The sheriff's office says the initial investigation suggests that 18-year-old Charlei Angelo Jordan, of Birmingham, was hiding inside the home and was discovered by the homeowner.
Jordan reportedly began to leave the residence, but was confronted by another resident who was sleeping in a room near the exit.
Witnesses told investigators that shots were exchanged between Jordan and the second resident. Both subjects were struck by gunfire.
Gabriel Metcalf sits in federal lockup, awaiting trial, without any criminal convictions, history of violence, threatening anyone, or pointing a gun at anyone. He is in jail for exercising his First and Second Amendment rights.
In the Gun Free School Zone case in Billings, Montana, in the affidavit of criminal complaint for the arrest of Gabriel Metcalf, the ATF Task Force officer and Billings Police officer, Dustin Stroble, wrote this:
Per dispatch narrative, METCALF lives at 430 Broadwater and patrols his yard due to a protection order he believes is in place and is trying to protect his mother.
Dustin Stroble may be casting doubt about the existence of a restraining order/protection order in this case. The "he believes" language implies other people, such as the police, believe differently. As shown in a previous article, there is documentary evidence of an order of protection which was granted on August 31, 2022. The Order of Protection is valid until August 29, 2032. Gabriel Metcalf's mother, Vivian, has confirmed there were numerous contacts with Billings Police Department since that time, complaining about multiple violations of the restraining order/order of protection in the past year. Moreover, Vivian states David Lee Carpenter was arrested for violations of the restraining order on 31 July, 2023, and released on bond within a day.
This correspondent has received documentary evidence of the conviction of David Lee Carpenter, on November, 2022, of five criminal misdemeanors involving two separate individuals, including an assault on Gabriel Metcalf.
The four other convictions include two for violations of the order of protection and two for Privacy of Communications, Montana Code Annotated 45-8-213 (1) (a). The privacy of communications violations involved a victim identified as CU. The privacy of communications code involves threats:
(a) with the purpose to terrify, intimidate, threaten, harass, or injure, communicates with a person by electronic communication and threatens to inflict injury or physical harm to the person or property of the person or makes repeated use of obscene, lewd, or profane language or repeated lewd or lascivious suggestions;
Complaints about David Lee Carpenter's threats and active attacks started about a year before the issuance of the Order of Protection in August of 2022. He was arrested and convicted of five misdemeanors by November of 2022. He was ordered to wear a GPS tracking ankle monitor. Afterwards, another warrant for his arrest was issued and he was arrested on that warrant on July 31, 2023, and released on bail, without a GPS tracker.
The Billings Police Department has about 162 sworn officers. The Order of Protection case involving David Lee Carpenter has been ongoing for over two years, with two separate arrests and five misdemeanor criminal convictions. The Billings Police Department headquarters is about a mile from the 430 Broadwater address of Gabriel Metcalf and his mother, Vivian.
On the basis of the affidavit and criminal complaint, federal Magistrate Judge Timothy J. Cavan granted a pre-trial order of detention for Gabriel Metcalf. This means Gabriel will be held in jail without the possibility of bail, until the trial, which could be years.
The evidence of an active, ongoing Order of Protection, the five convictions of David Lee Carpenter, and the complaints of numerous credible threats, were not presented to Judge Cavan. They may aid in a defense plea to allow bail for Gabriel Metcalf.
Vivian, Gabriel's mother, is deprived of the help of her son while he sits in jail, with no bail in sight. She is poor as a church mouse, in part because of two years of a terror campaign by David Carpenter with several unidentified confederates, in part because of two months of covid/pnemonia where neither she nor Gabriel could work. She has set up a GiveSendGo account to aid in Gabriel's defense and to keep the utilities on in her modest home. At 71, Vivian continues to work part time and to take in alterations at her small alterations shop. Her home and pets remain at risk.
