Police: Woman Opens Fire After Intruder Shoots Nephew
Trail Of Blood Leads Detectives To Believe Bullet Struck Intruder
POSTED: Thursday, December 30, 2004
HOUSTON -- A homeowner fought back Thursday morning after her teenage nephew was shot in the arm as two men invaded her Missouri City home looking for a man she did not know, police told Local 2.
Missouri City detectives said homeowner Malika Leverette noticed two armed men in their 20s approaching the front door of her home on Reecewood Lane at Mulberry at about 3 a.m.As the woman ran to get a gun, the intruders stormed inside the home and asked where a man named "Snoop" was.Investigators said when Leverette told them they had the wrong house, the men fired a bullet at her 16-year-old nephew, who was sleeping on the couch.Leverette told police she then opened fire on the men as they escapedOfficials think the woman struck one of the intruders because there was a trail of blood leaving the home.Leverette's nephew was transported to a hospital with a gunshot wound to the arm. His condition has not been released.Officials said there is a possibility that the intruders invaded the wrong home because Leverette moved into the home two weeks ago.Police are now searching for the intruders.
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