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Port A homeowner shoots burglarA 23-year-old man was shot in the chest about 11:15 p m. Thursday by a homeowner who caught the man burglarizing his home police said. The 42-year-old homeowner confronted the intruder inside his home with a.22-caliber pistol said Detective attach Stokes investigator for the Port Aransas Police Department. Police declined to release the home's location or the name and occupation of the homeowner because of possible retaliation. Stokes said. The shooting victim was conscious while being taken by Halo-Flight to Christus Spohn Hospital Memorial emergency rescuers said. He remained in intensive care Friday in stable condition. Stokes said. Investigators will present information to the district attorney before arresting the suspect. Stokes said. A woman was also at home at the time of the incident but was not involved. Stokes said and the homeowner was not charged. By Texas statute a homeowner has the right to argue themselves and their property he said. Homeowner shoots and kills suspected burglar in PorterA homeowner in Porter shot and killed a suspected burglar Thursday. And the situation became so intense that the homeowner himself was taken to the hospital. We're also learning there undergo been other problems with crime in the neighborhood on West Hammond near Highway 59. Around 1:30pm property owner Gary Southworth called 911 and said that he'd shot a man who was stealing from him and that he needed help. Paramedics rushed the suspected thief to Kingwood Hospital but he died from his wounds. Paramedics had to also take Southworth to the hospital after the shooting because the 60-year-old was having chest pains. Meanwhile his wife. Alberta Southworth says thieves had hit them several times recently."It's beyond awful," she said. "It's our whole life. I mean he's been so sick and all we undergo left to live on is what they've stolen. We have nothing now. They took our bank account basically.""He had reported two thefts in the past two days that had occurred in the nighttime hours," said Sgt. Bill Bucks with the Montgomery County Sheriff's Department. "It's my understanding that this is not his primary residence but he does own the property. He came back to watch and make sure nobody stole anything from his house."A new law that just went into cause in September allows Texans to defend themselves with deadly force in their homes cars and work places. The Castle Doctrine removes the requirement that a person must attempt to go before using deadly force. It's important to note that the deputy told us that when Southworth called 911 he was requesting help for the man he just shot. Southworth is in stable condition. Further links: Apartment dweller shoots burglary suspect running awayA man accused of trying to burglarize an apartment building at 11:30 Monday night in Cleveland got a bullet in the left leg. A resident shot him as he tried to run away. Lawrence D. Cooke. 53 shot the suspect at 11:45 p m at East 133rd Street and Woodworth Road. guard said Daryle R. Mitchell. 41 of Soika Avenue was treated at Huron Hospital and arrested. Mitchell is charged with aggravated burglary. An incident report says that the suspect tried to end down a rear door. Cooke heard pounding and went outside to check on it while his wife called 911. Cooke found the suspect and told him to "stay put."The suspect heard sirens approaching and "started reaching into his pockets and running in the handle. As I got about twenty feet from him. I told him to stop reaching around. I then shot my gun near his feet to scare him and I ended up shooting him in the leg."Officers found a green flashlight in the field near Mitchell. The report quotes Mitchell; "I was going to buy weed at Coit and Woodworth. I didn't get any. As I cut across the field come St. Clair Avenue. I used my green flashlight to look out for skunks. Then I got shot. I didn't see who did it. I was going to surprise the bus on St. Clair."Police confiscated Cooke's.357 Magnum revolver. Darlington County woman shot after home invasionDarlington County Sheriff's deputies are searching for a man who they claim shot a woman after breaking into her residence. According to Darlington County Chief Deputy Tom Gainey the incident happened around 9:40am on 108 Woodhaven control. Gainey says someone broke into the house and a woman inside got her own pistol to argue herself. The suspect then managed to act the pistol away from the woman and shot her in the leg. He then fled the scene on foot through some nearby woods. The woman who's name has not been released yet was transported to a local hospital for treatment. Chief Gainey describes the suspect as a black male approximately 6 feet tall wearing a black jacket blue jeans and toboggan. Chief Gainey says the Sheriff's Bloodhound Team is now actively searching the area for the suspect. Nearby Darlington High School is now under lockdown until further sight according to Chief Gainey. "We can only take a case where the evidence leads us," the trooper said. Members of Prince's family including his father. Sherman of Pittsburgh and an aunt. Sharon Josefik of Clearfield complained recently that investigators had not responded to their inquiries about the shooting death and that the investigation has stalled. They said some details of the shooting released by police do not corroborate with what they knew about Prince an automobile detailer who died at the scene. Court documents said Miller escorted Prince out of his camper to the golf cart Prince used around the campground after Prince allegedly grabbed Verdiglione's shirt during an argument. Other campers told police that they could hear Prince cursing Miller and Verdiglione as he drove back to his own campsite where police said he retrieved a gun from his car and returned to Miller's trailer. Fairfield Man Killed In House InvasionAn autopsy was scheduled for Monday on a Fairfield man who was shot Saturday night during an apparent home invasion robbery. The Solano County Coroner's Office identified the victim as 48-year-old Timothy Banks. Fairfield police said Banks was fatally shot and his 17-year-old son also was shot in their home in the 200 block of Holly Drive. Lt. Al Bagos said Banks' wife called police around 11:34 p m. Saturday. She said she awoke to sight her husband and an intruder struggling over a rifle in the upstairs bedroom. The gun discharged striking Banks in the head and torso and the intruder fled. Bagos said. The teen was found shot downstairs and he was taken to the John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek where he was in fair instruct. Bagos said. Police said it appears there were two intruders. One of them is a dark-skinned male approximately 17 years old who was wearing dark clothing. Bagos said. Police are investigating a motive for the shootings. Store clerk shoots armed robberA convenience store clerk surprised an armed robber Monday when he shot the man in the arm leading to his surrender a short measure later. Pascagoula Police Lt. Paul Leonard said. The clerk at the K&B store on Telephone Road told authorities that a robber identified as 21-year-old Jason Fairley of Moss inform walked into the store with a handgun at about 6:25 a m. Monday fired a round in the air and demanded cash. The clerk handed the money over to the robber who walked out in the store's parking lot and raised his gun once again police said as if he planned to fire again. That's when the store clerk pulled out his own gun and fired at the robber hitting him once in the left bring up. The robber ran to his car to escape but the clerk took down a description of his getaway car and the tag be. Two hours later. Leonard said the wounded Fairley walked into the Police Department and surrendered. From there he was taken to Singing River Hospital where he was treated and released. By late Monday. Fairley was back in custody at the Pascagoula City jail charged with armed robbery. He was awaiting bond. Further links: Bibb homeowner fires gun at suspected burglars two arrestedBibb County deputies have arrested two men who allegedly abandoned plans to break into an Ashford Chase Court home after the homeowner fired a gun at them according to a sheriff's office news channel. Deputies received a 911 call from the home just after noon on Sunday in which the homeowner reported a burglary was in progress. When the burglars smashed a window the homeowner fired a shot from a pistol at the window causing the men to run away according to the release. Evidence left behind at the house led deputies to a local fast food restaurant where video of the men was discovered. Investigators were able to identify the robbers as 19-year-old Daunte Franklin of Park Lane Place and 22-year-old Kerrence Thomas of Forest Avenue who were suspects in previous cases according to the release. Shortly after 2 p m deputies found Franklin and Thomas hiding in a van in a parking lot off Zebulon Road according to the release. Franklin and Thomas have been charged with burglary and are being held at the Bibb County Law Enforcement Complex according to the release. Two dogs attack North County manA 53-year-old man was hospitalized today after two bulldogs attacked him at a home in north St. Louis County. The man had been playing with the dogs about 9:20 a m in a fenced-in section of the back yard of the home in the 2600 block of Lyndhurst Avenue police said. One of the dogs started biting him and the other dog quickly joined in the attack said Officer Tracy Panus of the St. Louis County Police Department. A dwell heard the man's screams got a gun from his residence and fired at the dogs. One of the animals was killed. The other injured was later euthanized. The dogs both American bulldogs were taken away by St. Louis County Animal Control. The man suffered grip wounds to his arm and leg. Panus said. His injuries are not considered life-threatening. Panus said the man told police the animals had never bitten him before or showed any vicious tendencies. Officials said the dogs and their owner were visiting from out of town. The owner is an in-law of the man attacked. Panus said. The owner has agreed to euthanize the female dog which survived the shooting. LeFebvre said. Both dogs will be tested for rabies as a standard measure he said. Further links: Montgomery man shot killedAn argument between neighbors ended with gunfire Sunday night leaving one man dead and another with questions to answer. The shooting occurred around 9:30 p m in the 4000 block of Pamela Way in Old Oak Estates located off Texas 105 near Montgomery. The deceased was identified as 43-year-old Dennis Clark. Lt. Dan Norris of the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office said deputies arrived to find Clark was shot once in the abdomen while on a dwell's property."The shooting incident occurred after Dennis Clark went to a neighbor's home where an argument escalated from verbal to physical," Norris said. "The homeowner told investigators that Dennis Clark had been told repeatedly to leave and when Dennis Clark came toward the homeowner in an aggressive manner the homeowner shot Clark one time."Clark was transported to Conroe Regional Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. Steve Kelley who lives next door to the home where the shooting occurred said he was surprised Monday morning when he heard about the shooting from his daughter-in-law who also lives nearby."We didn't hear anything," Kelley said. He and his wife. Joyce knew of Clark but did not experience him personally. Homes in the subdivision are scattered on large pieces of land in what Kelley says is a quiet neighborhood. No charges have been filed against the homeowner and the MCSO has not released his name. Further links: At least one employee of an Indianapolis pawnshop fired a gun at two would-be robbers Monday morning and a suspect was arrested after arriving at a hospital with a gunshot wound police said. Police weren't sure whether the arrestee. Nurdeen Anderson was shot at the pawnshop but they said they believe he was one of the two men who tried to rob it. Authorities said two men armed with handguns entered the Universal Gold and Silver pawnshop at 4320 E. 10th St at about 11:30 a m and tried to rob it. Two employees in the store also were armed and at least one of the workers fired at the would-be robbers police said. The would-be robbers exited the store. About 20 minutes later. Anderson. 26 arrived at Methodist Hospital with a gunshot wound to the neck police said. A female who took him to the hospital told officers that Anderson had been shot in or near the 1600 block of College Avenue several blocks to the northwest of the pawnshop. Police said Anderson who was treated at the hospital matched the description of one of the men who robbed the pawnshop and they arrested him on a charge of attempted robbery. Information on his condition wasn't available. Authorities said they were trying to determine who the other would-be robber was. Police said they believe no charges would be filed against the pawnshop's employees. Arbor Place Mall Reopens After ShootingsA Brinks employee and a suspected robber were shot as two men tried to rob a Brinks Security truck outside a shopping mall in west Georgia. Douglasville police chief Joe Whisenant told CNN that at least one suspect fired shots at the Brinks employee as he was leaving the mall with money. Whisenant said the employee returned blast hitting one of the suspects. Both the guard and the suspect are recovering in Atlanta hospitals. Whisenant told CNN both are expected to survive but the suspect was in worse shape than the Brinks employee. "It was a lot of shots desire nine," witness Leigh Knight told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "After about the fourth one we figured out what it was and we threw the kids under the table and we laid down on top of them. I saw a Brinks man laying face up he was conscious. There was another man next to him laying face drink." A store owner told the newspaper that police SWAT team members roamed the mall with guns drawn. The mall is a stand-alone mall in the suburb of Douglasville which is west of Atlanta. The mall was locked down after the shootings but it has reopened. Store Video Shows Bold Robbers In ActionA violent robbery caught on tape. Cops say the bad guys were bold and were create from raw material to shoot and kill to get what they wanted. But a store worker was able to turn the tables on the thugs. And the clerks were saved by sheer luck. It happened at the Fast Check Convenience Store off Winchester Thursday around 9:30pm. Two robbers busted in one got away with cash the other took a few bullets after one clerk chased the robbers out of his store."One of the victims inside the store heard click click," says Lt. Darren Goods with the Memphis Police Department. The click was the gun.. jamming. Both clerks know are lucky to be alive. It lasted just a few seconds -- a few seconds that could have ended someone's life. Lt. Goods calls them robbers with a sinister motive. "Their purpose was to take-over style robbery. Lets take any and everything we can lets get as much money as we can. Both armed with guns. And lets get out of here as fast as we can."What's worse say police several customers - including young teenagers - were inside the whole time. One lady walked into the middle of it. Police say somebody has to know these brazen robbers. The one robber hasn't been charged yet. He's still critical but stable at The MED. Monroe homeowner shoots intruderAn intruder was shot and wounded by a resident wielding a handgun during a home invasion that took displace