The suspected North Carolina home intruder who got hit in the head with a machete and escaped from the hospital has been caught, police say
Police say the 19-year-old broke into a Mebane, North Carolina, home Friday, where an 11-year-old boy hit him in the head with a machete. He then went to the hospital, only to escape in a gown because he knew authorities were looking for him, police said. Police caught Hall at his mother's apartment in Burlington after receiving an anonymous tip, according to a Facebook post from the Orange County Sheriff's Office.
Home invasion foiled by a 'tough kid' The 11-year-old boy, Braydon Smith, was home alone Friday morning in Mebane, northwest of Chapel Hill, when the intruders arrived, his mother Kaitlin Johnson told CNN.Johnson said she was on the phone with her son as the intruders broke into the home. Smith had told her a car had pulled into the driveway but she thought nothing of it.
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