South Aftrica: Man held after killing intruder

It took the police 30 minutes to arrive. At that point they arrested the victim. Dean Weingarten

Durban - A Durban resident is in custody after firing a warning shot which killed an intruder after it ricocheted off a kitchen wall in his Manor Gardens home on Sunday.

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“I lunged across to open the drawer and got the firearm out, but as I was doing that this guy came at me with a knife.”

Webster said he was able to fire a warning shot which hit the kitchen wall.

“It didn’t occur to me that the shot had ricocheted because the guy just kept coming at me and fighting me.”