Burglar breaks in through the bedroom window on the second floor of the house just before midnight – but the homeowner has a gun and shoots the burglar
A burglar broke a second-floor window of a home in Vancouver, Washington late Thursday night and entered a bedroom—but the homeowner was armed and shot the burglar dead.
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The suspect “used a vehicle to get himself to the second floor and then broke in through the window of what appeared to be a bedroom in the house,” Vancouver Police spokesman Kim Kapp said. said KGW TV.
The homeowner confronted the intruder in the bedroom he broke into, the station said, and shot him dead during the encounter.
Officers responded to the scene just before 11:30 pm – a home on NE 157th Court, a cul-de-sac leading to NE 28th Street, KGW reported, adding that the intruder was dead when officers arrived.
Kapp told the station the homeowner and his wife were at the home at the time of the burglary, but she didn’t believe children were present. Kapp added to KGW that she didn’t know if the intruder was armed.
Police told the guard there was no evidence that the intruder and the homeowner knew each other. The broadcaster said in his video report that the break-in appeared to have happened by accident.
Kapp couldn’t say if the homeowner faces charges, KGW reported.
“I do not know. I mean… definitely something that’s not uncommon for people to get into people’s homes,” Kapp told the broadcaster. “But I don’t have any details on further investigations and we are still at a very early stage.”
The Police Department’s Serious Crimes Division is investigating the incident, KGW said.
The Clark County medical examiner is expected to issue the results of the autopsy and the suspect’s name in the next few days, the station reported.
There were no other reported injuries, Kapp added to KGW.
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