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https://www.waaytv.com/content/news/...513084311.html
LIMESTONE COUNTY SHERIFF: HOMEOWNER SHOOTS HOME INVASION SUSPECT

Law enforcement said the suspect was found searching through items in the house.

A man is in Huntsville Hospital today after law enforcement officials say a homeowner shot him during a home invasion.

The Limestone County Sheriff’s Office says it received a call about midnight that a man had broken into a home on Nick Davis Road. The same suspect is alleged to have wrecked his car on Wells Road about 10 p.m. Monday, before the home invasion.

The suspect was found searching through items in the house after the homeowners heard noise and saw a light on.

The man grabbed his gun and went to check it out. There was apparently a scuffle between the homeowner and the suspect, and the man shot the suspect, according to the sheriff’s office.

The sheriff’s office said the suspect was taken to Huntsville Hospital. Information on his condition has not been released.

Stay with WAAY 31 on air and WAAYTV.com online for updates to this story.

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http://ihoneida.com/2019/07/23/accus...omeowners-son/

ACCUSED BURGLAR CAPTURED AT GUNPOINT BY HOMEOWNER’S SON

An alleged burglary attempt at an Dean Hill residence in Oneida ended in the arrest of a Winfield woman, after the was cornered inside the home she allegedly broke into by the son of the home's owner.

Chessie L. King, 37, of an Isham Road residence in Winfield, is facing aggravated burglary charges following the incident on Wednesday, July 17.

According to an arrest warrant filed by Oneida Police Department Sgt. Brett Bond, he arrived at the Dean Hill Road residence following a 911 call shortly after 6 a.m. to find a man at the rear of the residence, holding a door leading into the basement.

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The man, who authorities said is the son of the home's owner, had received a call from his mother's caretaker, telling him that she heard someone talking. He arrived at the home to discover King in the basement. He told police that she "came at him."

Inside the basement, Bond and OPD Patrolman Zack Strunk encountered King, who had an unopened pocket knife clenched in her fist, according to the warrant filed by Bond.

King allegedly told police that she thought she was in her home. She was taken into custody and transported to the Scott County Justice Center in Huntsville.

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https://www.ksfy.com/content/news/Pr...513083491.html

Prosecutors say man justified in shooting intruder

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Posted: Tue 8:30 AM, Jul 23, 2019
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) - Prosecutors say the fatal shooting of an intruder by a Sioux City resident was justified.

Sioux City police said Monday that charges won't be filed against Travis Gutierrez. He shot 19-year-old Jose Montanez on April 9, after Montanez broke into Gutierrez's home.

Police say Montanez was involved in a disturbance at his home and was cut by broken glass as he jumped out from a second-floor window. He ran through alleys and then broke into Gutierrez's home a few minutes later.

Police say Montanez was shot after refusing to leave and attacking and injuring Gutierrez.

An autopsy report says Montanez had been using morphine and LSD at the time of the break-in.

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https://www.wisn.com/article/surveil...tomer/28485344

Surveillance video released of Family Dollar clerk pulling gun on customer

BROWN DEER, Wis. —
No charges will be filed against a Brown Deer Family Dollar store cashier who pulled a gun on a customer. Newly released surveillance video shows the incident.

The customer didn't want to be identified but told WISN 12 news previously that the fight started when she tried to exchange a bag of charcoal.

Cashier pulls gun on customer in Brown Deer store, police say
"She just was really rude, cussing us out, calling, us like, (bleeps) and provoking us to try to come behind the counter to fight her," the customer said.

WISN 12 News obtained the police report in which the cashier told police a different story.

She said it was the customer who was being hostile and threatening. In the surveillance video, she can be seen pulling the gun after the customer goes behind the counter.

The clerk has a conceal carry permit, and she told police that she always carries the gun on her at work, especially when she closes for the night.

Also in the police report a witness said the cashier was "acting in self-defense." The district attorney told WISN 12 News he agreed and is not pursuing charges.

Police gave both women tickets.

"I didn't know they could have a gun. It wasn't in no holster or anything. It was just in her back pocket," the customer said.

WISN 12 News has contacted Family Dollar about their employee weapon policy and whether the cashier still works for the company, but has not received a response.

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https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/07/...city-shooting/

REDWOOD CITY – The San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office has cleared a state parole agent in the non-fatal shooting of a 30-year-old parolee in Redwood City earlier this year.

