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Category: Guns

  • Friday feel good story

    Chief Tango sends us a link to a story in Jacksonville, FL about two youths who were obviously turning their lives around when they forced their way into the wrong home;

    “They barged in guns pointed at us screaming get on the ground, where is your money, where is your money. And the next thing I know boom, boom, boom, boom,” said “Big John” who lives in the home and did not want to be identified.

    One of the people inside the home fired shots, hitting at least one of the intruders, 24-year-old Aaron Antwan Harris.

    Harris was taken to UF Health Jacksonville, where he later died.

    A tense minute or two is how “Percy” described what unfolded inside the home where six men were watching a movie.

    “Then I heard bullets. I don’t know who is firing and then it is silent to scared to look up, but I do. I see my friends looking up as well and I see a man face down,” said Percy who was visiting friends.

    Another body found behind a dumpster a ways from the apartment is thought to be the second young person who was just getting his life together when he was forced to break into a stranger’s home.

  • Thursday feel good story

    Chief Tango sends us a link from Spartansburg, SC where a homeowner was watching television and then felt a cold metal object to her head. She turned to see two men who had broke into her house and they were pointing a gun at her. She screamed;

    The woman said when she started yelling, her husband cam[e] to her assistance and started to get into a physical altercation with one of the suspects who dropped a gun.

    According to the sheriff’s office, when the second suspect fired a shot at the husband, the husband picked up the gun that was dropped by the other suspect and returned fire.

    Deputies say they found one of the suspects shot in the face and on the ground face down in the driveway of the home. Authorities say the other suspect had already fled the home.

    From Fox Carolina;

    Deputies said neither resident was injured during the home invasion. Ivey said investigators do not yet know if the victims new the intruders but believe the motive of the home invasion was robbery.

    Coroner Rusty Clevenger identified the man killed as 21-year-old Delano Anthony Turner, of Wellford.

    Turner’s uncle, Fred Turner, said he was the cousin of the homeowner who fired the gun.

    Deputies said Tuesday that Turner did have active warrants against him when he was shot.

  • Wednesday morning feel good story

    Chief Tango sends us a link to the final chapter of Mustafa Sheffield’s story which ended on the floor of the Top Dollar, a cash for gold store in Newark, NJ, after his nine year incarceration in East Jersey State Prison. Apparently Mustafa, who was turning his life around, entered the store and tried to help them reduce their inventory when the store’s owner fired his gun at young Mustafa;

    Sheffield threatened to shoot several of the owner’s relatives and ordered the man to fill a backpack with money and gold around 3:30 p.m., Murray said.

    During the course of the robbery, the store owner pulled out a weapon from behind the counter and shot Sheffield once, Newark Police Director Samuel DeMaio said. Sheffield died a short time later at University Hospital in Newark.

    Criminal charges have not been filed against the store owner, whose identity was withheld, but Murray said the matter will likely be presented to a grand jury. Two law enforcement sources told The Star-Ledger today the weapon the store owner used was a legal, registered firearm.

    So businesses in Newark are marginally safer today with Mustafa’s passing.

  • Glock Block in OR

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    The Washington Times reports that Jennings Lodge in Milwaukie, Clackamas County, Oregon has had it up to here (knife hand at forehead) with crime and they’ve declared themselves a “Glock Block” to fight off the criminals with the fliers pictured above and their CCW permits. Unlike Washington State, Oregon requires that a CCW permit applicant “Demonstrates competence with a handgun”, so it’s not like a lot of women similar to the one we read about yesterday are pulling over cops to learn about their gun after they’ve purchased it.

    Community members have actually pursued conceal carry permits in order to fend off the crime wave, which includes everything from stolen lawn ornaments to vandalism, the Daily Mail reported.

    “We’re starting a new group,” said Clackamas County resident, Coy Toloman, in a KOIN report. “We don’t feel neighborhood watch is sufficient, and we don’t feel the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office is sufficient.”

    Ms. Toloman, fueled by the theft of a favorite statue from her front porch – and subsequent failed chase of the suspect, who “got away” – has taken a class to obtain a concealed carry permit, KOIN reported.

