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Charlotte-Mecklenburg police have arrested a 20-year-old man in connection with the alleged attempted home invasion and burglary that ended Tuesday with the fatal shooting of a suspect.

Police said Wednesday morning that Carlos Delcid was taken into custody late Tuesday night. He has been charged with first-degree burglary, police said.

Investigators also said Isai Robert Delcid, 18, was the man shot and killed during the incident. It is not clear if the two are related.

Police said Isai Delcid was killed by a 14-year-old male who lived at the residence, in the 8600 block of Rolling Fields Road. The shooting scene was in a neighborhood off N.C. 218, in a community that is surrounded by Mint Hill but is unincorporated and thus served by Charlotte-Mecklenburg police.

Mecklenburg County jail records show no arrests for Isai Delcid, but Carlos Delcid was arrested in October on breaking-and-entering and larceny charges.

Investigators were at the scene throughout the night, trying to piece together exactly what happened at the two-story brick home, in a quiet cul-de-sac that backs up to N.C. 218. Police officers cleared the scene shortly before daybreak.

Meanwhile, a grandfather of the 14-year-old shooter said the teen’s father was shot and killed six years ago during a robbery on East Independence Boulevard in Charlotte.

George Wyant, who owns the home where the alleged attempted burglary and shooting took place, told WBTV, the Observer’s media partner, that the teen’s father, Greg Hernandez, was killed in 2008 at Greg’s Automotive, the auto repair business he operated.

“He had the hood open in his car,” Wyant told WBTV. “He was a mechanic. It was his garage. Somebody came in and shot him.”

Wyant told WBTV that his grandson, who was 8 when his father died, might have been trying to protect his grandmother, who also was in the house at the time.

The 14-year-old and his grandmother heard someone trying to break in through the back door, police said. Police said the killing appeared to be justified.

“These people were trying to break into the house, and (the home’s occupants) were trying to defend themselves,” said Lt. Eric Brady, the response area commander.

Police were searching late Tuesday for the second suspected burglar, who fled after the first suspect was shot. A police helicopter could be seen overhead near the shooting scene, its search light illuminating the ground.