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https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news...rd-in-hampton/

Police: Victim helped suspect after shooting him at Hampton Yacht Club

HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) — Police say a man accused of shooting inside a Hampton home was later shot during an altercation at the Hampton Yacht Club over the weekend.

Hampton police said in a news release 33-year-old James Daniel Jones is charged with attempted maiming, two counts of use of a firearm in commission of a felony, shooting into an occupied dwelling and shooting in public.

Officers responded to the 100 block of Linden Avenue for a shots fired complaint just before 4:15 a.m. on Sunday, June 16.

Police said an investigation found Jones and a 31-year-old Hampton man were involved in an altercation inside of a home. At some point, Jones pulled out a gun and fired it inside the home.

No injuries were reported.

Police said in the release Jones fled to the Hampton Yacht Club, in the 4700 block of Victoria Boulevard, and was involved in a second altercation with a 62-year-old.

“It’s reported that the [62-year-old victim] was a boat owner, someone at the yacht club,” said Hampton PIO Sgt. Reginald Williams.

Police say Jones pulled out a gun and fired several shots toward the boater, who returned fire and struck Jones multiple times. Jones fell into the water after being shot and was kept afloat by the boater until officers arrived on scene, police said.

“The victim rendered aid to him by tossing him a line and keeping him afloat til police and Hampton Fire-Rescue arrived on scene,” Williams said.

Jones remains hospitalized with injuries that are not life-threatening.

“We have officers standing by with him since the charges have been obtained,” Williams said.

10 On Your Side did reach out to the yacht club here, but they didn’t want to comment.

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https://www.ajc.com/news/crime--law/...2bOAeCXXL4ByN/

A man found dead at a Buckhead shopping center was shot after allegedly trying to break into a nearby business, Atlanta police said.

Investigators found the man lying outside a car at the Bennett Street Shopping Center near the intersection of Peachtree Road and Bennett Street around 8:30 a.m. Monday. He was wearing a black hoodie, gray sweatpants and black gloves.“He appears to have been involved in some form of criminal activity that resulted in him being shot,” Maj. Michael O’Connor said. The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office identified him as 29-year-old Mohamed Akel. They do not believe he was from the Atlanta area. Investigators initially suspected Akel was involved in a series of car break-ins that happened Sunday night, police said. Officers were alerted to look out for a white Challenger or Charger with three people inside, and Akel fit the description, O’Connor said.

“However, as the investigation progressed, investigators located video evidence and witnesses and learned the incident appears to be the result of the deceased male attempting to break into a nearby business,” police spokesman Sgt. John Chafee said in a statement Monday afternoon. Chafee said evidence indicates Akel tried to break into the Bennett Street business. When he entered, someone inside shot him.

Investigators said it looks like Akel returned to his car after he was shot and tried to leave the scene. The Dodge crashed into a small deck on the back of a business, and he fell outside the car. It was still running when officers found it, and O’Connor said it appears it was in drive for some time because of all the shredded tire rubber at the scene. Someone must have put it in park by the time the sun came up and the body was spotted in the parking lot, he said. A firearm was also recovered from the Dodge.

Chafee said the shooter initially left the scene but later came back and spoke with investigators. No charges are anticipated at this time, he said. The shooter’s relationship to the business is not clear.

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https://www.wxyz.com/news/police-inv...oits-west-side

Police investigating fatal shooting of alleged intruder at home on Detroit's west side
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DETROIT (WXYZ) — Detroit police are investigating a fatal shooting that happened on the 6300 block of Chopin on Detroit's west side.

The incident occurred just after 9:30 p.m. Tuesday.

According to a preliminary investigation, police say a male homeowner was outdoors with his family and children when he heard a commotion inside his house. He found a man inside his home with a shot gun.

The homeowner also had a gun and shot the suspect, police say, killing him. The 20-year-old suspect died.

No one was taken into custody. Detroit police are still investigating.

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https://www.missourinet.com/2019/06/...souri-officer/

Armed citizen, several others take down alleged shooter of Missouri officer

An innocent bystander armed with a gun and several other witnesses helped to take down a shackled inmate last week for allegedly shooting a northwest Missouri police officer. Trenton police officer Jasmine Diab was transporting Jamey Aaron Griffin on Friday to St. Joseph when the two got into a scuffle. Griffin then reportedly grabbed Diab’s gun and shot her in the stomach.


