It happened around 5 p.m. outside of a beauty supply store near 43rd Avenue and Bethany Home Road.
Police say a 32-year-old man was working as loss prevention at the store when he confronted Edgar Perez Lopez, 33, and Lopez’s girlfriend, who were reportedly smoking pills.
The employee told the couple to leave, leading to a confrontation between the three. Investigators believe Lopez reached for a firearm, and the employee shot him. Lopez was rushed to the hospital and later died.
Texarkana, Texas, police are searching for an 18-year-old man accused of shooting a man multiple times during an armed robbery early Friday at River Crossing Apartments on College Drive. The 17-year-old accused of taking part in the robbery was shot when the victim returned fire, police said.
One man was left injured in a Midtown shooting after firing shots at suspects trying to break into his vehicle as he was sleeping inside of it early Thursday morning, police say.
Police spoke with a man who told them he was asleep in his vehicle parked at the back of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Union Hall at 1870 Madison Avenue.
The man said he was awakened from his sleep after hearing what sounded like glass breaking. He began shouting, and the suspects opened fire at him before he was able to grab his handgun and return fire, officers said.
A Webster Parish homeowner fatally shoots a man who was breaking into his home. Investigators say 44-year-old Billy McFarland got into an argument with a woman as she was driving along U.S. Highway 80; and during the argument, McFarland jumped on top of her, causing her to crash while the vehicle was going more than 100 miles an hour. Sheriff Jayson Parker says after the crash, McFarland walked to a nearby mobile home and broke into it.
“He went around to the back side of the house with a pocketknife and cut out the screen and actually entered the home through the window which he was met by the homeowner; and he was hit multiple times,” Parker said.
Sheriff Parker says the homeowner had no idea who McFarland was.
“He told him, ‘You’re not getting into my house;’ and I believe Mr. McFarland said, ‘There’s no way you’re going to keep me from not coming in the house,'” Parker explained.
An investigation determined a security guard approached a man accused of shoplifting, leading to a struggle that resulted in the guard shooting the suspected shoplifter, according to Durham police.
Police said both the security guard and the suspected shoplifter were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Officials said a 19-year-old woman was walking home when three men began verbally harassing her. After ignoring the men, the victim said multiple rounds were discharged in her direction, and she was shot in the arm.
Deputies said the victim’s father heard the commotion, came outside and began firing at the men who left the scene.
A suspected burglar ended up hospitalized after a Mesquite resident opened fire on him inside a home on Brushwood Lane early Saturday morning, according to Mesquite police. The homeowners told officers that loud banging woke them up before one resident spotted a man entering the house and fired a weapon that struck him.
After arriving, officers said they found a woman and man who had been shot outside of the business. Police said the man died at the scene and the woman was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries
Police said witnesses told them the shooting happened after an argument. Witnesses say the man who died shot into a group of people who were arguing, striking the woman
Police said this led to another man shooting the man who shot into the group. Detectives said that man ran away from the scene. His identity is unknown at the time.
Adams says they have identified the shooter, and that he is cooperating with the investigation.
"He did come into City Hall, provided the police with a statement," Adams said.
The DA says based on video evidence, Steele was armed, and he believes Steele was the aggressor.
"Clearly, this is a situation where self-defense may be the appropriate resolution of this incident," Adams said.
Glenside Elementary School was placed in SECURE action due to police activity.
The district said in a statement that it will provide assistance and resources to students who may have witnessed or been otherwise impacted by the shooting.
The suspected shooter was fatally shot by a community member who saw the teen going into the Silver Rail Elementary School after firing at a truck in front of the building, Krantz said.
In another "heroic" act that may have saved lives, the police chief said another teacher tackled the shooter to the floor and tried to take the gun away from him. That teacher was not injured, police said.
Deputies say two men wearing masks allegedly forced their way into a home in Bethel Township.
Deputies say the homeowner confronted the two suspects and discharged a gun at them and their black sedan as they fled.
Investigators say the suspects were not reported to be hit by the gunfire.
The homeowner, Cooper’s ex-girlfriend, told police she had been out with her boyfriend, one of the shooting victims. When they returned home, she went to the restroom. When she came out, she could not find her boyfriend but saw Cooper lying in the driveway.
She told police Cooper did not have permission to be in her home and that he had been stalking her for the past two weeks.
The boyfriend drove himself to the hospital for treatment. He told police he walked through the kitchen toward the bedroom and was ambushed by gunfire. He said he returned fire in self-defense but was not sure who was shooting at him. Cooper was struck several times.
A 19-year-old said he was shot and injured during an attempted robbery in Arlington on Tuesday, according to police. The man arrived at the Medical City Arlington emergency room about 3:30 p.m. with a gunshot wound to the arm, police said. Hospital staff notified police, and officers responded to the hospital to talk with the injured person.
The 19-year-old couldn’t name the location where the attempted robbery occurred, according to police.
Carbon Hill Police Chief Paul Anderson said the homeowner reported that Pugh and an accomplice kicked in his back door Wednesday shortly before 1 p.m.
“He heard the commotion and grabbed his gun. The back door came open. He opened fire,” Anderson said. Several shots also struck a neighbor’s home and car.
