TX: Fort Worth - Homeowner Shoots, Kills Man Attempting Break-in

In a news release, Fort Worth police said the suspect told authorities that the man "aggressively" came toward him, so the suspect fired multiple shots, striking the man an unknown number of times.

The man ran from the scene but collapsed nearby at the intersection of Ave. L and Bishop, which is where responding officers found him lying on the sidewalk, police said.

The suspect told officers he called 911 and requested medical help as he remained at the scene to cooperate.

Fort Worth Police said no arrests have been made at this time, and homicide detectives have taken the lead in the investigation.

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Florida Bear Hunt Harvests Paltry 52 Bears

Bear approaches door of home. Image from Winter Springs, Florida, Police Department
 

he Florida 2025 black bear hunt has been a flop as an attempt to manage the bear population in Florida. It may have been successful as a trial run on how to manage a bear hunt. Only 52 bears were harvested. To keep a stable population, at least 600 bears should have been harvested, probably 1500. About 15 % of a black bear population needs to be harvested to keep a stable population.   From myfwc.com:

There were 52 bears harvested during the 2025 bear hunt, which is a hunter success rate very close to other states with similar hunt parameters. All harvested bears were physically checked by FWC staff and bear response contractors, providing valuable data that will influence future management strategies. Analysis of the data collected is underway, and a full harvest report will be released in the coming months.

In 2024, 295 Florida bears were killed in vehicular accidents. One thing missing from the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) press release is an estimate of the population of bears in Florida. This important number is essential when managing a wildlife population. The last official estimate is from 2014-2015, over a decade ago. An estimate was supposed to be done in 2025. The FWC now says a population estimate may be done by 2029. In 2014-2015, the estimate put the Florida bear population at 4,350 bears. In the 2019 Florida Black Bear Management Plan, the best estimate showed an expected bear population in 2026-2027 of 11,088. This is very close to the estimate of pre-Columbian bear population of 11,500.  These estimates do not include cubs.

The estimate of 11,088 bears is for the four largest subpopulations of bears in Florida. The three smallest subpopulations in Florida added another 238 bears in 2014-2015. Those populations have probably doubled in the last decade. Other than vehicle accidents, the largest killer of bears in Florida is the adult male bear. Adult male bears kill (and usually eat) about 1/2 of cubs before the cubs become independent. Boar bears almost certainly kill over a thousand bear cubs in Florida every year.

When adult male bears are harvested by human hunters, they kill fewer cubs. More bear cubs have a chance to become adults. To stabilize a bear population, about 10-15% of the adult bears have to be harvested every year. In Michigan, the bear harvest has been about 15% of the bear population for many years. The Michigan bear population continues to grow. Bear harvests in Michigan average over 1,700 per year, from a bear population of 12,000.  We do not know the bear population in Florida, because the FWC has been rather slow in measuring the population. Using the best estimate from the FWC plan published in 2019, there should be over ten thousand bears in Florida. To stabilize the bear population, the harvest should be about 1,500 per year.

Next year, if the FWC decides to stabilize the Florida bear population, they should issue at least 20 times the permit numbers issued in 2025, or about 3,000. If the proportion of success is the same as in 2025, about 900 bears would be harvested. This number is still to low to stabilize the Florida bear population, but it would provide more data to confirm success ratios for bear hunters.

  

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MI: Sterling Heights - Argument at Party Results in Defensive Shooting

According to Sterling Heights police and county prosecutors, Bradley was attending the house party Saturday night at a residence on 14 Mile Road, west of Ryan Road, when he became involved in an argument with another guest inside the home.

Investigators said the dispute continued outside the home, where Bradley allegedly walked to the end of the driveway and began shooting at the home, striking the three victims.

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WI: Kenosha - Officer Shoots Dog Attacking Multiple Individuals

The police and fire departments responded to the 6100 block of 18th Avenue at around 9 p.m. and learned about a dog biting a 36-year-old woman.

