Author: Jonn Lilyea

From Perry County, Tennessee;

A good Samaritan with a gun is credited with helping to capture two fugitives at the center of a massive manhunt.

According to the Perry County Sheriff’s Office, the two men were involved in a car chase that started Monday evening in Decatur County, then went into Wayne County.

When the chase entered Perry County, investigators said the suspects ditched the car at the end of a dirt road in the White Oak community.

Scotty Landers was in the area when he spotted one of the wanted men.

“The first one came out of the woods and came across and I was on the forklift,” Landers described to WOPC. “My son got my attention and I motioned for the truck. He got me my shotgun and I rode down on the lift and got him stopped.”

Landers grabbed lunch and returned to find the second suspect.

“(He) comes through the mill yard running and I hollered at him and he wouldnt stop,” Landers said. “He just kept running and I grabbed my shotgun. I told him I was going to shoot and he said, ‘you ain’t got nothing in this’. He kept running. I shot up in the air. He took off running harder. I ran after him and hit him and knocked him down. He jumped up and took off running again, and I pushed him and caught and held him.”

From Brazil, Indiana;

The homeowner told police he was awakened to the sound of someone beating on his front door. The homeowner said he told the man, later identified by police as [Raymond Markley] Morris, to leave his property, but the man kicked down the door and entered the home.

The homeowner said he told Morris to leave or he would shoot him. When Morris came toward him, the homeowner fired a single shot, striking Morris in the leg.

From Memphis, Tennessee;

One of the victims, who asked not to be identified, told WHBQ that his niece, who was visiting from Florida, took his gun and scared off the bold criminal after she saw that her husband was in trouble.

“She’s bold,” he said. “She ain’t scared of nothing.”

In the video, the suspect has his right hand in his waist band as he stands behind the woman’s husband. The victims said the man’s hand was on a gun.

Memphis police said Sunday afternoon the man in the blue jacket came to the Whitehaven home and asked to use one of the victims’ phones and then asked for a ride.

While the incident was unfolding outside the house, the woman and her uncle reportedly were inside the house.

Police said that after the woman saw her husband in trouble, she came out the front door with a gun and fired a warning shot.

The uncle told WHBQ: “She said she didn’t want to kill him, but when he fired back at us after she fired the warning shot, she said she was trying to hit him then but didn’t.”

Memphis police told WHBQ that the suspect ran toward the back of the house before getting away.

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From Bend, Oregon;

Poole and his wife told The Bulletin they were awoken Monday by pounding in their basement and the sound of breaking glass. They sat up in bed and listened.

Poole went to the nightstand, took his revolver from inside a white sock and walked downstairs.

Poole worked 30 years for California Highway Patrol, retiring as a lieutenant. But for the past 25 years, he’s been focused on RV-ing and fixing up classic cars. He and his wife, Susan, have lived at the end of a quiet street with no outlet in the Valhalla Heights subdivision for eight years without any trouble, they say.

But Monday, in his basement, Jerry Poole found a naked man with short-cropped hair halfway through his window.

Using a profanity, he warned the man to get out or get shot. That didn’t slow him down, Poole said. So he squeezed the trigger.

Nothing happened.

Then a second time. Then a third.

He’d forgotten to load it.

“I thought, ‘Uh oh,’” Poole said.

The man fell inside the house behind a couch and, as he was standing, Poole brained him with the grip of his revolver.

It took three more strikes to subdue him, Poole said.

“He was high on something,” Susan Poole said. “He was definitely high.”

Bend Police arrived and arrested Shelton Brian White, 45, on suspicion of first-degree burglary, fourth-degree assault and second-degree criminal mischief. Paramedics treated some of his injuries at the scene and transported him St. Charles Bend for further care.

From Prineville, Oregon;

Marla Howard says it was her house. She recounted the ordeal at Saturday’s pro-Second Amendment rally in Redmond, telling the crowd she wished she’d had a firearm. “My dogs, who are rescue dogs, alerted me very well; I’ve never heard anything out of their mouths, the way they growled. The perpetrator broke through my front door, violently. He ran into my daughter’s room and broke her door, violently.” Howard went on to describe how the man then entered her own bedroom and climbed on top of her, “I had no idea what his intentions were, I just knew that all of a sudden this tough girl wasn’t so tough, no more. I did happen to sleep with my blow dryer that evening. So, in the dark, I aimed my blow dryer at this perpetrator, who thought it was a gun.” She says he then ran off, chased by her dog.

Prineville Police located Hurley outside the house and handcuffed him.

From Laredo, Texas;

Initial reports state that three masked suspects dressed in black entered the 8-liner establishment armed with handguns.

Police said the suspects pistol-whipped two employees in the back of the head. They were not seriously hurt, according to police.

The suspects escaped with money bags containing about $2,000. A lookout was issued for the suspect vehicle. A Border Patrol agent saw the vehicle at Maryland Avenue and Chihuahua Street.

One suspected robber allegedly pointed his weapon at the agent, according to LPD. Police said the agent reacted by firing his service firearm once. It was not clear if the shot fired struck the vehicle.

The suspects managed to get away, police said. No arrests have been made.