Police say a father shot a home intruder in the stomach after the intruder broke into his family's home and attempted to start a fire early Sunday in Central Lubbock.

Police responded to a burglary call about 2:15 a.m. Sunday in the 3700 block of 28th Street, according to a statement from Lubbock police spokeswoman Tiffany Pelt.

Officers arrived to find the suspect lying on the floor with a single gunshot wound to his stomach.

The victims, a family of six, told police they were sleeping when the man broke through a back door and entered their kitchen. One of the victims heard the man and alerted his parents there was an unknown man in their home.

The father told police he warned the suspect he had a gun, police were on the way and he needed to leave.

"At that point, the father says the suspect told the family to get out of the house as he poured lighter fluid on the floor and attempted to light it on fire," the statement reads. "The father says he told the suspect to stop or he would shoot, but the suspect became more agitated and began approaching him until he could no longer back up. The suspect was then shot in the stomach."

The man, whose name was not released, was taken to Covenant Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries. None of the home's occupants were injured.

Detectives with the Lubbock Police Department's Persons Crimes unit were called to investigate. No arrests were made by late Sunday morning.

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