- Aleah Wallace saw Devin Baker try to open her eight-year-old girl's bedroom window in Fort Worth on December 14 and fatally shot him
- Police have not filed charges against her in the shooting, but the case has been sent to a grand jury
- Wallace said she got the gun to protect her family after multiple burglaries that started just a few weeks ago
A Texas woman who shot and killed a 14-year-old boy who tried to break into the home she shares with her four daughters says the incident has left her “devastated.”
Aleah Wallace saw Devin Baker try to open her eight-year-old girl's bedroom window in Fort Worth on December 14 and fatally shot him.
'I'm devastated that he was fourteen. I hate that. I literally do that. And I'm so sorry. But at that moment I thought about my babies,” she said Fox 4.
PPolice have not filed charges against her in the shooting, but the case has been sent to a grand jury.
Wallace said she got the gun to protect her family after multiple burglaries that started just a few weeks ago.
Aleah Wallace, who shot dead a 14-year-old boy who tried to break into the home she shares with her four daughters, says the incident has left her 'devastated'.
Wallace saw Devin Baker try to open her eight-year-old girl's bedroom window in Fort Worth on December 14 and fatally shot him
Police have not filed charges against her in the shooting, but the case has been sent to a grand jury
“I was cleaning my living room and sweeping the floor, and I heard my window go up again,” the mother said.
“So I went and I was standing in the hallway. And I could see him standing at the window and lifting it up. I just shot.”
Baker died at the scene of multiple gunshot wounds, and Wallace added, “It bothers me that he was a child.”
The case is going to a grand jury and she wants people to understand that she was only protecting her family.
'I have four daughters. Only me and my four daughters stay there. “I was just protecting my daughters,” she said.
'I'm devastated that he was fourteen. I hate that. I literally do that. And I'm so sorry. But at that moment I thought about my babies.
'I didn't know he was fourteen when he stood on the other side of that window. All I knew was that someone could come in and hurt me or my children. That is it.'
Wallace said this was one of two attempted break-ins that night and it happened shortly after police left her duplex after responding to her first 911 call.
“I called them at 1:22 am. She talked for about 20 minutes. They made a report, took pictures of everything and then left,” Wallace said.
Baker died at the scene of multiple gunshot wounds and Wallace said: 'It bothers me that he was a child'
Wallace said this was one of two attempted break-ins that night and it happened shortly after police left her duplex after responding to her first 911 call.
She claimed there There had been four burglary attempts before that day, all of which occurred when no one was home.
But Wallace got the news that she is now being deported for being in possession of a gun.
“The apartments called and told me I wasn't allowed to have a gun at all, even though I kept calling them and telling them someone was breaking in,” she said.
“They told me I wasn't allowed to have a gun and that I had 30 days to leave. I feel like I'm back to square one. I was there for six years and now I don't know what to do anymore.'
Wallace lives in a subsidized country and there doesn't seem to be any law prohibiting residents from owning a gun.
She fears the eviction will prevent her from finding other housing for her and her daughters.
Baker's relatives revealed he was an eighth-grade student at Rosemont Middle School.
He lived with his family in the same apartment complex as Wallace.