Atlanta car owner arrested after shooting boy who broke into vehicle

A Atlanta carjacking victim was arrested after allegedly shooting a boy who was breaking into his car.

officials told the affiliate FOX 5 Atlanta Police responded just before 3 a.m. to a person shot in Fairburn Mays, about 20 miles south of the city center.

At the Atlanta Police Department Officers arrivedAccording to the report, they found a boy under the age of 18 with a gunshot wound to the foot.

Police said the boy admitted he was shot after breaking into a car. He was taken to a local children’s hospital and is expected to survive.

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Yoshay Carter, 51, who owns the car, told authorities that the shooting occurred when he confronted the boy, the outlet reported.

Carter was later arrested and faces charges of aggravated assault, according to police. He was booked into the Fulton County Jail.

Under Georgia lawThere is a law that regulates the “use of force in the defense of property other than housing.”

The convicted felon was charged federally for threatening the Atlanta airport while armed with an AR-15 rifle

A person has the right to threaten or use violence if he or she reasonably believes that doing so is necessary to prevent or stop criminal interference with property that they legally own in accordance with the statutes.

However, the use of force intended or likely to cause death or serious bodily harm is not justified to protect property unless the person using the force reasonably believes, under Georgia law, that such force is necessary to prevent a “violent crime.”

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Georgia also has a “no duty to retreat” policy, which states that those who use violence in self-defense, home defense, or property defense are not required to retreat.

According to the report, police did not confirm whether self-defense laws apply in Friday’s case.