This case is a rare opportunity to challenge the Gun Free School Zone Act (GFSZA), passed in 1990, and ruled to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1994. The addition of 11 words to the Act in 1996 has been enough to have 5 of 8 circuits who have ruled on it since 1996 claim the 11 words cured the constitutional defect. The Ninth Circuit, which includes Montana, is one of those five circuits. Three other circuits have maintained the GFSZA continues to be unconstitutional. The opportunity of a clear challenge may be lost if Gabriel becomes desperate enough to succumb to a plea deal, in order to get out of jail and help his mother.
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SAN ANTONIO — Police say a north-side homeowner shot and injured an "intoxicated" man who forced his way in through the back door, thinking he was at a different home down the street.
It's unknown if either individual will face charges after the incident, which happened shortly before 4 p.m. along the 8400 block of Republic Drive, near the intersection of Loop 410 and Highway 281. The alleged intruder, who hasn't been identified, was shot in the foot and is expected to be OK, according to officials with the San Antonio Police Department (SAPD).
Book Review: America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything, by Christopher F. Rufo, 340 pages, 2023, Published by Harper Collins.
Rufo does wonderful work explaining how the irrational and innumerate leftist radicals took over the institutions and political structure of the USA. It was planned. It was executed. It was through the deliberate and calculated use of lies, fraud, hypocrisy and coordinated rejection of truth, morality, rationality and science. The strategy was to conquer the universities from within, as a power base, then to use them to destroy culture, morality, ethics, history, as they conquered the media, bureaucracies, and government. As a final step, the entire structure of constitutional government would be overthrown by redefining words to mean the opposite of common meanings.
The history starts with the failure of the violent Marxist revolution against the USA in the 1960s. I remember the bombings, the armored car robberies, the assassination of police officers. The USA fought back. The revolutionaries were not popular. They were defeated.
Herbert Marcuse was a transplanted Marxist from Germany, during WWII, sustained in USA universities. He became depressed with the failure of Marxist revolution in the USA. He could not admit the basic assumptions of Marxism were wrong. He developed a complex new theory, where white intellectuals would team with the radical Black Nationalists to take over the universities and, from the universities, overturn the knowledge base of the United States, destroy its history, and supplant it with a Marxist history where everything the USA ever did was racist. The USA had to be destroyed to create a new, Marxist utopia.
The first planned casualties were the concepts of truth, objective fact, rationality, and objective history. It is surprisingly close to what George Orwell described in "1984".
Marcuse and his theories created Angela Davis and several other pivotal theorists, who became powerful in the underground movement to take over the universities, all paid for with tax money.
Rufo lays out what happened in a clear and brilliant expose of how this cancer was planted and grew, fed by government largess, maintained by the moral code that anything was acceptable, if it furthered the movement. The license to commit any crimes, lie without accountability, subvert the institutions which fed and sheltered them, gave enormous bureaucratic power to those working hard to destroy the United States.
Rufo is a bit light on the Progressive philosophy, which in this correspondent's view, created the fertile ground for cultural Marxism to take root and prosper.
The book has tremendous value in showing how the cultural monster grew, almost unnoticed, until it had accumulated so much power, it could effectively overturn the history of the country, topple statutes, turn criminals into heroes, and turn cities into sewers.
Read the book. You must know your enemy in order to defeat him. It is ammunition you can effectively use in the counter-revolution now starting. The revolutionaries created by Marcuse, Davis and Derrick Bell are parasites. They do not know how to build, only to destroy. They will never admit their failure, but they always fail.
The difficult part is to build a successful counter-revolution without destroying the country, the Constitution, and the rule of law. It can be done. Those who believe men are not women, math is not racist, and property is not theft, far outnumber the fortunate few who inhabit our universities, bureaucracies, the dominant media, and the alphabet agencies. They are lazy, pampered parasites who live off the rest of the country. They have lost touch with reality.
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A resident reported to police a gun was stolen during a confrontation where shots were fired at around 10:30 p.m. in the area of French Creek Elementary School near Route 100.
Sources
said the man who stole the gun fit the description of Cavalcante. It's
unclear if the man was hit after a homeowner fired shots at the suspect,
sources said.