While family members, officers, and fire personnel were gathered outside the home, the dog escaped and attacked multiple individuals, including members of the Kenosha Fire Department.

A police officer, who has four years of law enforcement experience, discharged his firearm, fatally wounding the animal. The dog was actively and aggressively attacking and biting numerous residents, who were treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

 

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TN: Memphis - Resident Says he Shot Burglary Suspect

Marques Griffin, 30, told police he heard a noise in his apartment on Robin Hood Lane Thursday morning and found a man in his living room.

Police say Griffin followed the intruder outside and fired three shots as the man ran away. The suspected burglar died at the hospital. 

Griffin is now being held at the Shelby County Jail.

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TX: Carrolton - Details on Defense against Robbery in Fake Drug Deal, 16-Year-Old Suspect Killed

Carrollton police said its officers responded to the call and found out that the 16-year-old had gone to the hospital and died from his injuries. 

Officers found out that the shooting happened in the roadway between two vehicles: one occupied by the 16-year-old who died and four other teenagers and another with a 20-year-old Carrollton resident. Police interviewed the other four teenage passengers and found out the five teens were meeting the 20-year-old man" under the pretense of selling illegal substances, with the intent to commit a robbery."

Police said the 16-year-old male brandished a firearm, which resulted in the 20-year-old acting in self-defense. The four teenagers were all charged with Aggravated Robbery, and the 20-year-old man has not been charged, police said.

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MS: D'iberville - Robber Suspect Shot, Killed by Armed Victim

Hattiesburg resident Tristan Young, 25, has been identified as the armed robbery suspect who died after a victim fired in self-defense during a shooting Monday in D’Iberville, according to Harrison County Coroner Brian Switzer. 

D’Iberville Police Chief Marty Griffin said officers responded around 7:30 p.m. Jan. 5 to a reported shooting in the 11000 block of Cinema Drive.

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Grizzly Bear Problems in British Columbia have been Accellerating

Image of grizzly bear  by Troy Nemitz, used with permission. 

Hunting of Ursus Arctos (grizzly bears/brown bears) was banned in British Columbia on December 18, 2017.  At the time opponents of the hunting ban warned there would be increasing bear/human conflicts. From British Columbia Wildlife Federartion executive director Jesse Zeman:

 “When the hunt was closed, we predicted that over time human-grizzly conflicts would increase, but we also know that bears that learn bad behaviors teach those same behaviors to their offspring,” said Zeman. “This will keep getting worse until science-based wildlife management is reinstated.”

Over the last ten years, ursus arctos/human conflicts in British Columbia have doubled from about 300-500 per year before the ban to almost a thousand per year after the ban. This is the same pattern seen over the world as large predator populations are over-protected. The populations grow and spread and come into conflict with humans. The predators have not learned to be afraid of humans because hunting is banned or severely limited. The aggressive predators are not selected out of the population by hunters. Prior to the attack on a large group of school children in Bella Coola, problems with ursus arctos (grizzly/brown) bears had been increasing for some time. Here are examples: From CityNews.ca:

“And what had happened is that a grizzly — it looks like a sow and her two almost full-grown cubs — had gone in and found the fridge and dragged the fridge actually halfway out and across the bed and everything else.”

The animals had completely demolished the kitchen.

“I’m talking counters, cupboards, drawers, glasses, plates, and everything else,” she said.

The couple also has a trailer on the same property, and Munro says the damage there was even worse than in the house.

The Munro couple were extremely careful about not having bear attractants on their property. They had complained to B.C. official about previous problems. Now they are leaving the area.  The BCWF also document these conflicts:

• A neighbour watching his two young children in the house had a grizzly opened a lever-handle door to enter his garage and cause a ruckus; he was forced to shoot the bear at close range in front of his kids. 

• A disabled, elderly man had his cedar siding and plywood wall ripped apart and building contents ransacked by a bear, despite his installation of steel doors—an (ultimately unsuccessful) attempt to prevent the bear from re-entering after it had broken through his regular door. 

