Overview

• The suspect, intoxicated and involved in a long-running dispute, broke a glass door to enter the home on the 900 block of Concord Street.
• Family members and bystanders tried to stop the intruder as he assaulted the homeowner inside.
• The homeowner fired two shots with a handgun, hitting the suspect in the chest and abdomen.
• Police airlifted the wounded man to a nearby hospital, where he remains under treatment.
• Texas’s Castle Doctrine permits homeowners to use deadly force against intruders inside their residence without a duty to retreat.