Dad kills home intruder: 'I had no other choice'
A South Carolina homeowner said he was forced to shoot a man to defend his family when the intruder forced his way into his home.
Antwain Moton, 35, of Williamston said he was playing his X-Box on Monday when a man began pounding on his door, reported Fox Carolina.
The intruder, who died from a bullet wound, later was identified as Efren Nectali Ramirez, 39, of Honduras.
Moton said he ordered the man to leave, but the man entered and scuffled with Moton, his wife and his mother-in-law, while his 4-year-old daughter cried in the next room.
“His hands were just coming toward us, like he was going to do some type of harm,” Moton told Fox Carolina.
Moton said that when the man was “in the front door and closed the door behind him when I had to shoot him.”
The bullet hit the intruder in the chest, and Moton immediately called 911 “and tried to keep him responsive” while he spoke to the dispatcher.
When deputies arrived, the intruder was dead.
By the time deputies arrived, the intruder was dead.
“It hurts me that I took his life. I didn’t want that to happen, but I had no other choice,” Moton said.
Moton said he did what we felt he had to do.
“I had to protect them. That’s my family.”
WSPA.com reported Anderson County Sheriff’s Office investigators said the shooting appears to be self defense. But the shooting remained under investigation Monday.
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