On Monday, August 24th, 2026, an deputy of the Eagle County Sheriffs Department shot and stopped a charging cinnamon color phase black bear near the River Run Apartment Complex. The bear was an adult with two cubs. From the video, it appears the deputy drew and fired the first shot in less than a second, with three followup shots following in fractions of a second after that. The Eagle County Sheriff's Office released the body camera video on September 8th, 2026
The video shows officers dealing with a difficult situation: An adult bear with two cubs and dozens of onlookers, was very close to where an adult bear with cubs had attacked and injured a man on August 17th, one week before. While not proven, it is highly likely this is the same bear with cubs. Watching the video, it is obvious these are human habituated, food conditioned bears. They have no fear of humans. It is highly likely some person or persons had been feeding these bears. This produced an extremely dangerous situation. Tom Smith, the famous bear researcher and self-acknowledged lover of bears, in an interview on Youtube, (about minute 37) stated about problem bears:
... the ones that are down here causing problems in the villages. You could cull them out, and quite frankly, If I was king of the West, when they are down there eating garbage, sorry, I'd just euthanize them.
This is an unusual admission for Tom Smith, who claims hunting bears does not reduce human conflict with bears. Valerius Geist, another highly trained and credentialed animal behavior biologist, who, unlike Smith, is a hunter, takes an opposite view. Tom Smith, when talking about problem bears which have become habituated to surviving on human provided food inside human towns and villages, is correct. These habituated and human food addicted bears cannot be rehabilitated. They need to be killed. "A fed bear is a dead bear", is the slogan which sums it up.
Analysis: The deputy who was forced to shoot and kill the bear did everything correctly. The video should be used as a training video to promote officer safety and to incentivize officers to practice the skills they are taught. Proficiency comes with practice. When an officer has practiced transitioning from a non-lethal weapon to their duty weapon hundreds or thousands of times, the action becomes automatic, in muscle memory, and very fast. This officer was very fast, transitioning from the non-lethal shotgun to drawing his handgun and firing, accurately and effectively, in less than a second. Such a transition is not magical. It is the result of training and practice. The officer is not one in a million. He is likely in the top three percent of officers who take their profession and the potential to use deadly force seriously and train accordingly. This may be why he was called in to deal with the situation. Most people can reach this level of proficiency if they train to do so. Sam Kezar did so, and it paid off for him. It is a high, but obtainable level of proficiency. Fortunately, extreme speed and accuracy are used in less than 10% of the documented incidents where pistols were fired in defense against bears. The bigger factor is having the mindset to use the weapon before it is needed. This officer had made the proper decisions before they were needed. He did not have to debate what was the proper thing to do.
The officer did everything he could to correctly give the bear opportunity to leave the area it should not have been in. This correspondent believes, with a high probability, this bear had already attacked one person and had not suffered any consequences. This should have been enough information to qualify the bear and cubs for lethal removal. The cubs had already become habituated to humans and addicted to human food. The bears were given extreme care because of public opinion.
It is not logic which demanded treating the bear with such extreme care, putting the officer at risk. It is the false consciousness of suicidal empathy which treats bears as somehow angelic humans, and rational defense against bears as a moral sin. We did not have these problems with bears in our towns and cities when bears were recognized as dangerous animals. They were not allowed inside our residential territory. The problem was simply and effectively solved by killing bears which persisted in invading human territory. Bears did not disappear. They survived by learning to avoid humans.
Bears are not people in furry coats. They have no sense of morals. They are opportunistic predators and cannibals. They have no rule of law. They only understand force and domination. When they are not hungry, they do not expend energy disputing over food, but when food becomes scarce, they are willing to fight and kill over it. This bear had learned that humans are weak and easily intimidated. Then she applied her learning to a human who was not weak and easily intimidated. Then she died. The people who fed this bear did not do it a favor.
©2026 by Dean Weingarten: Permission to share is granted when this notice and link are included.
Gun Watch
The armed guard was working inside the shopping center when he saw the man breaking the kiosk’s glass, police said, according to Fox 4 KDFW. The guard then shot the man.
The man ran across the parking lot and collapsed near Seminary Drive. Responding officers began lifesaving efforts, and Fort Worth Fire personnel assisted, DFW Scanner reported. Medical personnel pronounced him dead at the scene.
A 63-year-old man reportedly called 911 to state that he shot at another driver who was chasing him in a white pickup truck. Shortly after the call was made, officials said another individual—identified as a 37-year-old man—called 911 from a home on Harlin Drive, claiming he sustained a wound to his face.
Detectives said the 63-year-old told them that the incident began after he turned onto Nolensville Pike from Thompson Place, which is when the driver of a pickup truck began honking, flashing his lights and told him to pull over. The 63-year-old said he didn’t know what he did to make the driver of the pickup truck upset.
A man is facing charges after Pennsylvania State Police said he was shot after forcing his way into a Juniata County home and threatening the resident.
State Police at Lewistown said Terry Burdge, 45, of East Waterford, allegedly “made threats of physical harm” to the resident, who then shot a single round, striking Burdge in the home along Laughlin Lane in Tuscarora Township around 11:20 p.m.
A man inside the house reportedly exchanged gunfire with the group. Two people were sent to the hospital, a GBI spokesperson said. One person was shot in the leg and was later released, while another was airlifted to a hospital and remains in critical condition.
Kassidy Allen, 19, Ziquel Easton, 24, Jordan Franklin, 17, Brianna Scott, 18 and Caleb Thomas, 18, were all arrested Monday. Their charges are listed below:
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