ames Cvengaros breathed a deep sigh of relief after learning that the man he shot early Saturday morning was still alive.
Cvengaros shot the man after he kicked down the door of his west-side apartment and entered wielding a large machete at about 7:15 a.m.
“I was defending my home and my family,” Cvengaros said. “He left me no choice, but I sure didn’t want to kill anybody.”
Cvengaros, 28, said he woke early Saturday morning to the sound of breaking glass. The suspect, who lives upstairs in the two-floor Stanford Apartments at 229 S. Garfield Ave., was breaking out the windows in his own apartment.
Cvengaros woke his girlfriend, and she started recording the commotion upstairs and called the police.
The couple then heard the man break into another upstairs apartment, a second call was placed to police at that time.
“I heard them upstairs. And I was scared, and I got my weapon. Then I heard him coming down to my door,” Cvengaros said. “He kicked open the door and came inside with this big machete. A machete like you buy at an Army surplus store.”
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