Volusia County deputies said a gunshot helped stop a burglary in Oak Hill, sending a group of burglars fleeing from an Oak Hill home Tuesday afternoon.

Four people were tracked down and arrested Tuesday. The fifth suspect, 18-year-old Joseph Jones, was arrested Wednesday morning.



Deputies said no one was injured by the gunshot, but one suspect was bitten by a K9 police dog and another had a medical episode at the scene. Both were transported to Bert Fish Medical Center, in New Smyrna Beach, and later released back into custody of the Volusia County Sheriff's Office.



The incident started at about 4 p.m. Tuesday, when deputies said a couple in the main residence of a property on the 100 block of Gary Ave. noticed a group of five people walking on their property toward a smaller cottage connected to the main house by a screened in porch.

Deputies said the couple initially thought the group was going to visit their grandson, but the grandmother then realized he wasn't home, and his car wasn't around. She then saw the group trying to break into the grandson's home.

The grandmother then told her husband, who armed himself with a handgun, walked outside and fired a warning shot in the ground, scaring off the suspects.

The gunshot also alerted neighbors, one of whom tackled one of the suspects, 23-year-old Justin Goodrich, of Edgewater, and held him until deputies arrived. Goodrich was later transported to the hospital when he started having seizures.



Two other suspects, 23-year-old Kayla Selph, of New Smyrna Beach, and 18-year-old Alex Safford, of Oak Hill, fled in a vehicle, which deputies tracked down and stopped about 4 miles from the home.

A sheriff's K9 team caught a fourth suspect, 26-year-old James Watson, of New Smyrna Beach, who was taken to the hospital after being bitten by the police dog following a struggle.

The fifth suspect, Joseph Jones, remained on the run. The Volusia County Sheriff's Office said he was captured Wednesday morning in Edgewater after someone called police to report seeing a suspicious man walking on the shoulder of South Ridgewood Avenue near the intersection of Jones Fish Camp Road. An Edgewater Police Department officer responded and made contact with the suspicious person and confirmed he was Joseph Jones. Jones was then turned over to the Sheriff’s Office.



All the suspects were charged with burglary of an occupied dwelling and theft. Watson faces an additional charge of resisting arrest without violence.