Teen Shoots, Injures Man Trying To Break Into House
Police Say Shooting Justified
POSTED: 5:36 pm EDT May 23, 2006
UPDATED: 7:00 pm EDT May 23, 2006
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — A 15-year-old boy shot and injured a man he said was trying to break into his home early Saturday morning.
Maxine Chandler opened the door of her Hollywood home at about 3:30 a.m. Saturday, expecting her husband. Instead, she said she was faced with a man trying to kick down the front door.
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“When I closed that door, he just went crazier. He picked up the bicycle and threw it at the window,” Chandler said.
As the intruder, identified by police as 22-year-old Keil Jumper, threw his bike against the front window, Chandler’s son, Javaris Granger, 15, reached for his father’s gun.
“I thought he was going to kill me,” Chandler said. “The most thing I need to stress is that 911 did not respond.”
“He busted through the door, and when he busted through the door . . . he was going crazy and stuff. His eyes looked at me, and that’s when I got scared. I just shot the first shot. What made me really have to take action was my mom. I was more like in fear for my mom, because she was scared,” Granger said.
Granger was also trying to protect his 12 sisters and female cousins, who were asleep in the house.
“I’m very proud of him,” Chandler said.
“I’m proud of myself for protecting my family,” Granger said.
Granger, a freshman at McArthur High School, said he has practiced shooting a gun with his father at Markham Park before, but never imagined he would have to shoot at an intruder in his own home.
Hollywood police called it a justifiable shooting, NBC 6’s Amara Sohn reported.
Hollywood police said Jumper might have been on drugs. Jumper is now in serious condition at Memorial Regional Hospital with gunshot wounds to the abdomen and legs.
“I thought he was going to kill me,” Chandler said. “The most thing I need to stress is that 911 did not respond.”