ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. (AP) – A suburban Detroit homeowner faces charges after shooting at – and missing – a black 14-year-old boy who police say knocked at the man’s door to get directions to school.
Deputies were called to the Rochester Hills’ home, north of Detroit, about 8:20 a.m. Thursday after a woman told 911 that her husband had chased a black male who tried to break in, the Oakland County sheriff’s office said in a release.
Brennan Walker said he woke up late, missed his school bus and became lost in the Christian Hills subdivision while trying to walk the bus route to Rochester High School.
“I got to the house, and I knocked on the lady’s door,” he told WJBK-TV for a story Friday .
The woman began yelling “why are you trying to break into my house?” Walker said. “I was trying to explain to her that I was trying to get directions to Rochester High and she kept yelling at me. Then the guy came downstairs and he grabbed the gun. I saw it and started to run. And that’s when I heard the gunshot.”