From Kansas City, Missouri;
Officers responded to the shooting about 3:50 a.m. at a house in the 4000 block of East 69th Street.
Upon arrival, officers were told that a man had broken into the house. The resident shot the alleged intruder, who died at the scene. Police took the resident in for questioning.
Police said a second resident of the house also was shot but had only minor injuries.
From Grady County, Oklahoma;
A family was asleep early Tuesday morning, when a man high on drugs kicked in their front door and made his way inside, but he was met by a man with a gun who took matter into his own hands.
“He was in our hallway going toward our room when our husband ran out,” a scared wife says on the phone with 911 dispatchers.
Three children were home at the time.
The army veteran grabbed his handgun on the way out and forced the intruder out of the house at gunpoint.
“Get down on the ground. Get down on the (expletive) ground,” the homeowner yelled during the 911 call.
While waiting for authorities, the family’s son took a photo of the suspect, Travis Thrash, on the ground.
Little did the family know, Newcastle Police and Grady County Sheriffs were already on their way responding to Thrash trying to break into another home.
“He had tried apparently to get into the back door of a lady`s house one block over and she heard the commotion,” Grady County Sheriff Jim Weir said.
From Miami, Florida;
Miami detectives said the incident began after the 16-year-old boy stole his mother’s car the day before to pick up his dad, Vladimir Sanchez, from jail. An officer stopped the stolen car with Sanchez and his son inside and found marijuana and meth pipes.
The teen took off running forcing officers to set up a perimeter from West Flagler Street to Northwest 4th Street between 27th and 28th Avenues. Nearby St. Michael’s Catholic School was placed on lockdown as a result.
Sanchez was taken into custody but the 16-year-old got into some sort of confrontation with a homeowner in the 2700 block of Southwest 3rd Street.
The 82-year-old homeowner was upstairs when he heard a noise in his basement and went to check it out, police said.
During the altercation the homeowner fired shots, hitting the 16-year-old in the backside. He was later taken into police custody. His condition was unknown.
From Blue Springs, Missouri;
Police say three young men broke into the home, ransacked it and stole two guns, including an AK-47 long rifle and a handgun. A get-away driver waited outside in a gold car, police say.
According to neighbors, the man who lives next door heard a gunshot inside his neighbor’s house, so he grabbed his own gun and confronted the burglars.
“‘Cause he saw two of the burglars running down the street this way so he was firing shots at them, ’cause he had heard a shot inside the house…. and then another one was running down the street this way,” said one neighbor.
The neighbor says he saw one of the suspected burglars running down the street, looking behind him.
“And I knew something was strange because he kept looking behind him,” he said. “And a guy started yelling, ‘Robbery! Robbery!’
Three of the crooks were rounded up by the police, the fourth is still in the wind.
From San Antonio, Texas;
Police say the man tried to get into the home through a window, but the armed homeowner met the alleged intruder and shot him.
The alleged intruder died at a hospital. Police said the man left a 7-year-old in the car during the attempted break-in.
From Phoenix, Arizona;
[Cindy Bulk] hid in the bathroom.
“Gun in my right hand, phone in my left. I was just leaning up against the wall as far back towards the shower as I could get,” Bulk said.
As soon as Lewis saw her, she said he just went into a screaming rage and came after her.
“And he just threw one punch after the other after the other with both hands. He was beating my head on the towel bar and then put me over backwards in the bathtub,” Bulk said. “I knew if he got me down in the bathtub it was over!”
“Nothing really prepares you, unless you have military or law enforcement training, for shooting at a person,” said Phoenix Police Sgt. Alan Pfohl.
He says even gun enthusiasts usually only shoot when hunting or aiming at targets at the range.
“Because it’s not normal to point a weapon at someone and potentially take their life. There’s always the trauma that somebody will deal with after the incident,” Pfohl said.
“I realized that this was a kid,” Bulk said.
