Fayetteville police are investigating an incident Thursday at a home that left an alleged intruder with four gunshot wounds.
Police were trying to determine why the armed man allegedly broke into the house on Windridge Drive around 3 p.m. The man, who was not immediately identified, was shot by the son of the homeowner, Det. Mike Whitlow told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The relationship between the son and the intruder, however, remained unclear, and police were not yet calling the incident a home invasion, Whitlow said.
“He [son] knows of him but he doesn’t know him personally,” Whitlow said the son indicated. “It is a very fluid situation.”
Both the wounded young man and the son, who also was not identified, are in their 20s, Whitlow said. Another man was also in the house at the time of the shooting, the detective said.
The homeowner’s son told police he heard the other man trying to break in through the front door and armed himself with a handgun after looking out the window and seeing the intruder had a gun, Whitlow said.
The intruder then made entry into the house through the back door and the son shot him inside the house, Whitlow said.
The wounded man was transported to a hospital and was in critical condition, Whitlow said. The son was taken to the police station and was cooperating in the investigation, Whitlow said.
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