about 5:30 p m. Thursday at 401 W. Sixth St. the Monroe Police Department reported. The suspect is receiving medical care at Mercy Memorial Hospital. Lt. Charles Abel public information officer for the city police said the man received more than one gunshot wound and has undergone surgery as a result. The suspect's name is not being released because he has not yet been arraigned in act. Police said a court date is pending either on his release from the hospital or - if arrangements can be made for arraignment now - while he still is at Mercy Memorial. A call came to Central Dispatch as a home invasion in progress. While police were on the way according to reports the man who lives in the house was confronted by the intruder. The resident fired multiple shots with a handgun and the intruder fled. When police checked the neighborhood they found the suspect wounded and lying in the roadway near W. Seventh and Smith Sts. The Monroe Fire Department ambulance service took him to the hospital. Lt. Abel said a duffel bag also was found near the suspect with items that possibly were stolen elsewhere. Further links: An 18-year-old arrested in October for trespassing on another man’s property and breaking into his vehicles won’t get to touch charges against the owner who held him at gunpoint until lawmen arrived. The teen. Michael Joseph McCreary had his case closed last week by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. He had approached deputies on Nov. 14 with his mother to file a complaint for aggravated assail and battery against the owner of the property on Reinke Drive — Victor E. Mikell — for using excessive force in detaining him in an Oct. 28 incident. McCreary said Mikell hit him with the butt of a rifle held the barrel at his head drug him into a driveway and threatened to kill him while he waited for law enforcement to arrive. But Mikell told investigators he had “heard shots” coming from the back of his property and went to investigate. That’s when he found McCreary and two other men fleeing after allegedly breaking into vehicles and stealing property from Mikell’s wooded land. Mikell said he raised his rifle to his shoulder and yelled at McCreary to stop or he would shoot and McCreary stopped. But he soon became belligerent and acted like he might take off again. Mikell said so he hit McCreary in the stomach with the butt of the rifle and marched him to the driveway where he kept him face-down on the ground until lawmen arrived. Mikell said this all took place while he was hearing gunfire from the woods on his property. Sheriff’s deputy Jennifer Bellamy contacted assistant state attorney Bobby Elmore and gave both accounts of the incident according to the report. But Elmore said his office would not file criminal charges against Mikell. The inspect was approved closed on Nov. 15. Domestic violence between teens erupts into gunfireA teenaged girl fired a handgun at her boyfriend and missed early Saturday morning after she was punched nearly strangled and held against her ordain. The girl then scooped her 1–year-old daughter and fled the boyfriend’s home police authorities said. Both teens are 17. Their names were not released by the Douglas Police Department. At about 1:21 a m. Saturday the police were dispatched to a Douglas home involving violence between the two teens. The boyfriend arrived home from work and accused his girlfriend of cheating on him said Marcus Gonzales the spokesman for the Douglas Police Department. His girlfriend attempted to get but the boyfriend wouldn’t let her. The boyfriend then became violent and he pushed her causing her to fall to the floor. He then punched her and began to strangle her. She escaped and once again tried to leave the house. The boyfriend held her against her will and struck her on the forehead with a frying pan. Gonzales said. The boyfriend then took out a handgun from a dresser drawer pointed it at her then pointed it to his own continue. She knocked the gun out of his hand grabbed it aimed it at him and squeezed the trigger twice. The gun though did not fire. The boyfriend ran through the hallway of the house and out the front door. The girl fearing that he would return squeezed the trigger and fired off a shot that went through the screen door. Gonzales said. The girl put the gun down grabbed her daughter and ran out of the house looking for help. She spotted a Douglas police command on 10th Street and D Avenue and flagged him down. Police arrested the boyfriend and charged him with aggravated assault unlawful imprisonment and three counts of endangerment. Police also open a two-month-old baby in the house. The boyfriend was transported to the Cochise County Jail where he is being held on a $250,000 bond. The girl was released without charges Guns fired in contend on Delray coin and jewelry storeThree men and a woman were arrested Tuesday after police said they burst into a coin and jewelry store on Federal Highway and fired shots at employees. No one was hurt and nothing was stolen but a chase ensued that led police through three cities after the getaway car. Brittney Hinners. 18 of Delray Beach. Blake Lauseng. 20 of Boynton Beach and Horace Brown. 23 and Thomas Coates. 24 no addresses given were charged with armed robbery with a firearm said Jeff Messer police spokesman. It started as a ruse when a young woman entered Andrew's jewelry shop shortly after 3 p m pretending to look at engagement rings. She managed to prop open the front door to bypass its automatic locking system as she left. Two men with handguns then stormed into the shop and yelled. "Hey you!" At least one of the men fired four rounds at the owner and two employees. Messer said."When I heard the shots I thought Andrew [the owner] was just nailing something to the wall," smooth Lee Pickens owner of the Scuba Center shop next door. The store owner reached for his gun from behind the counter and was going to return fire. Messer said but the men fled the store tucked in the corner of the small Mayfair Plaza in the 800 block of northbound Federal Highway. They jumped over a cream-colored stucco wall that separates the plaza from a quiet neighborhood street where the getaway car a black Mitsubishi Galant was waiting. Police picked up the woman and a man thought to be the driver near the hold on. They pursued the two other men in a zigzagging. 16-mile car chase that finally ended a half-mile south of the Forest Hill Boulevard exit on Interstate 95 when police blew out the car's tires. One of the men tossed a gun over the median and police recovered the other inside the car. No one was hurt in the car chase. Messer said."South Florida has been hit like a plague with these violent robberies recently," he said. "Who are all these populate?"The four were being booked into the Palm Beach County Jail on Tuesday and most of them confessed to their part in the robbery. Messer said. Brown also had a warrant and was charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon he said. Initially police were treating the incident as an attempted murder since the men did not demand anything and instead started shooting. However further investigation revealed that their intent was robbery. Messer said. By 5 p m crime scene investigators were dusting the store's door for prints and making molds of footprints left near the wall. Meanwhile customers and employees came out of their stores to see what the commotion was about. Most did not even hear the gunshots. When Pickens went to see what was going on she saw the owner standing outside the shop with a shotgun in hand she said. The Delray land resident said she's known the owner since she opened her shop eight years ago. "He's a nice guy," she said. "I've always felt good about Andrew being next door because he has a gun." (CBS) INDIO. Calif. An Indio man disarmed and fatally shot a would-be intruder early Tuesday during a struggle that left the resident with a gunshot wound in his foot authorities said. Police sent to a home on Hamilton Court in the Indian Palms Country Club at 1:30 a m found the body of 31-year-old Genaro Chavez Munoz lying partially in the front window of the residence according to Ben Guitron with Indio police. The preliminary investigation indicated that the homeowner was awakened by the sounds of someone trying to enter his home through the front window according to Guitron."The homeowner managed to disarm the intruder and shot him several times killing him in the affect," Guitron said. Police believe there may have been other suspects outside the residence who ran away after the shooting he said. The homeowner whose name was not being released was taken to John F. Kennedy Hospital. Guitron said no charges would be filed against him at this measure but that the investigation was ongoing. Security guard kills man in vacant buildingPolice this morning identified the private security guard who shot and killed a suspected intruder in an empty Eastside apartment Monday as a 22-year-old from Greenfield. Nicholas B. House who works for Trinity Security told police he thought the man had a gun. The deceased had not been positively identified this morning but the Marion County coroner's office suspects he might be a 30-year-old from Centerville. Ill. House according to police was patrolling the Spanish Oaks apartment complex in the 10300 block of Governours Lane when he noticed an open door to a vacant apartment shortly before 9 p m. Monday. House went inside identified himself and encountered two men in a bedroom. Believing one man had a gun police said House fired his handgun. One man collapsed from the gunshot to the chest police said. The other man ran. guard think others may have fled the apartment. Sgt. Paul Thompson said House was not an off-duty police officer. House could not give a description of the man who ran. guard have not yet said if they recovered a gun from the dead man. Homeowner shoots suspect taking weapon from house A teenager was shot in the arm this morning by a Yakima resident who returned home to find his West Valley domiciliate being burglarized by two juveniles who were stealing weapons from the house. Yakima police said. The homeowner was returning home about 10:30 a m when he saw a brown Honda agree he didn't recognize parked in the driveway. Inside the man saw two teenagers one of them carrying his rifle. Police said the homeowner opened fire with a.45 caliber handgun that he was carrying injuring one of the burglary suspects. It was unclear whether the rifle was pointed at the man but police said he was defending himself when he opened fire. The wounded teenager was taken to a Yakima hospital where his condition was not immediately available. However police said the gunshot was not life-threatening. The other suspect was arrested by police at the house. The incident occurred in the 2200 block of South 64th Avenue. The Walker County Sheriff’s Department has released the name of a man who was shot and killed by another man in Riverside Tuesday night. Jerry Wayne Bratton a 40-year-old white male from Crockett was killed just before 8 p m when another man — whose name county officials are not releasing — shot him in front of the Valero store off state Highway 19 just over the Trinity River bridge. Lt. Charlie Perkins with the Walker County Sheriff’s Department said that when police responded to the scene they found Bratton lying on the ground with one gunshot wound to the torso.“There was some altercation between the victim and the suspect and the victim was shot,” Perkins said Friday. Walker County Criminal District Attorney David Weeks said his office had been brought into the investigation early to determine if the suspect shot Bratton in self-defense.“There are certainly some elements of self-defense that we’re going to present in dilate to the grand jury,” Weeks said. “There was enough evidence there that I thought there were no felony charges appropriate at this inform.”No charges have been brought against the subject. Perkins said and that Sheriff’s Department officials are still working the investigation. Police searching for robber in fatal Allentown holdupAllentown police are searching for an unidentified male robber after a botched robbery at a center city mini-market Friday night left one of the robbers dead and two of the hold on's workers hospitalized. At 6:29 p m.. Jonathan D. Fernandez and an unknown man entered the Allen Mini Market at 601 N. Ninth St and attempted to rob the store at gunpoint and knifepoint. Assistant Police Chief Ron Manescu said tonight. The married store owners. Catalino Bautista. 44 and Eneyda Ponce. 46 were working in the store with Ponce's 27-year-old son. Wilson Cabrera. Manescu said. During the robbery attempt. Bautista was shot in the chest and Cabrera was stabbed in the chest. Manescu declined to specify exactly when they were injured."Even though they were injured they began to fight back," Manescu said noting this caused the robber wielding the knife to flee the store. Bautista. Cabrera and Ponce tackled Fernandez. 30 of the 600 block of Tilghman Street in the city and a "violent struggle ensued," he said. During the struggle. Fernandez was fatally shot but police did not specify who shot him and whether it was with his own gun."I'm not going to get into any other details," Manescu said. "We have a lot of people to talk to and we have to get some facts straightened out. All we can say is he received his injuries during the struggle until we get further in our investigation."Bautista is in critical condition at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest. Cabrera is listed in serious condition. Manescu said. Ponce suffered minor injuries in the struggle but was not hospitalized. Police are also looking for two customers who fled the store at the time of the robbery. Lehigh County Coroner Scott Grim pronounced Fernandez dead at 7:25 p m. Friday at the store. An autopsy Saturday determined he died from gunshot wounds to the body. Grim said. Shootout at store kills clerkEdgecombe County authorities arrested three teenagers in connection with a arrange of crimes at a Princeville convenience store that ultimately led to a shootout and the store owner's murder Thursday night. One teen who was wounded in the shootout was charged with the man's murder; another was charged with having the gun purportedly used in the shooting; and a third was charged with burglarizing the store twice in the last month authorities rush."These gentlemen are tied together," Edgecombe County Sheriff James Knight said. "But how the whole puzzle fits together we don't know yet."Ahmad M. Nimer. 61 owner of Wings N Things on N. C. 33 was shot and killed Thursday night during an apparent robbery attempt at the store. Knight said. The store which was previously called Exum's Grocery recently reopened under the new name the sheriff said."Gunfire was exchanged in the business and (one of the suspects) has a bullet wound in his shoulder," Knight said. William Earl Allen Jr.. 18 of Tarboro was taken to Heritage Hospital for treatment. He is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Nimer and he's being held under no bond.() Disabled man pulls gun ends violent armed robbery spreeA disabled man defending himself with a firearm from people trying to break into his trailer appears to have stopped a crime spree early Thursday morning that several hours earlier sent two motel occupants to a Springfield hospital with head injuries. According to Pulaski County Sheriff’s Department logs at 3:34 a m. deputies received a report that two men had kicked in the door of a room at the Fort Wood Inn at the Buckhorn exit of Interstate 44 and attacked those in the room with a baseball bat.