Trenton police officer Jasmine Diab
Missouri Highway Patrol Sgt. Jake Angle tells Missourinet affiliate KTTN in Trenton that Griffin attempted to run away, but the armed witness and the other citizens noticed something wasn’t right. They restrained the suspect until officers arrived at a Winston gas station.

“I’m not going to confirm that the gun was pointed at the subject,” says Angle. “I can confirm that one of the citizens was armed, but what exactly he did with the weapon, I don’t know.”

Angle says citizens play a critical role in fighting crime.

“We depend on the public, as law enforcement, day in and day out. Not only in extreme situations like this one when they came to the aid of an officer who obviously needed some assistance, but every day when they call in, when they give us reports. As law enforcement, we can’t be everywhere,” he says.

Diab, 24, is in critical but stable condition and could be in the hospital for at least another week. Several fundraisers are being organized to help her, including a Go Fund Me page.

Griffin, 38, has been charged in connection to the shooting. He was treated at a hospital for an injury to his hand.

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https://abc13.com/homeowner-shoots-s...uties/5352904/

Homeowner shoots man he caught sleeping in front yard in NW Harris Co, deputies say
A homeowner shot a man who was sleeping in his front yard in northwest Harris County, deputies say.

Investigators are at the home in the 17700 block of Barker Bluff Lane near Barker Cypress.

Authorities told ABC13 the homeowner heard a noise outside shortly before 5 a.m., grabbed his gun and went out to the yard to see what was going on.

The man had allegedly been sleeping in the yard, and the homeowner woke him up.

That's when he confronted the man and got into a physical fight with him on the lawn.

When the man charged at him, the homeowner opened fire, hitting him twice.

The man was taken to Ben Taub Hospital.

Deputies are investigating why the man was on the lawn.

There's no word yet whether the homeowner will be charged.

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https://www.newschannel5.com/news/al...eputies-arrive

Alabama grandmother holds chase suspect at gunpoint
By: Laken Bowles
LIMESTONE COUNTY, Ala. (WTVF/CNN) — A 75-year-old grandmother helped capture a suspect wanted for a car theft.

When the man showed up on Marcia Black's property in North Alabama on Monday, she held him at gunpoint until police arrived.

The suspect crashed the car near her property, came up to her home and asked to use her phone. That's when Black grabbed a rifle to keep him at bay.

"I wanted to keep him at a distance,” she said. “I didn't intend to kill him. I just wanted him to think that I would shoot him."

One of her children, who was inside her home, called 911. Not long after, deputies arrived.

The suspect was booked on a $6,000 bond.

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I missed this one last year.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...-burglars-shot

Wayne Newton tells Las Vegas jury he fired shot as burglars fled
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Longtime Las Vegas entertainer Wayne Newton told a Nevada jury on Tuesday that he fired a gunshot to scare away two burglars that he and his wife and their teenage daughter encountered during a second burglary in 10 days at their home a year ago.

"My wife was in hysterics and crying," Newton said, adding that Kathleen McCrone Newton told him one of the fleeing men raised a tire iron as if to hit her before he used the metal rod to attack one of the family's large Rhodesian Ridgeback dogs.

"She said, 'Shoot 'em. Shoot 'em. There they are. He almost hit me with the pipe iron,'" the 77-year-old "Danke Schoen" singer said. "I decided to take one shot in the air. That was the last time I saw them."

The testimony came during trial for Weslie Hosea Martin, a 22-year-old Nevada prison inmate accused of being one of the burglars that night and of also burglarizing the Newton mansion and a neighboring home 10 days earlier. The second suspect in the Newton home burglary has not been identified or apprehended.

Martin's public defender, Will Ewing, conceded during opening statements that Martin's face was captured on a doorbell security camera at the neighboring home the night of the first Newton home robbery, on June 3, 2018. The Newtons were in New York at the time.

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But the burglars who 10 days later apparently tried to pry open a safe in Wayne Newton's dressing room had bandanas on their faces and Ewing told jurors that only a vague video image of someone with a similar body shape and size on the Newton home stairway might tie Martin to the break-in the Newtons interrupted.

Martin was arrested last July, after an inventory of items he sold to a coin and jewelry business matched items from the Newton home. He has pleaded not guilty to 11 felonies and faces sentencing as a habitual criminal if he's convicted.

The Newtons escaped injury. Their dogs were treated by a veterinarian for head injuries and broken teeth.

