A Tennessee man found himself behind bars this week after shooting at thieves trying to steal a van outside his home.
A Shelby County man was alerted by his surveillance system around 2 a.m. Saturday that several people were outside his home and using burglar tools in an attempt to break into a van. Fox 13 Memphis reported.
After the man walked outside, according to the outlet, the burglars opened fire on him as he stood under the porch light of his home.
Security video shows the homeowner and the suspect shooting each other several times.
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The thieves fled the scene and the man went back to his home, but the police arrived and the man’s wife said they started questioning him.
“When they were talking to him, from what I saw, it looked like they were trying to find a way to charge him,” the homeowner’s wife told Fox 13 Memphis. “That doesn’t sound right. Why would you stress the victim when you should be stressing finding the suspects.”
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Deputies said the man told them he couldn’t clearly see what he was aiming for and admitted to shooting with his eyes closed because he was scared and shot at the suspects as they fled, the outlet noted.
The man, who has not been publicly identified, finally was on charges of arrest and reckless endangerment But was later released, and his family hopes the charges will be dropped, according to Fox 13 Memphis.
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“The skeptics, they’re out there,” the man’s wife told the outlet. “They were probably sleeping or partying [while] My husband was in jail trying to get acquitted for something he was innocent of.”
The news of this incident caused a storm of criticism social mediaAmy Soarer, a fellow Heritage Foundation senior fellow, disagreed with the police explanation for why the man was arrested.
“I’m appalled that the homeowner here is being charged with ‘reckless endangerment,'” Swearer said In a Twitter thread. “The police arguments seem absurd on their face to me. The only people he endangered… were the ones who shot him. And he was 100% entitled to ‘endanger’ them.”
The Shelby County Sheriff’s Department Fox News did not respond to Digital’s request for comment.
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