    The only thing that troubles me about the story is that it’s considered news that citizens are arming themselves against criminals

  • Tuesday feel good story

    Chief Tango sends us a link to the story of a naked burglar who was minding his own business and turning his life around when a mean old homeowner discharged a firearm at him;

    The man who police say tried to break into a home on Glenada Court at Gibbons Road early Monday morning was naked, in the buff.

    Police say the resident was at home when the naked burglar came calling. Police say he told the intruder he had a gun. The burglar kept trying to enter through a window, so the homeowner fired off a shot.

    The suspect was not hit. The gunshot was enough to send him back out the window.

    Yeah, if someone tells you that they have a gun, you probably ought to err on the side of caution and believe it.

  • Monday morning feel good story

    Chief Tango sends us links to a story in Tuscaloosa, AL in which Milton Prentice, who was turning his life around, found himself in someone else’s apartment and a gun in his hand. The owner of the apartment disputed Prentice’ right to take his stuff and fired his own gun. Both were wounded, but met up again at the hospital;

    According to the release, Prentice brought the 19-year-old to DCH Regional Medical Center. The teen had been shot in the leg.

    A few minutes later, the 21-year-old arrived at the hospital with a gunshot wound in the arm, the release stated. Tuscaloosa police responded to a call to the hospital at about 12:45 a.m. Saturday.

    The 21-year-old shooting victim told police that two black males had attempted to rob him and that he shot the unidentified 19-year-old when he and Prentice tried to force their way into his apartment in the 2200 block of 48th St. E.

    The investigating officer tied the two gunshot wounds to each. Neither wound is life threatening, which means the homeowner should get a few more hours practice every week.

  • Father’s Day feel good story

    Chief Tango sends us links to the story of Leonard Guerra who was just turning his life around when he found himself inside a house that was being renovated in San Bernardino, CA and for some reason was confronted by the homeowner who began screaming;

    “The female victim began to scream for other family members to come help her, and Guerra grabbed her.”

    The victim’s dad hustled to her aid.

    “Guerra attempted to attack the father, at which time Guerra was shot once by the father,” Walker wrote.

    See, that’s what fathers are for.

    The Contra Costa Times says that Mr Guerra is in serious but stable condition at the local hospital, which is better than the homeowner or her father being in serious but stable condition.

  • Wednesday morning feel good stories

    We’ve got a couple stories for you to enjoy over your morning coffee. From Fox News, Jan Cooper, of Anaheim a 72-year-old grandmother defended her ailing husband and home from 31-year-old Brandon Alexander Perez who broke into her apartment;

    During a 911 call of the incident, Cooper can be heard begging with the dispatcher to send deputies and warns that she has a gun at the ready as her Rottweiler barks furiously in the background.

    Minutes later, a breathless Cooper says the man has come to the back porch and is trying to get in the house through a sliding door. Through the vertical blinds, Cooper saw his silhouette just inches away through the glass as he began to slide open the door.

    “I’m firing!” Cooper shouts to the dispatcher as a loud band goes off.

    Cooper then curses at the suspect, shouting at him to “back up.”

    “You’d better get the police here. I don’t know whether I hit him or not. I’m not sure. He’s standing at my door, my back door. He’s in my yard,” she said.

    She didn’t hit him but she stopped him from doing her harm. And he’s a guest of the taxpayers.

    Across the country in Machester, NH, we get a link from Chief Tango about Michael Larocque, 24, who along with a partner kicked in the door of a resident and met his fate;

    “The adult male, retrieved his handgun, he stepped out of the bedroom, as that happened, he heard someone kicking in the door, and two males then rushed inside and charged at him, and that’s when he fired his gun, and fatally wounded one of them,” said Assistant Attorney General Jeffery Strelzin.

    A woman and a 3-year-old child were staying in the apartment at the time and were not hurt. The male resident suffered minor injuries.

    The resident has not been arrested or charged with any crime, police said.

    The Union Leader says that Larocque’s partner is still on the loose.