TEXAS – Most adults would freeze with fear if burglars entered their homes while they were there.

But not 12-year-old Deion Murdock of Port Author, Texas. Murdock was home alone last Tuesday when he heard home invaders inside of his house. He took cover inside of a closet in his mother’s room and called 911.

“Someone’s trying to break into my house,” Murdock told LaTonya James, 32, the dispatcher with the Port Arthur Police Department. The brave young man stayed on the line and followed James’ instructions to hide in a closet after the intruders broke through a window. He remained brave and calmly described to her what he could hear from inside the closet.

Even when the intruders entered his mother’s room, Murdock kept his cool. “I’m going to have to whisper now because I think they’re coming in,” he said. “It sounds like there are multiple people.” After the boy began to whimper in fear as the men walked around the room, James praised the boy’s bravery.

The cops arrived at the scene in a matter of minutes.

They saw the two suspects flea into a wooded area near the house. The men were later caught and arrested.