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LUCERNE, Calif. – The Lake County Sheriff's Office issued a report on Monday concerning an early Sunday incident in which a 27-year-old man was shot by a 77-year-old Lucerne woman after he allegedly attempted to break into her home.
Marc Harry Halvorsen of Nice later was arrested for felony attempted robbery and attempted burglary, as Lake County News has reported.
Capt. James Bauman of the Lake County Sheriff's Office said that sheriff’s deputies and California Highway Patrol officers responded to a residence on 14th Avenue in Lucerne on a report of an attempted home invasion with shots fired at 1:50 a.m. Sunday.
As deputies responded to the area, further reports from the victim and other callers indicated that a male suspect had been confronted by a neighbor after finding him in the victim’s yard and that the victim had fired several shots at the suspect, Bauman said.
Within minutes of arriving at the scene, deputies located a man limping away from the area of the victim’s house on 14th Avenue. Bauman said deputies detained the man and identified him as Halvorsen.
Halvorsen allegedly was under the influence of alcohol and had sustained a gunshot wound to his left leg, Bauman said. Medics from Northshore Fire Protection District were called in to tend to Halvorsen’s wound while deputies investigated the scene.
The victim, who is elderly and confined to a wheelchair, told deputies she was asleep in her living room when she was awakened by her barking dog, Bauman said.
Her dog was running back and forth in the house and just as it alerted to the sliding glass door in the living room, the victim heard a loud bang on the door. Bauman said the victim picked up her phone to call 911 and then retrieved her 9 millimeter handgun while she was dialing.
Despite her yelling at the intruder to get away from her house or she would shoot, the suspect continued to pound on her glass door. When the victim started to hear glass breaking, she fired a shot at the suspect, Bauman said.
The intruder continued to pound on the glass door and each time he pounded, the victim fired a shot at him. Bauman said it later was determined that the victim fired a total of five shots at the suspect before he ceased his attempts to get in the house.
A neighbor told deputies he was awakened to the sound of barking dogs. As he began exiting his house to investigate, he heard a gunshot, according to Bauman.
When the neighbor went outside, he saw Halvorsen in the victim’s yard. The neighbor confronted Halvorsen, telling him he didn’t belong there, but Halvorsen told him to go home and then commenced to kick and pound on the victims sliding glass door, Bauman said.
The neighbor then heard another shot come from the house and he saw Halvorsen “flinch,” presumably due to being hit, according to Bauman's report.
Halvorsen was arrested and transported under guard to Sutter Lakeside Hospital for further treatment of his gunshot wound, Bauman said.
Bauman said the 77-year-old victim was unharmed during the incident.
While at the hospital, Halvorsen allegedly told deputies that he had been drinking at his cousin’s house in Lucerne earlier in the evening. Bauman said Halvorsen said he did not remember anything after leaving his cousin’s house, including beating and kicking on the victim’s door or even being shot.
After several hours at the hospital, Halvorsen was transported to the Lake County Hill Road Correctional Facility where he was booked for attempted robbery and attempted burglary, Bauman said.
Jail records show that Halvorsen remains in custody with bail set at$50,000.
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