With the ongoing case in Billings, Montana, where Billings Police collaborated with federal officials to arrest Gabriel (Gabe Metcalf) for exercising his Second Amendment rights, a recap of the history of the federal Gun Free School Zone Acts (GFSZA) is in order. The GFSZA appears to be designed as a direct attack on the exercise of Second Amendment rights, and the right to be able to defend against criminal attack.
The first GFSZA was passed into law in 1989-90. It was introduced by some of the most rabid Anti-Second Amendment zealots, Herb Kohl of Wisconsin and Joe Biden of Delaware. The effect of the law was to make it impossible to travel with a firearm for defense in nearly all incorporated areas in the United States. Because the GFSZA includes all the area withing 1000 feet of the property line of all schools, including private and parochial schools as well as public schools, the extremely large areas outside of school property often overlap and intersect, creating a trap for people who are exercising their Second Amendment rights.
There are exceptions in the act for private property, people licensed by the state, and firearms which are unloaded and locked up. Here are the important portions. From the Gun Free School Zone Act of 1990, introduced in the Senate by Senator Herbert Kohl (D) WI as S.2070 and Senator Joe Biden (D) DE as part of the Crime Control Act of 1990, S.3266 .
SEC. 2. PROHIBITIONS AGAINST POSSESSION OR DISCHARGE OF A FIREARM IN A SCHOOL ZONE. (a) IN GENERAL- Section 922 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
(q)(1)(A) It shall be unlawful for any individual knowingly to possess a firearm at a place that the individual knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, is a school zone. (B) Subparagraph (A) shall not apply to the possession of a firearm--
(i) on private property not part of school grounds;
(ii) if the individual possessing the firearm is licensed to do so by the State in which the school zone is located or a political subdivision of the State, and the law of the State or political subdivision requires that,;before an individual obtain such a license, the law enforcement authorities of the State or political subdivision verify that the individual is qualified under law to receive the license;
(iii) which is-- `(I) not loaded; and (II) in a locked container, or a locked firearms rack which is in a motor vehicle;
(iv) by an individual for use in a program approved by a school in the school zone;
(v) by an individual in accordance with a contract entered into between a school in the school zone and the individual; or an employer of the individual;
In 1994, the Gun Free Schools Act was put in place. It only applies inside of school property. It is completely different from the 1990 law. Do not confuse it with the GFSZA of 1990. It requires federal funding for schools be pulled if the act is not followed. The 1994 law had terrible effects, and was amended in 2001. It needs to be covered in a separate article.
The 1990 GFSZA was quickly challenged in court. From cursory examination, the case, USA v Lopez was an attempt to use a similar tactic as the Miller case in 1939. It was a case, involving an unsympathetic defendant, designed to cement the authority seized with the GFSZA into permanence with Federal Court approval. But 1994 was not 1934. The Justices on the Supreme Court, especially Justice Clarence Thomas, were of sterner stuff. The 1990 GFSZA was found to be unconstitutional, as a federal overreach of the Commerce Clause, the first such case in 50 years! USA v Lopez 1995
In response, President Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno, (of the Waco massacre fame), were able to add a minor wording change to the 1990 GFSZA in an appropriations bill. They claimed Congress could satisfy the Constitutional defects in the law by merely saying they were satisfied. The amendment to the law went into effect in 1997. The GFSZA of 1990 was amended in the omnibus appropriations package (section 657), with changes requested by the infamous Janet Reno. Here is the change in wording, bold added to show the change:
(2)(A) It shall be unlawful for any individual knowingly to possess a firearm that has moved in or that otherwise affects interstate or foreign commerce at a place that the individual knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, is a school zone.
To protect Montana residents from the pernicious and cruel effects of the GFSZA, Montana passed the Establishment of individual licensure act, Montana Code Annotated 45-8-360, in 1996. The exception (B) (ii) of the 1990 and amended 1996 GFSZA law exempts individuals, who are licensed by the state, from the GFSZA. To protect all the people in the state, who are not disqualified from possessing firearms, Montana granted them all individual licensure, specifically as required by the GFSZA.
