By Travis Fedschun, Fox News
A would-be home invader was shot in the chest by a Navy veteran who said he had no other choice when the man attacked him last Friday.
Carmelo Marchese told FOX13 he was sitting in his home in Lecanto, located north of Tampa, when a stranger knocked on the door at 11:30 p.m. and sent his dog Daisy into a barking fit.
When he answered the door, Marchese said the man, identified by police as Joshua Bernard, started to push him and grabbed his neck.
“I was honestly and truly in fear for my life,” he said.
The 71-year-old told FOX13 he did two tours in Vietnam, but never faced this kind of threat at home, calling the encounter a “life-and-death situation.”
“I had warned him prior. I did everything I was supposed to do,” Marchese said. “This is my house, not his.”
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