Elderly Detroiter Says He Fatally Shot Suspected Teen Burglar

My Fox Detroit ^ | Updated: Wednesday, 28 Mar 2012, 5:42 PM EDT | Alexis Wiley

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DETROIT (WJBK) -- It happened around 1:00 a.m. Wednesday. Willie White said he only had one bullet in his gun, but that one bullet was enough to protect himself and his family.

"I put one bullet in the gun just in case. I was hoping I wouldn't have to use it," he remarked.

However, the 75-year-old was given no other choice. He said he and his wife were in bed when they he heard a banging noise near the side door. He instantly knew what was happening.

"Somebody's trying to break-in," he explained.

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Just a day earlier, someone broke his windows and his back gate. He figured they were back to finish the job, but White was ready.

"I grabbed a gun and ran towards the side door," he said. The door was suddenly kicked in and that's when he fired the rifle.

"I shot and it hit him in the shoulder," White told us. "When I shot, I heard I don't know who it might have been saying he's been hit, and they ran out the driveway."

White called 911, but there was nothing anyone could do to save the suspected burglar. Detroit police identify him only as an 18-year-old male. They found a gun on him.

White knows he did what he had to do, but for a man who never fired a gun before, this is something that's hard to deal with.

"I'm not comfortable with it at all because I had a son that was murdered in 2010," he said. "I was just glad that I was able to protect us because he obviously meant to do some harm."

Police did confiscate White's gun as part of their investigation. That's usual procedure. The case will be forwarded to the prosecutor's office, but odds are White will not face any criminal charges.

[taildragger]

I hear his weapon was an "SKS"

[Westbrook]

> Police did confiscate White’s gun as part of their
> investigation. That’s usual procedure.

Thanks for letting all the hoods know, idjit.

Hope the man goes out and buys a shotgun. Cheap and easy to use, especially for home invasions.

[Carriage Hill]

“Machine gun” is what I heard/read, from the racism-crazed media drone-bots.

[neodad]

Willie White

How racist. Wonder if he's kin to Willie Green?

[Jewbacca]

He needs to buy another rifle quickly.

[blackdog]

Skittles prowler.............

[Jewbacca]

He’s a white-black man, since Zimmerman is now a white-Hispanic.

[Defiant]

Time to go Trayvon on this guy’s punk ass.

[cripplecreek]

This is the sort of behavior that will save Detroit.

[umgud]

Detroit? Wonder what the description is of the 18 y/o yute?

[Fido969]

White shoots aspiring rapper just turning his life around.

[ConservaTexan]

Race is not mentioned one, single time in the entire article. I’ll bet I know what that means.

[Paladin2]

"Police did confiscate White’s gun as part of their > investigation. That’s usual procedure."

The popos need to provide a loaner, range time and collateral if they want the gun.

[GeronL]

race would be mentioned if there was political hay as a possibility

[Carriage Hill]

A whole new “sub-race” has now been created. Anthropologists are verily spinning in their graves.

[Carriage Hill]

He got what every burglar/home invader/criminal deserves, IMO. I wonder if he had some iced tea, too?

[MasterGunner01]

My guess: both perp and almost-a-victim were Black? Therefore, this is not a story for the MSM.

[TribalPrincess2U]

My guess also. Afterall, it’s Detroit? No news here.

[tflabo]

Where’s Jesse? Where’s Al? Where’s Obama? Whitey/Latino kills blacky very bad. Blacky kills same and turn the other cheek routine from the race baiters.