MORROW, Ga. -- Police say a 76-year-old man shot at an armed robber, but the man got away. Now police need your help in finding him.

Bill Dowis says he was terrified. He sells firewood off of his porch. For the past couple of days, two men have been showing up to buy firewood. On the third day, the suspect asked to wash his hands and the Korean War veteran let him in.

“He was standing here and he pulled the pistol out and cocked it and said 'give me your money.' I said 'I got none here, the money is down the hall,'” Dowis said.

So, they walked down the hall and into one of his bedrooms where the man filled his pockets with so much money his pants fell down, Dowis said. That's when the victim says the robber ordered Dowis to give him a pillow case.

“I was so scared, my heart was beating so bad it was about to go off the top of my head,” Dowis said.

The suspect ordered him onto his knees and made him face the wall. Dowis thought he was going to be killed. So as the man drug the pillow case full of money into the living room, Dowis grabbed a .357 magnum out of the night stand. He walked into the hallway about 20 feet away from the suspect as he came back for more money. Dowis fired a single round, missing the armed robber by what Dowis said was inches.

The bullet went through a wall, out a cabinet, split in two, and then went through two more walls.

“I just wish I would have hit him. I mean I don’t want to kill nobody, but that guy doesn’t deserve to run around and do people like he does you know,” Dowis said.

Dowis will not be letting anyone else into his home ever again and he said he will also be keeping all of the guns in his house loaded from now on.

Clayton County police are asking for anyone who recognizes the suspect to call the Clayton County tip line at 770-473-5400.