Bossier City, Louisiana

From the Shreveport Times of July 23, 2005

Man shot while trying to break into house, police say

A 19-year-old Benton man is expected to be booked into the Bossier City Jail after being released from LSU Hospital in Shreveport, where he was being treated for a gunshot wound Friday evening.

Billy Wallace was shot once in the arm late Thursday night as he tried to break into a house in the 2600 block of Bardot Lane about 11:30 p.m. Thursday, Bossier City spokesman Mark Natale said.

"We have a criminal warrant for Wallace charging him with unauthorized entry of an inhabited dwelling."

The shooting occurred after Wallace showed up at the residence and confronted a former girlfriend who was sitting in a vehicle in the driveway, Natale said.

"He proceeded to bang on the driver's side window, and he was yelling and cursing," he said. "He then went to the front of the home and allegedly banged on windows and the front door in an effort to make entry to confront the man inside."

When that didn't work, Wallace went to a side door under the carport and continued banging, Natale said.

"He then proceeded to break the window on the door at the carport and reach inside in an attempt to open the door from the inside. That's when the individual inside the house fired one shot, hitting him in the arm."

Investigators determined that the man who lived at the house, 22-year-old Jonathan Herman, shot Wallace in self-defense.

No charges were filed against him, Natale said.