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LAKE STATION | A Lake Station man was arrested after a burglary suspect was shot at a neighboring house, police said.

Justin Gibbons, 22, has been charged by the Lake County prosecutor's office with felony aggravated battery, felony battery resulting in serious bodily injury and felony battery by means of a deadly weapon, according to Lake Station police.

About 11:55 p.m. Friday, Lake Station police were dispatched to a call of a possible burglary in progress at an abandoned home in the 2800 block of Wyoming Street, police said.

A few minutes later, police dispatch received a second 911 call from a man in the 2700 block of Utah Street saying he'd been shot, police said. That caller, a 20-year-old Lake Station resident, reportedly admitted to police that he'd been stealing copper pipe out of an abandoned house in the 2800 block of Wyoming Street when a neighbor, later identified as Gibbons, approached him and shot him, the news release states. Officers observed a gunshot wound to the man's chest, police said.

Police spoke to Gibbons, who said he went to check on the house next door after hearing someone there, according to the news release. Gibbons said he chased after someone who ran from the house and fired a handgun into the air.

Police said Gibbons told them he observed the subject fall to the ground and scream that he'd been shot. Gibbons reportedly led police to a gun.

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