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https://gcmaz.com/burglar-shot-by-ho...-cordes-lakes/

Burglar Shot By Homeowner In Cordes Lakes
Dave ZornMarch 22, 2019, 4:15 pm
A burglar was shot by a homeowner Thursday night in Cordes Lakes after he forcibly entered their home demanding money. Yavapai County Sheriff’s officials say 42-year-old Gregory Hardy from Cordes Lakes knocked on the door of a home at around 7:30 p.m. When a female in the home went to see who was knocking, Hardy was already in the house. Hardy demanded money from her and when she said no, he grabbed her by both arms. Her husband came to her aid and told him to leave several times and Hardy refused.

The woman was able to get away and retrieve a handgun, while her husband kept struggling with Hardy. She returned and told Hardy to leave again. Hardy then advanced toward her and she fired the gun, striking him in the lower body.

Even then, Hardy kept coming and she fired a couple more times, hitting him again in the lower body. Hardy fled and was later found at a nearby home where he collapsed. He was transported to a nearby hospital with non-life threatening injuries. At the time of the incident, the woman’s three young grandchildren were in the house. The women suffered minor injuries. Hardy remains in the hospital and is expected to be arrested and booked on numerous charges upon his release.

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https://cbs4indy.com/2019/03/23/woma...estic-dispute/

Woman critically shoots man in domestic dispute
Posted 6:34 am, March 23, 2019, by Eli Azo

A 30 year-old man was shot early Saturday morning in what police are describing as a domestic dispute. The victim is currently in critical condition but is expected to survive.

Officers with the Indianapolis Metro Police Department were dispatched to the 2700 block of Caroline Avenue just after midnight to reports of shots fired inside a residence. Upon arrival, officers learned of a verbal domestic dispute which escalated to a physical altercation. According to police, during the fight, a man pointed a handgun at a woman. Then, she used her own firearm to shoot him because she said she feared for her life. The woman stayed at the home while the male got a ride to IU Health Methodist Hospital suffering from at least one gun shot wound.

IMPD told CBS4 the incident is currently being viewed as a self defense investigation. Police will not reveal the names of the couple involved since this is an active and ongoing investigation. Meanwhile, FOX59 has learned this sin’t the first time police have been called to this same address for a domestic disturbance. A police report was filed in early February for the home at 2725 Caroline Avenue for a physical fight between a man and a woman. It’s unclear if it’s the same couple that was involved in the shooting.

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https://www.fox21news.com/news/crime...red/1873924533

Police: Man shoots, critically injures intruder who kicked in front door
Carly Moore
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A disagreement at a party Saturday night turned violent, according to Colorado Springs Police Lt. Howard Black.

At about 6 a.m. Sunday, police responded to an apartment complex on Verde Drive near Highway 24 and I-25 after reports of multiple shots being fired.

Black said two men who met at a party had a disagreement that continued into Sunday morning.

One of the men is believed to have kicked in the door of the other man's apartment, then the man who lived there shot the man who busted down his door, Black said.

The intruder was shot multiple times. He was taken to the hospital with critical injuries.

This shooting is still under investigation.

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https://www.cleveland.com/court-just...-shooting.html

Ohio’s new self-defense law cited in dismissal of murder charges against man in Cleveland bar shooting
By Cory Shaffer, cleveland.comPosted Mar 25, 6:24 PM


CLEVELAND, Ohio – Prosecutors dropped murder and other charges against a Cleveland man set for trial on murder charges in a 2017 shooting outside a bar on the grounds that the man accused of the killing was defending himself.

Joshua Walker walked into a Cuyahoga County courtroom Monday expecting prosecutors and defense attorneys to begin the process of selecting a jury that would decide his fate. Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Andrew Santoli told Common Pleas Judge John O’Donnell that the state no longer wanted to pursue charges against him.

The dismissal came days before a gun-rights bill that state legislators passed in December was set to become law, and abruptly ended an ongoing legal conundrum facing lawyers and O’Donnell of how to handle Walker’s case when the law governing how self-defense cases are handled was set to change in what would have been the middle of his trial.

Prosecutor Michael O’Malley signed off on the dismissal because the new law would have given “the presumption of self-defense” to Walker, his office said in a statement.