She shot Lewis in the stomach.
Her attacker survived the gun shot, but she got rid of her gun when she got out of the hospital.
In Winter Haven, Florida, David D. Irvin, 18, pleaded no contest to a lesser charge of manslaughter for the death of 24-year-old Chevez Antwann Faison, his accomplice in a failed burglary attempt at Reuben Bailey’s house. When Bailey ordered the pair to freeze after they entered his home, instead of freezing, Irvin, AKA T-money, fired at Bailey, who returned fire, killing Faison. T-Money was sentenced to 15 years the other day.
In Tucson, Arizona, 25-year-old Miguel Ballestero was found DRT (dead right there) a few blocks from a failed home invasion where as many as four criminals got into a shoot out with their intended victims.
In Los Angeles, California, a security guard shot and injured a fellow who tried to rob a marijuana shop, because decriminalizing pot will lower the incidence of drug-related crimes.
From Hot Springs, Virginia;
The four suspects allegedly forced their way into a room at the Econo Lodge, 1204 Central Ave., occupied by a man, 59, and his wife, 58, both of Newark, Texas, and knocked the male victim down. He had answered the door armed with a handgun and fired one shot, which struck Folsom in the torso. The bullet reportedly exited [Brandon] Folsom’s body and struck [Bobby Jack] Smith in the area of his upper chest and shoulder.
Ammo conservation is important.
Bobo sends a link from Coral Gables, Florida;
Michael McGuire was asleep when his wife woke him up after discovering her screen and front doors open. When McGuire checked the house, he noticed something strange behind the door of the bathroom: [35-year-old Michael] Rogoff was crouching down and hiding.
“Tried to slam the door up against him. Told my wife to call 911,” McGuire said.
His wife called and then handed McGuire a gun. “She hands me her pistol and I held him at gunpoint until the police arrive,” McGuire said. “He was actually sitting in the tub like he was going to be taking a bath until the cops arrived.”
His wife took photos of McGuire holding Rogoff at gunpoint.
McGuire said Rogoff was after his wife’s prescription pills. At one point, Rogoff tried to escape through a window, and asked McGuire to let him go and forget the whole incident.
The thief was a pest control guy who had fumigated the victims’ home weeks before.
From St Louis, Missouri;
The suspect had a weapon when he approached the victim, who was pumping gas, at the Phillips 66 on North Broadway and Grand around 7:30 a.m. To protect himself, the victim, a licensed CCW carrier, got out his weapon and shot the suspect in his buttocks, police said.
After being shot, the suspect got into a car with a second suspect and drove to Love’s Travel Stop in the 6100 block of North Broadway, where he called for help. The suspect was taken to the hospital and listed as stable.
According to police, the second suspect and vehicle they were inside were wanted following a robbery at the Hollywood Casino in Maryland Heights. Officials said the vehicle they were inside was taken during a carjacking overnight in the 7000 block of Chippewa.
It was the ending to a crazy chain of events at a Newport News apartment complex. It started when neighbors in Hidenwood North say a man was peeping into windows. One neighbor confronted the stranger and minutes later, he took off running. The neighbor who was on the phone with 911 gave chase.
Possible peeping Tom case ends with gunfire in Newport News“I’m chasing the suspect,” the neighbor told the dispatcher.
“I cannot hear you sir,” the dispatcher said. “I can’t hear you.”
Surveillance video from a nearby business shows the suspect running towards his car with the neighbor right on his heels.
“I am chasing a suspect,” the neighbor screamed. “He is trying to break into houses.”
The suspect got into his car. As he pulled away, he hit the neighbor, who ended up on top of the hood before falling to the ground. At that point, the neighbor pulled out a gun and fired at the car.
“Shots fired,” the neighbor said. “He tried to run me over.”
No reports on whether anyone was struck by gunfire.