Montana Code Annotated 45-8-360. Establishment of individual licensure.
In consideration that the right to keep and bear arms is protected and reserved to the people in Article II, section 12, of the Montana constitution, a person who has not been convicted of a violent, felony crime and who is lawfully able to own or to possess a firearm under the Montana constitution is considered to be individually licensed and verified by the state of Montana within the meaning of the provisions regarding individual licensure and verification in the federal Gun-Free School Zones Act.
Since 1997, there have been several challenges to the amended 1990 GFSZA in the appellate courts. According to Wikipedia, six appellate courts have upheld the amended GFSZA as constitutional, with one circuit, the First, reversing that decision, while three circuits hold the minor word change does not remedy the constitutional defects in the law. Five decisions upholding the GFSZA were before the Heller decision in 2008; one was only a few months later. A Second Amendment defense was not attempted.
The decision reversing the finding in the First Circuit was after both Heller and the McDonald Decisions, occurring in 2014.
The time appears ripe for a second challenge of the Gun Free School Zone Act as unconstitutional under both the Commerce Clause and the Second Amendment, and possibly the Tenth Amendment under the Montana code 45-8-360.
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Police say when the sworn officers approached him, there was a struggle and the man reached for his gun and pointed it at the guards.
Pietrus said, “The officer was able to push the gun away before the subject discharged the firearm.” The shot fired by Teal did not hit anyone but the struggle between him and the officers continued.
“The other officer who was with that first officer, then discharged his firearm toward this subject striking him multiple times ... That subject was pronounced deceased on the scene by MEDIC,” said Peitrus.
"The victim stated as she stood with the firearm, she observed the defendants hand came through the now open and broken window, and reached for the doors doorknob in an attempt to open the door,' read a portion of the statement. "The victim stated at this point her 13-year-old son, seeing that the defendant was attempting to make entry and his mother was not firing the firearm, in fear for the safety of himself and family, took the firearm from his mother and fired the firearm towards the defendant, striking him."
According to the police report, the woman was detained at the scene told investigators the man who was shot had been "barred from the store due to him being aggressive with her, other store employees, and customers." A witness told investigators the woman told the man he wasn't supposed to be there and to leave, and that witness said he tried to keep the two apart during the altercation.
MPD said another witness told them she saw the man throwing stuff and the woman before hearing gunshots as the witness walked out of the store.
Police were called to the scene due to a shooting. A 42-year-old man told police he made it home and the two women were trying to enter the residence.
Carter had a gun, and the man wrestled with her over the gun, and it discharged. Carter was shot in the hip and taken to a local hospital in stable condition.
The two women were later arrested.
Officers responding to a report of a shooting outside a business at the above address and found the victim had suffered gunshot wounds. Witnesses stated the male and an on-duty security guard got into a verbal altercation. The deceased male then pulled a gun from his vehicle and pointed it at the security guard. The security guard then shot the deceased several times.
The male was pronounced dead at the scene by responding Houston Fire Department paramedics.
Some of the most radical changes proposed in the new ATF rule are to completely re-define the definition of "personal collection", "personal collection of firearms" "personal firearms collection" and "hobby". Three of the long term exceptions to "engaged in the business" have been:
a person who makes occasional sales, exchanges, or purchases of firearms for the enhancement of a personal collection
or for a hobby,
or who sells all or part of his personal collection of firearms;
Personal collection of firearms has long meant "the firearms owned by a person"
None of the wording of those exceptions was changed by the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act or BSCA, which went into effect on June 25, 2022. BSCA is being used by the ATF to justify their power grab with the new rule. Here is the current definition of "engaged in the business". From the Legal Information Institute:
(C) as applied to a dealer in firearms as defined in section 921(a)(11)(A), a person who devotes time, attention, and labor to dealing in firearms as a regular course of trade or business to predominantly earn a profit through the repetitive purchase and resale of firearms, but such term shall not include a person who makes occasional sales, exchanges, or purchases of firearms for the enhancement of a personal collection or for a hobby, or who sells all or part of his personal collection of firearms.