• Neighbours had their garage door destroyed by a bear who returned the next night and caused further damage. 

• An elderly woman living alone had a grizzly break into her home, destroy her mudroom, and drag her freezer onto the lawn—all while she was inside.

The is the same pattern seen across the United States, in Europe, and in Japan. Large predators are protected and hunting is outlawed or severely limited. The large predator population expands beyond wild areas and start encroaching on rural populations and even some urban areas. Japan doubled the fatalities by bears in 2025 past the previous record from 6 in 2019 to 13 in 2025. Fatal bear attacks in Europe, especially Romania, have increased with increasing bear populations.  Florida had its first recorded black bear fatal attack. Arkansas recorded two fatal black bear attacks in 2025, the first in over a hundred years. California recorded its first ever fatal black bear attack in 2024. Fatal mountain lion attacks are increasing. Only 9 fatal attacks were recorded before 1970, with 19 recorded from 1971 to 2026. Human wolf conflicts are increasing with the re-introduction of wolf packs into the lower 48 states.

Analysis: These numbers are fairly small compared to human homicides. The dangers are very low unless you spend time in areas with significant predator populations. Nearly all of these attacks can be prevented if humans take the trouble to arm themselves with modern handguns. Only one human who fired a handgun in defense against bears has been killed in over 200 recorded incidents. No human who was armed with a firearm has been recorded as killed by a mountain lion. No armed human has been killed by a wolf pack in a recorded incident. Several incidents have been recorded of armed humans stopping attacks by mountain lions and wolves.  Modern cartridge handguns are exceptionally effective in stopping predatory animal attacks.

The people killed and mauled by predatory animals pay a high price for the animal worship currently pushed by deep-green environmental groups and Neo-pagan nature worshipers. The numbers killed and injured are small and self correcting. As more people are mauled and killed, more people will effectively defend themselves and their property. Those facts will be reported in our disseminated media. The stories are too interesting to dismiss. In the United States, rights protected by the Second Amendment are being restored. As more people arm themselves, more aggressive predators will be killed, and balance will be restored. People who arm themselves in wild areas do much to protect those who use those areas unarmed.  Large predators learn humans are dangerous and learn to avoid them.

Fellow humans in Canada, Europe, and Japan are not so fortunate. Expect more stories of fatal large predator attacks on humans in those areas.

 

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KS: Security Officer Shoot Intruder who Chose to Fight in City Hall

On Monday just before 8 a.m., Gavilan entered the City Hall building through a locked back door and went up a stairwell to the fourth floor of the building where he broke out a window within another secure door to enter the office area.

Police said employees recognized Gavilan as an intruder and an on-duty court security officer encountered him, announced his authority and asked him to put his hands behind his back. Gavilan did not comply to the security officer, police said, and instead began fighting the officer.

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Maduro Arrested: U.S. Military and Law Enforcement Seize Venezuelan Leader

Maduro in United States custody, January 3, 2026.
 

On January 3, 2026, a United States force of military personnel, assisting United States law enforcement captured and took into custody Nicolas Maduro and Cilia Adela Flores de Maduro. Maduro had taken control of the government of Venezuela, and illegitimately refused to transfer power after losing the last election. An indictment against Maduro had been issued by a New York grand jury in 2020, accusing the Maduros of conspiracy to transport and sell illegal drugs into the United States.

Because the United States does not recognize the Maduro regime as the legitimate government of Venezuela and because of the indictment against Maduro, his wife and others, this was considered to be a United States law enforcement action where the assistance of the United States military and intelligence agencies was required. It is a tribute to the Trump Administration the operational security of the operation was well executed. The American media did not receive leaks of the operation. Congress was not made aware of the operation until it was well underway. Secretary of State Rubio made clear such communication could not be done because of the nature of the operation and mission. President Trump made clear no American lives were lost during the mission.

