A 90-year-old former UCLA running back found an intruder in his home early Wednesday morning, and held the man at gunpoint until police arrived.

Jim Chadwick, who played for the Bruins in 1948 and 1949, told the Los Angeles News Group’s Larry Altman that it was the first time in 40 years that he had to pull out and load his .38 Special handgun.

The Hawthorne resident had woken up at around 3 a.m. and noticed a figure in his bedroom. The intruder then moved into a lighted hallway, and then onto a vacant twin bed in another room. Chadwick woke the man up, fired a shot into the wall, and waited for police.

“A human life is worth too much to just go shooting someone,” Chadwick said.

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