Home alone: Police say 11-year-old hit intruder with machete
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Authorities say an 11-year-old armed with a machete thwarted a three-person home invasion in North Carolina.
The Orange County Sheriff's Office said in a news release Friday that the boy was home alone in Mebane when a woman knocked on the door. About the same time, a man entered the home by breaking a window, grabbed the homeowner's pellet gun and forced the child into a bedroom closet.
The child got a machete and struck the intruder in the back of the head. The man kicked the boy in the stomach and in the side of the head.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The intruder, the woman and a second man standing at a car fled when the intruder realized he was bleeding.
Authorities say 19-year-old Jataveon Dashawn Hall faces charges that include kidnapping when he's released from a hospital.