In Charleston, South Carolina;
It wasn’t what a family of three expected at 12:30 in the morning. An attempted burglary at their house on Melville Road in North Charleston. But police say the suspects didn’t get away without hearing gunfire from a man protecting his family.
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“I ran outside and said stop. One male jumped over the fence and ran. The other one turned towards me and reached into his pants like he was pulling on one. So I fired a shot. And it wasn’t a warning shot. I meant to hit,” Potts said.
Seth [Potts] says the bullet hit the fence in the backyard as the suspects ran away.
“I work hard for what I have. Who do you think you are trying to come and take from me,” Potts said.
The 24-year-old is a former member of the U.S. Army’s 25th Infantry Division. He doesn’t regret standing his ground.
In New Orleans, Louisiana, Ted Webster’s daughter was buying a cell phone from a guy whose ad she answered on the internet. When he arrived at Ted’s home, instead of a cell phone he pulled out a gun and held it against Ted’s wife’s head.
Ted Webster then tackled the suspect to the ground. He was able to get Daniels away from his wife. Then Webster and [Joshua] Daniels got up and Webster said he was still demanding money. So Webster said he would go get it but instead he got his gun.
He returned to the front door where the suspect was standing. Webster said Daniels started to raise his gun and that’s when Webster said he was forced to shoot Daniels.
“All I can remember is, I saw that hand starting to come up and I had no choice. I had to pull the trigger,” said Webster.
Police said Daniels was shot in the stomach. He left with another suspect who was sitting in the getaway car. Soon after, Daniels was found 15 miles away at a Citgo gas station near I-10. After he arrived, police took Daniels to the hospital where he later died.
From Chicago, Illinois;
Shortly after 11:30 a.m., the victim was standing outside his vehicle in the 5300 block of South Pulaski Road when two men approached and demanded his car keys, police said.
Instead of handing over his keys, the victim shot one of the men in the groin area. The other man took off, but he was caught a short time later, police said.
The wounded robber, 25, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where he was listed in good condition, according to Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford.
Amy sends us a story from Houston, Texas;
Investigators said four male suspects tied up the family inside the home using their shoelaces and pistol-whipped two of the male victims.
One of the teen victims said the suspects held a gun to his mother’s head and pistol-whipped his father and twin brother.
The teen added that his uncle who lives next door heard everything and confronted the suspects with a gun outside of the home.
Police said the uncle shot and killed one of the suspects and wounded another in the leg.
Two of the suspects remain at large.
The other day we talked about the Domino’s Pizza driver in Mesquite, Texas who killed a thief who tried to rob him. Initially it was reported that the delivery guy didn’t have a concealed weapon license. It turns out that he does have a license from Arizona which is valid in Texas.
Domino’s Pizza has suspended the driver as the investigation continues. A spokeswoman for the company didn’t return a phone call Monday seeking comment.
Mesquite resident Joyce Coologhan said she’s a friend of the driver, whom she declined to name. She wrote on social media that the driver had an out-of-state gun license hours before that information was published in a news report.
She described him as “a real nice guy” and an Air Force veteran who took a job as a Domino’s driver to supplement his disability benefits.
From Charlotte, North Carolina;
According to CMPD, Lavarius Mattess Patterson was nabbed after he accidentally shot himself in the leg while running from the robbery scene and then checked himself into a Charlotte hospital seeking treatment.
Witnesses told police that a black male entered the Kangaroo Express in the 10000 block of N. Tryon Street around 2:14 a.m. and robbed the store at gunpoint. The suspect then ran in the direction of E. Mallard Creek Church Road.
As police were looking for the suspect, someone notified CMPD that they had heard a gunshot and saw a man limping away from the area.
Jamie, down in Dallas, Texas got lucky;
Jamie was lying in his bed when he heard the footsteps. The robbers entered through the back door, just after his wife left for the airport.
“He pointed the gun at me and he said, ‘Don’t you say a thing. Don’t you dare move,’” says the 65-year-old M Streets homeowner. “He had the gun to my head and he made me turn over on my stomach.”
