FBI Agent Wounds Boy After Burglary

An off-duty FBI agent shot and wounded a 15-year-old boy who was a passenger in a car that tried to run the agent over outside his Mission Gorge home, San Diego police said.

The agent, whose identity was not released, was awakened late Monday night by his son, who heard glass breaking outside the family’s home near Mission Gorge Road and Jackson Drive, police spokesman Bill Robinson said.

After quickly dressing, the agent armed himself with a semiautomatic pistol and went outside, where he saw someone run across the street to a parked car, Robinson said. At that point, the agent noticed that both his son’s car and a family car had been burglarized.

The agent walked across the street and confronted at gunpoint a pair of men sitting in the burglar’s car, Robinson said. He stood in front of the car’s right fender and ordered the driver to stop.

Instead, the driver slowly drove toward the agent while a passenger yelled epithets at him, Robinson said. The agent had walked about 60 feet backward when he saw the car turn rapidly toward him.

He jumped out of the way, but was struck in the right leg by the right front bumper of the car, Robinson said. As the driver accelerated his car, the agent fired one round into the passenger side of the car.

Injured by the gunfire was a 15-year-old boy, who was taken to Mercy Hospital, where he was in good condition Wednesday with a bullet wound in his right arm, according to hospital spokesman Michael Scahill. He was placed under arrest.

A 14-year-old boy was also arrested, and a third youth is being sought by police, Robinson said. The two boys in custody will be charged with auto burglary and assault with a deadly weapon.

The agent’s right leg was injured but he was not hospitalized, Robinson said.