Portsmouth homeowners are under siege from thieves breaking into garages, cars, and homes, and one man decided to fight back firepower.
Just after 9:35 pm, an 18th Street man spotted a suspicious individual near his home. He said he spotted a man trying to climb the fence into his backyard.
That prompted him to grab his rifle and fire a warning shot into the air from his second-story window. That prompted the man to run away, jump in his vehicle, and drive off.
Officers advised the man that he shouldn’t fire off a weapon unless he felt he was in imminent danger. The man said that due to his age, he thought he might be.