“This case involved an unprovoked physical attack by the deceased on the defendant that resulted in his shooting death,” O’Malley’s spokesman, Tyler Sinclair, said in the statement.

Walker, who had spent 200 days in the troubled Cuyahoga County Jail, faced charges of murder, voluntary manslaughter, felonious assault and weapons charges that, if convicted, could have put him in prison for life for shooting Aaron Mason on Oct. 25, 2017 outside the Westender Tavern. He maintained that the shooting was a matter of self defense.

Walker’s lawyer, Jeff Richardson, said in an interview with cleveland.com Monday that Santoli and the prosecutor’s office came the correct conclusion.

“I think that this issue with the flux of the law really forced us to take a hard look at what the facts were, and that based on the evidence, I think they did the right thing,” Richardson said.

Sinclair did not immediately respond to a follow-up question asking why prosecutors charged Walker in the first place if the office determined he was the victim of “an unprovoked physical attack."

The shooting

High-definition surveillance cameras mounted inside and outside the bar on Lorain Avenue near West 117th Street captured the moments leading up to the shooting, the fatal gunfire and the aftermath.

Mason put on a pair of gloves and walked up to Walker, who was seated alone at the bar. Walker turned to face Mason, who punched Walker’s face.

Mason continued hurling punches at Walker as the two wrestled their way out the bar’s front door in a flurry of flailing arms. Walker pulled a pistol from his pants during the struggle and, after Mason threw Walker to the ground and got on top of him, Walker fired three shots from close range into Mason’s body. Mason dropped the ground and doubled over, and Walker ran from the scene and dropped his cellphone in the process.

Cleveland police reviewed the surveillance video and obtained an arrest warrant in November 2017 charging Walker with murder. Walker had returned to his previous address in Phoenix after the shooting. Police there arrested him in September. He was extradited back to Cleveland in October and prosecutors obtained an indictment charging him with murder a week later.

The shooting happened 14 months after Cleveland City Councilwoman Dona Brady tried to get the bar shut down after some 60 police incidents at the bar in a two-year span that included three shootings and several brawls, some of which left patrons and bar employees bloodied.

A court sided with the city’s nuisance complaint and the bar was shuttered shortly after the fatal shooting.

The current law

Walker was charged under Ohio’s current laws, which state that a person who uses deadly force is required to prove that they were justified in using that force. They have to convince police, prosecutors or a jury that they had reasonable fear of serious bodily harm when they opened fire, did not start the confrontation or do anything to escalate it, and, if possible, tried to retreat from the threat.

Ohio is the only state in the country that puts the burden of proof on the shooter to defend themselves against charges.

Ohio lawmakers gained national attention at the end of 2018 when they flirted with passing a so-called “stand your grand” provision in a broader gun-rights bill that would have stripped the state’s gun owners of a duty to retreat before resorting to deadly force. The provision was removed in committee at the last minute.

The resulting law that both the House and Senate chambers ratified, House Bill 228, shifted the burden in shootings. Under the new law, police and prosecutors would have to show that the shooter didn’t have reason to use deadly force.

The law also doesn’t change Ohio’s castle doctrine, which allows gun owners to use force in their homes or vehicles to defend themselves against intruders.

The new law is set to take effect on Thursday.

What to do with Walker?

Walker and Richardson refused to enter into any plea bargain negotiations with prosecutors and were determined to take the case to trial.

As Monday’s trial date approached, so too did the scheduled change in the state’s self-defense law. That left attorneys to wrestle with the question of whether it would be fair to apply standards that the legislature had determined needed to be changed to a case.

Richardson asked O’Donnell to delay the start of trial so he could determine how to handle the changing of the law. O’Donnell rejected his request.

Richardson argued in a late-Sunday court filing that, regardless of the date change, there was nothing to keep O’Donnell from applying the new standard to Walker’s trial and instructing jurors that prosecutors must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Walker did not act in self-defense.

O’Donnell on Monday told Richardson and Santoli that he intended to apply the new standard to Walker’s case. Santoli asked O’Donnell to continue the trial. When O’Donnell rejected his request, prosecutors dismissed the charge.

