Santa Clarita / Antelope Valley : Teen-Age Intruder Under Influence of LSD Shot to Death by Homeowner : Crime: Despite his wounds, the naked 17-year-old still leaps through a window, nearly severing his leg.

A teen-ager who became crazed after taking LSD died early Monday after being shot twice in the upper body by a man whose Lancaster house he was trying to enter, sheriff’s investigators said.

Investigators said that not even two bullet wounds stopped 17-year-old Josue Oswald Morales from trying to gain access to the house in the 700 block of East Avenue J-9. After being shot by homeowner Keith Wood, authorities said Morales crashed through a double-paned glass window, nearly severing his leg. They said Wood had to wrestle Morales to the ground to contain him while awaiting police. Morales died about an hour later, authorities said.

Morales, a high school dropout, told his mother a few weeks ago that he was unhappy with the direction that his life was taking and expressed an interest in turning it around.

“He knew he had some problems, he knew he had some weaknesses,” said Morales’ mother, Margarita Dalessandro, who clutched a baseball cap that her oldest son frequently wore. “He was going to take care of them. I guess he won’t have the chance.”

“I don’t want people to think he was some kind of a jerk. He wasn’t a jerk,” she added.

Hours before the 1:34 a.m. shooting, Morales “dropped some acid” at a Lancaster park where he was hanging out with friends, said his 16-year-old brother Joel, who was with Morales Sunday night and up until just minutes before the shooting.

For a while, Morales behaved normally. But when the teen-agers left the park, Joel said, Morales began to act strange. Joel said his brother acted just as he had at other times while on LSD.

“He was in the wrong state of mind,” Joel said. “Things happen with that drug, you can’t control it.”

Morales’ girlfriend dropped the two brothers and a third youth off at a friend’a house. “All of a sudden he (Morales) started getting too loud,” Joel said. “We had to get him out of the house.”

Joel said the trio ended up in a large vacant lot next to Wood’s residence, just blocks from their own homes. He said they stayed in the tumbleweed-covered lot for a couple hours and then Morales became violent and tried to hit his friend, who ran away.

Joel said the two brothers were left alone in the lot. He said Morales apologized for what he had done, but then suddenly hit Joel on the side of the head. Joel said he then began walking to a nearby store to call 911.

“I looked into his eyes,” Joel said. “That wasn’t my brother.”

Wood said he knew someone was behind his tract house when his two dogs started barking at his back wall about 1:30 a.m. Wood, who lives in the house with his wife and 6-month-old daughter, said his first thought was that teen-agers were partying behind the house.

Wood said he went downstairs and turned his porch light off and on as a warning that someone was awake in the house. With the light on, Wood said he went upstairs to see if he could spot anyone from the window. He said there was suddenly a pounding on Wood’s back door that was loud enough that neighbors down the block could hear it.

Wood said he ran downstairs and in hopes of scaring Morales off told the intruder that he had called police and that he had a gun. But Wood said Morales kept pounding at the rear door, partly breaking the double-pane glass window.

Fearing for his and his family’s lives, Wood said he returned upstairs to locate a handgun. Wood found the gun, which he said he had never used until Monday. But he said he could not remember where he had stored the bullets.

“I thought he wanted to kill us,” Wood said.

While Wood was upstairs, Morales stripped off his clothing and shouted something about going swimming, an investigator said. The Woods don’t have a pool. The investigator said Morales left blood from his head and hand on the cement patio, which authorities said he apparently had tried to dive into.

Wood said he found the ammunition and returned downstairs, warning Morales to leave or be shot. Wood said Morales broke partly through another window. and it was then that Wood said he fired three bullets, hitting Morales twice. Morales fell briefly to the ground and Wood called 911.

When Wood pulled up his window blinds, he said, he saw that Morales was naked and figured that he must be on drugs.

Finally, Wood said Morales ran away. Wood, whose wife and daughter were upstairs screaming, said he thought the ordeal was over. But moments later Morales came crashing through another window on the side of the house.

“The guy would not go away. He was relentless,” Wood said.

Morales nearly severed one of his legs as he came through the window. But despite the two bullet wounds to his upper torso, and glass shards embedded all over his naked body and blood running from countless cuts, he still tried to fight Wood, investigators said.

“The violence was incredible,” Wood said.

Lt. Ray Peavy of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department homicide bureau said it is not likely that Wood will be charged.

Morales’ family said they are not angry with Wood. “He was trying to protect his family,” said Cesar Morales, the slain teen-ager’s father. “If it happened the way they say it happened, I would have done the same thing.”