A Mt Hope man car­ried out a cit­i­zen’s ar­rest on Sun­day af­ter he man­aged to wres­tle away the gun from an armed in­trud­er and con­tact the po­lice while hold­ing the sus­pect, who is 46 years younger than him, at gun­point.

Po­lice said the 68-year-old pen­sion­er was in his kitchen around 12.45 pm on No­vem­ber 16 when he saw the 22-year-old sus­pect en­ter­ing the premis­es via the front door.

The in­trud­er or­dered the home­own­er to lie on the floor, but the vic­tim re­sist­ed and in­stead rushed to­wards the sus­pect and grabbed the gun.

As the two strug­gled, the gun went off, hit­ting the glass front door.

The vic­tim man­aged to wrest the firearm away from the in­trud­er and prompt­ly con­tact­ed the po­lice while keep­ing the sus­pect at gun­point.

A par­ty of of­fi­cers from the St Joseph Po­lice Sta­tion re­spond­ed and took the sus­pect in­to cus­tody.

Of­fi­cers lat­er took the vic­tim to the hos­pi­tal for treat­ment for mi­nor in­juries.

They re­trieved the sus­pect’s black and brown AKS 74U ri­fle with 20 rounds of live 5.56 am­mu­ni­tion and one spent 5.56 mm shell cas­ing.

—A Paul