Florida: Son shoots and kills dad in self-defense: "What started as a fight over respect for one's father -- or the lack thereof -- quickly deteriorated at a St. Petersburg home just before midnight Tuesday and culminated with a son fatally shooting his father, police said. However, Ollie Latodd Flounary Jr., 20, is not likely to be charged in the shooting death of Ollie Latodd Flounary Sr., 43, because he apparently reacted in self-defense, St. Petersburg police said. At the time the son shot his father, the father was beating him with a 14-inch piece of iron pipe."


Louisiana: Bossier City looks to ban paintball guns: ""Playing paintball is a shot-in-the-arm for Paintball Warehouse and Field Owner Pat Cordaro and his son Matt, even if it's one-on-one. Son hit father first in this match-up. You can hear the thud against the elder Cordaro's skin as the paintball broke, and we're sure it did not tickle. Cordaro says, 'these paintballs are weapons, this paintball fires up to 300 feet per second. You could get your eyes shot out, it could break the skin, it's very dangerous.' That's part of the reason why Bossier City Councilman Scott Irwin drafted an ordinance to ban shooting paintball guns within city limits. The other reason for the ordinance? Irwin says, 'a constituent called me saying someone shot a paintball gun at his house.'"


Michigan: Carjacking sparks a gunfight: "Police have a message for carjacking victims who spot their stolen vehicles on the road the next day: Don't pull out your shotgun and confront the thieves yourself. That's what led to an exchange of gunfire Sunday that landed one man in the hospital with gunshot wounds, Eastpointe police said. The bizarre chain of events began Saturday, when two men allegedly carjacked a woman in Detroit. The next day, her husband happened to spot her white Ford SUV at a gas station on Kelly Road north of 8 Mile in Eastpointe. Two men were in the SUV. The husband, armed with a shotgun, reportedly watched as one of the men walked into the station. The husband confronted the other man, who pulled out a small-caliber revolver, said Eastpointe Police Sgt. Richard Hardy. Both men began firing. The man from the SUV was wounded and hospitalized in serious condition with injuries to his head, hand and leg, Hardy said Sunday night. The husband wasn't injured."