10-year-old boy successfully uses gun to defend family

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PORT ALLEN, LA (WAFB) - A ten-year-old boy left home alone with his
sister used his mother's gun to shoot an intruder in the face, police
said.

Late Tuesday, West Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputies received a
call to a Port Allen apartment complex after several shots rang out
from inside one of the apartments. "You are out here trying to work
and for someone to come and do that and invade your home is very
hard," the children's mother said. She asked to not be identified.

Deputies say Dean Favron and Roderick Porter knocked several times on
the apartment door. The two young children, a ten-year-old boy and
eight-year-old girl, stood on the other side, terrified. "He told his
sister to be quiet and seconds later, they started kicking on the door
and finally kicked the door in," said Sheriff Mike Cazes. The two
children ran to their mother's bedroom closet.

In a panic, the ten-year-old grabbed his mother's gun for protection.
"He did what I told him to do. I never told him to get the gun, but
thank God he did," she said. Once the two suspects opened the door,
threatening the kids, deputies say the boy fired a bullet into the lip
of Roderick Porter. The two men were taken to the hospital by a third
suspect, who is a 15-year-old juvenile. Once they got to the hospital,
they were later arrested. "It's just hard. I don't understand why they
would do that. I know they have little brothers and sisters and they
wouldn't want anyone to break into their house," said the mother.

Each man is held on $150,000 bond. The juvenile, was taken to a local
detention center. One of the suspects, Dean Favron, just finished
serving almost seven years in prison for aggravated assault on a Baton
Rouge police officer and two carjacking charges. He was released on
June 6th.

Both men will appear before a judge next month.