Looks to maybe be at a junkyard.
Probably not his first time confronting intruders either.
Although unmentioned in the article, I suspect the weapon of choice was a shotgun. Perhaps loaded with 00 buckshot fired from enough distance so pattern dispersion would wound both with one lucky shot. One was wounded badly enough for air evacuation; the other was treated and arrested.
Talk about a series of increasingly bad decisions going sideways. They started out just to steal some used car parts - probably so they could fix a family car. Now the lightly wounded thief is sitting in jail hoping his partner pulls through so he doesn’t end up being charged with murder.
But this is all just speculation.
Fitting...