Monday, March 19, 2012

PA: Suspect Dead, Owner Wounded In Corner Store Shootout: "One man is dead and another is in critical condition after a shootout at a North Philadelphia corner store. It happened around 8:30 p.m. Sunday at the La Familia Latina Mini-Market at Fifth and Glenwood streets in Hunting Park. Four men entered the store armed with guns. But the store owner was ready with his own gun. One of the suspects, a 26-year-old, was shot twice in the chest and pronounced dead at the scene. The store owner was also shot and rushed by a friend to Temple University Hospital. Police are still looking for the other three suspects, who ran to a getaway car that was abandoned just two blocks away.


AR: Shooting of constable justified: "The shooting death of a constable at a Pine Bluff gas station in January was determined to be justified by the Jefferson County prosecuting attorney. In his findings released Thursday, Prosecuting Attorney S. Kyle Hunter said that Edward Blundell and Constable Tommy Holcomb engaged in a verbal altercation outside of their cars at a Speedway convenience store. Hunter says Blundell made Holcomb aware that he had a gun, and got back into his car and closed the door. That is when Holcomb went up to the car with a gun in his hand. While at the passenger window, Blundell fired his gun at Holcomb, and Holcomb returned fire. About the shooting, Hunter says, “I have concluded that Edward Blundell was justified in his action under Arkansas law in that he was reasonable in believing that deadly force was about to be used against him, therefore, no charges will be filed against Mr. Blundell for causing Mr. Holcomb’s death.”


FL: Truck invader shot: "A 40-year-old man was shot to death Sunday after an argument that started in the parking lot of a library on Ponce de Leon Boulevard in St. Augustine, police said. Detectives said Blythe tried to hop in another pickup truck, filled with a beach-bound family of four, including two children. Officer Mark Samson with St. Augustine Police said the driver ran into the house to get his father, and a gun. "As they come outside, they see him halfway outside the driver's door of the truck, trying to get the keys in the truck and the girlfriend's saying, 'no, you can't have anything. I've got kids here,' and at that point she feels he tried to take one of the kids out of the truck," Samson said. The pickup truck drivers' father came around the truck and got into a physical altercation with Blythe, Samson said. Then, the shooter told police he pulled the trigger, firing a single bullet into Blythe's head, ending a few minutes of pure chaos. Police detained the shooter but said he was being cooperative and didn't appear to have done anything wrong. He has been released."

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