Christopher Worth is no longer on this earth.
Late last month, the 39-year-old career criminal met his end in a carjacking gone wrong.
Police say Worth was driving in Grand Rapids, Michigan when the stolen car he was in broke down.
That’s when Worth targeted the home of Alan Lenhart — and the truck that was parked in the driveway.
Lenhart confronted Worth after he heard the perp busting in the truck’s windows. Apparently, Worth was hoping to find the keys on the seat.
“We yelled at him to go away. He proceeded to advance on us. We shut the door, locked him out, called 911,” explained Lenhart to local affiliate News 8. “I loaded my deer hunting gun.”
Worth did not leave the scene. Instead, he went around to the back of the house and attempted to force his way in. He was dead set on getting the keys to that truck.
“When he was in the backyard, he was going, ‘Give me the keys, give me the keys,’ and kept approaching,” Lenhart said.
“I told him, ‘Go away, I’ve got a shotgun on you,’ and he kept coming,” he said.
“Then he started shooting at me. Bullets going past your head, like that,” Lenhart continued. “Took cover. And he was going back down, run away.”
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At some point during the confrontation, Lenhart opened fire on Worth, fatally wounding him.
Thankfully, Lenhart and his wife were not injured. It’s not clear how many shots were fired.
Police pronounced Worth, who they noted was a “parole absconder,” dead at the scene. They believe he may have been involved in a similar crime in the area.
“It’s certainly something we’re going to vet. This person has a pretty substantial criminal history,” Kent County Sheriff Michelle LaJoye-Young said.
Following the harrowing encounter, Lenhart was a bit rattled.
“[I’m a] Religious man, so it’s still tough,” he told reporters. “Scared to death. Who knows when we’ll be done with that, I guess. Hard to go back in your own home after this happens in it.”
But the homeowner maintains he had no choice but to use deadly force.
“We had to do it. There was no way around it. Absolutely no way around it,” Lenhart said, later adding, “He was crazy.”