A suspect is dead after 12-year-old shoots at intruders during attempted robbery, police say

[Polybius]

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Source: CNN

(CNN)A 12-year-old shot at two masked intruders who broke into his grandmother's home just before 1 a.m. on Saturday, according to police in Goldsboro, North Carolina.

The intruders had demanded money from 73-year-old Linda Ellis and subsequently shot her, police said in a statement posted on the Goldsboro Police Department's Facebook page.

Police said the juvenile fired "in self-defense" at the suspects who then fled. Officers found one of the suspects, 19-year-old Khalil Herring, at an intersection near the Ellis home, suffering from an apparent gunshot wound, the statement said.

"Preliminary evidence suggest(s) Khalil Herring was one of the two masked intruders and was shot during the robbery," police said.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/14/us/boy-shoots-intruder-north-carolina/index.html

[Nululu]

1. Sad a child had to experience this.

I'm glad he and his grandmother will be ok. Crime is up from the pandemic.

[SharonClark]

2. How frightening, to see someone shoot your grandmother.

[oldsoftie]

3. Good for him. Great-uncle said they all would've been killed if not for the boy.

Thats the only way to deal with people that vicious.

[Sapient Donkey]

8. It's hard to for me to understand how anyone can become so vicious

[louis-t]

4. One of the few times a year someone actually protects themselves.

Too bad it can't happen more often.

[LiberalLovinLug]

5. And the Right will highlight this rare case as an example in order to ease gun laws more

[Mr.Bill]

9. They'll probably use it as a reason

to issue concealed carry permits to 12 year olds.

[DENVERPOPS]

10. AND to start

a program to arm those over 10 years old, and to train them in the use of handguns.......

Something that will certainly earn the praise of the NRA and Gun manufacturers everywhere........

Just think of the massive numbers of kids of the 70 Million trump voters........

[RVN VET71]

11. Joe Wilson, the mentally challenged Rep from S.C.

called for 3 year olds to carry! On video! When he was owned by Sacha Baron Cohen who told him he was promoting a “Kinderguardians” movement!

(Joe was the a-hole who shouted “You lie” at America’s first Black President during the State of the Union.)

BTW, since this 12 year old clearly knew how to use a gun and since the gun he fired was apparently legally owned, it is apparent that the laws currently in place worked just fine.

[58Sunliner]

6. Poor family. I'm glad the kid could chase them off and I hope he gets therapy.

[Sapient Donkey]

7. What kind of person shoots someone after robbing them?

Does human life really mean so little to them?

Just to clarify, this could also say "what kind of person robs anyone, let alone an elderly person", but the attempt to kill someone too is something I cannot understand.

[pnwmom]

13. Maybe he shot the grandmother after she did NOT give money to them.

The article doesn't say.

[keopeli]

12. Looks like the Grandmother, Linda Ellis (shot in the leg), is going home today (Monday).

[Omaha Steve]

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