When Toilet Paper Kills

Sensible people are usually content to yell "get off my lawn!" to trespassing teens. Sometimes they may even feel that calling the cops is warranted. Other people think the right approach is to jump in your truck and try and run the teenagers off the road. That approach has its drawbacks.

ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Alabama (WALA) - A Brewton family is mourning. Escambia County, Alabama Deputies say Luther McRae was trying to protect his property when he was chasing four teenagers on Stanley Road. He died in the process.

McRae got married a few months ago. He and his wife had recently bought a new home, and they just returned from their honeymoon

Three days later, McRae's life came to an end.

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Escambia County, Alabama Deputies say McRae was trying to protect his property on Wednesday night.

He thought four teenagers were stealing from his shed.

While talking to 911, McRae went after the teens hoping to get a tag number.

But he lost control of his truck and flipped.

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Sheriff Grover Smith says deputies caught the teens McRae was chasing.

That's when investigators determined the teens were not breaking into McRae's shed. But they were actually toilet papering homes as a homecoming prank.

"As a result, what started off as a prank, harmless fun, a 34-year-old man is dead today," said Smith.

[Fox10TV]