This has been a safety valve to prevent the ATF from saying anyone who sells a few firearms here and there is a "dealer in firearms". ATF has never been willing to say how many firearms constitutes "occasional sales, exchanges, or purchases". They like to be able to interpret the definition differently in different circumstances. To emphasize: the wording of these three exceptions has not been changed by the BSCA.
The ATF, with the new rule, wants to collapse those three exceptions into a very limited definition. Essentially, the proposed definition excludes all personal firearms owned or acquired for defensive purposes, or purchased and resold for pleasure and interest as a hobby. From the proposed rule page 39-40:
E. Definition of “Personal collection,” “personal collection of firearms,” and “personal firearms collection”
Specifically, this rule proposes to define “personal collection,” “personal collection of firearms,” and “personal firearms collection” as “personal firearms that a person accumulates for study, comparison, exhibition, or for a hobby (e.g., noncommercial, recreational activities for personal enjoyment such as hunting, or skeet, target, or competition shooting).” This reflects a common definition of the terms “collection” and “hobby.”85 The phrase “or for a hobby” was adopted from 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(21)(C), which excludes from the definition of “engaged in the business” firearms acquired “for” a hobby. Also expressly excluded from the definition of “personal collection” is “any firearm purchased for resale or made with the predominant intent to earn a profit” because of their inherently commercial nature. 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(21)(C).
The above definition excludes from a personal collection of firearms, those firearms primarily owned for defense, the most common reason to own firearms in the USA. It excludes those people who buy and sell a few firearms a year for a hobby.
This correspondent knows quite a few people who like to buy a new gun, try it out, then sell it, buy another gun, see if they like it and sell it. Those people are currently protected under the "hobby" exception, but would almost certainly be prosecuted as a "dealer" with the change in definition proposed by the Biden administration. Some people enjoy the camaraderie, the haggling, the examination of firearms, the exchange of tall tales, while trading, buying and selling. The enjoyment is the primary purpose, far overriding any profit. The proposed language excludes, by definition, the occasional sales, exchanges, or purchases for a hobby. It only allows hobby to be defined as "noncommercial, recreational activities for personal enjoyment such as hunting, or skeet, target, or competition shooting".
Currently, a person who sells part or all of their personal collection of firearms, perhaps because they need the money, perhaps because they decide they want to obtain different firearms, are protected. With the proposed definition, they would only be protected if the firearms were not purchased predominately for defensive purposes, and they were not sold because they needed the money.
The radical definitional changes were not approved by Congress in law. They completely upend the long standing exclusion of occasional sales, exchanges, or purchases. They appear to be designed to eliminate defense of self and others from the "approved" purposes of owning firearms. The Supreme Court has long recognized defense of self and others as one of the primary purposes protected by the Second Amendment.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Damarius Coffy’s family told FOX59 and CBS4 that he had driven his brother, his cousin and his cousin’s 1-year-old son to a BP convenience store at 2950 Cold Spring Road Saturday night when the cousin exchanged words with a man inside the store.
The family said that, as the Coffy brothers were driving away, the cousin demanded to be let out of the vehicle and began walking back to the convenience store, armed with his own gun.
By the time the Coffy brothers pulled a U turn to return to the store and became stuck at a stoplight, there was gunfire in the parking lot. Seconds later, the brothers spotted the body of their cousin and another man on the asphalt.
The other man’s girlfriend was armed with a gun, and police recovered two firearms at the scene.
Police said Sean Phillips, 34, allegedly shot at several people in the parking lot of Shannon Funeral Home on 14th Street West after a service around 9:30 p.m. Detectives believe Phillips lived above the funeral home.
