Homeowner shoots unlucky burglar

Talk about a bad trip.

According to the Harris County Sheriff's Office, a 23-year-old man believed to be using LSD has been hospitalized and charged with criminal trespass after a east Harris County homeowner shot him in the butt after he wandered into her home and attacked her husband.

Thomas Gilliland, a sheriff's office spokesman, said deputies were called to a home on the 1600 block of Spinnaker Drive, in the New Port subdivision in east Harris County, around 9:40 p.m. Friday.

Gilliland said a 30-year-old man had been watching TV when he thought he saw something moving around in his back yard.

"He looked through window and thought it was his dog," Gilliland said.

On closer inspection, however, he discovered that it was a man, whom authorities identified as 23-year-old Skyler Teragine, who Gilliland..

The homeowner got up to tell the man to get out of his yard, but then Teragine stepped inside and accosted him.

The homeowner's 28-year-old wife, witnessing the steadily growing confrontation, rushed into the bedroom, grabbed a pistol, called 911, and then shot Teragine once in the butt.

"It's just ridiculous," Gilliland said, calling the incident "unfortunate."

"Some people would say that would be justice, though some people may not agree with that," he said.

The 30-year-old man then grabbed the pistol, secured it in the couple's bedroom, and waited with Teragine until deputies arrived, Gilliland said.

The woman who shot Teragine is unlikely to face any charges Gilliland said.

Teragine, meanwhile, was taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital, then booked into Harris County jail on criminal trespass charges.