Walker was on probation on a federal drug charge out of Arizona and will remain in custody until that matter is settled, Richardson said.

O’Malley’s office said federal prosecutors are considering whether to pursue gun charges against Walker.

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Police identified the 11th homicide victim Friday afternoon as David Wilfong.

https://www.tulsaworld.com/news/loca...7c5d57326.html

Witnesses told police that Wilfong, 38, was the aggressor in a Thursday workplace dispute at a salvage yard in the 5500 block of East Archer Street. He was shot multiple times, and first responders pronounced him dead at the scene.

Police questioned the suspect, who surrendered his gun and concealed carry license, and released him, Watkins said, adding that his detectives will discuss the case with the district attorney.

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https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/ne...am/3275001002/

Naked intruder sentenced to drug rehab program
A Belle Haven man who walked into another man’s house stark naked while under the influence of drugs and alcohol was sentenced last week in Accomack County court.

Jeffery Kluttz, 42, had been found guilty in January of breaking and entering to commit a misdemeanor, a felony charge, in an incident last July at a Painter area home.

According to testimony at his trial, a naked and heavily tattooed Klutts was seen on a video surveillance system hosing himself off outside the home by homeowner Travis McLeish.

At the trial, the commonwealth showed the pertinent parts of the video. It showed Klutts, who McCleish said he did not know, walking up the driveway stark naked and then picking up the hose and hosing himself off.

McCleish said he was looking at the video when he heard a voice coming from somewhere in his house. He told the court he picked up his gun and walked out into the hall.

There stood the same man, still wearing nothing, his body covered with tattoos, the court was told.

“He scared me to death, I stopped in my tracks,” McLeish said, but added it was immediately apparent the intruder did not have any kind of weapon.

He said he asked the man what he was doing and told him to leave. The man responded, saying he needed a towel but left. Later, he came to the house again and this time police were called and Klutts was arrested.

When arrested, he was found to be under the influence of both drugs and alcohol.

At his sentencing on March 22, Commonwealth’s Attorney Spencer Morgan said Klutts had ingested a large amount of methamphetamine and Percoset along with alcohol that day and had a serious drug problem.

“He would benefit from the CCAP (Community Corrections Alternative Program), Morgan told the court.

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“It is somewhat miraculous we are having this hearing today based on the drugs and alcohol you had that day,” said Substitute Judge Burke F. McCahill.

“That you could ingest all those substances and still be here. And, this homeowner showed incredible restraint in not shooting you. I doubt there is a prosecutor in this commonwealth that would have prosecuted him,” the judge told Klutts.

“It would clearly be a case of self-defense. You are a lucky man in that respect.”

He sentenced Klutts to five years and suspended all but time served. He ordered him to be transported to the CCAP program and to be on supervised probation for three years.

“This program has been re-tooled to deal with drug problems, “ McCahill said.

He told Klutts he must successfully complete the program, “or you will be back here and serve that five years.”

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https://www.ksat.com/news/deadly-nor...nse-police-say

Deadly North Side shooting may be case of self-defense, police say
Medical examiner working on identifying man killed at home on Walthampton

Katrina WebberPosted: 12:22 PM, March 26, 2019
SAN ANTONIO - San Antonio police are investigating a deadly shooting at a North Side home as a possible case of self-defense.

The man who was shot and killed lived at a home in the 12400 block of Walthampton, according to Sgt. Michelle Ramos, a public information officer for the San Antonio Police Department.

Officers at the scene initially said the man was visiting the home.

Ramos said a woman who shares the home told investigators the shooting happened after a night of flaring tempers.

"They got into an argument. She left the location to call somebody. When she returned home, he was no longer at the location," Ramos said.

Later, things got heated again after the man came home.

The woman told police that out of fear, she had called another man to come over.

"(The woman and visitor) were there inside the home speaking when the deceased returned to the location, got upset. There was some type of physical altercation," Ramos said. "We know that the female tried to get between them and separate them."

Investigators said the man who had been called to the home told them the other man began attacking him, so he pulled out a gun and fired.

The man who lived at the home was struck at least once in his chest. He was rushed to a hospital where he died.

