Prison escapees meet their match in Idaho mom with gun
The Idaho County Sheriff's Office had honored a Cottonwood woman with a certificate of achievement saying she showed true courage in the face of danger for fending off two prison escapees who tried to break into her home.
Cassidy Lockett was home with her young children late last month when she says two men tried to break into her home. She hid the children behind the couch, grabbed a .22-caliber semiautomatic pistol and aimed it at a man who was already halfway through a window, climbing into her home.
Lockett says she pointed the gun at him and told him to get out or she'd shoot. She says he complied, and left along with another man who was trying to get through the locked front door.
The sheriff's department says the two were Richard Nieves and Ben Westley Perez, who are both facing escape, burglary and other charges.
DETROIT -- The victim of an armed robbery shot and killed his robber Thursday morning, police said.Police said an armed man attempted to rob a cab driver at the Citgo Gas Station on McNichols Street around 5 a.m.
The cab driver pulled out a gun and fired several rounds, striking the thief three times, said police.
The man was transported to Detroit Receiving Hospital, where he died.
Police said the 38-year-old shooter called police to report the shooting. He is now in custody and being questioned.
Police said the cab driver had a legitimate license to carry a concealed weapon.
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i helped his aunt write his obituary, and it saddened me to realize that the handful of pictures and the short paragraphs in the obituary summed up his brief life. that's it. he was only 17. i wish he had listened to his family who tried to set him straight, but in his case -- as is often the case for young, misunderstood black boys -- the streets and his "friends" were louder. we'll never know what or who freddrick could have been.
PLAINFIELD, Conn.—Plainfield and state police are looking for an intruder who apparently was scared off when a homeowner fired his shotgun.
Police say John Gold heard noises inside his home late Monday night and got out of bed to investigate and saw the movement of a flashlight.
Police say when Gold couldn't immediately find his cell phone to call 911, he grabbed his shotgun and began loading it when the intruder confronted him.
Gold told police he fired one shot and the intruder, who apparently was not injured, took off.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Police say a man who shot and killed his girlfriend's ex-boyfriend was acting in self defense.
The shooting happened just after 3 p.m. Monday at an apartment in the 2,000 block of Lenox Road.
Atlanta police Maj. Renee Propes said the shooting victim waited outside his ex-girlfriend's apartment until her new boyfriend came home. Propes said the man attacked the new boyfriend and the fight continued into the apartment, where the new boyfriend shot and killed the ex-boyfriend.
A homeowner shot and killed a suspected burglar who came at him with a tire iron Tuesday after breaking into a storage shed on the man’s property in east Harris County, officals said.
Although the shooting will be referred to a Harris County grand jury, investigators said it appears to be self-defense.
"He has the right to protect himself and his property," said Sgt. Felipe Rivera, with the Harris County sheriff’s homicide division.
Investigators later Tuesday had not released the names of the homeowner or of the dead man.
Investigators suspect the incident was related to a burglary reported Monday at the same address. In that incident, the homeowner reported that a pair of hunting crossbows had been stolen.
On Tuesday, the homeowner saw a car about 3:30 p.m. as it pulled into the driveway leading to the home in the 100 block of Cedar Lane in Channelview.
After checking with his father-in-law, who lives in another home on the same property, the man took his .45-caliber pistol and went outside to confront the man he had seen in the car, investigators said.
The man was carrying empty cases used to hold crossbows when the homeowner confronted him in the driveway.
"He pulled out his gun and ordered the suspect to stop," Rivera said. "The suspect threw the cases down and produced the tire iron."
The homeowner fired once with the pistol. He fired a second time when the man continued moving toward him.
The man got into his car then began grabbing for the pistol, Rivera said.
"They struggled for the gun and he (the homeowner) fires two or three more shots," Rivera said.
The man tried to drive away, but struck a support column for a large covered car port, causing it to partially collapse.
A man fatally shot an armed intruder while protecting his 5-year-old relative late Wednesday, authorities said.
Columbus police continued to investigate an overnight shooting on the city’s Southwest Side.
CPD said the incident started with a home invasion but it was the suspect who was fatally shot.
CPD was called to a home on the 1500 block of Autumn Village Drive on reports of a shooting at about 11 p.m. Wednesday.
Officers found a man on a front porch with a gunshot wound to his neck.
The armed suspect broke into home shortly before he was fatally shot, CPD said.
“There was a knock on the door. The resident went to the door, at which time the victim out front entered the house with a firearm in commission of an aggravated robbery,” said CPD homicide Sgt. Dana Norman.
As the armed suspect entered the home, a man picked up his 5-year-old relative to protect child as well as a firearm and fired shots, according to authorities.
The suspect attempted to flee the home after being wounded but collapsed on the porch. He died a short time later.
Detectives have not released the identity of the suspect currently, but NBC4 was told the shooter and suspect did not know each other.
The police report listed the suspect as an unknown black male in his 20s.
The man who fatally shot the suspect was not a resident of the home; he was staying there with relatives. There were four people in home at time of the invasion: a woman, child and two men, one of whom is bedridden.
Authorities have have not released additional information on the shooter’s identity, either.
“It’s a very quiet neighborhood,” said neighbor Gary Dulaney.
No other injuries were reported from the incident.
“Five-years-old, man. You’re always concerned about the kid. I mean you hope you don’t bring your child into that situation. It is scary. I feel bad for him,” Dulaney said.
No charges were filed against the man who shot the intruder currently, but the case will be presented to the Franklin County grand jury for review.
Anyone with additional information on the city’s 49th homicide of 2009 was asked to call the CPD homicide squad at 614-645-4730.
