In a tragic incident in Fort Worth, Texas, a woman fatally shot a 14-year-old boy, Devin Baker, as he attempted to break into her home where she lives with her four daughters.
Aleah Wallace told Fox News that she was
“devastated”
by the situation and took the difficult decision to defend her family.
“I’m devastated that he was 14. I hate that. I literally do. And I’m so sorry. But at that point, I had to think about my babies,”
she told Fox 4.
Police have not pressed charges against Wallace. However, the case has been sent to a grand jury.
Wallace explained that she had gotten a firearm after experiencing a series of break-ins that began a few weeks ago.
“I was cleaning my living room sweeping my floor, and I heard my window start going back up,”
she said.
“So I went, and I stood in the hallway. And I could see him standing at the window, lifting it up. I just shot.”
Baker died at the scene of multiple gunshot wounds, reports state.
“It’s bothering me that he was a kid,”
Wallace added.
“I have four daughters. It’s just me and my four daughters that stay there. I just was protecting my daughters,”
the mother said.
“I didn’t know he was 14 when he was on the other side of that window. All I knew was that somebody could come in and hurt me or my kids. That’s it.”
According to family members, Baker, an eighth-grade student at Rosemont Middle School, resided with his family in the same apartment complex as Wallace.
Wallace is facing eviction for possessing a gun, despite living in subsidized housing where there is no law that prohibits firearm ownership.
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