LYTLE, Texas \u2013 A deadly shooting Sunday night involving a Lytle homeowner who fired at an intruder marks the first homicide in that city in 13 years.<\/p>\n
Lytle police have called on the Department of Public Safety\u2019s Texas Rangers for help with the investigation into what amounts to a rare crime for them.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt also gives you a different set of eyes, looking at stuff that we don\u2019t because we don\u2019t deal with homicides every day,\u201d said Lytle Police Chief Richey Priest. \u201cPlus, if you … need a lot of evidence processed, they have a pipeline direct to their crime lab.\u201d<\/p>\n
Priest said officers were called to a home on Butch Cassidy Street in the Saddle Ridge Estates subdivision for a disturbance after 10:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
He said they found a child with knife wounds inside one home, then heard gunshots coming from another home a few doors down.<\/p>\n
Shortly thereafter, he said the owner of the second home walked outside, telling officers he had just shot an intruder.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was more or less backed into a corner and didn\u2019t have really any other options. It was a bad situation,\u201d Priest said. \u201cSo, the homeowner was forced to use deadly force to protect him and his family.\u201d<\/p>\n
Priest said investigators are still trying to sort it all out.<\/p>\n
However, he said it appears the man who was shot and killed had just left his own home a few doors down where the girl was stabbed.<\/p>\n
The girl was taken to a hospital for treatment. She has since been released and is expected to recover, Priest said.<\/p>\n
Police said witnesses told them the man appeared to be \u201caggressive\u201d and \u201cout of control\u201d as he made his way to the other home.<\/p>\n
\u201cWent in this house, a house or so down. Totally random, you know? No connection that anyone\u2019s aware of,\u201d Priest said.<\/p>\n
He said it\u2019s possible the shooting could qualify as self-defense, but that will be determined once the investigation is complete.<\/p>\n
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