Humphries said the startled intruder fled out the front door, while the homeowner ran to get the handgun's magazine from the garage, then ran out the kitchen door.

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A pair of would-be thieves were confronted by a homeowner Monday morning, and the pair was lucky to escape with their lives.Police initially said the teens entered a house at Grosebeck and Kenneth in College Hill.Photos: Intruder shot / Watch this story“This morning, two juveniles broke into the residence behind me, they were confronted by the homeowner and the homeowner did fire several shots,” said Captain Bridget Bardua.But Monday afternoon, Deputy Chief Paul Humphries had some different details.Humphries said the homeowner was sleeping in his bedroom when he heard someone enter the home.The homeowner pulled a gun and tried to fire it at an adult intruder as he entered the bedroom, but the magazine wasn't in the gun, so it wouldn't fire, Humphries said.Humphries said the startled intruder fled out the front door, while the homeowner ran to get the handgun's magazine from the garage, then ran out the kitchen door.When the homeowner ran out a kitchen door with the gun, he found the two teens in the yard, whom Humphries said had not entered the home.The homeowner fired, hitting one teen through the buttocks, Humphries said. The teens ran away from the scene.Officers followed a blood trail to East Way, where they found the wounded teen.Police recovered a backpack at the scene and processed it as evidence.For Rev. David Ingram, this all hits too close to home. He was close enough to hear two shots, although it’s not clear how many shots were fired.Ingram said there have been a number of break-ins over the past few years in the neighborhood, in what used to be a pretty quiet area.“This just -- this just happened a couple of years, couple of years. Before then, it wasn’t like that,” he said.The homeowner had previously taken protective measures, with security signs outside and a camera on his front door.“They didn’t know he was home, and they went in and got blanked,” Ingram said.The wounded teen is expected to be OK, police said. The homeowner is being interviewed by police, and Humphries said all information and evidence will be turned over to the Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office to determine if charges will be filed.In Ohio, courts have upheld the castle doctrine, meaning a person has no duty to retreat if they're at home or in their car.They also have to be in fear of their life and not at fault for creating the violent situation to claim self-defense.