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FALLBROOK, Calif. (KGTV) — Bar patrons foiled a robbery Saturday by rushing the accused gunman and holding him until deputies arrived.

Patrons at the Red Eye Saloon at 1448 South Mission Rd. in Fallbrook were in the bar’s parking lot around 2 a.m. when a man pulled a gun on them and demanded their wallets and cell phones, according to the San Diego Sheriff’s Department.

The suspect, identified as 22-year-old Fidel Moreno, fired one shot in the air, witnesses told deputies.

Fearing for their safety, the group rushed Moreno and tackled him, according to deputies, and held him down until deputies got there.

A 9mm pistol loaded with a 16 round magazine, with one casing missing, were found at the scene, deputies said. A spent shell casing was located near where Moreno was being held down.

Never underestimate the stupidity of people in large groups.  It ended well…this time.  On the road again colluding with a Russian.

From Dallas TX

Police are investigating after a homeowner shot and killed one of three armed intruders shortly after midnight.  It happened on East Overton Road.

The homeowner told police he was surprised when three armed men attempted a home invasion robbery. He grabbed his own gun, fatally shooting one of them, and the other two fled on foot.  The resident wasn’t injured and called police.

Detectives later interviewed him at Jack Evans Headquarters.  Based on the interview and physical evidence at the scene to corroborate his account of the event, he was released pending a grand jury referral.

From Suffolk, VA

An argument over Aretha Franklin led to a shooting, witnesses told police in one Virginia town Thursday.  Suffolk Police responded to a report of a gunshot victim Thursday morning around 10:45 a.m. in the 300 block of East Washington Street.

CBS affiliate WTKR reports a witness said he heard the two people in the argument were fighting over whether or not Halle Berry played Aretha Franklin in a movie.

Police said the fight turned physical and then one of the subjects produced a firearm, shooting the other man at least once.  Both men got emergency medical assessment and treatment by Suffolk Fire & Rescue personnel before being transported to local hospitals for further treatment.  Police said the gunshot victim is considered to be in serious condition.

Franklin had previously wanted Berry to play her in an upcoming biopic, but Berry claimed she couldn’t sing and wouldn’t do the role justice, according to E News. Instead, Jennifer Hudson was tapped to play the Queen of Soul in the film.

The investigation is ongoing and the roadway in the immediate area is also closed.

From Portland, OR

Portland police say they have arrested a man who allegedly broke into a woman’s home and exposed himself to her while high on methamphetamine.

Marques Seville Hardges, 43, followed the woman into an elevator at her northeast Portland apartment on July 31 and told her he had “just shot up crystal meth,” court documents state.  The man exited the elevator on the same floor as the woman and, when she opened her door, ran up and pushed her inside.  The woman told police the man “wildly looked around” her apartment, grabbed a pill bottle and $60 cash and then exposed himself to her.

According to court documents, the woman then pulled out a concealed handgun from her purse.

“The gun wasn’t the first thing that came to my mind…it was how am I going to get out of here,” Kim, who declined to share her last name, said. “I was in a sheer panic, I was just in a panic.”  The man dropped the bottle and ran out of the apartment with the $60 cash.

“He saw it and ran,” Kim said.

From Rutherford County, NC

Two North Carolina children got ahold of a gun and fatally shot a man police said was assaulting and strangling their mother.  During the attack, Steven Kelley, 46, said he was going to cut the throat of Chandra Nierman, his girlfriend, and kill everyone in the home, the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office said.

Police said Nierman’s 12-year-old son obtained a gun, and her 15-year-old daughter used it to shoot Kelley in the chest twice.  Nierman’s 16-year-old daughter was injured in the shooting after a bullet grazed her leg. She’s since been released from the hospital, according to police. Nierman also “suffered significant bruises and contusions from the assault,” police said.

Police were called to the home just after midnight on August 8 and found Kelley already dead.  Kelley was a convicted felon who had two active domestic violence protection orders against him from women in Indiana and Ohio, the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office said.  He also assaulted Nierman just days before his death, police said. Then, investigators said, he fired a gun inside the house multiple times “to threaten and terrorize Nierman.”

Police said they found multiple guns in the house and on Kelley’s body that belonged to him.

Authorities have said that no charges will be filed against the children as the shooting is considered “justified.”

 

From Houston, TX

A teen suspect was shot several times after he and another person tried to rob two cable repairmen in north Houston, police say.  Police said the two repairmen were working on a cable box around midnight on Fulton Street and Veenstra when the gunmen approached them.  “It was just real quick. We were expecting the worst,” said one of the technicians, who did not want to be identified.

He says his colleague, with a concealed handgun license, quickly drew his gun and fired back, warding off the suspects. Police say one of the suspects was shot in the leg. He collapsed at the scene and was taken to the hospital. Investigators say he is in critical but stable condition and charges are expected.  The other suspect and a getaway driver are still on the run. They were last seen in a grey four-door sedan.

From BENZIE COUNTY, MI

 A homeowner armed with a shotgun confronted and shot an intruder in his pole barn Tuesday night.  When the homeowner, a 79-year-old man, heard an intruder in the pole barn around 11:20 at his home in Inland Township he grabbed a shotgun and confronted the man, according to Benzie County Sheriff’s Deputies.   After telling the man to get off his property, the homeowner reported the intruder came toward him in a threatening manner, deputies said.

Deputies said the homeowner fired a single shot and hit the the intruder in both legs.

