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"A Georgia man shot and killed a 72-year-old Alzheimer's patient he mistook for a prowler outside his home, police said.
Joe Hendrix, 34,fatally shot Ronald Westbrook, whom he found wandering in his backyard in Chickamauga sometime around 4 a.m. on Wednesday, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported.
Authorities in the rural northwest Georgia town said Westbrook suffered from advanced Alzheimer's disease and was disoriented and possibly suffering from exhaustion when he rang Hendrix's doorbell and repeatedly jiggled his front door handle shortly before the deadly encounter.
"This one house at the end of the cul-de-sac had a porch light on," Sherriff Steve Wilson told the Times Free Press. "I tend to think (Westbrook) was drawn to that light."
The tragic incident began sometime around midnight, when Westbrook and his two dogs left his home and walked some three miles in sub-freezing temperatures before ending up in Hendrix's neighborhood, where Westbrook himself once lived, Walker County authorities said.
Hendrix and his fiancé were awakened at around 4 a.m. to the sounds of someone trying to get into the home and called 911, the newspaper reported.
The girlfriend of the man who mistakenly shot and killed a disoriented Alzheimer's patient in North Georgia warned her boyfriend that the stranger appeared to be an old man and did not perceive him as a threat, the woman told investigators.
"I thought he was just confused where he was," she said.
On Dec. 5, she spoke again to detectives. Once alerted to the man, Hendrix quickly went into the bedroom to get a .40-caliber handgun he kept there.
Hendrix told the woman to call 911, and the couple retreated to a bathroom while the woman continued speaking by phone with a police dispatcher. When Hendrix learned an officer would need five minutes to get the house, he went outside.
As Westbrook approached, Hendrix gave several “verbal commands" to stop, Wilson said, but Westbrook either ignored or didn't hear him, possibly due to his condition.
The woman said she heard shouting from outside, then three or four gunshots. Hendrix came back inside, grabbed the phone and told police that he had shot the unknown man.
Hendrix fired four times and struck Westbrook in the chest, killing him.
"A Georgia man shot and killed a 72-year-old Alzheimer's patient he mistook for a prowler outside his home, police said.
Joe Hendrix, 34,fatally shot Ronald Westbrook, whom he found wandering in his backyard in Chickamauga sometime around 4 a.m. on Wednesday, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported.
Authorities in the rural northwest Georgia town said Westbrook suffered from advanced Alzheimer's disease and was disoriented and possibly suffering from exhaustion when he rang Hendrix's doorbell and repeatedly jiggled his front door handle shortly before the deadly encounter.
"This one house at the end of the cul-de-sac had a porch light on," Sherriff Steve Wilson told the Times Free Press. "I tend to think (Westbrook) was drawn to that light."
The tragic incident began sometime around midnight, when Westbrook and his two dogs left his home and walked some three miles in sub-freezing temperatures before ending up in Hendrix's neighborhood, where Westbrook himself once lived, Walker County authorities said.
Hendrix and his fiancé were awakened at around 4 a.m. to the sounds of someone trying to get into the home and called 911, the newspaper reported.
The girlfriend of the man who mistakenly shot and killed a disoriented Alzheimer's patient in North Georgia warned her boyfriend that the stranger appeared to be an old man and did not perceive him as a threat, the woman told investigators.
"I thought he was just confused where he was," she said.
On Dec. 5, she spoke again to detectives. Once alerted to the man, Hendrix quickly went into the bedroom to get a .40-caliber handgun he kept there.
Hendrix told the woman to call 911, and the couple retreated to a bathroom while the woman continued speaking by phone with a police dispatcher. When Hendrix learned an officer would need five minutes to get the house, he went outside.
As Westbrook approached, Hendrix gave several “verbal commands" to stop, Wilson said, but Westbrook either ignored or didn't hear him, possibly due to his condition.
The woman said she heard shouting from outside, then three or four gunshots. Hendrix came back inside, grabbed the phone and told police that he had shot the unknown man.
Hendrix fired four times and struck Westbrook in the chest, killing him.