As of late Tuesday morning, the Bexar County Medical Examiner's Office was working to make a positive identification. A staff member said the man who was killed was 34 years old.

The woman was grazed by a ricocheting bullet, but did not require medical attention.

The accused shooter was led away in handcuffs.

However, police said he was being taken in for questioning and was not a suspect at the time.

Ramos added that this appears to be a case of self-defense, although homicide detectives are still investigating the shooting.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...t-in-buttocks/


An Indianapolis home invasion suspect wore a police vest to the home he was targeting and was shot in the “buttocks” by a homeowner who ascertained he was not a real officer.

CBS Indy reports that the suspect, 34-year-old Carl Simon, allegedly targeted a home with two females and a male inside. One of the three individuals figured out Simon was not a police officer and shot him, causing Simon to flee.

He was found and taken to the hospital with injuries that did not appear life-threatening

Fox 59 reports that Simon was wounded in the “buttocks.”

Neighbors found a two-way radio and a helmet one street over from the site of the alleged invasion. Police noted they also discovered handcuffs.

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Michael Hewitt commented on the police impersonation aspect for the alleged home invasion: “Cases like this, as the police, we’re not flattered. We think it’s a horrible crime against our city and against our citizens. It puts everybody on edge, including us when we see this sort of thing happen.”

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https://www.newsweek.com/emma-tucker...rrious-1375545

'It Sounded Like a Bomb': 85-Year-Old Woman Fired .357 Magnum in Gunfire Exchange with Home Intruder
By M.L. Nestel On 3/26/19 at 2:29 PM EDT

When an 85-year-old Tennessee woman with arthritis in her knees awoke from her sleep in the middle of the night to be greeted by an intruder's gunfire in the hallway of her three-bedroom home -- she answered by drawing a cannon of a pistol and squeezing off two explosive rounds.

He’s lucky she missed.

“He fired at me and I fired back at him,” Emma Tucker told Newsweek in an exclusive interview after she faced down the armed bandit with her trusted .357 Magnum pistol she’d clutched in her right hand at around Midnight on March 18. “He would have killed me, Lord is my witness.”

It was clear who was victorious in the volley of shots during the standoff.

“He went ‘pew, pew,’ and she went ‘boom, boom’ sending him running,” Brownsville Police Assistant Chief Kelvin Evans told Newsweek, of the elderly homeowner’s Dirty Harry defense that erupted at around 12:45 a.m..

Quandarrious Jones, who Evans confirmed turned 18 this month, was nabbed by cops blocks away from Tucker’s Dianne Drive in Brownsville, Tennessee, where the population is just more than 9,500 and lies about an hour drive northeast of Memphis. Perhaps still feeling the effects from the duel, he was sobbing about how he’d been shot.

But Jones was actually suffering from gashes from the broken glass he crawled through to escape out of Tucker’s kitchen window and other homes he allegedly hit, police said.

“He had been cut getting out of the broken window,” Evans confirmed.

Jones is facing a raft of charges including attempted first-degree murder and multiple counts of aggravated burglary for going on a burglar binge that had him surrendering to police officers after he tried breaking into multiple homes and at least one car.

He’s being holed up at Haywood County Jail in lieu of $700,000 bond and is due back in court on May 14, a court clerk confirmed. It's unclear if Jones has retained an attorney.

Before she fired, Tucker said she had heard a rustling in her kitchen and decided right then to not take any chances.

She opened the case where her protection in the form of a .357 Magnum was stored and “took it to bed with me.”

But more noises stirred her awake.

“I thought something in the kitchen had fallen and was broken,” she said. “I cocked it before I got out of that bed.”

And as Tucker attempted to survey the fallen tomato sauce or jam damage, she was instantly staring down a young man in the hallway as he was “fumbling for something.”

It turned out to be a puny handgun wielded by a tipsy teenager.

“I saw him and that cap gun he was messing with in his hand,” she said, just before he blasted with a few rounds that fortunately missed her.

dianne_drive Quandarrious Jones, 18, who Evans confirmed turned 18 this month, was nabbed by cops blocks away from Tucker’s Dianne Drive in Brownsville, Tennessee. Perhaps still feeling the effects from the duel, he was sobbing about how he’d been shot. Google Maps

The retired laundry cleaner then fired her piece and jumped from its kickback and boom, saying “it sounded like a bomb had gone off in this house.”

