Home in­va­sion or at­tempt­ed hit gone wrong?

Po­lice are try­ing to de­ter­mine ex­act­ly what hap­pened in Mor­vant on Sun­day night, when an al­leged at­tack­er lost his life dur­ing a re­port­ed strug­gle with the home­own­er.

Po­lice said around 8 pm, a man was sit­ting out­side his home at Las Al­turas when he no­ticed two in­di­vid­u­als ap­proach­ing, with one re­port­ed­ly dis­play­ing a weapon. Con­cerned for his safe­ty, the man ran in­side to alert his fam­i­ly.

Po­lice were told that one of the sus­pects fol­lowed the man in­to the house, lead­ing to a strug­gle be­tween them. Dur­ing the al­ter­ca­tion, the at­tack­er re­port­ed­ly at­tempt­ed to use a weapon, which mal­func­tioned, and then tried to reach for an­oth­er firearm that he had.

How­ev­er, the res­i­dent told po­lice he man­aged to gain con­trol of the oth­er firearm and, in the strug­gle, used it to de­fend him­self, ul­ti­mate­ly shoot­ing the sus­pect.

Po­lice of­fi­cers ar­rived on the scene soon af­ter the res­i­dent con­tact­ed them. 

Of­fi­cers from the North East­ern Di­vi­sion, led by Sgt May­nard, are con­tin­u­ing their in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the in­ci­dent.