Elderly Oakland homeowner arrested after shooting suspected burglar

A 77-year-old Oakland homeowner is in custody after he shot and killed one of a trio of suspected burglars at his residence.

Witnesses called the Oakland Police Department just before 6 p.m. Monday, claiming to have seen two men and a woman, at least one of them with a crowbar, breaking into the unnamed homeowner’s residence.

The three arrived in the area in a stolen Infiniti Q40, authorities told KTVU-TV.

When police arrived, they saw the homeowner pointing a gun at the woman, who told police that the man had shot her friend according to KTVU-TV.

At the time, the suspected burglar was lying wounded near a fence line. He was later pronounced dead by paramedics according to the Mercury News. He has not been publicly identified.

The homeowner was held without bail on suspicion of murder, and the second man suspected of burglary was found by police officers with a replica gun and taken in on suspicion of second-degree burglary.

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