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The Humboldt County Sheriff's Office is seeking two unidentified male suspects after an Orick resident reported using a handgun to avert an attempted home invasion robbery early Sunday morning. The sheriff's office was notified at approximately 7 a.m. on Sunday that an attempted home invasion robbery allegedly had just occurred on the 100 block of Robinson Road in Orick. Sheriff's deputies responded to the scene and met with two victims, a 26-year-old female and a 35-year-old male, according to a release from the sheriff's office. According to the release, the victims told the deputies that they were asleep with their...

BARRY COUNTY, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) – A Barry County homeowner says he took matters into his own hands Monday morning and shot a man he claims was trying to break into his home. The incident happened around 7:00 am Monday morning on Boyson Road near 9 Mile Road in Orangeville. Investigators with the Barry County Sheriff's Department are looking at whether the shooting is actually self defense. The homeowner says he shot an intruder, but deputies are looking at who should be charged. “We have to sort out was it self-defense or was it something criminal that either party had...

A Johnstown man was shot and wounded when a Penn Run area property owner interrupted him in the course of a burglary early Wednesday, authorities said. The man then fled to Armstrong County, where he reportedly burglarized at least one home and was captured by state police outside a busy convenience store. Clinton Edwards, 27, was held at the Armstrong County Jail with bond set at $25,000 on charges filed by state police at Kittanning. Troopers at Indiana are waiting to wrap up their investigation before filing additional charges, said Trooper John Matchik, a spokesman at the Indiana station. Edwards...

HUFFMAN, Texas – People who live in a Huffman neighborhood weren’t surprised when Bradley and Dennis Turner made headlines this week. They say their Lake Houston-area neighborhood was peaceful until four years ago when the Turner family moved in. Deputies say it was the Turner brothers who broke into a woman’s home in the Commons subdivision earlier this week. She hid her 10-year-old son in a closet, grabbed a gun and fired at the suspects. "I was scared and trembling," said her son, who heard the shot. She missed and the robbers fled, but they left fingerprints behind, according to...

This article appeared in Washington Times on February 9, 2012. Every so often, a local news story about a victim of crime goes national. Most recently, it was Sarah McKinley, 18, home alone with her 3-month-old son, a few days after Sarah’s husband had died of lung cancer. Two men apparently looking to steal pain medicine prescribed for the husband broke in. Sarah grabbed a shotgun and a pistol and killed Justin Martin as he forced entry into her home. How often do such incidents happen? While the results from studies vary, the numbers are large. The National Crime Victimization...

A Laurel County woman took matters into her own hands when she fought against an attempted robber who had a gun. "I went and before I got to the door the door opened and this guy come in with a mask on," says Brenda, the homeowner. Brenda says she acted instinctively. "I grabbed him at the top of the mask trying to pull that off. I was grabbing him and kicking him at the same time," remembers Brenda. What she didn't realize was that man had a gun. "I didn't even know that was a gun that he had I...

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas – Investigators have made an arrest in a home invasion near Lake Houston, thanks in part to fingerprints left at the crime scene. The home invasion happened Wednesday, on Yonder Way in the Commons subdivision. According to Harris County deputy constables, a mother and her 10-year-old son were home by themselves when two robbers broke in. The woman put her son in a closet and grabbed her gun, shooting at – but missing – one of the suspects. On Thursday, deputies said they caught one of those suspects, Bradley Wayne Turner. They believe the other suspect is...

USA --(Ammoland.com)- “Mom Runs Burglars Off with Gun,” Damali Keith of MyFoxHouston reports. “A couple of burglars chose the wrong woman to pick on,” she writes. “They came sneaking into her house, and she sent them running out. Perhaps they didn’t count on the woman fighting back, but that’s just what she did.” “Conventional wisdom” says kids and guns don’t mix. The gun she used to repel the home invader was a .22 rifle that belonged to her son. “Conventional wisdom” says get a dog for home defense. She had two, including a 200-pound English Mastiff, that the intruders were...

The man killed in Calgary's first homicide of the year was breaking into an Erin Woods home when someone shot him. Police had previously said Joseph Lesley Talbot, 35, died last weekend following a break-in at a home on Erin Circle S.E. Investigators haven't officially disclosed Talbot's role in the events, but a source said Wednesday he was breaking into the home when someone inside shot him. Family members of Talbot's in Ontario have said on social media websites that the killing is the second homicide in the family in recent months. Relatives said Talbot's younger brother, 20-year-old David Arbuckle,...

DENVER -- Denver police say a home intruder was shot and killed and a resident was wounded as the two men struggled over a gun early Wednesday. Denver police spokesman Sonny Jackson said a man was awakened about 2:20 a.m. by an intruder in his home at 3469 W. Ninth Ave. As the resident and the intruder struggled over the gun, several shoots were fired striking both men, Jackson said. It wasn't clear who owned the gun. Quantcast The intruder died at the scene, Jackson said. The resident, who was wounded in his lower torso and leg, was transported to...