Agent Marvin Abad shot parolee Aaron Dennis Womack during a confrontation outside the parole office at 540 Price Ave. in the early morning hours of April 23, according to an eight-page report released by District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe on Tuesday.

The report said Abad was upstairs in his office about 1:30 a.m. when he heard a “loud banging noise” coming from somewhere nearby. He went to investigate and found Womack in the office’s parking garage holding a dumbbell in his right hand. Womack had been living in a makeshift encampment at the garage, according to the report.

A screaming and yelling Womack walked away from Abad and used the weight to punch a door to a building at 550 Price Ave., causing glass to shatter, according to the report.

The report said Womack appeared “agitated and confused” and did not seem to recognize Abad, his parole agent of two years. Abad knew Womack had “severe mental health” issues, but he had peacefully resolved similar situations with him in the past, according to the report.

“Womack repeatedly asked Agent Abad, ‘where did you come from?’” Wagstaffe wrote in the report.

Abad tried to calm Womack down, reminded him that he was his parole officer and asked him to drop the dumbbell, according to the report. Womack instead raised the weight to shoulder height as if preparing to punch something and rushed toward Abad.

Abad, the report said, backed up as Womack approached, the former repeatedly asking the latter to put the dumbbell down and the latter repeatedly asking the former where he had come from. The parole agent eventually drew and fired his service weapon from the hip as Womack closed within five to seven feet of him, according to the report.

“Agent Abad feared for his safety,” Wagstaffe wrote in the report. “He was aware that Womack was on parole for a violent crime (assault with a deadly weapon on an elderly couple), Womack was holding the dumbbell as if he intended to strike Agent Abad over the head with it and Womack was continuing to advance upon him despite repeated orders to stop.”

One of the two rounds Abad fired hit Womack in the left leg near his groin, the report said.

Womack walked away from Abad, who called for help. He was eventually arrested by a combination of Redwood City police officers and San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies, but not before being shot with a stun gun a total of four times, according to the report.

The report said Womack was taken to Stanford Hospital, where he was treated for a non-life-threatening injury and released.

“While being treated, Womack laughed and noted that the Taser hurt more than the gunshot,” Wagstaffe wrote in the report. “He said he learns something new every day.”

The confrontation between Abad and Womack was not recorded, but there were witnesses.

Baron Kauo, a 70-year-old man who lives in the same encampment, told investigators that he woke up to Womack “yelling and going crazy,” the report said. He also reported seeing Womack walk toward Abad with a yellow 5-pound weight in his hand.

Womack appeared to accept being shot.

“He stated that Agent Abad ‘shot me because in my opinion he did the right thing,’” Wagstaffe wrote in the report. “‘He was tripping, and I was tripping, I’m not going to blame him for shooting me. I would have shot me too … too close. I was too close to him.’”

Wagstaffe reached the same conclusion.

“It is apparent that Agent Abad acted lawfully in response to a dangerous and rapidly escalating situation,” he wrote in the report.

“Despite retreating from Womack and making efforts to calm him down, as he had successfully done in the past, Womack continued to advance on him wielding a dumbbell in a threatening manner,” he continued. “Agent Abad shot in self defense when he subjectively, and reasonably, feared that he had no other option available to protect himself from serious bodily harm.”

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https://www.hjnews.com/news/crime_co...537e7f5c2.html

Man accused of burglary, other crimes requests jury trial

A Hyrum man who was reportedly under the influence of drugs last year when he allegedly illegally entered a home in Wellsville and met the business end of the owner’s gun has been through drug treatment and was scheduled to enter a plea in 1st District Court Tuesday morning but asked for a jury trial instead.

According to a probable cause statement filed in 1st District Court, deputies were already looking for 42-year-old Peter Silva when a woman called 911 at about 5:23 a.m. to report an intruder in her home.

The document states a deputy contacted Silva at the Maverik in Wellsville earlier that morning after he allegedly entered someone’s car to charge his cell phone. The deputy reportedly released him because he did not feel he had probable cause to make an arrest at that time.

A short time later, deputies found an abandoned vehicle that they later learned was stolen, with a handgun left inside, the document states.

When Silva was arrested, he was reportedly found in possession of the keys to the stolen vehicle, a payroll check made out to a Wellsville resident, a holster with cash and two stolen credit cards inside, and more.

