Daily update July 24
Michigan: Store clerk's gunshot fatal to teen boy
Flint Journal
" A 14-year-old Flint boy was shot and killed Thursday night by a store clerk he may have been trying to rob. .... Police were told the store clerk, whose name was not released, shot the boy in the chest with a large-caliber handgun during a robbery attempt. Hakeem was with another boy who may have been armed with a handgun, police said. The second suspect ran from the scene and was still at large this morning, they said." (07/22/05)
http://www.mlive.com/news/fljournal/index.ssf?/base/news-30/1122046149260170.xml&coll=5
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Michigan: Homeowner: Illegal entry was more than that
Flint Journal
"A Saginaw Township man says police let him down when they refused to arrest an 18-year-old man who broke into his house by smashing a sun room window after midnight Thursday. Jerry Persons, 65, who had open heart surgery in May, said a state police detective told him the intruder wasn't arrested because he needed 60 stitches and officers couldn't wait at the hospital. .... Police were chasing four teens who were apparently drinking underage in a nearby apartment complex. One thought he was ducking onto an open porch and never saw the quarter-inch plate glass, Persons said. Person jumped out of bed at the sound of crashing glass. He saw the invader crouched behind a chair in his 350-square-foot solarium and trained his .22-caliber revolver on him.
Then several officers from Saginaw County's Safe Streets squad with flashlights appeared in his back yard. "They says drop your gun. I says, 'No way,' because I had my gun trained on this individual," Persons said.
He said he eventually lowered his weapon as police aided the teen." (07/22/05)
http://www.mlive.com/news/sanews/index.ssf?/base/news-2/1122042037146210.xml&coll=9
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California:Drive through shooting leaves suspect dead
KCAL 9 News
" A gunman who allegedly tried to rob two men in the drive-thru area of a fast-food restaurant in Santa Monica Thursday was shot and killed during a confrontation with his intended victims, police said. .... "The victims ... said they were in the drive-thru area when a masked suspect approached their vehicle and displayed a knife and a handgun," Fabrega said.A struggle ensued between the suspect and the passenger in the car, he said."During the struggle, the suspect stabbed the passenger victim in the hand," Fabrega said. "The driver retrieved a handgun and shot the suspect in the upper body. The suspect fled on foot and collapsed a short distance away."Detectives determined the gun used to shoot the suspect had been stored in the car, Fabrega said. Investigators will try to determine if the driver had a permit to carry a concealed weapon. Generally, it is not legal to carry a loaded weapon in a car without a permit, he said." [Editor's note: Legal or not, he's still alive-MLS](07/21/05)
http://kcal9.com/localnews/localnewsla_story_202205717.html
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Alaska: Mobile home intruder met by gunfire
Anchorage Daily News
"An intruder was shot twice after he climbed through a window in a mobile home and was met by an angry resident early Wednesday morning, Anchorage police said. .... Shortly after 1 a.m. Wednesday, police said, an intruder entered a window of a trailer home at the Manoog's Isle Mobile Home Park on Lake Otis Parkway north of East Dowling Road. A neighbor heard glass shattering and saw the break-in occurring, police spokesman Ron McGee said. The neighbor called 911.
While on the phone with the police, the neighbor saw the resident get into a fight with the burglar. Then he heard shots, McGee said.The burglar got into a dark-colored Ford Explorer and drove away. A short time later, police say, Crousser showed up at an emergency room with gunshot wounds to his upper left thigh and lower right calf. They said they don't know what was behind the break-in and fight. During a search of the trailer home, police discovered numerous marijuana plants, McGee said. Wednesday evening, McGee said the resident of the trailer had not been charged with anything." (07/21/05)
http://www.adn.com/front/story/6730172p-6617745c.html
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South Africa: Robbery victim shoots attacker
Independent Online
"A Johannesburg tourist shot and killed a gangster when he and four others attacked her and three relatives on Palm Beach, near Ramsgate on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast, this week. The woman was with relatives on the beach on Monday when a five-member gang wielding knives confronted the group. Two of the men turned on the woman while the other three attacked the other three members of the family. The woman took out her gun from her handbag and fired two shots at the men attacking her. The gang then ran off." (07/21/05)
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20050721093200566C155640
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Texas: Gun shop owner apprehends suspect during armed robbery
NBC 6 News
"A juvenile is in jail charged with holding up a local gun store. Three other suspects remain on the run.Waco Police say four people stole several guns from the Guns R Us gun shop in the 2100 block of La Sallare just after 1:00 Thursday afternoon. Owner Gary Hammond says the suspects said they wanted to buy some equipment, but when he turned away to get it, the suspects stole eight guns and ran from the store.