Under questioning by defense lawyer Chris Peterson, Kathleen Newton acknowledged that in a two-page written statement she gave to police less than three hours after the incident she wrote nothing about having been threatened with a tire iron or crowbar.

She also told police she thought the burglars were "young, Hispanic, maybe African American" but that she first thought they were Hispanic.

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Martin, who is black, sat impassively at the defendant's table wearing a white shirt and blue tie. The trial is expected to last several days.

Martin was convicted of two unrelated previous burglary-related felonies in 2015 and is currently serving up to six years in prison for violating probation and being a felon in possession of a gun.

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Wayne Newton used a black cane to walk to the witness stand, where he stated his full name, Carson Wayne Newton, as the courtroom gallery filled with off-duty prosecutors, defense attorneys and several judges in plain clothes.

He is marking his 60th year performing in Las Vegas. He and his family moved to their current home in 2013 following the bankruptcy sale of their nearby 40-acre (16.2-hectare) estate, Casa de Shenandoah.

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Newton told prosecutor John Giordani that he's been using the cane following back surgery.

Newton said he couldn't identify the burglars during the late June 13, 2018, incident. They disappeared through a hedge toward a wall on his large property in southeast Las Vegas.

Police recovered items on the other side of the wall including coins, a watch, a bottle of Stefano Ricci cologne that Newton identified as his, and one white shoe matching another that remained in Newton's closet.

After Peterson questioned Newton about being unable to recall how a quote about being angry about the break-ins made it into a media report, Giordani returned to the topic to end Newton's testimony.

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"Let me get this straight," the prosecutor said. "So, your home is invaded on two different occasions. Your wife's assaulted with a crowbar. Your dogs are beaten. You're angry, right?"

"Very," Newton said.

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https://www.woodtv.com/news/allegan-...-with-suspect/

MANLIUS TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Before he was shot and wounded by Allegan County sheriff’s deputies Sunday morning, a car theft suspect exchanged gunfire with a civilian.

The suspect, whose name hasn’t been released because he hasn’t yet been charged, remained in the hospital Monday. Prosecutors are still working out what to charge him with after an extensive weekend crime spree.

Authorities say the suspect stole three vehicles in Martin, Wayland and Hopkins Saturday night and led deputies on a brief chase, but he remained at large Sunday morning.

Around 8:30 a.m., mechanic Ernie Caudill got a call from the sheriff’s office warning him that the suspect may be in his area along 56th Street north of Fennville. It was only a short time later when the suspect, armed with an AR-15, showed up. Caudill said he tried to steal one vehicle and then another, so Caudill went to the front door to confront him.

“I said, ‘Hey!’ Gunfire, dude,” Caudill recounted Monday. “He started shooting.”

Caudill had a gun, too, and he started shooting back.

“I’m thinking somebody’s gonna die today and it ain’t gonna be me,” Caudill recalled when asked what he was thinking.

The suspect fired a minimum of four shots. Caudill himself fired through a window at the suspect as he walked around the property.

“He had to be on that meth or crack or something, buddy. ‘Cause when he looked at me and (started) shooting, there was just a blank look in his eye. That’s it,” Caudill said.

Caudill wasn’t hurt in the shooting, but he said he thinks the suspect should face an attempted murder charge for shooting at him.

“I hope he stays in jail,” Caudill said. “Or if he comes back here, he’ll be dead.”

The suspect managed to make it off his property in a stolen minivan, but he crashed it a few miles away near the intersection of 56th and 128th Avenue. There, he broke into another house and held the people inside at gunpoint, authorities say. When he went outside to steal their truck, he was confronted by deputies and ultimately shot.


Authorities investigating the scene after an officer-involved shooting with an armed carjacking suspect. (June 16, 2019)
The Allegan County prosecutor declined to comment Monday on what charges the suspect would faces, but arraignment is expected to happen Tuesday of Wednesday.

Michigan State Police are investigating the officer-involved shooting. No deputies were hurt.

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A Pa example.


https://www.wgal.com/article/york-co...-home/28103670

WEST MANCHESTER TWP., Pa. —
A York County man fought off an intruder who broke into his home early Wednesday morning, according to police.

West Manchester Township police said the suspect, 22-year-old Zachary Lomenzo, is now facing charges that include burglary and criminal trespass.

Lomenzo broke a kitchen window to get into the the home in the 1500 block of East Berlin Road, police said, and was confronted by the homeowner.

