“He’d been around the house for like 20 minutes then came around to the front and broke the front door down, that’s when he entered the house,” neighbor Bill Finster told KNBC.
That’s when neighbors and police officers responding to reports of the disturbance heard a shot.
A resident of the home had fatally shot the intruder, who was found dead inside, a Newport Beach Police Department press release said. The man’s name has not been released.
After investigating, officers said two gunmen were trying to rob the store. They say the victim noticed what was happening, grabbed his own weapon, and tried to intervene. At least one of the gunmen and the victim exchanged gunfire. Officers said the victim was shot at least once. He was transported to the hospital and is expected to survive.
The male 911 caller told dispatchers, “I just shot a guy.”
“He was in my car when I came out to get something to eat and ran towards me,” the man said. “He needs an ambulance.”
The caller said he is a CCW permit holder and was instructed by the dispatcher to put the gun away. Detectives took possession of the gun in the house when they arrived.
“I think he’s dying,” the man said. “Oh my God, oh my God.”
The resident said he heard his alarm go off, then found the man sitting in the driver’s side.
“When I was going to get in the car he opened the door and ran towards me,” the caller said, adding he shot three or four times.
HOUSTON – A man is in critical condition after he threatened a gun owner with a gun during an argument Saturday afternoon, according to the Houston Police Department.
Houston police said the shooting was reported at a place of business where the gun owner worked in the 8500 block of West Montgomery Road around 1 p.m.
Police said the 27-year-old man walked into the business and asked associates about the 59-year-old man’s whereabouts. Police said the man 59-year-old man was outside on a work break when he and the 27-year-old got into an argument. Police said the 27-year-old pulled out a gun during the fight.
On Tuesday, officers with the Lawton Police Department were called to a home in the 3300 block of N.W. Cache Rd. following an attempted burglary.
A witness says that a homeowner heard someone breaking into the home through the back door.After yelling at the burglar to leave, officials say the homeowner shot the alleged burglar after he entered the house.
Police said the suspect approached two people, pulled out a gun, and demanded their property. According to the report, one of the victims then pulled out his own weapon and shot the alleged robber.
Officers quickly arrived on scene and began CPR on the suspect.
SPARTANBURG, S.C. —
Surveillance video showing a shooting ruled as self defense will not be released to the public, after the family of the man killed asked that it be kept private.
The family of Travis Draper and Spartanburg County Councilman Monier Abusaft got to see the surveillance video. The sheriff's office said that Abusaft agreed that the other driver was justified in the shooting, but said that he should have notified law enforcement earlier of his involvement in the shooting.
On 20 August, 2021, the U.S. Department of State released a fact sheet announcing Russian firearms and ammunition importation will be banned for a minimum of 12 months starting 7 September, 2021. From state.gov:
New sanctions imposed today under the CBW Act include:
- Restrictions on the permanent imports of certain Russian firearms. New and pending permit applications for the permanent importation of firearms and ammunition manufactured or located in Russia will be subject to a policy of denial.
The ban is listed as a sanction pursuant to the Chemical and Biological Weapons (CBW) Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991, over the supposed Russian use of the "Novichok" chemical agent to poison Aleksey Navainy.
Navainy was poisoned in August of 2020. He has been critical of the Putin regime in Russia. This is a second round of sanctions imposed on Russia by the United States over the Aleksey Navainy incident. The first round of sanctions did not ban the importation of Russian ammunition or firearms.
The Department of State announcement says "New and pending permit applications" ... "will be subject to a policy of denial". The implication is applications which have already been approved will not be revoked.
If that is correct, shipments of ammunition and firearms from Russia which have already been approved will be allowed to enter the United States and be sold.
It is unclear how long supplies in the pipeline will last.
The announcement is likely to rekindle the ammunition bubble for calibers commonly imported from Russia, such as 7.62x54, 7.62x39, 5.45x39, 5.56x45, and even match grade .22 ammunition.
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The victim and homeowner, Frank Reeves, was shot in the chest by Michael Amacker, according to MCSO.
MCSO states that Reeves then shot Amacker multiple times, striking him in the lower leg and elbow.
During the investigation, MCSO detectives discovered that the homeowner’s wife, Tracy Reeves, alerted her husband that an intruder was inside their home.
It was later discovered that Tracy knew the intruder and had been having a relationship with him for over a year.
PHOENIX — A Phoenix homeowner was alerted by his security cameras to a motion made by four armed men who attempted to rob him. As four suspects kicked in his front door, the homeowner fired rounds towards them causing them to flee.