Three of the suspects ran across the street and started shooting at Gammond before driving off in a car. Hammond caught the fourth suspect, identified only as a 16-year-old male. Hammond says, "Too many guns in the hands of people who shouldn't have them. Law-abiding citizens need the guns, not criminals.'" (07/21/05)
http://www.kcentv.com/news/c-article.php?cid=1&nid=7570
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Indiana: Prowler prompts man to fire gun
Daily Journal
"A White River Township man shot at a prowler who attacked him at his home early Wednesday, according to police reports. A resident along the 1100 block of Stones Crossing Road said someone hit him in the abdomen and back of the head while he was in his backyard searching for a possible prowler, police reports said. The resident told police he fell to the ground and fired a single shot from his .38 revolver to scare off the prowler, according to police reports. Sheriff’s deputies do not believe the prowler was shot, said Doug Cox, sheriff’s office chief deputy." (07/21/05)
http://www.thejournalnet.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=113&ArticleID=52415
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Roberts dissents from gun search ruling
Boston.com
"Supreme Court nominee John Roberts sided with police but was on the losing end of an appeals court decision on whether officers were within their authority to search the trunk of a suspect's car. Roberts dissented in a 2-1 ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, reversing a man's conviction for unlawful possession of a firearm.The decision was released by the court Friday, even as Roberts was touring Senate in a political candidate-like search for confirmation votes.Roberts said in his minority opinion that U.S. Park Police were justified in searching the trunk of a car and seizing a .25-caliber pistol found there after the officers performed a records check and discovered the vehicle's temporary license tags were stolen in Fairfax County, Va." (07/22/05)
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/07/22/roberts_dissents_from_gun_search_ruling/
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Texas: Guadalupe assailant shot when he follows victim to neighbors
My San Antonio.com
" A woman on the 100 block of Baker Creek Loop in northwestern Guadalupe County answered the door to a man she recognized as an acquaintance of her son at about 12:30 a.m., Jordan said. He said the man put a knife to the woman's neck and sexually assaulted her.
The woman fled to a neighboring house. The couple living there let her in, but her nude assailant followed her and started breaking out glass door panels with his knife, Jordan said. As the assailant reached through the broken glass to unlock the door, the male resident of the house shot him with a rifle. The 9 mm bullet went through the assailant's hand and into his abdomen. Sheriff's deputies found him lying in the front yard, a knife in his hand." (07/23/05)
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA072305.5B.shootings.e3d0b8.html
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Louisiana: Man shot while trying to break into house
Shreveport Times
"A 19-year-old Benton man is expected to be booked into the Bossier City Jail after being released from LSU Hospital in Shreveport, where he was being treated for a gunshot wound Friday evening. .... The shooting occurred after Wallace showed up at the residence and confronted a former girlfriend who was sitting in a vehicle in the driveway, Natale said.
"He proceeded to bang on the driver's side window, and he was yelling and cursing," he said. "He then went to the front of the home and allegedly banged on windows and the front door in an effort to make entry to confront the man inside."When that didn't work, Wallace went to a side door under the carport and continued banging, Natale said.