WFAA is concealing his identity because Jamie is terrified the home invasion robbers will return.
The next five minutes felt like an eternity.
“I still feel the gun on the back of my head,” he recalls. “He kept saying, ‘Where is the safe?’ and I would say, ‘I don’t have the safe’ and he would press [the gun] into my head.”
Jamie waited for an hour and 27 minutes for Dallas police officers to arrive. They just didn’t have enough officers to respond sooner to the home invasion robbery.
Jamie is fine, but by the grace of God.
From Lincolnton, North Carolina, Marion Palmer Yarborough went to a home to sell guns he had stolen from his girlfriend’s home. Yarborough was released from prison in March from a seven-year stretch on another home invasion beef. At the point of sale, things went sour;
“It was determined to be a robbery by the people that came from Gastonia,” Carpenter said. “Once they got there they attempted to rob the folks of the money they were going to pay for the weapons.”
The Gastonia men had the male resident drop to the floor at gunpoint, when a woman emerged from a back bedroom firing her handgun. Gunshots sprayed from both those in and outside the mobile home, and the 51-year-old Yarborough was shot to death in the crossfire.
In Enid, Oklahoma, a woman was lured onto her porch by unattended packages she saw there. When she went to retrieve the packages, someone came up behind her and pushed her inside the house;
The woman says she began to struggle with the man, but was able to reach her pistol.
However, she says he took the gun away from her and hit her over the head with it, causing her to lose consciousness.
When she awoke, she was able to grab the gun and fire a shot at the suspect.
The thief got away and police are still looking for him.
In 2015, Brian Bridges, a homeowner in Cleveland, Ohio, found two criminals in his home. Bridges shot at them killing Joseph W. Eason. The police caught up to his partner, Anthony. A. Akins-Daniels and charged him with the felony murder of Eason. In the meantime, police searched Bridges’ home and took his guns.
Akins-Daniels pleaded out to his charges a few months later and the case is over. Bridges was credited with a justified shoot. But the police haven’t returned his guns, so Bridges is suing the city;
The city “wrongfully, intentionally and maliciously continue to hold” his property and refuses to return it “even though the personal property is not being held under any process of law and is not claimed under title or legal right by any other party or entity,” the lawsuit argues.
Always have a backup gun.
From Houston, Texas;
Officers said late Friday night, three suspects in a four door car opened fire in front of a home on Glenburnie Drive and Mercedes Lane.
The owner of the home returned fire and hit all three suspects inside the vehicle. Two of the suspects died from the gunshot wounds, officers said.
The homeowner was not injured in the shooting.
From Charlotte, North Carolina, I guess if you shoot an intruder, he becomes the victim;
According to Charlotte-Mecklenburg police, the shooter claims the victim allegedly broke into his apartment after an argument with the door closed. That is when the resident shot the intruder, officers say. The victim then fled from the apartment in a vehicle, police said.
Officers don’t know the extent of the victim’s injuries or his whereabouts.
From Memphis, Tennessee;
Police said the male entered the store armed with a handgun and attempted to rob the business.
The employee drew his weapon and shot the suspect.
The suspect was taken to the hospital in critical condition and later died.
From Fort Worth, Texas;
The man told police he had arrived at the location to deliver a pizza when he was confronted by two robbery suspects.
Police later determined that the house was vacant.
“One of the suspects was armed with a handgun, and fired it at the delivery driver,” Parrish said. “The delivery driver was armed and fired back at the suspects.”
The teens ran away from the location after the shooting, police said.
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The 16-year-old robbery suspect fled the scene, but he was found near the scene and died a short time later.
The delivery driver did not have license to carry a concealed handgun, Parrish said.
The shooting death would be turned over to a grand jury for consideration, police said, and the delivery driver could face a charge of unlawful carrying of a weapons.
Marksmanship seems to be improving.