A 35-year-old man returned fire and struck Phillips as well as the girl, who also lives above the funeral home. The teenage girl was struck once and is recovering at home while Phillips sustained multiple gunshot wounds.
After Phillips is released from the hospital he will be taken to Manatee County Jail. He is facing two counts of aggravated assault with a firearm and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon.
The man who returned fire will not face any charges.
Gabriel Metcalf sits in jail, without the possibility of bail, for defending his mother Vivian and their home in Billings, Montana. Their modest home is across the street for the Broadwater Elementary School. Gabriel was keeping watch with a single shot shotgun and a camera after numerous threats and attacks against him and his elderly mother. They had a restraining order (order of protection), to keep a former neighbor, David Lee Carpenter, from coming within 1500 feet of them or their home. The complaint lists a number of threats from David Lee Carpenter and a person who was living with him at the rented house next door to Gabriel (Gabe) at 426 Broadwater in Billings Montana.
For those with a small screen, here is a transcription of the complaint.
Victim of Stalking Other is circled then an explanation:
Neighbor. Rents. Verbal abuse, racial slurs (I am not white) Threats of gang violence threats to kill and skin my rabbit. Tried to light me (or my son) on fire like a human torch. He said he knows where I sleep he'll "burn" me out.
Information about the violence.
He thinks nothing of screaming at a 70 year old grandmother of 10 and insulting. Poisoned my 80 yr old lilac trees (bushes), poisoned the Horseradish plant with motor oil, tresspasses onto my property, poisoned were he knows I harvest food for the rabbit, threatened to kill and skin the rabbit.
Where did this take place?
I am always on my property when this is happening.
Did the respondent use a gun or other weapon?
No. But he had a ball hitch & was about to hit my son and/or me with it.
Describe any injuries.
Emotional. Severe PTSD. Hair is now falling out. Can't sleep.
Did the police come? Yes
After the fact. I read the reports, not totally accurate. They down played it. He says He'll come back and get us, even if it takes 2 years. His roomie has stood bare chested w/pants to his knees at the property's edge & has mooned us twice. Caught it once on video.
He yells at us "Go Home". We are home. That is my property. Does he mean go home to another country? I am afraid at night - he drinks & yell at me/us, afraid to leave to even go to work. His roomie says he's in a gang. Joe is the only name I know him by. I have noticed odd traffic in the ally. He said his gang will take care of this.
On a second page, of the complaint, Vivian responds to a statement
"Respondent threatened me with firearms" by crossing out the word firearms and substituting FIRE!, indicating the weapon used was a threat of arson.
Vivian, Gabe's mother, says the court issued a temporary restraining order/order of protection. She says Carpenter has a lawn service company, Broadwater Lawn Care. The website states David Carpenter of Billings Montana is the owner. There are only three reviews on Yelp. Two are not complimentary. Vivian delivered a sample of what she believes is the herbicide used to kill her lilac bushes to the judge in this case. Carpenter had to move, but Vivian says his landlord had already refused to renew his lease.
Both Gabe and Vivian have described an incident where they accuse Carpenter of trying to kill them with fire. As they describe it, Carpenter poured gasoline on a place where Vivian would pick dandelions to feed her pet rabbit. He positioned a large, riding lawnmower close to the property line fence, with the engine revved up to mask any noise. He had two large leaf blowers positioned to boost the flames and blow the flames onto Gabe or Vivian when they got into the position, a relatively confined place next to their house. Carpenter started yelling and screaming to attract them. Gabe was there, but was cautious. He noticed Carpenter had poured gasoline. Vivian also showed up, and started to confront Carpenter. Gabe worked to push his mother away from the gasoline. Vivian says Carpenter attempted to light the gasoline with an elongated barbecue type lighter, but it failed to ignite. The police were called. Vivian was not impressed with their investigation, saying they downplayed the situation, and did not even come to the scene to investigate.
On August 29, 2022, a ten year order of protection was issued against David Lee Carpenter, valid until August 29, 2032.