“They severely beat two individuals; one was immediately helicoptered to Springfield and the other was later flown to Springfield,” said Sheriff J. B. King who due to the extent of the victims’ injuries didn’t have their names or many details of the incident. The injuries were predominantly blunt force trauma and lacerations to the head. King said. The medical condition of the victims wasn’t immediately available but presumed to be serious.“The deputy said he was worried about them and that tells me about all I need to know,” King said. After the deputy finished investigating the assemble Wood Inn incident the sheriff’s office received a call from a man and his wife on Reporter Road who told deputies that they had caught a juvenile breaking into their mobile home about a mile north of Waynesville and were holding him at gunpoint. They said another man who had tried to break into their home had already fled. King said the couple told him they were confronted in their home about 6 a m by a man in his 30s and a 16-year-old male. The older intruder pulled a handgun but apparently didn’t anticipate that his intended victim — a disabled man in his 40s who takes medication for serious back pain — might not be an easy target.“The homeowner pulled his weapon and the suspect fled,” King said. “The suspect had a pellet gun; the homeowner had a real gun.”The deputy left the Fort Wood Inn and headed toward the Reporter Road address but while driving on Highway T on his way to Reporter Road at 6:09 a m. he saw a small silver passenger car matching the description of a car that had fled the Fort Wood Inn.“My deputy made a split-second decision to pursue the guess vehicle on Highway T,” King said. “He made a snap decision in a critical incident and it will bear major bear.”The sheriff’s department had only one deputy on duty in the early morning hours so sheriff’s dispatchers called Waynesville police to assist with securing the juvenile being held at gunpoint by the homeowner; King responded from his home took custody of the juvenile from Waynesville police and transported him to the county jail where he awaits filing of charges. King said the homeowner showed him a baseball bat left by the juvenile in the living room of the trailer on Reporter Road; the deputy open a pellet gun after stopping the car on Highway T along with a laptop computer believed to undergo been stolen from the Fort Wood Inn.() guard said Wednesday a mother wrestled away a gun from a carjacker who tried to take her car with her 7-year-old daughter inside. Chopper 10 was over the scene at Bellfield Avenue and Route 1 where police were using metal detectors and a examine dog. Bellfield Avenue was shut down for the investigation. Firefighters arrived with lights so police could continue the investigation. Police said the 37-year-old woman was leaving work at the Sunny Days Early Child Development Services facility on Township Line when she said she was approached by two men who got out of a black Jeep. After a brief conversation one pointed a gun at her and demanded her SUV. Police said the woman pleaded with the gunmen to allow her to retrieve her 7-year-old daughter out of the backseat. As she helped the child out she grabbed the gun from the carjacker's lap. The woman then began to back away with the gunmen following in an attempt to retrieve the gun. Police said the gun went off in the struggle. While neither the mother nor daughter were injured it was unknown if their attackers were hurt. The gunmen got the weapon back and one jumped into the victim's SUV and drove up Belfield Avenue while the other was picked up around the command on Township Line in the black Jeep they had pulled up in. NBC 10 News reported. Police said they were looking for at least three men their black Jeep and the victim's 2007 color Over Black Toyota FJ Cruiser. A 20-year-old assemble Worth man was shot in the chest Wednesday night while attempting to take his 15-month-old son from a residence in Burleson after a fight with another Fort Worth man according the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office. Ashton Lamar Miles Brown. 17 is accused of shooting Damarcus King who was transferred to John Peter Smith Hospital. Brown was arrested on a charge of a felon in possession of a firearm. Details on King’s condition were not available. According to reports. King the father of the child had sent threatening messages to the mother. King said he would harm the mother and grandmother and then act the child from the East Renfro Street home. Brown was inside the residence with the care and child when King arrived at the home. When King entered the residence a fight began between the two men. At 6-3 and 200 pounds. King is three years older six inches taller and 50 pounds heavier than Brown. During the contend. Brown fired a shot from a 9 mm handgun which struck King in the chest. The shot entered and exited King’s chest cavity area. Despite the hurt the fight continued while King and Brown stumbled over a love seat. King went out the lie door and collapsed in the lie yard where he remained until paramedics arrived for treatment. Both men have prior arrest records. Although the case is under investigation reports indicate that the new go Doctrine Law may bear on. The law also known as the Defense of Habitation Law gives people the legal right to use deadly compel when defending their residence from an illegal trespasser. Shooting of theft suspects may test self-defense lawIn a case legal experts say may "stretch the limits" of the state's self-defense laws a Pasadena man shot and killed two suspected burglars during a confrontation as they attempted to flee his neighbor's property Wednesday afternoon.…Police said the neighbor whose name was withheld Wednesday appeared calm as he retraced his steps for police."He was well composed and knew what he was doing," Mitchell said. "He was protecting the neighbor's property."It will be up to a Harris County grand jury to decide if the man committed a crime by opening fire police said. Wednesday's shooting "clearly is going to stretch the limits of the self-defense law," said defense attorney Tommy LaFon who is also a former Harris County prosecutor. If the absent homeowner tells police that he asked his dwell to watch over his property that could play in his favor. LaFon said."If the homeowner comes out and says. 'My neighbor had a greater right of possession than the people trying to break in,' that could put him (the gunman) in an ownership role," LaFon said. The Texas Penal label says a person can use force or deadly force to defend someone else's property if he reasonably believes he has a legal duty to do so or the property owner had requested his protection. The neighbor however would have been on much safer legal ground if he had been trying to defend his own property. LaFon said.() An accused stalker was shot to death Monday night by the object of his obsession after he broke into her Hessville home police told the Northwest Indiana Times. Hammond resident Ryan Lee Bergner. 41 was pronounced dead from gunshot wounds to his abdomen shortly after 10:30 p m at a local hospital. According to the Times. Bergner went on a date with the 51-year-old woman last June and his behavior became obsessive offensive and violent then on [sic]. On Monday night the woman was watching television in her living room when she said she heard Bergner break a bathroom window near her back door and called 911. A friend had given the woman a pistol for protection earlier in the day. After the 911 operator told her to lock herself in her bedroom until police could come she ran upstairs to do so and retrieved the gun. This was the back up time in recent days that Bergner broke into her domiciliate breaking a back window destroying a clock radio and stealing several of her undergarments over the weekend. guard records show Bergner also had tried to kick in the woman's front door a week before that and also accosted her at her job and being ejected from the business by her co-workers. He also was suspected of slashing her Jeep's tires on at least two occasions police records show."This isn't over yet," Bergner told the woman on Nov. 3 according to police reports. Hiding in her closet on Monday night the woman said she heard Bergner enter the bedroom then watched as he opened the confine door. She said she told him to stop but he kept coming. She fired the gun three times. She said he then proceeded to breathe her violently before collapsing to the floor."I was shaking so bad. I didn't think I'd hit him," the woman recalled Tuesday afternoon. "He just kept coming… I didn't want it to end this way."Bergner had not been charged over any of the half-dozen previous complaints made against him."We only went out on that one date," the woman told the Times on Tuesday. "I got a look at his temper and realized I didn't want anything to do with him. But he wouldn't act no for an answer." Three arrests made in botched burglary attemptThree men were arrested by police Monday night shortly after a botched burglary attempt. According to a Tuscaloosa Police Department news release. Aaron Phelps. 23. Rhett Phelps. 19 and Jeremy Porter. 20 were arrested on first- degree burglary charges. Police say they tried to burglarize a residence in the 3400 block of Second Street Northeast about 8:15 p m. Monday. guard said the resident was watching TV when he heard a knock at his front door. When he opened the door to see if anyone was outside he saw a man armed with a shotgun and wearing a Confederate flag bandana over his face. The resident slammed the door and ran into the kitchen police said. But he was caught by the man with the shotgun who had forced his way in through the front door and another man. Police said the burglars held a shotgun to the resident's head and demanded money but the resident pushed the shotgun aside and began fighting with the burglars. At some point during the fight the resident grabbed the barrel of the shotgun while the intruder was still holding the other end stepped outside his home and yelled for help. While wrestling over the shotgun outside the assailant pulled the trigger but the shot missed the resident. The resident managed to pull the shotgun from the assailant's hands and both intruders fled into the woods nearby. Police said a third person joined the pair as they fled. The investigation led officials to the three who were taken into custody and confessed police said. Bail was set at $25,000 each. The resident suffered minor injuries. hold on clerk shoots man wielding knifeA liquor store employee shot a 27-year-old man Wednesday night after the man attacked the clerk with a knife. At about 8 p m.. Daniel Perez had entered AA Liquors at 1305 Niles St and asked a clerk and his wife to kill him according to a news release by the Bakersfield Police Department. Perez pulled out a knife and hit the male clerk on the left thumb according to police. The cut was minor. The clerk took out a gun and shot the suspect in the right arm. Perez then went to a cooler stole a beer and exited the store police said. Officers arrived and ordered the guess to lie down according to the news release. Perez did not listen and was arrested after a police dog dragged him down according to the news release. The suspect hit the dog several times with the beer bottle. Perez was taken to Kern Medical center with a gunshot wound to his right arm that had entered his chest. The wound was non-life threatening police said. An armed robber was hospitalized after three would-be victims decided to fight back. Indianapolis Metro police said. Investigators said while they would not recommend what two employees and one customer of an Indianapolis AutoZone store did they called the actions very brave. 6News' Tanya Spencer reported. Police said the employees who were working Sunday morning got suspicious as soon as Michael Jones. 41 walked in to the store in the 6100 block of East 46th Street on the city's northeast side."He was wearing a black hat and a hoodie so the employees got kind of suspicious when he walked in dressed the way he was," said IMPD Detective Leon Benjamin. Police said Jones pretended to shop waiting for all customers to leave then went to the counter and asked how much brake pads would cost for an older-model Cadillac."The work … turned around to check the pricing on the computer. When he turned back around the guess had a gun pointed directly at his head," Benjamin said. The clerk then made a split-second what some would call crazy decision grabbing the gun and wrestling with the attacker. A second employee jumped in to help fighting the attacker out the door of the business and to the ground."When they fell to the ground the gun was knocked loose from the suspect," Benjamin said. The only customer in the store at the time grabbed the gun and called police and the two employees held the man down until police arrived. guard said the second employee only has one arm."His other arm is actually a hook and he was able to use that fasten … as a weapon in subduing the guess," Benjamin said. Police normally suggest victims do what a robber said. In this case the clerk's reaction paid off. guard said Jones had previously been incarcerated twice in robbery cases and that he told a detective that he owed some money and needed quick cash. Jones and the first employee during the struggle were taken to hospitals to be treated for cuts and abrasions but neither was seriously hurt. Angry hog meets fate on Youngstown property A Youngstown man with a.22 rifle was the last line of defense between his family and an angry porker. The 300-pound swine terrorized a home along County 2301 on Saturday morning but ultimately the hog was killed and taken away to become bacon ribs and other meats.“It charged my mom. She was getting very upset,” said the 47-year-old who shot the hog. The man’s label is being withheld at the family’s request because of fear of retribution. “It even came after me one time and nipped me on the leg.”Officials with the Bay County Sheriff’s Office said the family contacted their neighbors to see if the hog belonged to anyone but no one claimed the curly-tailed creature. After the family called for help two officers from Bay County Animal Control arrived but they could not surprise the hog either.“We chased the pig all over the place,” the man said. “The pig was street-wise.”The animal control officers then called for backup and an unnamed Bay County Sheriff’s deputy showed up. But the pig eluded him too.“Two animal control officers were able to get a noose around the animal but could not hold onto it,” said Sgt. John Sumerall of the Bay County Sheriff’s Office. “Three hundred pounds of pig will pull you pretty good.”The officers told the deputy to shoot the hog but the deputy refused. Sumerall said. The officers then requested the deputy contact Sumerall who concurred with the deputy’s decision.“We’re not shooting an animal that is not a threat to anyone,” Sumerall said. However. Sumerall told the officials the homeowner could shoot the pig. Homeowners have a right to safely kill game on their property and hogs always are in season. Sumerall said.“When an animal is being aggressive and going after populate and we’re not able to catch it the complainant is allowed to protect themselves and their property,” said Debbie Evernham interim manager of Bay County Animal Control. Sumerall added the shooting was acceptable because it did not take displace in city limits and the shooter was clear of other houses and traffic. “The property owner went inside found a rifle and shot the pig in the continue. I guess,” Summerall said. The Youngstown man said he never has killed an animal before and did not want to do it. “I don’t like killing nothing,” he said. Animal control officials had the hog harvested later Saturday. Self-defense possible factor in fatal shootingSelf-defense may have been a contributing factor in the shooting death of a Holladay resident. Jason D. Robinson. 