Neighbors Torn in Oakland Shooting

Off a small street in Oakland the lives of two families have been forever changed. Monday morning 32 year old Anthony Webb was shot and killed.

His neighbor Willie Woods says Webb was trying to break into his home.
Woods says, "He broke through my window, I never fired a shot until he got on the inside of the building, lunged at me with some kind of object in his hands."

Woods says around 12:30am while he, his wife, daughter and grandchildren were sleeping there was a shattering noise in front of his house. Woods says, "When I woke I didn't know who was at the door they told me somebody was shooting out there."

Woods says he saw a large figure knocking what turned out to be a rake against the window. "I ordered him not to come in the house," says Woods.

He says he didn't know the man making the noise was his neighbor Anthony Webb.

Woods says, "I went back and got my gun and came back and he broke at me he ask what I was gonna do and he broke at me right through the window."

Woods says when Webb attempted to come through the now broken window, he started firing. Woods says, "I shot, I fired about 3 shots, 2 or 3 shots, laid him on the ground."

Delois Harris says, "Anthony was knocking at his door that's his father he should have called him and asked to come and get him."
With tears of sorrow, frustration and anger running down his face, next door Webb's father asks why.

The victim's cousin tells FOX13 News there would have been no mistaking Webb for anyone trying to do harm.

"No not around here sir no there is no doubt this is a small community he was born here everybody knew Anthony." Harris says, "Very tough you know why why to me it's a senseless thing that happened here."

Woods says, "I hate it had to happen I went to school with his dad I just hate it had to happen."

Fayette County Sheriff's Office Investigators say the shooting is being looked at as a justifiable homicide and no charges have been filed so far. The investigation has now been turned over to the District Attorneys Office for further review.