‘They came to a gunfight with a pocketknife’: Retired plumber, 93, blasts burglar with a shotgun – leaving him critically injured – after gang broke into his home and came at him with a FISHING POLE
A 93-year-old man has shot and critically injured a would-be burglar after a gang tried to break into his home in California.
Retired plumber Joe Howard Teague repeatedly warned the attempted robbers that he had a shotgun, but they continued to approach and throw things at him.
Teague told reporters outside his Moreno Valley home yesterday: ‘I approached them to put them under citizen’s arrest.
‘They wouldn’t adhere to that and then one of them came at me with a fishing pole.