• FAST FACTS:
  • Teen burglar busted
  • Charged as adult because of extensive criminal record
  • Victims fired warning shot to get him out of house

  • ( West Memphis, AR, 6/09/2009) Sixteen year-old Kendale Mays is behind bars facing adult charges after he was suspected of breaking into the same home on East Harrison for the second time this year.
  • Neighbor Melissa Jordan had a front row seat for the aftermath of what you could call Cops West Memphis style.
  • "It was something that you'd watch on TV or in a movie."
  • Police say Mays broke into the home through a back window. But the two young women inside were ready this time. They hid in a bathroom, called police and got a gun.
  • According to the police report, one of the women heard Mays coming and "fired a single shot .To scare the defendant from the residence."
  • "That's a good thing you know,' says neighbor Tommie Sample."The perpetrator caught something he wasn't expecting. He was lucky to get out alive."
  • Mays raced out the back window ditching the computer he'd tried to steal. All the while, Jordan was watching.
  • "He jumped over the fence from the yard to the neighbor's yard."
  • Police chased Mays, tackling him in the neighbor's yard. They found a screwdriver in his front pocket.
  • Ethel Cooper calls her grandson a troubled child.
  • "He ain't real bright," explained Cooper. "He do bad things and things he ought not to do."
  • "He gets mad too easy," says cousin Terry Mays. "If he get mad, we got to fighting the other day."He got a bad anger problem."
  • Back on East Harrison, police saturate the street. But Jordan says she's happy to have protective neighbors like the Williams.
  • "I'm glad they had something there to protect they self because that could have been me or my cousin."
  • Police also found Mays was wanted on two felony warrants. Because he's a minor we don't know what those warrants are for. He's being held on $75,000 bond.
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