The two men went up the front steps of the boy's home in the 1000 block of Sherman Avenue about 8:20 p.m., then went around to the side of the house where they started to break in.

The boy shot one of them with a BB gun, possibly hitting him in the shoulder, and both suspects fled the area on foot.

The suspects were described as white and about 18 years old. One is about 6 feet tall and 210 pounds and was wearing a white winter hat, a black, long-sleeve shirt and blue jeans. The other was wearing a white short-sleeve T-shirt, blue jeans and black shoes and it appeared to the boy that he had something metallic in his hand.