"I thought he was trying to get a weapon. I fired at him", said resident Justin Marcoux.

Justin Marcoux says he didn't hesitate. The 21-year-old walked outside his home in Lehigh Acres Wednesday morning after he heard a noise. He thought it was his ride to work.

"I came outside, a guy was running across the lawn with my dad's generator, he dropped it," says Marcoux.

At that moment, he thought the robber might hurt him.

"I had mine in my pocket - I fired in his direction andI guess I hit him." He did, in the arm. 43-year-old Victor Howren went to the hospital and now faces burglary and grand theft charges.

"I was shakin'," says Marcoux.

Under the Stand Your Ground Law, it's Marcoux's right to protect himself.

"The defend yourself law is there so people can defend themselves in situations where there is no where to go," says Lee Sheriff's Firearms Instructor Matt Chitwood.

Chitwood says pulling the trigger should be a last resort. "If you're going to go toward something to defend your property or an object, that's what would concern me about any situation like that. If somebody's life is in danger that's a completely different situation."

Chitwood says people who own guns need to know the law and think out how they react in a dangerous situation.

In Marcoux's case he does have a concealed weapons permit and he wasn't hurt.

Marcoux says if it happened again, he would act in the same way. "We have the right to protect our own property."