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HOUSTON – A man is in critical condition after police say he may have mistakenly tried to enter the wrong apartment while dressed in a Halloween costume. FOX 26 spoke to the man who says he shot him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Houston apartment mix-up turns violent <\/p>\n
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The shooting unfolded around 2:20 a.m. on Thursday morning at an apartment complex on Bering Drive<\/a> in the Galleria area<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Houston Police believe the wounded man, who lives at the complex, was returning from a Halloween party. They say he may have been intoxicated, and confused another unit for his own.<\/p>\n Resident recounts overnight encounter <\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n Inside the second-floor apartment, a father was asleep on the couch while his girlfriend and their one-year-old child were in the bedroom.<\/p>\n He woke up to the sound of someone rattling his doorknob, kicking the door frame, and insisting the home was his. Fearing an intruder, the resident grabbed his firearm, looked through the peephole, and saw a man outside.\u00a0<\/p>\n Speaking to FOX 26, the resident, who asked not to be identified, described the moments that led up to the gunfire:\u00a0<\/p>\n “He\u2019s like, ‘This is my house.’ I\u2019m like, ‘This is not your house, bro,’ and then he\u2019s trying to bum-rush in,” the resident said.\u00a0<\/p>\n The resident says neither he nor his girlfriend recognized the man.\u00a0<\/p>\n “After he hit me, he tried to take me down or whatever \u2013 and that\u2019s when I ended up shooting him,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n The resident fired a single shot, striking the other man in the upper torso. Paramedics rushed the wounded man to a local hospital in critical condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n Legal Analyst: Why Charges Are Unlikely <\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Houston Police say the resident stayed on the scene, cooperated with investigators, and no charges have been filed at this time.<\/p>\n Even though the man outside may have been drunk and confused about his apartment number, FOX 26 Legal Analyst Chris Tritico says Texas law does not require a resident to stop and evaluate an intruder’s intentions in the middle of the night.<\/p>\n “At night, when someone’s coming into your house, you do not have a duty to wait and decide if it’s a mistake or if this is just some drunk guy,” Tritico explained. “You can take action to defend your property and yourself, and that includes deadly force. In this circumstance, when it may have just been a mistake, the homeowner doesn’t have to wait to decide. You can use deadly force.”<\/p>\n The Source: Information for this report was gathered through the Houston Police Department, an exclusive interview with the involved resident who requested anonymity for safety reasons, and legal analysis from FOX 26 Legal Analyst Chris Tritico.<\/p>\n Galleria<\/a>News<\/a>Top Stories<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON – A man is in critical condition after police say he may have mistakenly tried to enter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,55266,56,58,57,223,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-482853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-galleria","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}