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Sleeping man awakens, shoots intruder (OK)
NewsOK ^ | December 12, 2007 | Micah Gamino
Posted on 12/11/2007 10:24:12 PM PST by DaveLoneRanger
A man shot a teenage intruder tonight who he said broke into his Tulsa apartment, which has no power, police said.
The youth was identified only as a 16-year-old male.
The man, a 20-year-old who police also would not identify, said he had been sleeping in his apartment in the 2100 block of S 99 East Avenue about 7:30 p.m. when he was awakened by the sound of breaking glass in another bedroom, Officer Leland Ashley said.
Ashley said the man then retrieved a shotgun and went into the room and discovered a person holding what he believed was a gun, but later turned out to be a flashlight.
The man then shot the youth once in the hip with birdshot, Ashley said.
“The man stated that he was afraid for his life,” Ashley said.
The youth was taken to St. John Medical Center. His injury is not life-threatening and he will later be taken into police custody on a complaint of first-degree burglary, Ashley said.
The man was not arrested.
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AFP via translation -
Lebanon: A General of the Lebanese Army died in a bombing
BEIRUT-General of the Lebanese army, François el-Hajj, was killed in an attack that occurred Wednesday in a suburb of Beirut, told AFP an official of the security services.
“He is dead,” the source said under cover of anonymity.
Francis el-Hajj was chief of operations last summer when fighting between the Lebanese army and Islamists Fatah al-Islam in the Palestinian refugee camp nde Nahr al-Bared.
It is a close favorite candidate for the presidency, the Chief of the Army Michel Sleimane.
The explosion occurred at Baada, a Christian area southeast of the Lebanese capital, with the passage of the car of the general.
At least four people were killed and seven others wounded, according to the Lebanese Red Cross.
22 posted on 12/11/2007 10:36:27 PM PST by HAL9000 (Fred Thompson/Mike Huckabee 2008)