A heavily intoxicated man was shot early Friday after repeatedly knocking at the front door of someone else’s Kennesaw home, police said.
Officers responded to the house at the intersection of Maple Drive and North Avenue about 2:45 a.m. after receiving a call about a suspicious person, Kennesaw police spokesman Officer Scott Luther said.
When they arrived, they found a man lying in the front yard with a gunshot wound to his right shoulder.
Investigators learned that the gunshot victim, 28-year-old Gregory Pendleton of Kennesaw, “was intoxicated to the point of not realizing he was at the wrong house,” Luther said. He had also previously went to another part of the residence, alarming one of the residents, police said.
The homeowner, who wasn’t expecting guests that early in the morning, fired a gunshot through the glass of the front door, hitting Pendleton in the shoulder, Luther said. It’s unclear if Pendleton lived nearby or if the two people knew each other.
The injured man was taken to the hospital and is expected to survive. He’s been charged with a count of misdemeanor criminal trespass. The homeowner does not face any charges.
The investigation is ongoing.
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