Va.: Apparent thief fired at: "Thinking that a man was trying to steal something from his yard, a retired police officer fired twice at the man's pickup, hitting it once. One of the bullets lodged in the man's head. The city's top prosecutor determined that the shooting was justified, saying Charles Duck feared for his life and his wife's when the man dived into his pickup. Duck said he couldn't see the man's hands, and what if there had been a gun in the truck? Ferguson stated in his ruling that Duck stopped firing at the pickup's cab when the man started driving away, and instead fired at the tires to try to stop the truck. Had the man complied with Duck's orders to lie down in front of the truck, there would have been no shooting, he said."


La.: Resident kills teen, wounds another he suspected of burglarizing house: "A 16-year-old boy was killed and a 15-year-old boy was rushed to a local hospital in critical condition after they were shot by the occupant of a house they allegedly broke into to try to burglarize, New Orleans police said. Police were called to the 7400 block of Woodbine Drive about 11:30 a.m. and found the teens shot in the house's backyard, said officer Hilal Williams, an NOPD spokeswoman. Paramedics pronounced the older boy dead at the scene. They rushed the second boy to a local hospital in critical condition. According to investigators, the youths cut the power to the house and then threw a brick through a back window. The burglary victim, who according to a relative is in his early 20s, was sleeping in the house when he heard a commotion, police said. He found the two teens climbing in the window, grabbed a gun and opened fire, police said. Williams said she did not expect police to file any charges against the burglary victim"


Va.: 1 dead in botched home invasion: "A 28-year-old Loudoun man was shot and killed Thursday night and another man was critically wounded during what police said could be a botched home invasion robbery in Sterling, Loudoun Sheriff's officials said. Investigators were told by people inside a home that both shooting victims were part of a group of intruders who burst into the residence in the 1200 block of East Kennedy Road at about 8:30 p.m., officials said. Witnesses at the home told responding deputies that the two men attempted to rob them. One of the robbers was reportedly shot and still in the residence while the other had fled. Deputies found a man shot in the home and he was taken to Inova Loudoun Hospital at Lansdowne, where he was pronounced dead, authorities said. A second wounded man was driven to the same hospital in a private vehicle. That 32-year-old victim was later transferred to Inova Fairfax Hospital, in critical condition."


Pakistan ignored 'witness accounts, physical proof that show Davis acted in self-defense': "The US Consul General in Lahore has 'regretted' that Pakistani authorities 'did not consider eyewitness accounts and physical evidence' when they stated that US diplomat Raymond Davis intentionally killed two Pakistani men in Lahore and that the act was not committed in self-defence. US CG in Lahore, Carmela Conroy, said the arrested American diplomat was remanded into judicial detention in Lahore in connection with the January 27 shooting incident. "We understand that eyewitnesses at the scene said that Ray [Raymond] acted in self defense when confronted with two armed men on a motorcycle. We also understand that these men were found with stolen property and, as the police stated today, a loaded gun. We regret that authorities did not consider these eyewitness accounts and physical evidence when they stated that this was not a case of self-defense," Carmela said in a press statement."