The homeowner said he fired a warning shot, then fought with Lomenzo. Lomenzo was knocked through a window, and the homeowner restrained him until police arrived.

The homeowner suffered a cut to the hand that required more than 20 stitches, he said.

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https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/new...co/1499987001/

Lawyer: Business owner who fatally shot man in domestic dispute acted in self-defense
A 28-year-old man was found dead at the corner of San Pedro Street and Lohman Avenue on Saturday, June 16, 2019.
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A 28-year-old man was found dead at the corner of San Pedro Street and Lohman Avenue on Saturday, June 16, 2019. (Photo: Bethany Freudenthal/Sun-News)

LAS CRUCES - A Las Cruces business owner who intervened in a domestic situation and fatally shot the man involved did so in self-defense, a lawyer said Wednesday.

C. J. McElhinney, who represents the as-yet-unnamed business owner, reports his client killed Nathan Froseth, 28, after observing Froseth attack a woman and then try to attack his client.

The incidents happened in the early morning hours Saturday on San Pedro Street, near the Lohman Avenue intersection.

A neighbor who witnessed the incident confirmed a domestic dispute preceded the shooting.

The Las Cruces Police Department has yet to release any information besides the fact that a 28-year-old man was found dead near the near the intersection of Lohman and San Pedro on Saturday.

McElhinney describes his client as a "41-year-old male and native of Las Cruces, owner of a small business, and father of two daughters." His client is cooperating with police in the investigation, he said.

The client has yet to be charged with a crime.

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The incident

Just before 5 a.m. Saturday, residents who live in the San Pedro-Lohman area heard yelling and screaming outside their homes.

"I heard her scream like, 'get off me,' or 'leave me alone,' so I jumped up and ran out of my room. I ran to the other side of the house," said Irene Northrup, who lives on San Pedro Street. She peeked out of her window, but didn't see anything.

"So I'm like, 'maybe they did leave,' so as I'm closing my window you hear her scream, 'get off of me,'" she said.

McElhinney said his client also heard a woman screaming for help and saw what he believed to be a physical assault.

When his client exited his house and "inquired as to what was occurring," Froseth "charged from the north side of Lohman Avenue towards the citizen in an aggressive manner," McElhinney reported in a news release. McElhinney uses the word "citizen" to describe his client.

Nathan Froseth
Nathan Froseth (Photo: Doña Ana County Detention Center)

McElhinney said his client warned Froseth that he was armed and displayed the firearm. That didn't stop Froseth from advancing toward his client and challenging him to a fight.

His client kicked Froseth, which knocked him back. But Froseth continued his attempted assault, McElhinney said.

"Fearing for his life, particularly fearing that if Froseth was able to wrestle the firearm away from him he could be shot and killed as well as the female that had been screaming for help, the citizen shot from within a few feet and struck Froseth multiple times to end the attack," McElhinney reported.

Northrup said she exited her house and saw the two men arguing and then witnessed the fatal shooting.

"I see the flash from the gun and I took off running back into the house," she said. "By the second gunshot I was up to my carport. I got inside and I heard the last gunshot and I heard the girl scream."

Northrup said she heard six gunshots.

She said she went back outside and saw the woman "on her knees with her dog … screaming, 'please, call the cops, they shot him.'"

Northrup, who didn't know the shooter, said she saw him running away.

A 28-year-old man was found dead at the corner of San Pedro Street and Lohman Avenue on Saturday, June 16, 2019.
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A 28-year-old man was found dead at the corner of San Pedro Street and Lohman Avenue on Saturday, June 16, 2019. (Photo: Bethany Freudenthal/Sun-News)

The following day, McElhinney said his client gave a statement to investigators and turned over the firearm he used.

"The citizen deeply regrets the loss of Mr. Froseth’s life and expresses condolences to his friends and family, but that he had no other choice but to defend his life," McElhinney reports.

McElhinney asks anyone with information regarding the case to contact his law firm at 575-288-1989. Those with information can also contact police at 575-526-0795.

Prior domestic violence cases

Froseth has twice been charged with domestic violence, once in 2018 and again in March 2019.

The 2018 case was dismissed in June. In the 2019 case, Froseth is accused of a misdemeanor charge of battery against a household member.

McElhinney alleges the woman involved in Saturday's incident was the alleged victim in both of the prior cases.