11-year-old says burglar 'cried like a baby' after kid shoots him with 9mm

An 11-year-old boy shot a suspected burglar at his Talladega home.

"I told him I was going to kill him if he didn't get out of my house," the boy, Chris Gaither, said.

Chris was home alone Wednesday morning when he heard a noise.  Someone had broken into his house.  Scared, Chirs grabbed a 9 mm handgun.

When he was coming down the stairs, the burglar began to curse at him.

The intruder was heading out the front door with a hamper in his hand and Chris started firing off rounds. A bullet struck the intruder in the leg as he hopped over the fence.  It was Chris' 12th shot fired.

"I shot through the hamper he was carrying. It was a full metal jacket bullet. It went straight through the back of his leg. He started crying like a little baby," Chris said.

The family says they do not know the burglar, but believe he may have been a meth addict.

Chris' stepfather taught him how to shoot.  The two go target practice shooting together.


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