Silva was charged with burglary, theft, forgery, possession of a dangerous weapon by a restricted person, unlawful acquisition of a financial card without consent, possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia.

He was also charged with attempted escape from official custody and criminal mischief after he allegedly tampered with an electrical outlet at the jail and later tried to walk out of the jail’s booking area with a volunteer.

At Silva’s request, a jury trial has been set for Nov. 6-7.

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https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/c...7-4ad89bc882ed

Video: Gentilly homeowner scares off would-be burglars with shotgun blast

He reportedly fired the shotgun at the ceiling in his hallway, spooking the two people away.

A Gentilly homeowner appears to have scared off a pair of burglars earlier this month by firing warning shot with his shotgun, video released by the New Orleans Polce Department shows.

NOPD officials say the attempted burglary took place around 9:30 p.m. on July 10.

Two people - described by the NOPD only as black males - reportedly forced their way into a home in the 5900 block of Chamberlain Drive. According to police, that's when the homeowner grabbed his gun.

He reportedly fired the shotgun at the ceiling in his hallway, spooking the two people away.

The video, shot from a security camera at the house, shows two men with blue baseball caps approaching the front porch. A loud noise can be heard as they make entry into the house and disappear from frame.

Less than a minute later, a loud bang - the shotgun blast - can be heard, and the two men run back out the door and away from the house as a fire alarm is triggered.

Police have not identified the two men seen in the video.

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https://www.clickorlando.com/news/ma...ght-police-say

Man fired gun in self-defense during Waffle House fight, police say
Vandrae Tarrance Wright accused of being primary aggressor

Adrienne CutwayPosted: 3:24 PM, July 24, 2019

Vandrae Tarrance Wright
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. - A man who shot another man during a fight at a Waffle House earlier this year fired his weapon in self-defense and won't be facing charges, according to the Altamonte Springs Police Department.

Police said surveillance video recorded outside the restaurant on March 31 showed Vandrae Tarrance Wright, 29, repeatedly provoking Tasheem Selwood and lifting up his shirt to show that he had a handgun.

Wright pulled out a gun and pointed it at Selwood as Selwood was trying to leave, which prompted Selwood to fire his gun, hitting Wright in the abdomen, according to a news release.

Selwood, who was uninjured, left the shooting scene but was later identified through the course of the investigation.

Wright hid the gun in a nearby wooded area and then asked bystanders to drive him to a hospital, according to authorities.

Police said the state attorney's office determined that Selwood will not face charges because he was acting in self-defense.

Wright is being held without bond on charges of attempted homicide, possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, carrying a concealed weapon, tampering with evidence and firing a weapon in a public place.

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https://fox40.com/2019/07/24/orovill...asion-suspect/

Oroville Woman Shoots, Kills Home Invasion Suspect

OROVILLE — A Oroville homeowner shot and killed a home invasion suspect Wednesday and also wounded the man she lived with.

The Butte County Sheriff’s Office reports Cody Faunce was armed with a handgun when he tried breaking into the back of a home on Arbol Avenue.

A man who lived at the home confronted Faunce and a struggle broke out between the two men.

The sheriff’s office says a female homeowner got a firearm and shot toward Faunce several times, hitting him and the other homeowner.

Deputies found 33-year-old Faunce dead at the home around 3:30 a.m.

The male homeowner was hospitalized with a gunshot wound. The woman was uninjured.

No one has been arrested and the sheriff’s office is still investigating the deadly home invasion robbery.

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https://ktul.com/news/local/police-r...sible-shooting

TPD: Homeowner shoots robbery suspect
TULSA, Okla. (KTUL) —
Tulsa police are responded to a shooting near East 15th Street and South Yale Avenue Wednesday night.

Police say a man was mowing his lawn and was approached by three people.

The three suspects stole $12 and the person's debit card.

Police say shortly after another robbery happened nearby and that's when police identified the suspects' car.

According to police, around 9:20 p.m. they spotted the car and were led on a chase that ended near 12th and Fulton, that's when the three suspects jumped out and took off in different directions.

Police say a homeowner nearby felt threatened and shot one of the suspects in the stomach.

The suspect was taken to a local hospital, but their condition is unknown.

Police say the two other suspects have been arrested and are looking for a woman who is possibly a fourth suspect.