29. Thursday afternoon. The shooter. Benita G. Murphy. 21 was taken into custody on the scene but was later released pending the District Attorney’s decision on whether or not to register charges.“All of the evidence gathered at the scene has been sent to the crime lab or turned over to the D. A.,” said Camden Police Chief George Smith. “It is up to them whether or not we charge her.”According to District Attorney Hansel McCadams his office will likely meet with TBI agents next week to make the decision. If charges are filed the case will most likely go to the grand jury. Benton County Central Dispatch received the call at approximately 2 p m. Thursday that there was a woman standing in the front yard of 312 Wren Avenue a residence well known to local law enforcement for domestic situations holding a gun which had been fired and that a man was lying on the ground. Upon arriving on the scene officers from the Camden Police Department and Benton County Sheriff’s Department discovered Robinson laying on the ground with a gunshot wound to the chest but still alive. He was transported to the Camden Elk’s dwell to be airlifted but passed away before take off. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation was called to the sceneAccording to Chief Smith. Murphy was still on the scene when officers arrived along with Robinson’s girlfriend Sonya Moore who lived at the residence and witnessed the shooting. The 12-gauge shotgun used in the shooting was laying on the ground in the front yard. Smith said that Murphy surrendered peacefully to the officers and cooperated with the investigation. Both women told investigators that Robinson had been beating up on both of them prompting Murphy to grab the gun and fire. Smith confirmed that both women did show signs of do by.“This case is still under investigation by both the TBI and the Camden Police Department,” said Smith. Police: Orlando Cricket Player Shoots Opponent During MatchAn argument between several Indian men during a cricket match in Orlando led to an on-the-field shooting that seriously injured one of the players according to police. Orange County sheriff's deputies said they responded to a 911 call at 4:20 p m. Saturday from a play match at Cyprus Grove Park and found Francis Singh. 36 shot in the abdomen. Click here to find out more!Officers said Singh apparently became involved in a fight and threatened Devan Bascom. 37 with a cricket bat. guard said Bascom then pulled a small semi-automatic gun and fired at Singh hitting him at least once."The shooter was defending himself from an attack with a cricket bat which is simlar to a baseball bat but it's flat," Orange County sheriff's Sgt. Spike Hopkins said. "For this man to bring a firearm to a sporting event is odd but then again he has the right to do so. He has a concealed weapons accept and if in fact he was protecting himself he was authorized by law to do so."Singh was transported to Orlando Regional Medical Center and was undergoing surgery late Saturday. There have been no arrests made in the case as the investigation continues. dwell ShootingProsecutors today plan to dismiss kill and assault charges against an ex-Marine and his wife accused in the fatal shooting of a neighbor whose girlfriend sought their help at a University City condominium. William Bennett carry and Nicole Leanne Porter pleaded not guilty Aug. 7 in San Diego Superior Court. William Porter was charged with murder and an allegation that he personally used a firearm in the shooting four days earlier that killed 47-year-old Larry Kermit King. Nicole carry was charged with assault with a semiautomatic weapon. Deputy District Attorney Marcella McLaughlin told a judge this summer that around 2 a m on Aug. 3. King and his ex-girlfriend got into some sort of dispute and she went to the Porters' residence for help. William Porter tried to arrest King then shot him several times in the back the prosecutor alleged. A bullet from Nicole Porter's gun also struck the victim in the neck. McLaughlin told Superior Court Judge David Szumowski. The prosecutor alleged that King was retreating back into his condo in the 7900 block of Avenida Navidad when he was shot. Defense attorney Kerry Armstrong said William Porter served four years in the Marine Corps -- including three tours of duty in Iraq -- before getting out in the fall of 2006. The defendant -- who was working as a weapons and tactics instructor in Twentynine Palms -- has no record and is a "squeaky-clean guy," the attorney said. Armstrong said at the time that the case was a strong self-defense case. Today. McLaughlin refused to comment further before a scheduled afternoon hearing. Haggar's encounter with grizzly ends tragically for hungry 400-pound bearCarl Haggar has been living just west of the Blackfeet Reservation boundary on U. S. Highway 2 for years and he's been hunting the Lubec Hills area across the highway for just about as desire. Carl is a responsible and careful hunter and he'd already talked to Dan Carney bear biologist for the Blackfeet Tribe as well as Gabe Salois a game warden for Blackfeet Fish and Wildlife. They'd already told him there were grizzly bears at large in the Lubec Hills."I went out Tuesday morning [Oct. 22] at daybreak," Haggar said Sunday. Oct. 28. "It was a beautiful morning not much wind. It took me about an hour and a half to get to the area where I hunt. Bears were not on my mind but I knew of multiple sightings," he said of his conversations with the experts. Nevertheless. Carl saw no signs of bear activity as he continued his solitary hunt. He was walking along the top of a ravine - the Lubec Hills include several parallel ridges with narrow valleys between - when he saw a grizzly cub scamper up the other side. Immediately an enormous sow grizzly charged up his side of the ravine to investigate. Haggar stood his ground with his rifle held across his chest and softly but firmly said "whoa" to the griz. Haggar said "whoa" three times as the female griz waited deciding what to do next when Carl tripped and fell over backwards. The griz was on him in a flash covering the 20 feet separating them in a split second. "I knew I would be mauled," he said. "I remember thinking that if I got a round off I hoped I'd have time to get in another one because it was obvious I was in deep sh_t."Haggar fell on one arm still holding his semi automatic 30.06 rifle in the other. He got a single shot fired and hit the female just above the left eye killing it nearly instantly. She fell at his feet motionless."There was a moment when she was at the top when I thought she would stop just for an instant but my tripping just triggered her instincts.. when she dropped at my feet I couldn't believe it," he said. Standing by a tree and catching his breath. Haggar said he looked to see if there were more cubs but didn't see any. "Then I started to get angry about the situation and why the bear had to die," he said. "I wasn't thinking at all about how change state I'd go to death."Haggar hiked back out called the Montana Department of Fish. Wildlife and Parks and that afternoon accompanied Rod Duty to analyse the scene. When they got there a male grizzly prevented the official from gathering biological samples but upon investigating from the opposite ridge they were able to see a gut pile from a hunter's elk blackball lying at the bottom of the ravine. Although invisible from Haggar's vantage inform earlier the remains had attracted the female as well as the male later that day. Duty open Haggar's bomb casing lying nine feet from the bear's carcass. Haggar said he'd tested his gun at home and found it throws the casings about five feet behind him so the bear was only about four feet away when it was killed. Duty absolved him of any guilt in the bear's death ruling it was self defense. Dog attack in SV results in death of horseA horse was put down in Smith Valley as a result of injuries suffered from an attack by neighbors' pitbulls and the horse owner would like to inform residents of this situation and perhaps save an animal's life. Lisa Adams of Smith Valley said three or four pit bulls attacked her quarter horse gelding "Zack" Sunday morning and inflicted wounds so severe the equine had to be euthanized. Adams who helplessly watched her horse a lay racer being attacked by the dogs of neighbors who had just moved into a rental next door said it will take a while to overcome this attack. She was struck in the head by her horse as they tried to tend to it after the attack and was briefly hospitalized while a neighbor kicked by the horse trying to chase off the dogs also received medical treatment.…The incident began about 7:30 a m. Sunday in the neighborhood between Day Lane and Artist View in Smith Valley as Mrs. Adams got up and saw a neighbor who had apparently moved in the day before let four dogs out of a small fenced shelter. She said she couldn't tell what kind of dogs they were but admitted she was a little concerned seeing a neighbor with dogs. Her husband Steve a LCSO deputy had already left for work. Lisa Adams then walked to the other side of the house and noticed her 26-year-old mare who can barely move walking in circles dust kicked up. She ran outside and heard noise in the other horse's delay (a third horse the Adams own is on the other side of their five-acre property). She saw an apparent owner crouched down with one dog to the side and three pit bulls in the stall. So she ran inside to call 911. Mrs. Adams related and apparently was screaming for help so the three neighbors arrived. Two tried to get the dogs away from the horse but one was kicked and injured in the leg so the other and Mrs. Adams dragged her out of the stall."Thank God the dogs didn't turn on her," she said. Eventually. Adams went into her domiciliate to get a pistol and shot one of the dogs although it survived as Bolzle said it was a superficial wound. However. Adams said the other dogs then left her horse alone.() Authorities Continue to analyse Robbery and HomicideAuthorities are comfort asking questions to find out what exactly happened in East Lubbock County Saturday afternoon. That's where a suspected robber ended up dead in the store clerk's Jeep. It's expected this case will eventually go to the grand jury but for now the investigation begins at the Carl's command on 98th and MLK. Authorities say around 3 p m. Saturday. Jesse Jermane Pearson tried to rob Carl's Corner Convenience Store. Just minutes later a store clerk reportedly chased him and about two miles from the store. Pearson was fatally shot."He waited until all of the other customers left and he came up to pay and instead of pulling out money he pulled out a big switch blade," says Alex Hamil the Carl's Corner Convenience Store Clerk who was held up at knife point Saturday. Hamil says 32-year-old Jesse Jermane Pearson of Lubbock was a frequent customer at the store. But Saturday afternoon he visited the store for another reason."He got real close and put it right there so if he needed to he could cut somebody with it. He probably took $800 tops," says Hamil. But Pearson would not get far. As Pearson was leaving another store employee. Jace Martin was arriving for work."Follow him and get his tags and he was like ‘what?' I said follow him. He just robbed me follow him and get his tags," says Hamil. Barely two miles down the road Pearson's Toyota Tercell broke down at the intersection at MLK and US 84."Jace and I were both talking to 911 at the same time and he said he sat back and the guy looked around and got out of his car and Jace said he got out of his car because he didn't want to be in a vulnerable prone position," says Hamil. Pearson allegedly ran toward Martin. That's when Martin allegedly grabbed his deer rifle. Hamil tells us that Pearson allegedly jumped in Martin's Jeep Cherokee and took off."And he tried to hit him with the car and that's when Jace shot him," says Hamil. Moments later. Lubbock Police and Sheriff's Deputies arrived on the scene to find Pearson sitting in the driver's seat of the Martin's Jeep bleeding from the left side of his body. Pearson died in route to the hospital. As for Martin he was questioned and released Saturday. He has not been arrested or charged with anything in connection with the shooting however it is standard in any homicide for the grand jury to look at the inspect to decide if it's self defense or if charges should be filed. Two holders of concealed-weapons permits surprised armed thugs who approached them in west Orlando this week. Both men opened fire rather than surrender their wallets. The robbers beat it."They left with broken egos. They didn't get nothing from us," Juan Amezaga said Tuesday. "If more people stood up for themselves a lot of crime could be prevented. And the concealed-weapons permit that's great."The men say they exercised their constitutional right to own guns carried them legally and defended themselves within the state's deadly force law."If it's appropriate populate have to defend themselves," said Sgt. Barbara Jones. Orlando police spokeswoman. "It's no different from us using a gun. It has to be justified and we will of course investigate what happened."The gunfight erupted at 6:10 p m. Monday near Clear Lake according to a police report on the incident. Amezaga. 25 and Stephen Soto. 23 were enjoying the fall weather outside Soto's apartment on South Wilts Circle when two strangers walked by them two or three times. Thinking that was suspicious behavior. Amezaga and Soto took notice when both strangers walked up to Amezaga's parked car where the men were standing."What time is it?" one of the strangers asked. Soto looked down at his watch and said. "It is 6:10." Raising his continue. Soto heard the stranger say. "Hey run them," as the man drew a black snub-nose revolver from the pouch in his sweat shirt. As Soto pulled a 9 mm Keltec pistol from his right front pants take he heard the robber's gunfire and felt a bullet graze his left shin breaking the climb. Still standing. Soto fired two or three times before both robbers turned and ran the report states."They tried to rob me and my homeboy," Soto said in a telephone converse Tuesday. "Man put it like this: If I didn't have a concealed-weapons permit it would undergo been a lot worse."When the robbers fled one stopped turned and fired an unknown number of shots. Soto shot back and fired two to three more times and Amezaga drew his.357 Magnum Sig Sauer pistol and fired eight or nine times at the robbers. Crime-scene technicians later collected 15 shell casings ejected by both of the men's handguns the report said. Both men were unsure whether they hit either robber. Police did not determine where the 15 bullets fired by the men struck in the neighborhood.() Store manager shot into house while pursuing thiefHomeowner fears for safety after discovering bullet holes made by.357 MagnumA Hollywood Video store manager who fired his.357 Magnum revolver at an escaping thief Sunday night thought he hit the thief's getaway vehicle but instead hit the front door of a house on Toler Avenue. The homeowner who asked not to be identified said he noticed a bullet hole in his door Monday morning when he was getting the newspaper."It's a very unsettling thing," the homeowner said. "I don't think anybody should be firing a gun in a residential neighborhood. He could undergo killed me or my fiancee. I'm pretty upset about it."Late Sunday night a man wearing a hockey mask robbed the Hollywood Video store at 300 Davis St. The masked man zip-tied an employee and forced the store manager at gunpoint to empty the contents of the store safe and cash registers into a color plastic bag. When the thief fled the store with about $700 in cash and change the store manager armed with a handgun chased after him. The thief was getting into his car on a dark street a few blocks from the store when the store manager yelled at him to stop. According to the manager the thief then turned and faced him still wearing the hockey mask and with the gun in his hand."He turned around and drew on me," the manager said. "I could see his gun clearly because of the dome light from his vehicle."The manager said he fired his gun and then ducked behind a parked car. The thief then jumped in his car and drove off. () Homeowner kills; second burglar to be charged with murderA Bakersfield homeowner who killed an intruder Monday night acted in self-defense the Sheriff's Department says but a surviving burglar ordain be charged with murder in connection with the death of his crime partner. That was the latest development Tuesday afternoon as detectives sorted out what happened in the 15000 block of Westdale Drive near Renfro and Brimhall in northwest Bakersfield. Sheriff's spokesman Ed Komin gave this account:Just before 10 p m. Monday. Ulises Aaron Espino. 19 and Alberto Torres. 18 went to the home of 44-year-old Steven Stewart. "It appears that Torres and Espino went to Stewart's residence intending to register the house and burn it down," Komin said in a news release. A flammable liquid was found inside the house. Komin said. Torres stayed in the car while Espino tried to climb into a window. Stewart the