The homeowner kept an eye on the man until police and an ambulance arrived at the home.

The 37-year-old intruder was taken to Munson Medical Center for treatment of non-life threatening injuries, according to deputies.

The homeowner wasn’t arrested.

From Des Moines, IA 

Des Moines Police Department detectives determined the following:

Bondhus and Grayson were at the home. They discovered what they believed to be intentional damage to the man’s tire. Wheeler, who is prohibited by a court order of protection from having contact with Bondhus, arrived at the home. Wheeler forced his way into the home and physically assaulted Grayson. The assault stopped briefly, then began again. Grayson, who lawfully possessed a handgun, fired one shot, killing Wheeler.

The Polk County Attorney’s Office determined the shooting was lawful self-defense and no charges will be filed.

From Princess Anne, MD 

An employee armed with a gun was able to fend off two suspect who tried to rob a pharmacy in Princess Anne on Monday afternoon.

Princess Anne police said the incident happened at around 3 p.m. at the Karemore Pharmacy at 12085 Somerset Ave. According to police, two male suspects, one of whom was armed with a long gun/rifle, entered the business and demanded prescription medications from one of the pharmacists.

Police said another employee who was in an office area of the store armed himself and went out to confront the suspects. The suspects then ran out of the store empty-handed. Investigators said that during the confrontation the employee fired a shot, which did not hit the suspects. The suspects did not fire any rounds, police said.

From Dyersburg, TN

A suspect in the recent robbery of a Dyersburg store has died.

According to Dyersburg Police,  Joshua Foster, 31, died Sunday after a robbery at Allen’s Grocery Store in Dyersburg on August 4.
Foster was a suspect in the robbery and Dyersburg police said he was shot multiple times during a shooting involving the store’s owner.

Foster was facing charges of aggravated robbery, but was not taken into custody because he was in critical condition in a Memphis hospital, according to police.

From Danville, IL

An intruder may have been wounded by an armed homeowner. Police responded to a home in the 900-block of East Fairchild Street, about 12:30 am, Sunday.

The homeowner reported hearing loud knocking before seeing two men in his backyard. The homeowner told officers he heard someone enter through a window and saw the intruder with a gun. He fired several shots causing the intruders to run away.

A person of interest, being treated for a gunshot wound, was questioned at a the hospital but was uncooperative. Officials say, at this time, they’re not able to connect him to the crime.

From Jacksonville, FL

A Florida man broke into a home and armed himself with the homeowner’s home defense shotgun, only to have the homeowner gain back control of the gun and shoot him.

David Marrero told WJXT he arrived home from work at around 4 p.m. on Tuesday to find his place ransacked. When he went to his bedroom to investigate further, he encountered 25-year-old Brandon Nicholas—whom he had met a few weeks earlier—in the process of escaping out the window.  As Nicholas turned and saw Marrero, he pulled Marrero’s own shotgun, which he had swiped, and pointed it at him.  “I got out of the way as fast as I could and he started talking, ‘Man I’m not going to shoot you,’” Marrero recalled.

Nicholas might have told Marrero he wasn’t going to shoot him, but he evidently had other ideas. “That’s when I heard the first click,” Marrero said. Thankfully, Marrero’s shotgun was unloaded. “He insisted, ‘Man I just want to talk to you. I just want to talk to you.’ By that time, he crawled back inside the window,” Marrero said. “He’s walking backwards with the shotgun on me the whole time. By midway through the hallway, I recognize the guy. I’m like, ‘I know who you are.’ And then I heard another click.’”  Marrero tried to reason with Nicholas.  “(I told him), ‘I promise you, just leave. You got my gun. You got my money. Just leave. I won’t call the cops until you leave,’” Marrero said. “‘Just give me my shotgun. You’ve taken everything from me.’ And then he got mad and slams it on the couch.”

Sensing an opportunity, Marrero grabbed his home defense shotgun, loaded it and aimed it at Nicholas. Marrero then started demanding his belongings back from Nicholas, but the would-be burglar instead started leaning over to look at one of his bags.Things turned physical from there.

“I took my gun around and flipped it around and I smacked him as hard as I could in the back of the neck with the buttstock of the shotgun,” Marrero said. “He started to crawl back a little bit and he said, ‘I got something for you now. I got something for you.’”  Marrero says Nicholas then reached inside his bag.  “So when he reached in his bag, going to stand up, I said, ‘Don’t do it.’ And then that’s when I shot him.”

Nicholas managed to flee the scene, but was found by police about a mile away after a report of another shooting nearby. He was transported to a local hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries and now faces charges of burglary and committing an act that could cause death.

Marrero’s wife Alisa Stuart told WJAX that her husband called her and told her that Nicholas had broke in “through the window. He ransacked the house. He stole our cash and I shot him in the knee,’” Stuart said.

Crime is reportedly a growing problem in the area.

“Everybody on the street is armed and ready to fire,” Stuart said.

From Indianapolis, IN

Robbery suspect at convenience store shot and killed by customers.

A robbery suspect was shot and killed inside a convenience store Saturday after two customers fired their personal weapons.

The adult male suspect was taken to Eskenazi Hospital where he was pronounced dead, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Captain Karen Arnett said.

The man’s identity was not immediately released. The vehicle he was driving was stolen, police said.

Still roaming the woods between Gerogia and SC,  Soviet bug spray kills anythig it touches.  Kinda smells like DDT.