Armed Homeowner Defends Family Against Career ‘Hoodlum”

According to Firearm Chronicles

The sheriff in Putnam County, Georgia says he’s “sick” over a career criminal with a “20-page rap sheet” attempting to break into a home and terrorize the family inside.

Sheriff Howard Sills says 28-year old Hunter Layne Harrison, who was already on probation for three different crimes dating back to 2014, used a concrete block and a dumbbell to break a glass door at the rear of the home, gaining entrance before the armed homeowner fired a shot in self-defense. The shot hit Harrison in the arm, and he dropped to the floor where the homeowner held him at gunpoint until deputies arrived.

The deputies then attempted to detain Harrison and place him in cuffs, but Sills says the suspect battled with the deputies, splattering blood across the kitchen, breaking free, cussing at the officers, and running towards a door that he believed was an exit.

But Sills says Harrison didn’t realize the home was currently under construction and that the door no longer led to a back deck, causing Harrison to fall nine feet to the ground where deputies arrested him.

The officers had to use pepper spray to subdue Harrison and keep his feet in shackles to keep him from running

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