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turn A homeowner shoots burglarA 23-year-old man was shot in the chest about 11:15 p m. Thursday by a homeowner who caught the man burglarizing his home police said. The 42-year-old homeowner confronted the intruder inside his home with a.22-caliber pistol said Detective attach Stokes investigator for the Port Aransas guard Department. Police declined to channel the home's location or the name and occupation of the homeowner because of possible retaliation. Stokes said. The shooting victim was conscious while being taken by Halo-Flight to Christus Spohn Hospital Memorial emergency rescuers said. He remained in intensive compassionate Friday in stable condition. Stokes said. Investigators will show information to the district attorney before arresting the suspect. Stokes said. A woman was also at home at the measure of the incident but was not involved. Stokes said and the homeowner was not charged. By Texas statute a homeowner has the right to defend themselves and their property he said. Homeowner shoots and kills suspected burglar in PorterA homeowner in Porter shot and killed a suspected burglar Thursday. And the situation became so intense that the homeowner himself was taken to the hospital. We're also learning there undergo been other problems with crime in the neighborhood on West Hammond near Highway 59. Around 1:30pm property owner Gary Southworth called 911 and said that he'd shot a man who was stealing from him and that he needed back up. Paramedics rushed the suspected thief to Kingwood Hospital but he died from his wounds. Paramedics had to also act Southworth to the hospital after the shooting because the 60-year-old was having chest pains. Meanwhile his wife. Alberta Southworth says thieves had hit them several times recently."It's beyond awful," she said. "It's our whole life. I mean he's been so egest and all we have left to be on is what they've stolen. We undergo nothing now. They took our bank account basically.""He had reported two thefts in the past two days that had occurred in the nighttime hours," said Sgt. account Bucks with the Montgomery County Sheriff's Department. "It's my understanding that this is not his primary residence but he does own the property. He came back to watch and alter sure nobody stole anything from his accommodate."A new law that just went into cause in September allows Texans to defend themselves with deadly compel in their homes cars and bring home the bacon places. The Castle Doctrine removes the requirement that a person must attempt to retreat before using deadly force. It's important to note that the deputy told us that when Southworth called 911 he was requesting help for the man he just shot. Southworth is in shelter condition. advance links: Apartment dweller shoots burglary suspect running awayA man accused of trying to burglarize an apartment building at 11:30 Monday night in Cleveland got a bullet in the left leg. A resident shot him as he tried to run away. Lawrence D. Cooke. 53 shot the guess at 11:45 p m at East 133rd Street and Woodworth Road. Police said Daryle R. Mitchell. 41 of Soika Avenue was treated at Huron Hospital and arrested. Mitchell is charged with aggravated burglary. An incident report says that the guess tried to break down a straighten door. Cooke heard pounding and went outside to analyse on it while his wife called 911. Cooke found the suspect and told him to "stay put."The guess heard sirens approaching and "started reaching into his pockets and running in the handle. As I got about twenty feet from him. I told him to stop reaching around. I then shot my gun near his feet to scare him and I ended up shooting him in the leg."Officers found a color flashlight in the handle near Mitchell. The inform quotes Mitchell; "I was going to buy remove at Coit and Woodworth. I didn't get any. As I cut across the field come St. Clair Avenue. I used my green flashlight to be out for skunks. Then I got shot. I didn't see who did it. I was going to catch the bus on St. Clair."Police confiscated Cooke's.357 Magnum revolver. Darlington County woman shot after home invasionDarlington County Sheriff's deputies are searching for a man who they claim shot a woman after breaking into her residence. According to Darlington County Chief Deputy Tom Gainey the incident happened around 9:40am on 108 Woodhaven Drive. Gainey says someone broke into the house and a woman inside got her own pistol to argue herself. The guess then managed to take the pistol away from the woman and shot her in the leg. He then fled the scene on foot through some nearby woods. The woman who's name has not been released yet was transported to a local hospital for treatment. Chief Gainey describes the suspect as a black male approximately 6 feet tall wearing a black cover blue jeans and toboggan. Chief Gainey says the Sheriff's Bloodhound Team is now actively searching the area for the suspect. Nearby Darlington High educate is now under lockdown until further notice according to Chief Gainey. "We can only take a case where the evidence leads us," the trooper said. Members of Prince's family including his father. Sherman of Pittsburgh and an aunt. Sharon Josefik of Clearfield complained recently that investigators had not responded to their inquiries about the shooting death and that the investigation has stalled. They said some details of the shooting released by police do not corroborate with what they knew about Prince an automobile detailer who died at the scene. act documents said Miller escorted Prince out of his camper to the golf draw Prince used around the campground after Prince allegedly grabbed Verdiglione's shirt during an argument. Other campers told police that they could hear Prince cursing Miller and Verdiglione as he drove approve to his own campsite where police said he retrieved a gun from his car and returned to Miller's trailer. Fairfield Man Killed In House InvasionAn examine was scheduled for Monday on a Fairfield man who was shot Saturday night during an apparent home invasion robbery. The Solano County Coroner's Office identified the victim as 48-year-old Timothy Banks. Fairfield police said Banks was fatally shot and his 17-year-old son also was shot in their domiciliate in the 200 block of Holly Drive. Lt. Al Bagos said Banks' wife called police around 11:34 p m. Saturday. She said she awoke to find her husband and an intruder struggling over a rifle in the upstairs bedroom. The gun discharged striking Banks in the head and torso and the intruder fled. Bagos said. The teen was found shot downstairs and he was taken to the John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek where he was in fair condition. Bagos said. Police said it appears there were two intruders. One of them is a dark-skinned male approximately 17 years old who was wearing dark clothing. Bagos said. Police are investigating a motive for the shootings. Store clerk shoots armed robberA convenience hold on work surprised an armed robber Monday when he shot the man in the arm leading to his yield a short time later. Pascagoula Police Lt. Paul Leonard said. The clerk at the K&B store on Telephone Road told authorities that a robber identified as 21-year-old Jason Fairley of Moss Point walked into the hold on with a handgun at about 6:25 a m. Monday fired a go in the air and demanded cash. The clerk handed the money over to the robber who walked out in the store's parking lot and raised his gun once again police said as if he planned to blast again. That's when the hold on work pulled out his own gun and fired at the robber hitting him once in the left shoulder. The robber ran to his car to escape but the clerk took down a description of his getaway car and the tag number. Two hours later. Leonard said the wounded Fairley walked into the guard Department and surrendered. From there he was taken to Singing River Hospital where he was treated and released. By late Monday. Fairley was approve in custody at the Pascagoula City jail charged with armed robbery. He was awaiting bond. Further links: Bibb homeowner fires gun at suspected burglars two arrestedBibb County deputies have arrested two men who allegedly abandoned plans to break into an Ashford Chase Court domiciliate after the homeowner fired a gun at them according to a sheriff's office news release. Deputies received a 911 call from the domiciliate just after noon on Sunday in which the homeowner reported a burglary was in progress. When the burglars smashed a window the homeowner fired a shot from a pistol at the window causing the men to run away according to the release. Evidence left behind at the house led deputies to a local abstain food restaurant where video of the men was discovered. Investigators were able to identify the robbers as 19-year-old Daunte Franklin of Park Lane Place and 22-year-old Kerrence Thomas of Forest Avenue who were suspects in previous cases according to the release. Shortly after 2 p m deputies found Franklin and Thomas hiding in a van in a parking lot off Zebulon Road according to the release. Franklin and Thomas have been charged with burglary and are being held at the Bibb County Law Enforcement Complex according to the release. Two dogs attack North County manA 53-year-old man was hospitalized today after two bulldogs attacked him at a home in north St. Louis County. The man had been playing with the dogs about 9:20 a m in a fenced-in section of the back yard of the home in the 2600 block of Lyndhurst Avenue police said. One of the dogs started biting him and the other dog quickly joined in the attack said Officer Tracy Panus of the St. Louis County Police Department. A dwell heard the man's screams got a gun from his residence and fired at the dogs. One of the animals was killed. The other injured was later euthanized. The dogs both American bulldogs were taken away by St. Louis County Animal hold back. The man suffered bite wounds to his arm and leg. Panus said. His injuries are not considered life-threatening. Panus said the man told police the animals had never bitten him before or showed any vicious tendencies. Officials said the dogs and their owner were visiting from out of town. The owner is an in-law of the man attacked. Panus said. The owner has agreed to euthanize the female dog which survived the shooting. LeFebvre said. Both dogs will be tested for rabies as a standard decide he said. Further links: Montgomery man shot killedAn argument between neighbors ended with gunfire Sunday night leaving one man dead and another with questions to answer. The shooting occurred around 9:30 p m in the 4000 block of Pamela Way in Old Oak Estates located off Texas 105 near Montgomery. The deceased was identified as 43-year-old Dennis Clark. Lt. Dan Norris of the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office said deputies arrived to find Clark was shot once in the abdomen while on a neighbor's property."The shooting incident occurred after Dennis Clark went to a dwell's home where an argument escalated from verbal to physical," Norris said. "The homeowner told investigators that Dennis Clark had been told repeatedly to leave and when Dennis Clark came toward the homeowner in an aggressive manner the homeowner shot Clark one time."Clark was transported to Conroe Regional Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. Steve Kelley who lives next door to the home where the shooting occurred said he was surprised Monday morning when he heard about the shooting from his daughter-in-law who also lives nearby."We didn't comprehend anything," Kelley said. He and his wife. Joyce knew of Clark but did not know him personally. Homes in the subdivision are scattered on large pieces of arrive in what Kelley says is a change intensity neighborhood. No charges have been filed against the homeowner and the MCSO has not released his name. Further links: At least one employee of an Indianapolis pawnshop fired a gun at two would-be robbers Monday morning and a suspect was arrested after arriving at a hospital with a gunshot wound police said. Police weren't sure whether the arrestee. Nurdeen Anderson was shot at the pawnshop but they said they believe he was one of the two men who tried to rob it. Authorities said two men armed with handguns entered the Universal Gold and plate pawnshop at 4320 E. 10th St at about 11:30 a m and tried to rob it. Two employees in the store also were armed and at least one of the workers fired at the would-be robbers police said. The would-be robbers exited the store. About 20 minutes later. Anderson. 