11 News reporter Rucks Russell breaks the news about the new evidence in the Joe Horn case

An autopsy report of the burglars shot by a Pasadena homeowner shows that one of the men was shot in the back, sources tell 11 News.

A Pasadena law enforcement official told 11 News that late yesterday detectives finally got their hands on the preliminary autopsy results. Pasadena police sources also confirmed that a plainclothes officer arrived on the scene just seconds before Joe Horn opened fire, killing the two burglars.

That officer witnessed the shooting, Pasadena police confirmed to 11 News.

It was a little more than three weeks ago when shots rang out on Timberline Drive in Pasadena. Homeowner Joe Horn told a Pasadena 911 dispatcher two men were breaking into the house next door.

You could hear Horn over the phone firing the shots that struck and killed Miguel Dejesus and Diego Ortiz. Both burglars were illegal aliens from Colombia and believed to be a part an organized crime home burglary ring.

On the day of the shooting, police said, they thought one of the men was shot in the chest and the other in the lower left side.

Now, based on the preliminary autopsy, they believe that what they thought were entrance wounds were actually exit wounds instead.

That report indicates that one of the men was clearly shot in the back.

Horn's attorney said the new information doesn't change his stance that Horn acted in self defense.

"The facts remain the same in this case as they were on November 14th. Joe Horn shot in defense of his life in his own yard,” attorney Tom Lambright said in a written statement. “We anxiously await the final autopsy report."

Pasadena police are turning over the evidence to the Harris County District Attorney to present to a grand jury.

Since the shootings, Horn has received an outpouring of support from his neighbors and outsiders who advocate the use of deadly force to protect property.

But his actions have also been condemned by community activists Quanell X and his followers, who have staged a pair of marches in front of Horn’s home.

Last weekend the planned protest ran into Horn supporters on motorcycles in a clash that has homeowners in the neighborhood seeking to prevent more protests from being held in the subdivision.