Worthington (US): A teenager out looking for ghosts with friends was shot in the head and critically wounded near a house considered spooky by local teens, police said.
A man who lives in the house, Allen S Davis, 40, was charged in the shooting and told reporters from jail on Wednesday that he was trying to drive off trespassers and did not intend to hurt the teen girls, whom he called juvenile delinquents.
He said he fired his rifle out his bedroom window on Tuesday night after hearing voices outside the home, which is across the street from a cemetery and blocked from view by overgrown trees and shrubbery.
"I didn't know what their weaponry was, what their intentions were," he said.
"In a situation like that, you assume the worst-case scenario if you're going to protect your family from a possible home invasion and murder," Davis added.
The 17-year-old girl, Rachel Barezinsky, and two of her friends got out of their car parked near the home and took a few steps on the property, police Lt Doug Francis said. They jumped back in when a girl in the car sounded the horn, and they heard what they thought were firecrackers as they drove away.
The girls - all students at a suburban Columbus high school - drove around the block, and Barezinsky was struck while sitting in the car as they passed the house again and heard a second round of what turned out to be gunshots, Francis said.
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