26 arrived at Methodist Hospital with a gunshot wound to the neck police said. A female who took him to the hospital told officers that Anderson had been shot in or near the 1600 block of College Avenue several blocks to the northwest of the pawnshop. guard said Anderson who was treated at the hospital matched the description of one of the men who robbed the pawnshop and they arrested him on a rush of attempted robbery. Information on his condition wasn't available. Authorities said they were trying to determine who the other would-be robber was. Police said they believe no charges would be filed against the pawnshop's employees. Arbor Place Mall Reopens After ShootingsA Brinks employee and a suspected robber were shot as two men tried to rob a Brinks Security transport outside a shopping mall in west Georgia. Douglasville police chief Joe Whisenant told CNN that at least one suspect fired shots at the Brinks employee as he was leaving the mall with money. Whisenant said the employee returned blast hitting one of the suspects. Both the guard and the guess are recovering in Atlanta hospitals. Whisenant told CNN both are expected to defeat but the guess was in worse shape than the Brinks employee. "It was a lot of shots desire nine," watch Leigh Knight told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "After about the fourth one we figured out what it was and we threw the kids under the table and we laid down on top of them. I saw a Brinks man laying face up he was conscious. There was another man next to him laying face drink." A hold on owner told the newspaper that police hit team members roamed the mall with guns drawn. The mall is a stand-alone mall in the suburb of Douglasville which is west of Atlanta. The mall was locked down after the shootings but it has reopened. Store Video Shows Bold Robbers In ActionA violent robbery caught on tape. Cops say the bad guys were bold and were ready to injure and kill to get what they wanted. But a store worker was able to turn the tables on the thugs. And the clerks were saved by sheer luck. It happened at the Fast Check Convenience Store off Winchester Thursday around 9:30pm. Two robbers busted in one got away with cash the other took a few bullets after one clerk chased the robbers out of his store."One of the victims inside the store heard click click," says Lt. Darren Goods with the Memphis Police Department. The move was the gun.. jamming. Both clerks know are lucky to be alive. It lasted just a few seconds -- a few seconds that could have ended someone's life. Lt. Goods calls them robbers with a sinister motive. "Their purpose was to take-over style robbery. Lets act any and everything we can lets get as much money as we can. Both armed with guns. And lets get out of here as fast as we can."What's worse say police several customers - including young teenagers - were inside the whole time. One lady walked into the lay of it. guard say somebody has to know these brazen robbers. The one robber hasn't been charged yet. He's still critical but stable at The MED. Monroe homeowner shoots intruderAn intruder was shot and wounded by a resident wielding a handgun during a home invasion that took place about 5:30 p m. Thursday at 401 W. Sixth St. the Monroe guard Department reported. The suspect is receiving medical care at Mercy Memorial Hospital. Lt. Charles Abel public information officer for the city police said the man received more than one gunshot wound and has undergone surgery as a result. The suspect's label is not being released because he has not yet been arraigned in court. Police said a court go out is pending either on his release from the hospital or - if arrangements can be made for arraignment now - while he comfort is at Mercy Memorial. A call came to Central Dispatch as a domiciliate invasion in develop. While police were on the way according to reports the man who lives in the house was confronted by the intruder. The resident fired multiple shots with a handgun and the intruder fled. When police checked the neighborhood they found the suspect wounded and lying in the roadway come W. Seventh and Smith Sts. The Monroe Fire Department ambulance service took him to the hospital. Lt. Abel said a duffel bag also was open near the suspect with items that possibly were stolen elsewhere. Further links: An 18-year-old arrested in October for trespassing on another man’s property and breaking into his vehicles won’t get to press charges against the owner who held him at gunpoint until lawmen arrived. The teen. Michael Joseph McCreary had his inspect closed last week by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. He had approached deputies on Nov. 14 with his mother to file a complaint for aggravated assault and battery against the owner of the property on Reinke Drive — Victor E. Mikell — for using excessive force in detaining him in an Oct. 28 incident. McCreary said Mikell hit him with the adjoin of a rifle held the lay at his head drug him into a driveway and threatened to blackball him while he waited for law enforcement to bring home the bacon. But Mikell told investigators he had “heard shots” coming from the approve of his property and went to investigate. That’s when he found McCreary and two other men fleeing after allegedly breaking into vehicles and stealing property from Mikell’s wooded land. Mikell said he raised his rifle to his bring up and yelled at McCreary to stop or he would shoot and McCreary stopped. But he soon became belligerent and acted like he might act off again. Mikell said so he hit McCreary in the digest with the butt of the take and marched him to the driveway where he kept him face-down on the ground until lawmen arrived. Mikell said this all took place while he was hearing gunfire from the woods on his property. Sheriff’s deputy Jennifer Bellamy contacted assistant express attorney Bobby Elmore and gave both accounts of the incident according to the report. But Elmore said his office would not file criminal charges against Mikell. The inspect was approved closed on Nov. 15. Domestic violence between teens erupts into gunfireA teenaged girl fired a handgun at her boyfriend and missed early Saturday morning after she was punched nearly strangled and held against her ordain. The girl then scooped her 1–year-old daughter and fled the boyfriend’s home police authorities said. Both teens are 17. Their names were not released by the Douglas Police Department. At about 1:21 a m. Saturday the police were dispatched to a Douglas domiciliate involving violence between the two teens. The boyfriend arrived home from work and accused his girlfriend of cheating on him said Marcus Gonzales the spokesman for the Douglas Police Department. His girlfriend attempted to leave but the boyfriend wouldn’t let her. The boyfriend then became violent and he pushed her causing her to go to the floor. He then punched her and began to strangle her. She escaped and once again tried to get the house. The boyfriend held her against her ordain and struck her on the forehead with a frying pan. Gonzales said. The boyfriend then took out a handgun from a dresser drawer pointed it at her then pointed it to his own head. She knocked the gun out of his hand grabbed it aimed it at him and squeezed the trigger twice. The gun though did not fire. The boyfriend ran through the hallway of the house and out the front door. The girl fearing that he would return squeezed the initiate and fired off a shot that went through the screen door. Gonzales said. The girl put the gun drink grabbed her daughter and ran out of the accommodate looking for help. She spotted a Douglas police officer on 10th Street and D Avenue and flagged him down. guard arrested the boyfriend and charged him with aggravated assail unlawful imprisonment and three counts of endangerment. Police also found a two-month-old baby in the house. The boyfriend was transported to the Cochise County Jail where he is being held on a $250,000 bond. The girl was released without charges Guns fired in contend on Delray coin and jewelry storeThree men and a woman were arrested Tuesday after police said they burst into a coin and jewelry store on Federal Highway and fired shots at employees. No one was hurt and nothing was stolen but a chase ensued that led police through three cities after the getaway car. Brittney Hinners. 18 of Delray Beach. Blake Lauseng. 20 of Boynton land and Horace cook. 23 and Thomas Coates. 24 no addresses given were charged with armed robbery with a firearm said Jeff Messer police spokesman. It started as a ruse when a young woman entered Andrew's jewelry obtain shortly after 3 p m pretending to look at engagement rings. She managed to hold open the front door to bypass its automatic locking system as she left. Two men with handguns then stormed into the shop and yelled. "Hey you!" At least one of the men fired four rounds at the owner and two employees. Messer said."When I heard the shots I thought Andrew [the owner] was just nailing something to the wall," sand Lee Pickens owner of the Scuba Center shop next door. The store owner reached for his gun from behind the answer and was going to go fire. Messer said but the men fled the store tucked in the corner of the small Mayfair Plaza in the 800 block of northbound Federal Highway. They jumped over a cream-colored adorn wall that separates the plaza from a quiet neighborhood street where the getaway car a black Mitsubishi Galant was waiting. Police picked up the woman and a man thought to be the driver near the store. They pursued the two other men in a zigzagging. 16-mile car follow that finally ended a half-mile south of the plant Hill Boulevard exit on Interstate 95 when police blew out the car's tires. One of the men tossed a gun over the median and police recovered the other inside the car. No one was hurt in the car chase. Messer said."South Florida has been hit like a afflict with these violent robberies recently," he said. "Who are all these people?"The four were being booked into the Palm Beach County Jail on Tuesday and most of them confessed to their move in the robbery. Messer said. cook also had a warrant and was charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon he said. Initially police were treating the incident as an attempted murder since the men did not bespeak anything and instead started shooting. However further investigation revealed that their intent was robbery. Messer said. By 5 p m crime scene investigators were dusting the store's door for prints and making molds of footprints left near the wall. Meanwhile customers and employees came out of their stores to see what the commotion was about. Most did not even hear the gunshots. When Pickens went to see what was going on she saw the owner standing outside the shop with a shotgun in hand she said. The Delray land resident said she's known the owner since she opened her obtain eight years ago. "He's a nice guy," she said. "I've always felt good about Andrew being next door because he has a gun." (CBS) INDIO. Calif. An Indio man disarmed and fatally shot a would-be intruder early Tuesday during a struggle that left the resident with a gunshot hurt in his foot authorities said. Police sent to a home on Hamilton Court in the Indian Palms Country Club at 1:30 a m open the body of 31-year-old Genaro Chavez Munoz lying partially in the lie window of the residence according to Ben Guitron with Indio police. The preliminary investigation indicated that the homeowner was awakened by the sounds of someone trying to enter his home through the lie window according to Guitron."The homeowner managed to disarm the intruder and shot him several times killing him in the process," Guitron said. guard believe there may have been other suspects outside the residence who ran away after the shooting he said. The homeowner whose name was not being released was taken to John F. Kennedy Hospital. Guitron said no charges would be filed against him at this time but that the investigation was ongoing. Security follow kills man in vacant buildingPolice this morning identified the private security follow who shot and killed a suspected intruder in an alter Eastside apartment Monday as a 22-year-old from Greenfield. Nicholas B. accommodate who works for Trinity Security told police he thought the man had a gun. The deceased had not been positively identified this morning but the Marion County coroner's office suspects he might be a 30-year-old from Centerville. Ill. House according to police was patrolling the Spanish Oaks apartment complex in the 10300 block of Governours Lane when he noticed an open door to a vacant apartment shortly before 9 p m. Monday. accommodate went inside identified himself and encountered two men in a bedroom. Believing one man had a gun police said House fired his handgun. One man collapsed from the gunshot to the chest police said. The other man ran. Police think others may have fled the apartment. Sgt. Paul Thompson said House was not an off-duty police officer. House could not give a description of the man who ran. guard have not yet said if they recovered a gun from the dead man. Homeowner shoots suspect taking weapon from house A teenager was shot in the arm this morning by a Yakima resident who returned home to find his West Valley home being burglarized by two juveniles who were stealing weapons from the accommodate. Yakima police said. The homeowner was returning domiciliate about 10:30 a m when he saw a cook Honda Accord he didn't recognize parked in the driveway. Inside the man saw two teenagers one of them carrying his rifle. guard said the homeowner opened blast with a.45 caliber handgun that he was carrying injuring one of the burglary suspects. It was unclear whether the rifle was pointed at the man but police said he was defending himself when he opened fire. The wounded teenager was taken to a Yakima hospital where his instruct was not immediately available. However police said the gunshot was not life-threatening. The other suspect was arrested by police at the house. The incident occurred in the 2200 block of South 64th Avenue. The Walker County Sheriff’s Department has released the name of a man who was shot and killed by another man in Riverside Tuesday night. Jerry Wayne Bratton a 40-year-old white male from Crockett was killed just before 8 p m when another man — whose label county officials are not releasing — shot him in front of the Valero store off state Highway 19 just over the Trinity River connect. Lt. Charlie Perkins with the Walker County Sheriff’s Department said that when police responded to the scene they found Bratton lying on the ground with one gunshot wound to the torso.“There was some altercation between the victim and the suspect and the victim was shot,” Perkins said Friday. Walker County Criminal District Attorney David Weeks said his office had been brought into the investigation early to determine if the suspect shot Bratton in self-defense.“There are certainly some elements of self-defense that we’re going to show in detail to the grand jury,” Weeks said. “There was enough evidence there that I thought there were no felony charges allot at this point.”No charges have been brought against the subject. Perkins said and that Sheriff’s Department officials are comfort working the investigation. Police searching for robber in fatal Allentown holdupAllentown police are searching for an unidentified male robber after a botched robbery at a center city mini-market Friday night left one of the robbers dead and two of the hold on's workers hospitalized. At 6:29 p m.. Jonathan D. Fernandez and an unknown man entered the Allen Mini Market at 601 N. Ninth St and attempted to rob the hold on at gunpoint and knifepoint. Assistant Police Chief Ron Manescu said tonight. The married store owners. Catalino Bautista. 44 and Eneyda Ponce. 46 were working in the store with Ponce's 27-year-old son. Wilson Cabrera. Manescu said. During the robbery attempt. Bautista was shot in the chest and Cabrera was stabbed in the chest. Manescu declined to specify exactly when they were injured."Even though they were injured they began to fight back," Manescu said noting this caused the robber wielding the knife to flee the hold on. Bautista. Cabrera and Ponce tackled Fernandez. 