GRAHAM — The Alamance County District Attorney’s Office won't prosecute Gerald Keith Terry, who shot and killed intruder Larry Junious Graves in his home.

“After an extensive investigation into the incident,” the district attorney’s office says in a press release, “the events that evening clearly established that Mr. Terry acted lawfully in self-defense.”

Terry, then 56, shot Graves, 64, after Graves forced his way into Terry’s house at 2002 Lower Hopedale Road, Burlington, early in the morning of July 24. The investigation by the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office and District Attorney’s Office found that Terry woke up that evening to hear his dog barking. He saw Graves — whom he didn’t know — parked in his driveway. Terry went outside with a flashlight, phone and gun.

Graves confronted Terry on his porch, calling him by someone else’s name and approaching the house. Terry told Graves he had the wrong man, warned that he was armed and told him to leave. Terry fired a warning shot into the ground as Graves approached. Terry tried to get a photo of Graves’ license plate with his phone, but Graves threw something at him and attacked him before running into Terry’s house.

Terry went onto his own porch to see Graves inside with a black object later found to be a metal detector. He fired another warning shot into the ground, and Graves hit him with the metal detector several times. Terry fired one more shot, hitting Graves in the chest. Graves died on the scene, and Terry called 911 at 1:31 a.m.

The investigation included multiple interviews, forensic analysis of physical evidence recovered from the scene, and cellphone data.