She wasn’t sure she’d hit him.

“All I know is I shot at him and he went back out of the same window that he broke through,” said Tucker.

Police responded to the woman’s home and found the marks allegedly caused by Jones’s gun, and the craters that she created with her shots.

“Some of the holes about my bedroom door are small and two of the holes lower down on the wall are big,” Tucker said.

Tucker said Jones was tongue-tied.

“He didn’t say a word,” she said. “He didn’t open his mouth."

In fact, the elder admits she’s “still scared” but more preoccupied with fixing her boarded up window. “I don’t have any money to get the windows fixed,” she said.

While Jones may have dodged death from the long barrel of Tucker’s gun, he allegedly didn’t stop trying to score more loot.

Evans said he was captured by surveillance cameras attempting to break into another home located on Lark Street and another on Joshwood Street; each a couple blocks from Tucker’s home which she has lived in since 1987.

Jones then allegedly attempted to break into a car that was parked under a carport and ultimately brought into custody as he was sitting on a sidewalk along Scott Street.

He allegedly “admitted to everything” save for explaining how his gun fired in the direction of the woman.

“He said, ‘The gun just went off,’” Evans said, referring to the police report. “He said ‘I didn’t mean to shoot [at] her.’”

And before he exchanged lead with Tucker, Jones had already allegedly ransacked her daughter’s home next door and multiple others -- all of which he copped to.

“He cooperated with investigators and tried to give the location of the gun [he fired at Tucker] but they haven’t found it yet,” he said.

Tucker’s daughter’s home was “vandalized" by the intruder finding a drill, and using it to drilling holes into the floors.

Jones also allegedly helped himself to some of her gin.

“He drank her alcohol,” Evans said, noting that Jones believed her Tucker and her daughter’s homes were easy picking because they were carless.

But it turned out that Tucker’s daughter was working late that night, and Tucker herself doesn’t own a car.

“He thought he had a free pass,” said Evans.

Tucker has lived in her home since 1987, working once as cleaning peoples' clothes at a laundry and raising kids as a mother.

When she separated from her husband Tucker vowed to pack heat.

“I bought myself protection because it was nobody but me and my baby [son],” the great-grandmother who mothered five kids, and now has 10 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. “I had seen it on TV and said, ‘I’m going to get me one of those.’”

But even with the heavy firearm in her possession, Tucker, who busies herself with house chores like cooking and cleaning, only fired it a few of times.

Once was during a community course offered, where Tucker recalled being the “oldest one there.”

The other was at a gun range years ago.

So Tucker wasn’t even sure the gun was gonna pop when she pulled it on Jones.

“I was hoping it would work,” she said.

As for what should happen to Jones, Tucker believes he is “in the right place.”

That being jail.

“He needs jail and to go somewhere where he gets supervised and someone can teach him how to act,” she said matter-of-factly. “I got two boys and they are grown now, but my kids don’t act like that.”

The assistant chief Evans praised Tucker’s resolve, having repelled an attacker better than someone a quarter of her age. “The average person would freeze up or take flight.

“She stood her ground.”

And the cop is confident that if anyone dares try to test Tucker again will be sorry they did.

“I don’t think she’ll ever have to worry about someone else breaking into her house

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https://www.wifr.com/content/news/Po...507671961.html

Police: Concealed carry owner pulls out gun on suspected burglar in Rockford

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) -- A man, who police say was a valid concealed carry holder, pulled out a gun on a man who allegedly attempted to steal belongings from his car Monday night in Rockford.

It happened around 11:30 p.m. near the 1000 block of W. Riverside Boulevard. Police say a 36-year-old man was sitting in his car when a passenger entered and went through the victim's belongings.

Police say the victim pulled out a gun on the suspect and ordered him to leave. The suspect left empty-handed.

Officers later found the suspect, Otis Childress, 52, of Rockford, around the area. Police recovered drug paraphernalia from Childress, who was charged with burglary and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Childress was taken to Winnebago County Jail. He is considered innocent unless proven guilty by the court of law.