October 22, 2012 (GARY, Ind.) (WLS) -- Last Friday, Jerry Hood, 48, of Gary, Ind., left work and decided to go home during lunchtime. Gary police said Hood, who was with a co-worker, noticed activity in his house and called police for help, but did not wait for police to arrive. Instead he went in and lost his life when he disrupted a home invasion, police say. Hood died from multiple gunshot wounds.
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local/indiana&id=8856120In the first paragraph it says he is 48, but a couple lines lower it says he was about to turn 47 in November? Somebody failed a fact check.
The story does not say if he was armed. Based on what it does say about him, "said La Shawn Daniels, niece: 'He was a family man, family first, there for everyone'", I would venture to guess he was probably not armed.