Indiana man and son get into shootout with 3 home intruders and realize wounded suspect is their relative, police say



A shoutout between a man and his son and three armed home intruders ended up with the victims realizing one of the suspects was a relative of theirs, according to Indiana police.

Darrell Gibbs told WXIN-TV that he was awakened from his sleep at about 4 a.m. on Sunday by the sounds of six to eight gunshots coming from the back of his home in southwest Indianapolis.

'I have no sympathy for anybody doing that. You don’t do that to family.'

”I was in bed asleep, and then I hear the gunfire,” Gibbs said. “And my son taps on the door and tells me what’s happening, and I get dressed and come out back.”

Gibbs says three armed men damaged his back door trying to kick it in. One of them was wounded by gunshots from Gibbs' son firing back at them.

“I see the intruder laying here on the ground, and he wanted me to make a call for him," said Gibbs.

The alleged intruder told him, “You know me, you know me," according to Gibbs.

“You don’t come knocking in somebody’s back door," Gibbs continued, "and he lost his gun on this side of the ground over by the fire pit, and he was laying there in the weeds there.”

The man said that they eventually figured out that the wounded man was their relative.

“It was little Matt, my nephew’s son," Gibbs claimed.

The man, identified as 24-year-old Matthew Kinniard II, reportedly told Gibbs that he could not feel his legs.

”I used my phone to call 911 to get somebody out here, the ambulance for him and stuff, and I even made a call to his grandmother with my phone and lift up the speaker so he could talk and his girlfriend,” Gibbs continued. “If I seen him walking down the street, I couldn’t have told you who he was. That’s how often I been around him.”

Gibbs said that the two other suspects ran away, got into a car that was parked at a church nearby, and then sped away.

'He thought he could hit a lick here, and it didn’t pan out for him.'

When Gibbs was asked if there was anything worth stealing in his home, he said no.

“No, I work hard enough just to pay the bills," he responded. ”Somebody has probably told him lies, and he thought he could hit a lick here, and it didn’t pan out for him."

Gibbs said police interviewed his son but released him.

”I don’t really wish the worst on anybody, but I have no sympathy for anybody doing that. You don’t do that to family. It shouldn’t even be heard of, you know.”

WXIN reported that Kinniard is still in the hospital. Police said they are searching for the other two intruders and are reviewing surveillance video from the neighborhood.

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12-year-old forced to shoot and kill armed home invader who was threatening his mother



A 12-year-old protected his mother by shooting and killing an armed home invader at their home in East Feliciana, Louisiana.

The East Feliciana Parish Sheriff's Office released details about the chilling incident that unfolded on July 1 at about 7:30 a.m.

Deputies said that Brad Leblanc, 32, and two others encountered a woman outside her home and forced her inside by threatening her with a pistol. Once inside the woman and the man got into a physical altercation.

That's when the woman's 12-year-old child retrieved a hunting rifle and shot LeBlanc. He later died at a hospital.

Police arrested the two alleged accomplices, who were identified as Jonathan Barker and Jennifer Bond. Barker was charged with second-degree murder, principal to aggravated burglary and principal to aggravated kidnapping, while Bond was charged as an accessory after the fact.

Officials said no charges were planned against the child, but that the final decision would be made by a district attorney.

"At this time, the East Feliciana Sheriff's office has no evidence — whether it be physical evidence at the scene or testimony from witnesses — that would incriminate the 12-year-old, and therefore, at this time, we have no plans to bring charges against the 12-year-old child," said Sheriff Jeffrey Travis to the Advocate.

"I don't know what you tell a kid like that," said Travis to WAFB-TV. "I mean that is such a horrific incident that I tried to put myself in that position, this week thinking, when my children were twelve years old, if they were to have to do that what would I have told them?"

Travis said the mother was seeking treatment for the child over the incident.

Here's more about the frightening incident:

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