Vivian says David Lee Carpenter violated the restraining order repeatedly. Carpenter was convicted of assault-bodily injury against Gabe while Carpenter was violating the restraining order. Carpenter was required to wear an ankle monitor. Vivien saw him violating the order of protection, and called the police to check the ankle monitor records to show he drove past the front of their house twice. Nothing was done. The police said the people who monitor the ankle monitor would contact Vivian and Gabe if the ankle monitor showed Carpenter was violating the restraining order/order of protection.
Because of repeated violations of the permanent order of protection, a warrant was issued for Carpenter's arrest. Carpenter was finally arrested on July 31 2023. He bonded out. According to Vivian, at the hearing, the County Attorney asked the ankle monitor be retained on Carpenter. The judge decided Carpenter would not be required to be on an ankle monitor while awaiting his next trial, scheduled for January of 2024.
Gabe started standing out front of the house with his single shot shotgun and a camera on August 2. Vivien says that because the police required evidence before they would do anything about violations of the restraining order, Gabe and she would try to obtain pictures of vehicles they thought Carpenter was in, to document the violations. One of the reasons given by Magistrate Judge Timothy J. Cavan to justify the pretrial detention order was Gabe had "chased automobiles".
Those who follow violent crimes and orders of protection know they are mere bits of paper which offer little protection unless backed up by force. Far too many women have been killed while they have a restraining order in place.
Gabriel's mother has set up a GiveSendGo site to help defend their home, the Second Amendment and work to free Gabriel from this unjust pre-trial detention.
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According to authorities, just before 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Spokane Police Department (SPD) officers responded to reports of a shooting in the area. There, they found a man with multiple gunshot wounds, and despite life-saving measures being taken, the victim died on scene.
Initial
reports indicate that a bail bondsman was attempting to take the victim
into custody when an altercation occurred, leading to the agent opening
fire – striking the victim. The bondsman was detained on scene.
The preliminary investigation revealed Timothy S. Wright, 56 years old of Auburn, forcibly entered the residence of his ex-wife Janice Wright.
Janice retrieved a firearm and a struggle ensued. A round was discharged from the gun during the struggle and struck Timothy Wright.
He was pronounced deceased at the residence by the Logan County Coroner.
Upon arriving at the scene, officers discovered several witnesses in the 400 block of Earnest Byner Street. These witnesses informed law enforcement that they had been sitting outdoors when an armed man approached them and began shooting. In self-defense, one of the victims, who possessed a lawful firearm, returned fire. However, during this exchange, the victim, who was targeted by several other individuals who continued to shoot, was shot.
Milledgeville PD's detectives promptly arrived at the scene to conduct an investigation, gathering evidence and interviewing witnesses. As a result of their work, detectives were able to identify one of the shooters as 18-year-old Travion Antwan Butts. Butts has since been taken into custody and is facing multiple charges, including six counts of Aggravated Assault and one count of Possession of a Firearm during the Commission of a Crime.
A 25-year-old male sustained a gunshot wound to the hand. The 25-year-old male was transported to Mount Siani in in good condition. The 25-year-old male entered a previous place of business where he had been asked to leave several times before. The 25-year-old male refused and a verbal/physical altercation ensued with a 64-year-old. The 64-year-old male produced a handgun and fired shots at the 25-year-old male. The 64-year-old male is a valid CCL Holder. One offender is in custody and detectives are currently investigating
From police report Here
Just before 10:45 PM Friday night Sno911 received a call of an attempted robbery at a convenience store in the 4000 block of Hoyt in central Everett.
The caller advised the alleged suspect had a weapon, possibly a hatchet and the caller told Sno911 they were armed and shots were fired.
The suspect with the hatchet had fled in a dark colored car.
About 15 minutes later Sno911 received a call from neighbors in the 3200 block of Nassau (near Providence Pacific Campus) that a woman was asking for help with a person who had been shot.
Officers and Medics arrived and found a person in a dark colored car who was suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. That person was taken by Medic Unit to Providence Colby Campus.
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