Home intruder shot to death in Chicago Heights
BY STEFANO ESPOSITO Staff Reporter September 28, 2011 8:48AM
The front of a Chicago Heights bungalow where the homeowner allegedly shot and killed an intruder during a burglary attempt on Tuesday morning. | Scott Stewart~Sun-Times
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Updated: November 11, 2011 4:44PM
The signs in the front window of the little white Chicago Heights house were there for all to see: “No Trespassing,” “We Call Police” and “Alert One Security Systems.”
Anterrio L. Hall, 18, apparently chose to ignore them.
The owner of the bungalow, a man who uses oxygen canisters to help him breathe, shot and killed Hall, after the teenager allegedly broke into his home Tuesday morning, police said.
“He’s a very nice guy, a church-going guy,” said the homeowner’s neighbor, Excell Harris, 84. “He don’t bother nobody.”
Harris’ neighbor told police that shortly before 8 a.m., he was in his bathroom when he heard a noise coming from his kitchen that sounded like breaking glass.
The homeowner retrieved a gun from his bedroom and went into the kitchen, where he said he saw a man crouching next to a table. The retired bus driver fired several shots at the man, who then jumped out of a window and collapsed in the backyard, police said.
Police later found Hall, of Chicago Heights, unresponsive and lying on the grass in the backyard. Hall was taken to St. James Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The medical examiner’s office said Hall had been shot multiple times.
No charges have been announced in connection with the shooting.
Living on a street littered with boarded-up homes, Harris says his own home has been burglarized five times since he first moved to the neighborhood in the 1970s.
“This is a bad neighborhood — a very bad neighborhood,” he said.
Harris said he has not asked his neighbor about the shooting — he said he didn’t want to pry — but said he had taken his neighbor to the hospital Wednesday because he was not feeling well.
A St. James Hospital spokesman said the man was in the emergency, but gave no further details of his condition Wednesday afternoon.
Contributing: SUN-TIMES MEDIA WIRE
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