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DETROIT (WXYZ) - A 25-year-old man is recovering from a gun shot wound after police say he was shot while breaking into a home. Officers say the man had gotten into the home on Winthrop near Fenkell and Greenfield whenh e was confronted by the 59-year-old property owner. Investigators say that during that confrontation the intruder lunged at the property owner, who shot him in the abdomen. The property owner is a licensed gun owner. The 25-year-old was taken to the hospital to be treated. He is in temporary serious condition. The property owner is not expected to face charges.

EAST UNION TOWNSHIP A Schuylkill County man who was attacked on his porch escaped by punching through a window, diving through the opening, grabbing a shotgun and firing three times into the floor to scare off his attackers early Monday morning, said state police at Frackville. Brian Mark Furedi Jr., 21, told police Michael Paul Richards and Zachary J. Johnson followed him to his home at 955 Center St. from Andrew's Bar in the Sheppton section of East Union Township. When Furedi opened the front door of his enclosed porch, Richards and Johnson "forced their way in attacked him for...

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. -- Police in Boynton Beach investigated an early morning shooting on Saturday after a homeowner said he found a man hiding in his house. The incident happened on Northwest First Street at about 12:30 p.m. Police said 27-year-old Anthony Cole shot a man multiple times, and it appears he used deadly force because he felt his life was in danger. Eddie Weal, 20, was taken to Delray Medical Center with injuries that were not life-threatening, police said. They said he will be charged upon his release.

COLUMBIA – A 21-year-old man was shot and killed in an eastern Columbia apartment on Monday morning, but police said there is evidence the shooting happened in self-defense. The shooting occurred in Apartment 12 of 219 Anita Court, a small cul-de-sac extending north from East Walnut Street near Stephens Lake Park. The 22-year-old female resident of the apartment also suffered a gunshot wound to the lower leg during the episode. Columbia Police officers stand in front of a residence on Anita Court where one person was fatally shot and another was wounded on Monday morning. Police identified the deceased as...

NEW YORK — A homeowner who grabbed a rifle from his house and fired warning shots in a confrontation with a group of men on his lawn faced arraignment on criminal charges Monday as his family said he was defending his home from a threatening mass of strangers. George Grier, 30, fired rounds into the ground and air from an assault-style rifle after arguing with a large group of men gathered outside his Long Island home Sunday evening, Nassau County police said. No one was hurt. His sister, Caprice Rines, said Grier feared for the safety of his wife and...

ATLANTA -- Detectives in Atlanta said the victim of a home invasion turned the tables on his intruder. Police said the homeowner shot and killed a man who was inside his home on Abner Place in northwest Atlanta just before midnight Thursday. A neighbor told Channel 2 Action News reporter Darryn Moore at the scene that the person who was killed may have been the same person who had been seen casing the neighborhood earlier in the week. Police said they got a call about a shooting at the home and arrived to find one man shot in the chest....

DECATUR, Ala. - A pistol-packing grandmother in Decatur hopes intruders will think twice before messing with her again. Police say 69-year-old Ethel Jones shot 18-year-old Michael O'Neal Bynum in the abdomen when she said she found him inside her bedroom. Bynum lived less than 200 yards from Jones, but she said she didn't know him. "I hope this will make people have second thoughts before they break into a home in our neighborhood and stop some of the crime we've had around here," she told The Decatur Daily. Jones said she sleeps with her gun under a pillow next to...