"He then proceeded to break the window on the door at the carport and reach inside in an attempt to open the door from the inside. That's when the individual inside the house fired one shot, hitting him in the arm." Investigators determined that the man who lived at the house, 22-year-old Jonathan Herman, shot Wallace in self-defense." (07/23/05)
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050723/NEWS03/507230346/1002/NEWS
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COMMENTARY
The Second Amendment is alive and well
JPFO
staff
"A right remains a right, no matter what any government says
or does. Rights are G-d-given.* Rights are inborn. It is certainly true that governments ride rough-shod over rights. But to say that right is dead because a government abuses it is rather like saying that the sky is red with purple polka-dots just because some legislature says so.Many people mistake the Bill of Rights for a contract. Contracts can be altered at will by the parties involved.The Bill of Rights is NOT a contract. It is an acknowledgment of pre-existing conditions. .... So read Mr. Brownlow's article and consider its arguments.But never despair. The Second Amendment is alive and well and will remain so as long as armed Americans possess the will to defend their own homes, neighborhoods, and families against some future tyranny." (07/22/05)
http://www.jpfo.net/alert20050722a.htm
Flint Journal
" A 14-year-old Flint boy was shot and killed Thursday night by a store clerk he may have been trying to rob. .... Police were told the store clerk, whose name was not released, shot the boy in the chest with a large-caliber handgun during a robbery attempt. Hakeem was with another boy who may have been armed with a handgun, police said. The second suspect ran from the scene and was still at large this morning, they said." (07/22/05)
http://www.mlive.com/news/fljournal/index.ssf?/base/news-30/1122046149260170.xml&coll=5
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Michigan: Homeowner: Illegal entry was more than that
Flint Journal
"A Saginaw Township man says police let him down when they refused to arrest an 18-year-old man who broke into his house by smashing a sun room window after midnight Thursday. Jerry Persons, 65, who had open heart surgery in May, said a state police detective told him the intruder wasn't arrested because he needed 60 stitches and officers couldn't wait at the hospital. .... Police were chasing four teens who were apparently drinking underage in a nearby apartment complex. One thought he was ducking onto an open porch and never saw the quarter-inch plate glass, Persons said. Person jumped out of bed at the sound of crashing glass. He saw the invader crouched behind a chair in his 350-square-foot solarium and trained his .22-caliber revolver on him.
Then several officers from Saginaw County's Safe Streets squad with flashlights appeared in his back yard. "They says drop your gun. I says, 'No way,' because I had my gun trained on this individual," Persons said.
He said he eventually lowered his weapon as police aided the teen." (07/22/05)
http://www.mlive.com/news/sanews/index.ssf?/base/news-2/1122042037146210.xml&coll=9
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California:Drive through shooting leaves suspect dead
KCAL 9 News
" A gunman who allegedly tried to rob two men in the drive-thru area of a fast-food restaurant in Santa Monica Thursday was shot and killed during a confrontation with his intended victims, police said. .... "The victims ... said they were in the drive-thru area when a masked suspect approached their vehicle and displayed a knife and a handgun," Fabrega said.A struggle ensued between the suspect and the passenger in the car, he said."During the struggle, the suspect stabbed the passenger victim in the hand," Fabrega said. "The driver retrieved a handgun and shot the suspect in the upper body. The suspect fled on foot and collapsed a short distance away."Detectives determined the gun used to shoot the suspect had been stored in the car, Fabrega said. Investigators will try to determine if the driver had a permit to carry a concealed weapon. Generally, it is not legal to carry a loaded weapon in a car without a permit, he said." [Editor's note: Legal or not, he's still alive-MLS](07/21/05)
http://kcal9.com/localnews/localnewsla_story_202205717.html
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Alaska: Mobile home intruder met by gunfire
Anchorage Daily News
"An intruder was shot twice after he climbed through a window in a mobile home and was met by an angry resident early Wednesday morning, Anchorage police said. .... Shortly after 1 a.m. Wednesday, police said, an intruder entered a window of a trailer home at the Manoog's Isle Mobile Home Park on Lake Otis Parkway north of East Dowling Road. A neighbor heard glass shattering and saw the break-in occurring, police spokesman Ron McGee said. The neighbor called 911.
While on the phone with the police, the neighbor saw the resident get into a fight with the burglar. Then he heard shots, McGee said.The burglar got into a dark-colored Ford Explorer and drove away. A short time later, police say, Crousser showed up at an emergency room with gunshot wounds to his upper left thigh and lower right calf. They said they don't know what was behind the break-in and fight. During a search of the trailer home, police discovered numerous marijuana plants, McGee said. Wednesday evening, McGee said the resident of the trailer had not been charged with anything." (07/21/05)
http://www.adn.com/front/story/6730172p-6617745c.html
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South Africa: Robbery victim shoots attacker
Independent Online
"A Johannesburg tourist shot and killed a gangster when he and four others attacked her and three relatives on Palm Beach, near Ramsgate on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast, this week. The woman was with relatives on the beach on Monday when a five-member gang wielding knives confronted the group. Two of the men turned on the woman while the other three attacked the other three members of the family. The woman took out her gun from her handbag and fired two shots at the men attacking her. The gang then ran off." (07/21/05)
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20050721093200566C155640
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Texas: Gun shop owner apprehends suspect during armed robbery
NBC 6 News
"A juvenile is in jail charged with holding up a local gun store. Three other suspects remain on the run.Waco Police say four people stole several guns from the Guns R Us gun shop in the 2100 block of La Sallare just after 1:00 Thursday afternoon. Owner Gary Hammond says the suspects said they wanted to buy some equipment, but when he turned away to get it, the suspects stole eight guns and ran from the store.