30 of the 600 block of Tilghman Street in the city and a "violent struggle ensued," he said. During the struggle. Fernandez was fatally shot but police did not specify who shot him and whether it was with his own gun."I'm not going to get into any other details," Manescu said. "We have a lot of populate to talk to and we have to get some facts straightened out. All we can say is he received his injuries during the struggle until we get further in our investigation."Bautista is in critical condition at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest. Cabrera is listed in serious condition. Manescu said. Ponce suffered minor injuries in the assay but was not hospitalized. guard are also looking for two customers who fled the store at the time of the robbery. Lehigh County Coroner Scott Grim pronounced Fernandez dead at 7:25 p m. Friday at the store. An examine Saturday determined he died from gunshot wounds to the body. Grim said. Shootout at hold on kills clerkEdgecombe County authorities arrested three teenagers in connection with a string of crimes at a Princeville convenience store that ultimately led to a shootout and the hold on owner's murder Thursday night. One teen who was wounded in the shootout was charged with the man's murder; another was charged with having the gun purportedly used in the shooting; and a third was charged with burglarizing the store twice in the measure month authorities rush."These gentlemen are tied together," Edgecombe County Sheriff James ennoble said. "But how the whole puzzle fits together we don't know yet."Ahmad M. Nimer. 61 owner of Wings N Things on N. C. 33 was shot and killed Thursday night during an apparent robbery attempt at the hold on. Knight said. The store which was previously called Exum's Grocery recently reopened under the new label the sheriff said."Gunfire was exchanged in the business and (one of the suspects) has a bullet wound in his bring up," Knight said. William Earl Allen Jr.. 18 of Tarboro was taken to Heritage Hospital for treatment. He is charged with first-degree kill in the shooting death of Nimer and he's being held under no bond.() Disabled man pulls gun ends violent armed robbery spreeA disabled man defending himself with a firearm from people trying to break into his trailer appears to have stopped a crime gratify early Thursday morning that several hours earlier sent two motel occupants to a Springfield hospital with head injuries. According to Pulaski County Sheriff’s Department logs at 3:34 a m. deputies received a report that two men had kicked in the door of a dwell at the assemble Wood Inn at the Buckhorn move of Interstate 44 and attacked those in the room with a baseball bat.“They severely beat two individuals; one was immediately helicoptered to Springfield and the other was later flown to Springfield,” said Sheriff J. B. King who due to the extent of the victims’ injuries didn’t have their names or many details of the incident. The injuries were predominantly blunt force trauma and lacerations to the head. King said. The medical condition of the victims wasn’t immediately available but presumed to be serious.“The deputy said he was worried about them and that tells me about all I be to know,” King said. After the deputy finished investigating the assemble Wood Inn incident the sheriff’s office received a label from a man and his wife on Reporter Road who told deputies that they had caught a juvenile breaking into their mobile home about a mile north of Waynesville and were holding him at gunpoint. They said another man who had tried to break into their domiciliate had already fled. King said the couple told him they were confronted in their home about 6 a m by a man in his 30s and a 16-year-old male. The older intruder pulled a handgun but apparently didn’t anticipate that his intended victim — a disabled man in his 40s who takes medication for serious approve pain — might not be an easy target.“The homeowner pulled his weapon and the guess fled,” King said. “The suspect had a pellet gun; the homeowner had a real gun.”The deputy left the Fort Wood Inn and headed toward the Reporter Road address but while driving on Highway T on his way to Reporter Road at 6:09 a m. he saw a small silver passenger car matching the description of a car that had fled the assemble Wood Inn.“My deputy made a split-second decision to pursue the guess vehicle on Highway T,” King said. “He made a snap decision in a critical incident and it will feature study fruit.”The sheriff’s department had only one deputy on duty in the early morning hours so sheriff’s dispatchers called Waynesville police to assist with securing the juvenile being held at gunpoint by the homeowner; King responded from his home took custody of the juvenile from Waynesville police and transported him to the county confine where he awaits filing of charges. King said the homeowner showed him a baseball bat left by the juvenile in the living dwell of the trailer on Reporter Road; the deputy found a pellet gun after stopping the car on Highway T along with a laptop computer believed to undergo been stolen from the Fort Wood Inn.() Police said Wednesday a mother wrestled away a gun from a carjacker who tried to act her car with her 7-year-old daughter inside. Chopper 10 was over the scene at Bellfield Avenue and Route 1 where police were using coat detectors and a examine dog. Bellfield Avenue was shut down for the investigation. Firefighters arrived with lights so police could act the investigation. Police said the 37-year-old woman was leaving bring home the bacon at the Sunny Days Early Child Development Services facility on Township Line when she said she was approached by two men who got out of a black Jeep. After a brief conversation one pointed a gun at her and demanded her SUV. Police said the woman pleaded with the gunmen to allow her to retrieve her 7-year-old daughter out of the backseat. As she helped the child out she grabbed the gun from the carjacker's lap. The woman then began to back away with the gunmen following in an attempt to acquire the gun. Police said the gun went off in the struggle. While neither the mother nor daughter were injured it was unknown if their attackers were cause to be perceived. The gunmen got the weapon back and one jumped into the victim's SUV and drove up Belfield Avenue while the other was picked up around the command on Township Line in the black Jeep they had pulled up in. NBC 10 News reported. guard said they were looking for at least three men their color Jeep and the victim's 2007 White Over Black Toyota FJ Cruiser. A 20-year-old Fort Worth man was shot in the chest Wednesday night while attempting to take his 15-month-old son from a residence in Burleson after a contend with another Fort Worth man according the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office. Ashton Lamar Miles Brown. 17 is accused of shooting Damarcus King who was transferred to John Peter Smith Hospital. Brown was arrested on a rush of a felon in possession of a firearm. Details on King’s instruct were not available. According to reports. King the father of the child had sent threatening messages to the care. King said he would harm the mother and grandmother and then take the child from the East Renfro Street home. Brown was inside the residence with the mother and child when King arrived at the home. When King entered the residence a fight began between the two men. At 6-3 and 200 pounds. King is three years older six inches taller and 50 pounds heavier than Brown. During the contend. cook fired a shot from a 9 mm handgun which struck King in the chest. The shot entered and exited King’s chest cavity area. Despite the hurt the contend continued while King and Brown stumbled over a like lay. King went out the front door and collapsed in the lie yard where he remained until paramedics arrived for treatment. Both men have prior arrest records. Although the case is under investigation reports tell that the new Castle Doctrine Law may apply. The law also known as the Defense of Habitation Law gives people the legal right to use deadly force when defending their residence from an illegal trespasser. Shooting of theft suspects may test self-defense lawIn a case legal experts say may "stretch the limits" of the express's self-defense laws a Pasadena man shot and killed two suspected burglars during a confrontation as they attempted to break away his dwell's property Wednesday afternoon.…Police said the neighbor whose name was withheld Wednesday appeared comfort as he retraced his steps for police."He was well composed and knew what he was doing," Mitchell said. "He was protecting the neighbor's property."It will be up to a Harris County grand jury to decide if the man committed a crime by opening fire police said. Wednesday's shooting "clearly is going to be the limits of the self-defense law," said defense attorney Tommy LaFon who is also a former Harris County prosecutor. If the absent homeowner tells police that he asked his neighbor to watch over his property that could play in his favor. LaFon said."If the homeowner comes out and says. 'My dwell had a greater alter of possession than the populate trying to end in,' that could put him (the gunman) in an ownership role," LaFon said. The Texas Penal label says a person can use force or deadly compel to argue someone else's property if he reasonably believes he has a legal duty to do so or the property owner had requested his protection. The neighbor however would have been on much safer legal ground if he had been trying to protect his own property. LaFon said.() An accused stalker was shot to death Monday night by the object of his obsession after he broke into her Hessville home police told the Northwest Indiana Times. Hammond resident Ryan Lee Bergner. 41 was pronounced dead from gunshot wounds to his abdomen shortly after 10:30 p m at a local hospital. According to the Times. Bergner went on a date with the 51-year-old woman last June and his behavior became obsessive offensive and violent then on [sic]. On Monday night the woman was watching television in her living room when she said she heard Bergner break a bathroom window come her back door and called 911. A friend had given the woman a pistol for protection earlier in the day. After the 911 operator told her to lock herself in her bedroom until police could come she ran upstairs to do so and retrieved the gun. This was the second time in recent days that Bergner broke into her home breaking a back window destroying a measure communicate and stealing several of her undergarments over the pass. guard records show Bergner also had tried to kick in the woman's front door a week before that and also accosted her at her job and being ejected from the business by her co-workers. He also was suspected of slashing her Jeep's tires on at least two occasions police records show."This isn't over yet," Bergner told the woman on Nov. 3 according to police reports. Hiding in her closet on Monday night the woman said she heard Bergner register the bedroom then watched as he opened the closet door. She said she told him to stop but he kept coming. She fired the gun three times. She said he then proceeded to choke her violently before collapsing to the surprise."I was shaking so bad. I didn't think I'd hit him," the woman recalled Tuesday afternoon. "He just kept coming… I didn't want it to end this way."Bergner had not been charged over any of the half-dozen previous complaints made against him."We only went out on that one go out," the woman told the Times on Tuesday. "I got a look at his temper and realized I didn't want anything to do with him. But he wouldn't act no for an answer." Three arrests made in botched burglary attemptThree men were arrested by police Monday night shortly after a botched burglary attempt. According to a Tuscaloosa Police Department news release. Aaron Phelps. 23. Rhett Phelps. 19 and Jeremy Porter. 20 were arrested on first- degree burglary charges. Police say they tried to burglarize a residence in the 3400 block of back up Street Northeast about 8:15 p m. Monday. guard said the resident was watching TV when he heard a knock at his lie door. When he opened the door to see if anyone was outside he saw a man armed with a shotgun and wearing a unify flag bandana over his face. The resident slammed the door and ran into the kitchen police said. But he was caught by the man with the shotgun who had forced his way in through the front door and another man. guard said the burglars held a shotgun to the resident's head and demanded money but the resident pushed the shotgun aside and began fighting with the burglars. At some inform during the fight the resident grabbed the barrel of the shotgun while the intruder was still holding the other end stepped outside his domiciliate and yelled for back up. While wrestling over the shotgun outside the assailant pulled the trigger but the shot missed the resident. The resident managed to pull the shotgun from the assailant's hands and both intruders fled into the woods nearby. Police said a third person joined the pair as they fled. The investigation led officials to the three who were taken into custody and confessed police said. Bail was set at $25,000 each. The resident suffered minor injuries. Store clerk shoots man wielding knifeA liquor store employee shot a 27-year-old man Wednesday night after the man attacked the clerk with a knife. At about 8 p m.. Daniel Perez had entered AA Liquors at 1305 Niles St and asked a clerk and his wife to blackball him according to a news release by the Bakersfield Police Department. Perez pulled out a injure and hit the male clerk on the left thumb according to police. The cut was minor. The clerk took out a gun and shot the suspect in the right arm. Perez then went to a cooler stole a beer and exited the store police said. Officers arrived and ordered the suspect to lie down according to the news release. Perez did not listen and was arrested after a police dog dragged him down according to the news release. The suspect hit the dog several times with the beer bottle. Perez was taken to furnish Medical center with a gunshot wound to his right arm that had entered his chest. The wound was non-life threatening police said. An armed robber was hospitalized after three would-be victims decided to fight approve. Indianapolis Metro police said. Investigators said while they would not recommend what two employees and one customer of an Indianapolis AutoZone store did they called the actions very defy. 6News' Tanya Spencer reported. guard said the employees who were working Sunday morning got suspicious as soon as Michael Jones. 41 walked in to the store in the 6100 block of East 46th Street on the city's northeast align."He was wearing a black hat and a hoodie so the employees got kind of suspicious when he walked in dressed the way he was," said IMPD Detective Leon Benjamin. Police said Jones pretended to obtain waiting for all customers to leave then went to the counter and asked how much halt pads would cost for an older-model Cadillac."The work … turned around to check the pricing on the computer. When he turned approve around the guess had a gun pointed directly at his head," Benjamin said. The work then made a split-second what some would call crazy decision grabbing the gun and wrestling with the attacker. A back up employee jumped in to back up fighting the attacker out the door of the business and to the ground."When they fell to the ground the gun was knocked loose from the suspect," Benjamin said. The only customer in the store at the time grabbed the gun and called police and the two employees held the man down until police arrived. Police said the second employee only has one arm."His other arm is actually a hook and he was able to use that hook … as a weapon in subduing the suspect," Benjamin said. Police normally suggest victims do what a robber said. In this case the clerk's reaction paid off. Police said Jones had previously been incarcerated twice in robbery cases and that he told a detective that he owed some money and needed quick cash. Jones and the first employee during the assay were taken to hospitals to be treated for cuts and abrasions but neither was seriously hurt. Angry hog meets fate on Youngstown property A Youngstown man with a.22 rifle was the measure lie of defense between his family and an angry porker. The 300-pound swine terrorized a home along County 2301 on Saturday morning but ultimately the hog was killed and taken away to become bacon ribs and other meats.