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https://www.dailynews.com/2019/04/12...e-on-burglars/

Encino homeowner chases would-be burglars off
City News ServiceApril 12, 2019 at 12:11 pm

A homeowner on the 3400 block of Red Rose Drive in Encino fired shots at would-be burglars late Thursday, April 12, 2019. (Google Maps)
ENCINO — A homeowner fired at least one shot at a man who tried to break into his home in Encino Thursday night.

Officers responded about 10:20 p.m. to the home on the 3400 block of Red Rose Drive, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

A man had tried to get into the home, and the homeowner fired at least one shot, police said.

ABC7 reported the homeowner fired multiple shots at at least three suspects, all of whom were able to escape.

No injuries were reported, and a detailed description of the suspect or suspects was not immediately available.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...-self-defense/

Sheriff: Man Allegedly Shoots Brother in Self-Defense
12 Apr 2019


Action News Now reports that 35-year-old Joshua Snyder allegedly threatened his own mother with a gun and fired a round toward her. He allegedly later pointed a gun at his brother, Jeffrey, who was armed and did not appreciate having a gun pointed towards him.

Joshua allegedly walked toward Jeffrey while pointing the gun at him and Jeffrey responded by shooting Joshua in the chest.

KRCR reports that police arrived to find Joshua lying wounded in the garage. He was transported to a hospital in critical condition.

Police believe Jeffrey acted in self-defense but criminal charges could be filed against Joshua, should he survive.

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https://www.tallahassee.com/story/ne...ry/3449376002/

LCSO arrests suspect who was shot during gunfight in botched robbery
William Hatfield
Alexquandra Forbes
Alexquandra Forbes (Photo: LCSO)

A man who was shot in a week-old gunfight with a victim during a botched robbery was arrested Thursday, the Leon County Sheriff's Office reports.

At about 4 a.m. April 5, deputies responded to a residence on Ross Road after receiving a call that someone had been shot and was complaining about having difficulty breathing.

After arriving, deputies determined from witnesses that Alexquandra Forbes, 27, had been shot by a resident at a home in the 4200 block of Crawfordville Road.

At the residence, deputies located the two victims, who said that Forbes knocked on their door around 3 a.m. He demanded $500 in rent money, displayed a firearm and threatened to shoot the victims and their dog, according to deputies.

"The victims stated they were in fear for their lives and [a victim] displayed a firearm in self-defense and ordered Forbes to leave the property," an LCSO news release says.

Forbes refused to leave and pointed a gun at the victims. One of the victims then fired multiple shots, and Forbes fired back. Forbes was hit in the chest and fled in an unknown vehicle.

Later, unknown occupants dropped off Forbes at the Ross Road home, where deputies were summoned. Forbes was treated for his injuries at a local hospital and later released.

As a result of LCSO’s investigation, he was arrested Thursday and booked into the Leon County Detention Facility. He faces two charges of armed robbery, possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon, discharging a firearm in public or a residential property.

The incident marks at least the 19th shooting in Leon County and Tallahassee this year, according to an analysis by the Tallahassee Democrat.

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https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/ne...ore/1868259074


Woman shoots at man trying to attack someone with knife in Fresno store

FRESNO, Calif. - A man is now in custody after police said he pulled a knife on a group of women in a Fresno store. Police said one of the woman then opened fire on him.

It happened just before 7 p.m. Thursday at the Kearney Center in the area of Fresno and A Streets.

Police initially thought the woman had shot him, but store clerks said the man cut himself with his knife.

Police were on scene right after shots rang out, because an officer happened to be driving nearby and heard gunshots coming from the store.

He then saw a white vehicle speed away. Police stopped the car-- detaining four females.

Lt. Bill Dooley said clerk said, and surveillance video shows, the women were inside the store when the male came in and a fight broke out.

Dooley said the man pulled out a knife and lunged at one of the woman.

"Another female had pulled out a small firearm, a small handgun, and fired multiple shots at the subject and then fled from the store," Dooley said.

They clerks said the woman fired several shots, but did not hit the male suspect. Police said the man returned to the scene and that's when they made the arrest.

No one involved has been identified, and it's not known if the woman who fired the gun had a permit to carry. Dooley said the women are all cooperating. Police do not yet know why the original fight broke out.

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Largo Police: Good Samaritan Acted in Self Defense When He Shot Man
TB Reporter
Police Tape | Accident | Crime
The man who was shot is still in the hospital and may face a charge of Aggravated Assault against the Good Samaritan.

LARGO – Officers have determined that a Good Samaritan who shot a man he was trying to help was acting in self defense when he shot the man, the Largo Police Department said.

Michael E. Girardin, 63, was wounded in the upper left leg. He remains in Bayfront Health St. Petersburg for non-life-threatening injuries after the April 7 incident. (For related story, click here.) He is also thought to have been hit by a car.

The incident happened about 8 p.m. in the 11000 block of Walsingham Road.