Three of the suspects ran across the street and started shooting at Gammond before driving off in a car. Hammond caught the fourth suspect, identified only as a 16-year-old male. Hammond says, "Too many guns in the hands of people who shouldn't have them. Law-abiding citizens need the guns, not criminals.'" (07/21/05)
http://www.kcentv.com/news/c-article.php?cid=1&nid=7570
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Indiana: Prowler prompts man to fire gun
Daily Journal
"A White River Township man shot at a prowler who attacked him at his home early Wednesday, according to police reports. A resident along the 1100 block of Stones Crossing Road said someone hit him in the abdomen and back of the head while he was in his backyard searching for a possible prowler, police reports said. The resident told police he fell to the ground and fired a single shot from his .38 revolver to scare off the prowler, according to police reports. Sheriff’s deputies do not believe the prowler was shot, said Doug Cox, sheriff’s office chief deputy." (07/21/05)
http://www.thejournalnet.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=113&ArticleID=52415
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Roberts dissents from gun search ruling
Boston.com
"Supreme Court nominee John Roberts sided with police but was on the losing end of an appeals court decision on whether officers were within their authority to search the trunk of a suspect's car. Roberts dissented in a 2-1 ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, reversing a man's conviction for unlawful possession of a firearm.The decision was released by the court Friday, even as Roberts was touring Senate in a political candidate-like search for confirmation votes.Roberts said in his minority opinion that U.S. Park Police were justified in searching the trunk of a car and seizing a .25-caliber pistol found there after the officers performed a records check and discovered the vehicle's temporary license tags were stolen in Fairfax County, Va." (07/22/05)
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/07/22/roberts_dissents_from_gun_search_ruling/
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Texas: Guadalupe assailant shot when he follows victim to neighbors
My San Antonio.com
" A woman on the 100 block of Baker Creek Loop in northwestern Guadalupe County answered the door to a man she recognized as an acquaintance of her son at about 12:30 a.m., Jordan said. He said the man put a knife to the woman's neck and sexually assaulted her.
The woman fled to a neighboring house. The couple living there let her in, but her nude assailant followed her and started breaking out glass door panels with his knife, Jordan said. As the assailant reached through the broken glass to unlock the door, the male resident of the house shot him with a rifle. The 9 mm bullet went through the assailant's hand and into his abdomen. Sheriff's deputies found him lying in the front yard, a knife in his hand." (07/23/05)
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA072305.5B.shootings.e3d0b8.html
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Louisiana: Man shot while trying to break into house
Shreveport Times
"A 19-year-old Benton man is expected to be booked into the Bossier City Jail after being released from LSU Hospital in Shreveport, where he was being treated for a gunshot wound Friday evening. .... The shooting occurred after Wallace showed up at the residence and confronted a former girlfriend who was sitting in a vehicle in the driveway, Natale said.
"He proceeded to bang on the driver's side window, and he was yelling and cursing," he said. "He then went to the front of the home and allegedly banged on windows and the front door in an effort to make entry to confront the man inside."When that didn't work, Wallace went to a side door under the carport and continued banging, Natale said.
"He then proceeded to break the window on the door at the carport and reach inside in an attempt to open the door from the inside. That's when the individual inside the house fired one shot, hitting him in the arm." Investigators determined that the man who lived at the house, 22-year-old Jonathan Herman, shot Wallace in self-defense." (07/23/05)
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050723/NEWS03/507230346/1002/NEWS
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COMMENTARY
The Second Amendment is alive and well
JPFO
staff
"A right remains a right, no matter what any government says
or does. Rights are G-d-given.* Rights are inborn. It is certainly true that governments ride rough-shod over rights. But to say that right is dead because a government abuses it is rather like saying that the sky is red with purple polka-dots just because some legislature says so.Many people mistake the Bill of Rights for a contract. Contracts can be altered at will by the parties involved.The Bill of Rights is NOT a contract. It is an acknowledgment of pre-existing conditions. .... So read Mr. Brownlow's article and consider its arguments.But never despair. The Second Amendment is alive and well and will remain so as long as armed Americans possess the will to defend their own homes, neighborhoods, and families against some future tyranny." (07/22/05)
http://www.jpfo.net/alert20050722a.htm
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