Because the Maduros and others were indicted of conspiracy to import tons of illegal drugs in to the United States (over more than 25 years!) United States law allows the conspirators to be charged with illegal possession of machine guns and destructive devices.  From the Maduro Indictment:

Count Two of this Superseding Indictment, knowingly used and carried firearms, and, in furtherance of such crimes, knowingly possessed firearms, and aided and abetted the use, carrying, and possession of firearms, to wit, machineguns that were capable of automatically shooting more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger, as well as destructive devices, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 924(c)(l)(A) and 924(c)(l)(B)(ii).

(Title 18, United States Code, Sections 924(0) and 3238.)

In paragraph 37 of the indictment, the United States declares the defendants "shall forfeit to the United States" all firearms and ammunition used in the commission the offenses. It may seem odd that actors who never entered United States territory and whose action occurred outside United States territory can be found guilty of United States crimes. Such law has precedent from piracy and smuggling laws, where organizations involved in such actions stayed outside of the United States.

The action to bring the Maduros into custody, to stand trial in the United States has precedent from the arrest of Manuel Noriega, dictator in Panama, on January 3, 1990, 36 years ago. This correspondent spent five years in Panama under the Noriega regime. The situation was rather similar. The people of Panama did not consider Manuel Noriega and his confederates to be a legitimate government. The invasion of Panama was executed rapidly with overwhelming force. The lost of life was much greater than appears to be the case in Venezuela, but was small in military terms. Manuel Noriega found Jesus in prison in the USA. He was extradited back to Panama custody in December of 2011, where he had been convicted of murder. He died in prison in 2017. The fate of the Maduros is yet to be written.

The ability of the United States military, law enforcement and intelligence agencies to execute such a strike with overwhelming force, speed and precision stands in stark contrast with the bungle of a similar effort by Russia, almost four years ago. In a decapitation strike against the Ukrainian government of President Volodymyr Zelenski, Russian special forced failed to take control of the government. The Russian special forces which survived the decapitation effort were killed or captured. Russia and Ukraine remain in a bloody, stalemated war.

In Venezuela, it seems unlikely there will be much opposition to a United States supervised transition to a legitimate government. Maduro is widely unpopular. Secretary of State Marco Rubio reported much of the security apparatus in Venezuela had been taken over by Cubans. He stated a challenge of transition to a legitimate government will be the removal of Cubans from Venezuelan government and security forces. From the press conference, by Rubio:

 One of the biggest problems Venezuelans have is they have to declare independence from Cuba. 

President Trump stated U.S. oil companies will rebuild the Venezuelan oil infrastructure. The oil revenue from Venezuela will be used to rebuild Venezuela, to make those harmed by the Venezuelan regime whole, and to benefit the people of Venezuela.

It is to be hoped the right of Venezuelan citizens to possess firearms will be restored in a future government. It seems likely a new Constitution will be written and voted on in Venezuela in the future. The Chavez regime changed the previous Constitution considerably.

 

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TN: Memphis - Store Clerk Shoots Robbery Suspect who Pulled Gun

Police say they responded to an attempted robbery call at the Quick Check Store, located at 1570 Alcy Road.

Officers were told that a man approached the checkout counter and pulled out a black handgun, which prompted the store clerk to pull out a gun and fire a shot at the suspect, striking him in the upper body.

The suspect then ran away on foot, running northbound on Perry Road and Alcy Road. Police stated that the suspect is known to frequent the area.

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PA: Released Murderer, Wanted in two more Killings, Shot, in Critical Condition

Garcia was previously convicted of murder in 2013 and later released. He is accused of killing a 58-year-old man in Philadelphia on Nov. 12 and is also wanted for questioning in a Nov. 28 homicide in Florida.

Garcia suffered stab and gunshot wounds during Sunday's incident and is in critical condition. A second victim, a 34-year-old man, arrived at a hospital with a gunshot wound to the arm and was listed in stable condition.

