A Montreal university student is being called a hero after stopping a masked intruder who broke into his family home while his parents and sister slept upstairs.

Nineteen-year-old Charles Seitz had just returned from a night out in August when he walked into his kitchen and came face to face with a burglar.

“I saw a guy jump out from one of our rooms,” Seitz recalled. “He had a bright flashlight, and it’s pitch black in the house so that kind of blinded me…. I froze for a second or two.”

The back door had been left unlocked so Seitz could get in.

Within seconds, the masked man charged at him.

“I punched him in the face and tackled him, took him down, got him in a chokehold,” Seitz said.

As a former high school wrestling champion with training in jiu-jitsu, Seitz had the skills — and

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