A man accused of breaking into a home in North Carolina on Saturday was killed after a 12-year-old boy shot him in self-defense while protecting his grandmother, authorities said. Two masked men allegedly forced their way into the residence and demanded money from 73-year-old Linda Ellis before one of the suspects subsequently shot her, Goldsboro Police Department officials said in a statement, WRAL reported. “A 12-year-old juvenile occupant of the residence shot at the suspects with a firearm in self-defense, causing them to flee the area,” officials wrote in the release. The intruder who was killed has been identified as 19-year-old Khalil Herring, who died in a hospital after authorities located him at a nearby intersection with a gunshot wound while responding to reports of gunfire Feb. 13 morning shortly after midnight. Ellis was also rushed to a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries after one of the intruders allegedly shot her in the …