WATCH: Boy Who Struck Intruder with Machete Didn’t Have Time to Be Scared

The 11-year-old Mebane, North Carolina, boy who struck a home intrusion suspect with a machete makes clear that he did not have time to be scared.

On June 16, Breitbart News reported that the boy was forced into a closet at gunpoint, but managed to get out, grab a machete, and strike the suspect in the back of the head.

"I knew I had to act in the heat of the moment."

11-year-old boy who hit an alleged robber with a machete says he knew he didn't have time be afraid. https://t.co/uXfVkhKgZT pic.twitter.com/31eSoHGMxS

— ABC News (@ABC) June 17, 2019

ABC 11 reported the suspect, Jataveon Dashawn Hall, 19, kicked the boy after being struck, then realized the severity of his wound and fled the scene. Two other suspects fled with him.

In an interview with ABC News the boy said the suspects were using a pellet gun they found in the house; a pellet gun the boy knew was unloaded. He said he looked out from the closet and saw the suspect allegedly putting things in his pocket and that is when the boy made his break for the machete.

When he asked if he was scared the boy said, “It was like, it went by really fast and I knew that I didn’t have any time to think about what I was going to do.”

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News, the host of the Breitbart podcast Bullets with AWR Hawkins, and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.