Man hears glass shatter at neighbor’s house late at evening, so he grabs his gun and confronts the crooks — and a shootout ensues

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A Cellular, Alabama, man informed WALA-TV he engaged in a shootout with a pair of burglars who broke into his neighbor’s house late Friday evening.

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Andrew Carrera informed the station he was in his household’s storage when he heard glass shatter at a house throughout the road.

“I hollered at my stepdad, ‘I feel any individual’s breaking into [the neighbor’s house], name 911!’ and that’s once I took off,” Carrera informed WALA.

He added to the station that he “jumped the fence, and I ran as much as the place the door was — however the entire door was kicked in, all of the glass was kicked in. So, at that time, I grabbed my firearm, and I screamed, ‘Get the hell out the home!’ I screamed it twice …”

 

Carrera informed WALA he “ran across the left facet of [my neighbor’s] home, and once I received to the nook of the home, they have been popping out the entrance door on the identical time, and [one of the burglars] was capturing backward. When he shot his first one, it [whizzed] proper previous my rattling ear.”

He added to the station that “when all of it went down — when the gunfire and all that began, I simply mentioned, ‘God, watch over us.’ …”

WALA reported that the suspects have been capturing at Carrera as they fled on foot, however he added to the station that he struck one of many suspects within the encounter.

Cellular Police informed WALA they acquired a 911 name and responded to the 1000 block of McGough Court docket for a housebreaking in progress.

“About 10 minutes later, a name got here by means of the radio that somebody’s simply been rushed to the hospital with a number of gunshot wounds — and was matching the precise description that I had gave them,” Carrera informed the station.

Investigators informed WALA that officers went to a hospital in reference to a 20-year-old man with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, however police didn’t affirm the wounded man was a part of the housebreaking and didn’t make any arrests.

‘It felt like 4 or 5 hours’

There’s additionally surveillance video from Carrera’s house displaying him and his stepfather coming exterior to see what was occurring throughout the road.

Within the higher proper nook of the video, Carrera is huddled behind a car within the driveway for cover, the station mentioned.

“Forty-five seconds tops, the entire thing,” Carrera informed WALA, estimating how lengthy the ordeal lasted. “It felt like 4 or 5 hours.”

He’s simply completely satisfied he and his household are alive, the station mentioned: “It’s only a loopy expertise that I hope no one else has to cope with, however if you happen to do … I hope that you simply’re ready …”