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A Tennessee man<\/a> found himself behind bars this week after returning fire at thieves who were trying to steal a van outside his home.<\/p>\n

A Shelby County man was notified by his surveillance system at around 2 a.m. Saturday that several people were outside his home and using burglary tools in an effort to break into a van, Fox 13 Memphis reported<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

After the man walked outside, the thieves fired shots at him as he stood beneath the porch light of his home, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n

Security video shows the homeowner and the suspects shooting at each other several times.<\/p>\n

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The thieves fled the scene and the man went back into his house, but when police arrived, the man\u2019s wife said they began interrogating him.<\/p>\n

“When they were talking to him, from what I saw, it was like they were trying to find ways to charge him,” the homeowner\u2019s wife told Fox 13 Memphis. “That doesn\u2019t sound right. Why would you put pressure on the victim when you should put pressure for the suspects to be found.”<\/p>\n

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Deputies say the man told them that he couldn\u2019t clearly see what he was targeting and admitted to firing shots with his eyes closed due to being scared and shooting at the suspects as they fled, the outlet noted.<\/p>\n

The man, who has not been publicly identified, was eventually arrested and charged with reckless endangerment<\/a> but later released, and his family hopes the charge will be dropped, according to Fox 13 Memphis.<\/p>\n

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“The suspects, they are out there,” the man\u2019s wife told the outlet. “They were probably sleeping or partying [while] my husband was in jail trying to get released for something where he was innocent.”<\/p>\n

News of the incident drew criticism on social media<\/a>, including from Heritage Foundation senior fellow Amy Swearer, who disagreed with the explanation given by police as to why the man was arrested.<\/p>\n

“I’m floored that the home owner here is being charged with \u2018reckless endangerment,\u2019” Swearer said in a Twitter thread<\/a>. “The arguments from police seem absurd on their face to me. The only people he endangered were…the ones shooting at him. And he’s 100% entitled to \u2018endanger\u2019 them.”<\/p>\n

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The Shelby County Sheriff\u2019s Department<\/a> did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/tennessee-man-charged-felony-reckless-endangerment-returning-fire-armed-auto-thieves <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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