 Wednesday, March 1, 2017 
 
 COLUMBIA COUNTY, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- Services have been set for a Columbia County teen who was shot after deputies say he tried sneaking into a home to visit a teen girl, and her father thought he was a robber. The funeral will be Saturday, March 4 at 1 p.m. at Friendly Church of God in Christ located at 1115 Carrie Street in Augusta. The viewing will be Saturday at the chapel from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The burial will be at Mt. Olive Memorial Gardens at 3666 Deans Bridge Road in Hephzibah. At 2:47 a.m., Columbia County sheriff’s deputies responded to a home in the 4100 block of Coventry Avenue following reports of a burglary in progress with a wounded suspect. According to Maj. Steve Morris with the Columbia County Sheriff's Office, the daughter was upstairs at the time of the shooting and not down in the guest room where the incident took place. Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017 
 
 COLUMBIA COUNTY, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- 17-year-old Jordan Middleton is dead after deputies say he tried sneaking into a home to visit a teen girl, and was shot by her father. According to an emailed statement from Morris, Middleton was in the home to visit a 14-year-old girl, who let him in. The girl’s father, Derrick Fulton, heard noises downstairs, armed himself and went to investigate. The family dog was barking toward the guest bedroom, so Fulton said that he was armed and told the person he thought was a burglar to identify himself. Deputies say the father said loudly that he was armed and the intruder needs to come out. As the father entered the guest room, deputies say Middleton ran out of the closet and Fulton fired one shot and hit Middleton in the chest. No charges have been filed in the case.
– A Georgia teen snuck into a female friend's home early Saturday only to be shot and killed by the girl's father, who apparently thought the teen was an intruder, WJBF reports. According to the Augusta Chronicle, 17-year-old Jordan Middleton was let into the home by the unnamed 14-year-old girl around 2:30am. The girl's father, Derrick Fulton, later told police he heard noises downstairs, so he got his gun. The family dog was barking at the guestroom, so he yelled for whoever was inside to come out. When no one did, he entered the room. That's when Middleton popped out of a closet and ran for it. Fulton says he fired in self-defense, striking Middleton in the chest, WRDW reports. He says he didn't know Middleton was a friend of his daughter until after shooting him. Police, responding to a burglary-in-progress call, arrived to find Fulton attempting CPR on Middleton. Police say Fulton's daughter was not in the guestroom at the time of the shooting. While friends and family mourned Middleton's death, a local juvenile court judge said the situation is an example of "what can happen when you don't listen to your parents." No charges have been filed.