The incident began after witnesses saw Girardin down in the road and assumed he had been hit by a car. While trying to render aid, police said bystanders urged Girardin to stay down and wait for medical help.

Witnesses said Girardin became angry that they and the Good Samaritan were following him and urging him to stay for medical assistance. Girardin repeatedly told them to leave him alone.

Police said Girardin turned toward both men who were following him, produced a box cutter, and charged at them in a threatening manner. The witness, who was standing next to the Good Samaritan, said he was in fear for his life. The Good Samaritan fired one round from his weapon, striking Giradin in the upper left leg. The Good Samaritan then applied a belt on Giradin’s leg to act as a tourniquet. Largo Fire Rescue arrived about that time.

The witness did not know the Good Samaritan, officers said. The Good Samaritan possesses a valid Florida concealed weapons permit.

Detectives said they have set a non-arrest invest with the Pinellas/Pasco State Attorney’s Office for a possible charge of Aggravated Assault against Girardin.

Largo police are asking for anyone with information about a white SUV, possibly a Jeep or Kia, that may have been involved in the initial crash, to call the department’s communications center at (727) 587-6730.

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https://www.mdjonline.com/neighbor_n...bbeb9d609.html


Elderly South Dayton man acquitted in son’s murder
6 hrs ago
LITTLE VALLEY — Both sides agreed Richard L. Tyma Sr. sat in his bed and shot his adult son in the face last November in their South Dayton home.

Yet while the prosecution argued Tyma was a callus killer who shot his son for some peace and quiet, the defense painted him as a helpless victim left with no other choice after his violent, drug-dealing son ripped his phone cord out of the wall and threatened to inject him with heroin.

A jury, following a three-day trial in Cattaraugus County Court, ultimately sided with the defense, acquitting the elderly, sickly father of murder Friday. Jurors found Tyma, 73, not guilty of both second-degree murder, a class A-1 felony, and first-degree manslaughter, a class B felony.

The verdict meant Tyma, who had been incarcerated in Cattaraugus County Jail since the Nov. 3 shooting in his 206 Mill St. residence, could go home for the first time in more than five months.

“From day one we felt this was a clear self-defense case,” said Cattaraugus County Assistant Public Defender Ben Smith, who represented Tyma. “He’s 73, he can’t get around really, he’s immobile, he needs a wheelchair, he has an oxygen tank. When someone threatens you harm and pulls out the phone so you can’t call the police, what are you supposed to do at that point?”

“Thank God we have the Second Amendment,” he added. “No matter where you live, the Second Amendment gives you the right to protect yourself in your home.”

Cattaraugus County District Attorney Lori Rieman said that while she supports a person’s right to defend themselves in their own home, she didn’t believe Tyma was telling the truth about being threatened.

“But for the jury, there wasn’t enough to disprove it, and we have a heavy burden,” she said.

Smith said he feels the jury believed Tyma, a Vietnam War veteran, because his story never changed.

Tyma had twice called the Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Office about his son, 46-year-old Daniel Tyma, causing disturbances on the night of the shooting. Deputies twice responded to the home and left, which is why, according to the defense, Daniel Tyma then ripped the phone cord out of the wall and threatened to jab his father with a heroin needle.

“In this age, we have a heroin epidemic — people overdose and die from heroin,” Smith said.

Deputies’ body cam footage from the early morning hours after the shooting shows Tyma tell deputies about the heroin threat. That footage was played for jurors in the courtroom, and jurors asked to watch the footage again during deliberation.

“It was consistent, and it’s clear that in his frail condition and age, it was not something he was going to be quick enough to make up,” Smith said. “It seemed authentic.”

The jury believed Tyma’s account despite the fact deputies did not find any heroin at the scene or on the victim. Smith said deputies didn’t find heroin because they — by their own admission — didn’t look for it.

“So while they didn’t find any heroin in the house, it doesn’t mean it wasn’t there,” he said, adding multiple witnesses testified that Daniel Tyma often kept heroin inside the home.

While deputies perhaps didn’t search “every drawer” of the home, Rieman said all that matters is there was no heroin found on or around the victim.

“To me, imminent threat means he has it in his hands and he’s ready to use it,” she said.

Under New York state penal law, a person is typically not justified in using deadly physical force unless the person “reasonably believes” that another person is using or about to use deadly physical force against him or another person.

Asked why she believed Tyma shot his son with his legally possessed rifle, Rieman said Tyma was “mad and wanted to sleep.”

“I think he shot his son to shut him up,” Rieman said.

Tyma didn’t testify during the trial, which Smith said was because the jury could hear Tyma’s side of the story from the body cam footage.

To Rieman, the footage showed something else: a father with no remorse for killing his son.

Tyma was sleeping when deputies arrived and kept trying to go back to sleep as deputies investigated the scene, according to Rieman.

“He said, ‘I brought him into this world and I took him out,’” Rieman said. “At some point he turned and said, ‘Did you get that (expletive) body out of here?’”