Mosley Twins Mug Shots
On 8 July, 2019, in Madison, Illinois, at about 7:40 pm, there was a confrontation between twin brothers and three other people. The confrontation appears to have been between twin brothers Corion Mosley, and Torion Mosley, both 21 years old, and at least three other people, two minors and an adult.
The story has been covered extensively by reporter Scott Cousins of The Telegraph.
Both twins had felony convictions from 2016 for armed robbery, according to thetelegraph.com. Torion Mosely faced a pending assault charge and an aggravated domestic battery charge. The two brothers faced a 21 year old, unnamed adult, a 16 year old minor, and 15 year old Omarion Coleman, according to reports in bdn.com.
During the confrontation, Torion Mosely passed a handgun to Corion Mosely. Corion Mosely shot the three people confronting him, killing Omarion Coleman and wounding the other two.
The two brothers were charged with First Degree Murder, Attempted First Degree Murder, Aggravated Assault, and Possession of Weapons by a Felon.
Before the trial of Corion Mosely, his brother, Torion Mosely, had already plead guilty to lesser charges to obtain a six year prison sentence.
Corion Mosely decided on a jury trial.
Scott Cousins reports two versions of events were presented to the jury. The prosecution portrayed the shootings as payback for verbal disrespect; the defense claimed Corion reasonably considered himself under a deadly threat by a street gang.
In their closing arguments Thursday, attorneys painted different pictures of the incident.
Assistant Madison County State’s Attorney Luke Yager said Corion Mosley shot and killed Coleman for smarting off to him, then shot two other people. Defense attorney Patrick Ryan Dunn Sullivan said the two brothers were surrounded by a gang of hostile, possibly armed, youths and Corion Mosley shot them in self-defense.
Corion had spent two years in the County Jail awaiting trial, on a 1 million dollar bond. The jury found him not guilty. From bdn.com:
A Madison County jury has found a 23-year-old laborer not guilty of first-degree murder in the 2019 shooting death of a teenager in Madison.
Corion Mosley had spent more than two years in the Madison County jail before his trial this week in Edwardsville. He walked out Thursday evening and went home to his family.
The case shows the disfunction in crime ridden neighborhoods where there is limited trust in police. The Mosely brothers had felony convictions, when they were about 18. When people are convicted of felonies at 18, they usually have numerous run-ins with the law as minors.
We do not know if the two people who were wounded and Omarion Coleman had police records. The two minors' records are shielded by law. The adult man, 21-years-old, was not named. The unnamed man might have been legally able to own a firearm in Illinois. None was mentioned.
The point of this tale of dysfunction and woe is the jury saw serious potential for self defense.
The accused had previous felony convictions. The accused could not legally possess a firearm. The accused did not stay at the scene, attempt to preserve evidence, give aid, or contact the police. The accused fled the scene and hid form police.
Yet the jury found reason to believe the shooting was self defense. The defense is reported as claiming the crime scene was chaotic and poorly secured, allowing the potential for evidence to be removed.
Felons do not give up the right to self defense. It is an inherent human right.
It has become unusual for criminal cases to go to trial. In previous times, jury trials were common. Plea bargains were unusual.
Perhaps those times are returning. Juries are not perfect. They can make mistakes. They are just better than most alternatives.
When a jury can find a convicted felon, who used an illegally possessed gun, not guilty in a muddy case, by reason of self-defense, it is an example of checks and balances, of the right to self defense and to a jury trial.
It may be juries are becoming more skeptical of prosecutors. That could be a good thing.
I do not expect the Mosely twins to become great proponents of Constitutional Law. It is not the way to bet.
Respect for the right of self -defense is a positive thing for society.
Several lessons are re-enforced by the Mosley Twins' example.
Avoid confrontations.
Support the rule of law.
Develop those habits early.
If you win the confrontation, and the trial, you can still lose. Two years in County lock-up is not fun.©2021 by Dean Weingarten: Permission to share is granted when this notice and link are included.
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"We had diametrically opposed theories of what happened," Sullivan said Thursday night
SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio police say a woman was killed while riding her bicycle Thursday morning and then her boyfriend pulled a machete on the driver of the car that hit her.
The driver was taking his two children to school when he hit the woman on her bike at the intersection of Wurzbach Parkway and North Weidner Road.
After the woman’s boyfriend pulled a machete on the driver, another driver who witnessed the accident pulled out a handgun to diffuse the situation. That driver has a concealed handgun permit, police said.
FORT LAUDERDALE — A man with a knife was chasing people in Holiday Park when one of the people pulled a gun and shot him, authorities said.
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