Home Alone: 11-year-old fights off home invaders with machete

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Authorities say an 11-year-old armed with a machete thwarted a three-person home invasion in North Carolina.

The Orange County Sheriff's Office said in a news release Friday that the boy was home alone in Mebane, about 23 miles outside of Durham, when a woman knocked on the door.

At about the same time, a man entered the home by breaking a window, grabbed the homeowner's pellet gun and forced the child into a bedroom closet.

Police say, the child escaped the closet, grabbed a machete and struck the intruder in the back of the head. The man kicked the boy in the stomach and in the side of the head.

The intruder, the woman and a second man standing at a car fled when the intruder realized he was bleeding.

Hospitals were told to be on alert for a man being admitted for treatment of a head wound.

Authorities say the alleged intruder, identified as 19-year-old Jataveon Dashawn Hall, checked himself into a hospital for treatment.

Hall faces charges including breaking and entering, kidnapping and assault on a child younger than 12. He's expected to appear in court Monday after being released from the hospital.

The woman and the other man involved in the home invasion have not been identified.

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