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"I woke up and I saw a yellow shirt on a person,” Shirley Adams recalled. “I thought it was my niece and I raised up and said what are you doing in here?" But then the 72-year-old woman realized that it wasn't her niece.

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One suspect was found in a nearby alleyway suffering from a gunshot wound to the ankle, while the second suspect ran back to school in an attempt to elude authorities.

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“I’m sure he’s going to end up in the hospital somewhere. I mean, he’s got buckshot in his butt, I’m sure he’s going to,” the woman said with a chuckle.

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In addition to the couple, who now remain in stable condition at a local hospital, there was also a child present in the house, presumably the couple's grandchild, during the home invasion.

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In what police are describing as an attempted burglary, an Atlanta homeowner shot and killed an intruder who he found on his property early Monday morning and according to police, this wasn't the first time the home had been targeted.

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When officers entered the home, they found the homeowner and the alleged intruder had both been shot. The intruder was pronounced dead at the scene. The homeowner, who is confined to a wheelchair due to cerebral palsy, was treated for what was believed to be non-life threatening injuries.

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Following a long recovery after being shot in the head during a burglary attempt in a New Orleans neighborhood last July, the same teen boy was arrested Friday after breaking into a home in the same neighborhood.

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A 20-year-old man is fighting for his life after being shot twice by a Houston homeowner during what was believed to be a failed burglary attempt early Sunday morning.

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When the intruder turned and began to come towards the homeowner, that’s when the homeowner opened fire, striking the suspect, who then crawled back out of the window which he had entered through and ran off.

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A home invasion at a Houston apartment Friday afternoon ended badly for the suspects when the young resident opened fired, killing one suspect and likely wounding another.

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The intruder had broken into the woman’s home, but was unaware that the man on the phone with his would-be victim was only two minutes away – and armed with a handgun.

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A Detroit homeowner opened fire on two would-be burglars attempting to break into his house Thursday afternoon, making the fifth known time in just two weeks that armed residents have fought back in the city where “crime no longer pays.”

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