Police: Georgia Tech student shoots intruder

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June 27, 2012

Police: Georgia Tech student shoots intruder

Staff Writer Associated Press Wed Jun 27, 2012, 03:00 PM EDT

ATLANTA — Authorities say a Georgia Tech student shot an intruder who broke into a house near the campus.

Police say the shooting happened around 5:30 a.m. Tuesday at a house near the Georgia Institute of Technology on the north edge of downtown Atlanta.

Atlanta police Capt. Adam Lee tells The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (http://bit.ly/KAFdZK) that three male Georgia Tech students were asleep inside their home on Curran Street off 10th Street when an intruder broke through a front window of the house.

Lee said one of the residents, a first-year graduate student, was awakened by the shattering glass, grabbed a handgun and went to investigate.

Police say the student shot the intruder once in the chest. He was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital in critical but stable condition.

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