SHREVEPORT -- An 18-year-old man who forcibly entered a Cedar Grove residence is dead after a man inside gained control of the intruder's assault-style rifle and shot him multiple times in the upper torso, according to a Shreveport police news release.
Authorities have identified the dead man as Jeremy Bell, address not immediately available.
Martin Gobert, 23, was beaten about his head and upper body with the rifle before turning the gun on his attacker, authorities said.
While Gobert was recovering at LSU Hospital in Shreveport, police obtained a warrant to arrest Jerome Hughes, 23, of the 200 block of East Gregg Street in Shreveport, on one count of home invasion.
The investigation began just before 11 a.m., when police received a report of a burglary in the 100 block of West 79th Street, then another call describing the incident as an assault.
Officers found Bell's bullet-riddled body lying in a front room and Gobert wounded.
"We seized (an assault-style rifle) from the house, but we aren't sure if it's the one that was used during the shooting," Shreveport police Cpl. Bill Goodin said.
Initial interviews and evidence collected suggests Hughes knocked on the door of Gobert's residence and Bell, who was armed with a rifle, was hiding behind Hughes. When Gobert answered the door, Bell forced his way inside in an attempt to rob Gobert.