Police said another man told investigators he shot Garcia after Garcia allegedly shot the 34-year-old victim during a physical altercation. The man said he struck and stabbed Garcia while trying to protect others and during a struggle over a gun.

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IN: Anderson - Occupant shoots 1 of 4 Home Invasion Suspects

According to investigators, four suspects kicked in the rear door of the residence and forced their way inside. During the break-in, one of the occupants inside the home shot and wounded one of the intruders.

The suspects fled the scene immediately after the shooting. Anderson Police later located and arrested three of the four suspects, while the fourth was located when a medical facility notified officers that someone was being treated for a gunshot wound.

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GA: Macon - Armed Victim Shot Suspect who Attempted Robbery

Deputies say the investigation, including a review of video surveillance, revealed the reported victim “was discovered to be the primary aggressor in the incident that led to him being critically wounded.”

Deputies say the “primary aggressor” pulled out a firearm in an attempt to rob the person of interest of a firearm in his possession and that the person of interest legally defended himself against the “imminent threat imposed against him.”

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GA: Savannah - Domestic Defense, Woman Shoots Man

Witnesses reported seeing DuBois assaulting a female, who then fired a weapon to stop the attack. The female victim called in to 9-1-1 and reported the incident. Upon further investigation, the female and DuBois were in a previous relationship, and the shooting was found to be in self-defense.

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OR: Newport - Armed Samaritan Stops Stabbing, Shoots Suspect

NEWPORT, Ore. (KATU) — Police are investigating the scenes of two deadly incidents in Newport. One scene involved a man shooting another man who was allegedly in the process of stabbing a third man.

Later, police found a fourth man stabbed to death at a second scene just a few blocks away from the first incident.

The investigation began just before 1 a.m. on Friday when the Newport Police Department received a 911 call to a home on Northwest Grove Street near 13th Street about a block west of Highway 101. The caller told police someone was pounding on the door to their home. When they opened the door, they saw a man actively stabbing another man.

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NM: Clovis - Home Break-in Gunfight, Defender Wounded, Suspect Killed

CLOVIS, N.M. (KRQE) – The Clovis Police Department is investigating a deadly shooting that took place in an apparent home break-in.

On Friday, around 12:31 a.m., officers received a call from a 20-year-old man who stated that someone had broken into his home and shot him. The caller also said he shot the person who allegedly broke into the home.

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NC: Winston - Salem, Justified Homicide on January 1, 2026

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WGHP) — A 54-year-old man was killed in a shooting that the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office described as “a justifiable self-defense homicide” on New Year’s Day in Winston-Salem.

At around 11:01 p.m. on Thursday, deputies came to the 1600 block of Hartman Plaza Court after getting a report of shots being fired. At the scene, deputies found Floyd Leonard Denney, 54, of Winston-Salem, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Denney died as a result of his injuries while being taken to the hospital.

 

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TN: Nashville - Fatal Shooting, Self Defense Claim under Investigation

Detectives were told that the victim had recently been allowed by Valdez-Martinez to move into the basement. Valdez-Martinez said when he and his brother returned home from a New Year’s party, the victim appeared to be under the influence of something and was tearing apart a downstairs bedroom. Valdez-Martinez said the victim began to attack and shove him. Felipe-Valdez said he heard the commotion and went downstairs armed with a pistol. Felipe-Valdez said he shot the victim when he lunged at him and attempted to take the gun. Felipe-Valdez called 911. After discussion with the District Attorney’s Office, Felipe-Valdez was released after the interview while the fatal shooting investigation continues.

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TX: Texarkana - Homeowner Confronts Car Burglars, 1 Shot, Killed

Texarkana, Texas Police officers are on the scene of an early morning incident involving a homeowner and two individuals attempting to break into a vehicle around 4:20 a.m. in the 6100 block of N. Park Rd.

According to police one subject was shot during the confrontation and has passed away at the hospital.

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