PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Police say a Portland homeowner shot a suspected burglar with a gun firing rubber bullets.
The man told police he caught the suspect before 4 a.m. Friday trying to break in his back door.
After he was shot, the suspect fled.
Officers searched the neighborhood and found a man who had been hit by at least one rubber bullet.
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