Smith called the victim a “career criminal … a drug dealer … and a woman beater,” noting multiple witnesses testified to both Daniel Tyma’s drug dealing and abuse of women. That included his girlfriend, who testified he choked her at the home the night of the shooting.

“A lot of women came forward who had been his domestic abuse victims,” Smith said. “We appreciate how brave they were to come forward and say, ‘Hey, this is the kind of guy Daniel Tyma was.’”

Rieman admitted Daniel Tyma was “no angel” and had a 30-year criminal history, but said he still deserved protection under the law.

She said Daniel Tyma’s character created an “uphill battle” with the jury, especially considering the frail state of his father, who used a wheelchair and an oxygen tank during the trial.

“He’s a little, old guy,” Rieman said of the senior Tyma. “I totally understand why they were sympathetic about it.”

Rieman added she’s not saddened or angered by the verdict given Tyma is older and in poor health, while no supporters showed up for the victim during the trial.

Conversely, Smith said his client had multiple friends and family who attended the trial to support him. Tyma is well known throughout the small, tight-knit South Dayton community where he’s lived his entire life, Smith added.

“The community was 100 percent behind him. I did not hear anybody say, ‘We hope he goes to jail.’ Everybody was saying, ‘Bring him home.’ Everyone I talked to wanted him home,” he said.

He said Tyma is not happy about what happened the night of his son’s death, but is glad to be a free man.

“It was a pleasure to watch him be wheeled out to freedom,” Smith said. “It was a great thing to see.”

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Women accused of firing gun, attempting to steal DVDs in Marietta home invasion
The women pushed past her uncle’s 6-year-old son to take DVDs at gunpoint, according to the police report.


MARIETTA, Ga. — Two women are charged with charging into a man’s home in Marietta and attempting to steal DVDs at gunpoint – all in front of a young child.

Jessica Zeno-Barrett is accused of breaking into her uncle’s home on Windy Hill Road in Marietta on March 5 with Lakeisha Renee Frasier, along with another unknown woman. Police said Zeno-Barrett positioned herself behind the other women, who knocked on the door and acted as decoys to get into the apartment.

The person who answered the door was a 6-year-old boy, police said. The women pushed their way into the home and Zeno-Barrett demanded the DVDs that she said were promised to her. While the victim and his father begged for the women to leave, Zeno-Barrett became angry and ripped the DVD player off the TV stand in the living room, according to the police report.

When the man’s father tried to stop her, Zeno-Barrett pulled out a gun and pointed it at them, police said. In return, her uncle grabbed his firearm. The other women backed out the door and Zeno-Barrett fired one shot that hit the wall above her uncle’s head, according to police. All of this was done in front of the boy.

Cobb County Magistrate Court

Zeno-Barrett has been charged with armed robbery, aggravated assault, first degree burglary-home invasion and third degree child cruelty. Frazier was also charged with armed robbery, aggravated assault, first-degree home invasion and cruelty to a child, third degree, for allegedly assisting the other woman in the crime.

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Anderson Co. man charged after threatening neighbor with hammer, prompting shooting
ANDERSON COUNTY, SC (WSPA) - Anderson County Sheriff's Office officials said a man was arrested after he reportedly threatened his neighbor Friday night.

According to the sheriff's office, the man left his home on Kestrel Court reportedly armed with a hammer, went onto his neighbor's property and reportedly threatened her.

Sgt. JT Foster said the woman then fired a gun at him, but did not hit him.

Foster said the man, 27-year-old Jonathan Hayes Watson, was arrested and charged with Breach of Peace.

He was taken to the Anderson County Detention Center and has since been released.

According to Foster, there is no threat to the public and no injuries were reported.

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Bledsoe County homeowner shoots suspect during multi-agency search
Officials with the Sequatchie County Sheriff’s Office say multiple agencies were looking for Tyler Shell in connection to a stolen vehicle.

Authorities say a Bledsoe County homeowner shot a man who was charging at him.

Officials with the Sequatchie County Sheriff’s Office say multiple agencies were looking for Tyler Shell in connection to a stolen vehicle.

At some point, officials say Shell led an officer on a chase on Smith Mountain before running away, possibly with a weapon.

A short time later, a homeowner on Blue Sewannee Road called 911 saying a man charged at him.

Authorities say the homeowner shot the suspect

Shell was taken to Erlanger, he is expected to be okay.

Stay with Channel 3 for updates to this story.

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Louisville homeowner shoots man during home invasion, police say
Matthew Glowicki
A homeowner shot a man who broke into his home Sunday morning in the Taylor Berry neighborhood, police say.

A man entered the home around 7 a.m. in the 1200 block of Homeview Drive through a window, said Louisville Metro Police spokesman Dwight Mitchell.

The homeowner confronted the man and shot him, sending him to the University of Louisville Hospital. He's expected to survive his injuries.

Charges are pending against the man, Mitchell said. The homeowner is not expected to be charged.