A 12-year-old boy killed a man who forcibly shot into an apartment with an accomplice in North Carolina, officials said on Monday.
Goldsboro police responded to a report about a shooting on South William Street around 12:43 pm on Saturday. Police said two masked people broke into the apartment, demanded money and shot one of the residents, Linda Ellis, 73, who a family member identified as the boy’s grandmother.
The boy shot the intruders, making them flee, police said.
Police said they found Khalil Herring, 19, of Goldsboro, at a nearby intersection suffering from a gunshot wound. Herring and Ellis were taken to a hospital, where Herring was pronounced dead. Ellis was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. Goldsboro is about 55 miles southeast of Raleigh, the state capital.
Evidence suggests that Herring was one of the two intruders, police said. The second suspect was not arrested.
A police spokesman declined to confirm the relationship between Ellis and the boy. Ellis’ great-niece, Chiquita Coley, told Raleigh’s NBC affiliate WRAL that the boy is Ellis’s grandson. Coley and Ellis could not be reached for comment on Monday.
No charges are expected against the boy.
