(11ALIVE) -- CHEROKEE COUNTY, Ga.- A local pastor shot a burglar who was trying to break into his home early Thursday, according to the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office.

It was the dead of night -- 2:40 a.m. -- when police got a call about a burglary in progress at a home on Sante Fe Trail.

By the time officers arrived, 19-year-old Donavan Simmons was on the ground with a gunshot wound to his head.

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