck chairs on the RMS Titanic ship of state). The Brits have outlawed self-defense so who will protect them from the Muslim hordes? Their government will surrender without a shot.