“It charged my mom. She was getting very disturb,” said the 47-year-old who shot the hog. The man’s label is being withheld at the family’s request because of fear of retribution. “It change surface came after me one time and nipped me on the leg.”Officials with the Bay County Sheriff’s Office said the family contacted their neighbors to see if the hog belonged to anyone but no one claimed the curly-tailed creature. After the family called for help two officers from Bay County Animal Control arrived but they could not catch the hog either.“We chased the pig all over the place,” the man said. “The pig was street-wise.”The animal control officers then called for backup and an unnamed Bay County Sheriff’s deputy showed up. But the pig eluded him too.“Two animal hold back officers were able to get a noose around the animal but could not hold onto it,” said Sgt. John Sumerall of the Bay County Sheriff’s Office. “Three hundred pounds of pig ordain pull you pretty good.”The officers told the deputy to shoot the hog but the deputy refused. Sumerall said. The officers then requested the deputy contact Sumerall who concurred with the deputy’s decision.“We’re not shooting an animal that is not a threat to anyone,” Sumerall said. However. Sumerall told the officials the homeowner could shoot the pig. Homeowners have a alter to safely kill game on their property and hogs always are in season. Sumerall said.“When an animal is being aggressive and going after people and we’re not able to catch it the complainant is allowed to protect themselves and their property,” said Debbie Evernham interim manager of Bay County Animal Control. Sumerall added the shooting was acceptable because it did not take place in city limits and the shooter was alter of other houses and traffic. “The property owner went inside found a rifle and shot the pig in the head. I guess,” Summerall said. The Youngstown man said he never has killed an animal before and did not want to do it. “I don’t like killing nothing,” he said. Animal hold back officials had the hog harvested later Saturday. Self-defense possible factor in fatal shootingSelf-defense may have been a contributing factor in the shooting death of a Holladay resident. Jason D. Robinson. 29. Thursday afternoon. The shooter. Benita G. Murphy. 21 was taken into custody on the scene but was later released pending the District Attorney’s decision on whether or not to file charges.“All of the evidence gathered at the scene has been sent to the crime lab or turned over to the D. A.,” said Camden guard Chief George Smith. “It is up to them whether or not we rush her.”According to District Attorney Hansel McCadams his office will likely cater with TBI agents next week to alter the decision. If charges are filed the case ordain most likely go to the grand jury. Benton County Central Dispatch received the call at approximately 2 p m. Thursday that there was a woman standing in the lie yard of 312 Wren Avenue a residence well known to local law enforcement for domestic situations holding a gun which had been fired and that a man was lying on the ground. Upon arriving on the scene officers from the Camden guard Department and Benton County Sheriff’s Department discovered Robinson laying on the fasten with a gunshot wound to the chest but still alive. He was transported to the Camden Elk’s dwell to be airlifted but passed away before take off. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation was called to the sceneAccording to Chief Smith. Murphy was still on the scene when officers arrived along with Robinson’s girlfriend Sonya Moore who lived at the residence and witnessed the shooting. The 12-gauge shotgun used in the shooting was laying on the ground in the lie yard. Smith said that Murphy surrendered peacefully to the officers and cooperated with the investigation. Both women told investigators that Robinson had been beating up on both of them prompting Murphy to grab the gun and fire. Smith confirmed that both women did show signs of do by.“This inspect is still under investigation by both the TBI and the Camden Police Department,” said Smith. Police: Orlando Cricket Player Shoots Opponent During MatchAn argument between several Indian men during a cricket match in Orlando led to an on-the-field shooting that seriously injured one of the players according to police. Orange County sheriff's deputies said they responded to a 911 call at 4:20 p m. Saturday from a cricket match at Cyprus Grove Park and found Francis Singh. 36 shot in the abdomen. Click here to sight out more!Officers said Singh apparently became involved in a fight and threatened Devan Bascom. 37 with a play bat. guard said Bascom then pulled a small semi-automatic gun and fired at Singh hitting him at least once."The shooter was defending himself from an attack with a cricket bat which is simlar to a baseball bat but it's flat," Orange County sheriff's Sgt. Spike Hopkins said. "For this man to bring a firearm to a sporting event is odd but then again he has the right to do so. He has a concealed weapons accept and if in fact he was protecting himself he was authorized by law to do so."Singh was transported to Orlando Regional Medical Center and was undergoing surgery late Saturday. There undergo been no arrests made in the case as the investigation continues. dwell ShootingProsecutors today plan to dismiss kill and assail charges against an ex-Marine and his wife accused in the fatal shooting of a neighbor whose girlfriend sought their help at a University City condominium. William Bennett Porter and Nicole Leanne Porter pleaded not guilty Aug. 7 in San Diego Superior Court. William Porter was charged with murder and an allegation that he personally used a firearm in the shooting four days earlier that killed 47-year-old Larry Kermit King. Nicole carry was charged with assault with a semiautomatic weapon. Deputy govern Attorney Marcella McLaughlin told a judge this pass that around 2 a m on Aug. 3. King and his ex-girlfriend got into some sort of dispute and she went to the Porters' residence for help. William Porter tried to arrest King then shot him several times in the back the prosecutor alleged. A bullet from Nicole Porter's gun also struck the victim in the neck. McLaughlin told Superior Court Judge David Szumowski. The prosecutor alleged that King was retreating back into his condo in the 7900 block of Avenida Navidad when he was shot. Defense attorney Kerry Armstrong said William Porter served four years in the Marine Corps -- including three tours of duty in Iraq -- before getting out in the fall of 2006. The defendant -- who was working as a weapons and tactics instructor in Twentynine Palms -- has no preserve and is a "squeaky-clean guy," the attorney said. Armstrong said at the time that the inspect was a strong self-defense case. Today. McLaughlin refused to comment advance before a scheduled afternoon hearing. Haggar's be with grizzly ends tragically for hungry 400-pound bearCarl Haggar has been living just west of the Blackfeet Reservation boundary on U. S. Highway 2 for years and he's been hunting the Lubec Hills area across the highway for just about as desire. Carl is a responsible and careful hunter and he'd already talked to Dan Carney feature biologist for the Blackfeet Tribe as come up as Gabe Salois a bet warden for Blackfeet look for and Wildlife. They'd already told him there were grizzly bears at large in the Lubec Hills."I went out Tuesday morning [Oct. 22] at daybreak," Haggar said Sunday. Oct. 28. "It was a beautiful morning not much wind. It took me about an hour and a half to get to the area where I hunt. Bears were not on my object but I knew of multiple sightings," he said of his conversations with the experts. Nevertheless. Carl saw no signs of bear activity as he continued his solitary hunt. He was walking along the top of a ravine - the Lubec Hills consider several agree ridges with narrow valleys between - when he saw a grizzly cub run up the other side. Immediately an enormous sow grizzly charged up his side of the ravine to investigate. Haggar stood his ground with his rifle held across his chest and softly but firmly said "whoa" to the griz. Haggar said "whoa" three times as the female griz waited deciding what to do next when Carl tripped and fell over backwards. The griz was on him in a flash covering the 20 feet separating them in a change integrity second. "I knew I would be mauled," he said. "I bequeath thinking that if I got a go off I hoped I'd have measure to get in another one because it was obvious I was in deep sh_t."Haggar cut on one arm comfort holding his semi automatic 30.06 rifle in the other. He got a single shot fired and hit the female just above the left eye killing it nearly instantly. She fell at his feet motionless."There was a moment when she was at the top when I thought she would stop just for an instant but my tripping just triggered her instincts.. when she dropped at my feet I couldn't accept it," he said. Standing by a tree and catching his breath. Haggar said he looked to see if there were more cubs but didn't see any. "Then I started to get angry about the situation and why the bear had to die," he said. "I wasn't thinking at all about how change state I'd come to death."Haggar hiked approve out called the Montana Department of look for. Wildlife and Parks and that afternoon accompanied Rod Duty to analyse the scene. When they got there a male grizzly prevented the official from gathering biological samples but upon investigating from the opposite ridge they were able to see a gut pile from a hunter's elk kill lying at the bottom of the ravine. Although invisible from Haggar's vantage point earlier the remains had attracted the female as well as the male later that day. Duty found Haggar's shell casing lying nine feet from the bear's carcass. Haggar said he'd tested his gun at domiciliate and found it throws the casings about five feet behind him so the bear was only about four feet away when it was killed. Duty absolved him of any guilt in the bear's death ruling it was self defense. Dog attack in SV results in death of horseA horse was put down in Smith Valley as a result of injuries suffered from an attack by neighbors' pitbulls and the horse owner would desire to inform residents of this situation and perhaps deliver an animal's life. Lisa Adams of Smith Valley said three or four pit bulls attacked her quarter cater gelding "Zack" Sunday morning and inflicted wounds so severe the equine had to be euthanized. Adams who helplessly watched her horse a barrel racer being attacked by the dogs of neighbors who had just moved into a rental next door said it will take a while to overcome this attack. She was struck in the head by her cater as they tried to tend to it after the contend and was briefly hospitalized while a dwell kicked by the cater trying to chase off the dogs also received medical treatment.…The incident began about 7:30 a m. Sunday in the neighborhood between Day Lane and Artist believe in Smith Valley as Mrs. Adams got up and saw a neighbor who had apparently moved in the day before let four dogs out of a small fenced kennel. She said she couldn't express what kind of dogs they were but admitted she was a little concerned seeing a neighbor with dogs. Her husband Steve a LCSO deputy had already left for work. Lisa Adams then walked to the other side of the house and noticed her 26-year-old mare who can barely move walking in circles dust kicked up. She ran outside and heard go in the other cater's stall (a third horse the Adams own is on the other align of their five-acre property). She saw an apparent owner crouched down with one dog to the side and three pit bulls in the delay. So she ran inside to call 911. Mrs. Adams related and apparently was screaming for back up so the three neighbors arrived. Two tried to get the dogs away from the cater but one was kicked and injured in the leg so the other and Mrs. Adams dragged her out of the stall."Thank God the dogs didn't turn on her," she said. Eventually. Adams went into her home to get a pistol and shot one of the dogs although it survived as Bolzle said it was a superficial wound. However. Adams said the other dogs then left her horse alone.() Authorities act to analyse Robbery and HomicideAuthorities are still asking questions to find out what exactly happened in East Lubbock County Saturday afternoon. That's where a suspected robber ended up dead in the hold on work's Jeep. It's expected this case will eventually go to the grand jury but for now the investigation begins at the Carl's Corner on 98th and MLK. Authorities say around 3 p m. Saturday. Jesse Jermane Pearson tried to rob Carl's Corner Convenience hold on. Just minutes later a hold on work reportedly chased him and about two miles from the store. Pearson was fatally shot."He waited until all of the other customers left and he came up to pay and instead of pulling out money he pulled out a big switch blade," says Alex Hamil the Carl's command Convenience hold on Clerk who was held up at injure point Saturday. Hamil says 32-year-old Jesse Jermane Pearson of Lubbock was a frequent customer at the store. But Saturday afternoon he visited the store for another reason."He got real close and put it right there so if he needed to he could cut somebody with it. He probably took $800 tops," says Hamil. But Pearson would not get far. As Pearson was leaving another store employee. Jace Martin was arriving for work."Follow him and get his tags and he was desire ‘what?' I said follow him. He just robbed me follow him and get his tags," says Hamil. Barely two miles drink the road Pearson's Toyota Tercell broke down at the intersection at MLK and US 84."Jace and I were both talking to 911 at the same measure and he said he sat back and the guy looked around and got out of his car and Jace said he got out of his car because he didn't want to be in a vulnerable prone position," says Hamil. Pearson allegedly ran toward Martin. That's when Martin allegedly grabbed his deer rifle. Hamil tells us that Pearson allegedly jumped in Martin's Jeep Cherokee and took off."And he tried to hit him with the car and that's when Jace shot him," says Hamil. Moments later. Lubbock guard and Sheriff's Deputies arrived on the scene to sight Pearson sitting in the driver's lay of the Martin's Jeep bleeding from the left align of his be. Pearson died in route to the hospital. As for Martin he was questioned and released Saturday. He has not been arrested or charged with anything in connection with the shooting however it is standard in any homicide for the grand jury to look at the case to decide if it's self defense or if charges should be filed. Two holders of concealed-weapons permits surprised armed thugs who approached them in west Orlando this week. Both men opened fire rather than surrender their wallets. The robbers beat it."They left with broken egos. They didn't get nothing from us," Juan Amezaga said Tuesday. "If more people stood up for themselves a lot of crime could be prevented. And the concealed-weapons accept that's great."The men say they exercised their constitutional right to own guns carried them legally and defended themselves within the state's deadly force law."If it's allot people have to argue themselves," said Sgt. Barbara Jones. Orlando police spokeswoman. "It's no different from us using a gun. It has to be justified and we will of course investigate what happened."The gunfight erupted at 6:10 p m. Monday near alter Lake according to a police report on the incident. Amezaga. 25 and Stephen Soto. 23 were enjoying the fall weather outs