Suspect Shot In McCracken County Home Invasion Robbery
Police say a suspected burglar was shot early Thursday morning during a McCracken County home invasion.
The incident happened at about 2 a.m. at a home in the Kevil area. Tthe McCracken county sheriff says a man was trying to break into the home when a burglar alarm went off. The home owner confronted the burglar, then shot him.
The burglar's name and condition have not been released.
This is legnthy nd I'm sorry for that but I'm still AMP'd up
So I'm sitting at home watching tv today. My daughter went swimming with her friends and one of their moms at the neighborhood pool (Minerva Park). The phone rings and I answer it and it's my daughters friend (accross the street neighbor) asking if there is anything going on outside because her dad, who is a Franklin County SD just called and said their house alarm was going off and also that her mom was on here way home. I told her I didn't see or hear anything but I would meet her mom outside if the police were not there yet.
Her mom pulls into the driveway as I'm walking out my front door. I holler for her but she doesn't hear me and goes inside. As I reach the front door it swings open and she says "There is someone in my house, PLEASE!"
She said that she had come from the kitchen area which is on the rear of the house and it was clear. But thats when she heard someone moving around upstairs. I position inside the front door, with weapon drawn, at the base of the stairs behind the wall for coverage while she is outside calling 911. After about 2-3 minutes of instructing whoever was there to come down or risk being shot by the police a familiar neighborhood wannabe punks face showed from around the corner. I got a little more comfortable but still didn't let my guard down. He said there was one more person with him who immediately showed himself. I didn't reccognize him but man was he shaking. I made him lay down facing me. I instructed the first one to slowly come three steps down the stairs with his hands on his head. On the third step I told him to stop and with both hands grab his shirt under the armpits and roll until I saw skin and then slowly turn all the way around. He had a backpack on that I had him take off and throw down with one hand while the other was still holding his shirt up. After the homeowner had the backpack outside...because I wouldn't let her in.... and I knew his waist was clean I ordered him down the rest of the steps and face first on the living room floor with arms outstretched and feet crossed. I did the same routine for the second one and held them both and gun point until the first police unit showed up about 4 minutes later. I swear it seems longer though.
The first kid is one that other people in the neighborhood believe has broken into their house. This house also had an attempted B&E back in May when there was no one home. They just couldn't get in.
I know that I probably should not have gone inside not knowing what was there but I think that adrenaline took over and deep down I maybe knew that it was the same kid as before and didn't want hime to get away this time. Our house had an attempt back in May also. Kicked in the whole back door then setting off the alarm. I also knew that being a Cops house that every department in the area would respond if available...and they did not disappoint. Clinton TWP was the first on scene followed by Blendon TWP, Franklin County, and then Columbus PD who had to get cleared from a riot/protest by the airport.
I informed of my status when ever I felt it neccessary but the typical response I received was "It's not necessary for us to see this ( I just handed them my card since we had drawn a large crowd by that time). You came to a neighbors aid." Another one said "You held two bad guys at gun point until the police showed up. Every officer better thank you before they leave, and I wanna be the first." It may help that the homeowner notifed for me on her 911 call...many times I might add...at my request so I wouldn't get shot.
I would call this a very positive experience from all Law enforcement departments involved. Only one Columbus Officer told me "Next time don't forget your family" which does hold merit....
No. That forum is too politically conservative for me. I am a member of a couple of non-political law enforcement support forums, one of which happened to reference the above story.
I do not know what you mean. What reply? I have not deleted anything. My last message above was 48596. Messages 48597, 48598, and 48599 were posted by others in other forums. Your question (above) is 485600. This one, that you are reading right now, is 485601. There are no missing intervening message numbers.
I do not know what you mean. What reply? I have not deleted anything. My last message above was 48596. Messages 48597, 48598, and 48599 were posted by others in other forums. Your question (above) is 485600. This one, that you are reading right now, is 485601. There are no missing intervening message numbers.
My forum-browsing varies with what I happen to be interested in at the time. Currently, I often visit the multiracialism sites listed in the sticky posts of the "Issues for Biracial Americans" forum. I subscribe to a listserv discussing the use of virtual worlds (like Second Life) for educational purposes, and to a listserv discussing status and open issues of OpenSimulator, a free-software alternative to Linden Labs' proprietary Second Life that is currently being developed. I lurk on glocktalk.com and am a member of floridaconcealedcarry.com. Finally, I visit policeabuse.com and lawofficer.com pretty regularly in order to keep up with the latest news.
Nevertheless, ask me again in six months and my answer might be very different.
I am closing this thread. If anyone wants to contribute on the general topics of crime, the law, the judicial process, and so forth, please start a new thread.
I started this thread to show two typical weeks' of instances where trained, armed civilians stopped violent crimes by use of firearms. I wanted to show that, far from being unusual, armed civilian self-defense saves millions of lives every year. Only about one incident in a thousand results in a criminal getting shot, as in the above examples. The vast majority result in the criminal running away. According to replicated, peer-reviewed studies, about 2.5 million violent crimes per year in the U.S. are stopped by licensed, armed citizens (7000 violent crimes per day, 300 violent crimes per hour, 5 violent crimes per minute).
Concealed Carry permit holders are among the most law-abiding citizens in the nation.
CCW holders must undergo an extensive background check with the police department and the FBI.
CCW holders are less likely to be arrested for a crime than are law enforcement officers.
Many, not all, CCW holders spend more time practicing with their weapon than do law enforcement officers.
Only law-abiding citizens honor gun-free zones. Criminals are attracted to them. Gun-free-zone signs assure criminals that they are safe in that location if they decide to commit a crime.
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