11-year-old armed with machete thwarted a three-person home invasion.

5years ago

Mebane news, North Carolina news.

The Orange County Sheriff's Office said Friday that the 11-year-old boy was home alone at Mebane when a woman knocked on the door. Later, a man entered the house breaking a window, grabbed the owner's pistol and forced the child into a closet in the bedroom.

The child had a machete and hit the intruder in the back of the head. The man kicked the boy in the belly and on the side of the head.

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

Authorities say Jataveon Dashawn Hall, 19, faces kidnapping charges.