A homeowner in the Edmonds neighborhood of Esperance shot and killed a suspected burglar Tuesday night, according to the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office. A 911 call alerted the police to the shooting just after 8 p.m. at a house in the 8900 block of 225th Place Southwest, which is in unincorporated Snohomish County. It's a dead-end street off 90th Avenue West, which is north of 228th Street Southwest. The Sherriff's Office reports that the suspected intruder died at the scene. Detectives from the Sheriff's Major Crimes Unit are investigating the shooting. "It'll be a long night for our detectives," said...

DEMING -- A home intruder was shot on the evening of Thursday, Feb. 2 as he attempted to charge the home owner. Authorities were tipped off when the failed home intruder called Central Dispatch with his cellular phone seeking help for his two gunshot wounds. Justin Hall, 32, suffered two gunshot wounds after he broke into a home on the 5000 block of Amapola Road in the county. The home owner, a 62-year-old man, had called the Luna County Sheriff's Office to his residence earlier that evening because he had noticed some of his personal items stacked in a strange...

GLENDALE - A pregnant 17-year-old girl takes matters into her own hands when an intruder tries to break into her house. It happened near 75th Avenue and Glendale about 11:30 a.m. Monday. Investigators say at first the burglar rang the door bell. When no one answered, he tried to break in by going through a doggie door. What the burglar didn't realize -- a pregnant teen was there to meet him with a gun. “He tried to put his hand inside and I guess she shot him in his hand,” says neighbor Liz Zamora. The teen fired at the burglar,...

While a number of questions in the case remain unanswered, police on Friday acknowledged that drugs may have been the target of two men who reportedly burst into a southeast Eugene home on Thursday in what authorities deswcribe as a home-invasion robbery attempt gone wrong. One of the alleged intruders — a man whose name has not yet been released by police — was fatally shot by a 27-year-old man who lives at the house in the 3300 block of Stoney Ridge Road. Police said they were working Friday to confirm the shooting victim’s identity and notify his family of...

COTTONDALE, Ala. (WIAT)- A gun-fueled battle in West Alabama injures six people, leaving two in critical condition. A birthday celebration at Eddins Estates apartment complex on Ken Sealy Drive turned volatile when two men entered the home, demanded money, and opened fire. "When I came home there was, like, blood stains all over my building, like on the gorund. You could tell where something just happened," says Trent Gray, a resident of Eddins Estates. When Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Deputies arrived they found four victims in the apartment and another in a seperate unit. The sixth gunshot victim is one of...

EUGENE, Ore. -- Investigators say the south Eugene man who shot at two burglars -- killing one -- might have known the intruders. "There's reason to believe this is a target incident," said Eugene Police Detective Matt Herbert. Police say the two men who burglarized 3307 Stoney Ridge Road might have known the 27-year-old man and sole occupant inside and that drugs could have been a motive. "It's possible that drugs were involved," Herbert said. Officers say the resident called 9-1-1 Thursday afternoon and reported that two men were forcing their way into his home. The caller was able to...

WILKESBORO -- A Wilkes County man who called 911 to report hearing voices outside his building on Nov. 5 and then shot two intruders, killing one of them, will not be charged, authorities said. Steve Joseph Whitley, 58, of North Wilkesboro, acted in self-defense, said District Attorney Tom Horner. He and Sheriff Chris Shew discussed the case most recently on Thursday. Whitley shot and killed David Cynor, 23, who lived in the Mulberry community, and wounded Sara Seagraves, 22, of North Wilkesboro. At one point Seagraves had been listed in critical condition at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, but has...

Law enforcement responded to reports of "shots fired" at a residence just north of Box Elder shortly after 4:00 PM Wednesday afternoon. Box Elder Police officials say the incident was the result of an apparent home invasion. By about 4:30 PM they said the witness was still in the home being interviewed by the Meade County Sheriff's Office. Law enforcement officers were seen inspecting the backyard which was marked off by police tape and there was a hole in the glass of a back door. Chief Deputy Tom Wiltz told Black Hills FOX later Wednesday night that the woman in...

BALDWIN HILLS - Quick thinking and a sharpshooter's aim enabled an 87-year-old retired postal worker to thwart an attempted burglary and critically wound one of two burglars trying to break into his Baldwin Hills home, police said. Jack Goodwin, a World War II U.S. Army veteran, told police he was listening to a Lakers game when he heard the rear window breaking in his house in the 5300 block of Rodeo Road around 9 p.m. Tuesday night. Fearing for his life, Goodwin said he armed himself with a handgun, walked down his hall and opened fire when he saw the...

BALDWIN HILLS, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- An elderly man from Baldwin Hills took matters into his own hands when two suspected burglars were at his bedroom window Tuesday night. "I was in bed and heard the noise - boom, boom - then I came to see what it was," said 87-year-old Jack Goodwin. "It was two guys busting the window out coming in." Fearing for his life, Goodwin grabbed his 9mm handgun and shot at the suspects, wounding at least one of them. Goodwin was an Army marksman in World War II. "I only shot twice. I didn't empty the...

A homeowner took action to protect his property when he determined a burglary attempt was happening once again. An unidentified 51-year-old man informed the Beaumont Police Department he had fired shots at the culprits who were attempting to burglarize his barn shortly after 3:15 a.m., Monday, in the 5300 block of Seale in Beaumont. The homeowner had installed surveillance equipment on his barn following several previous thefts at the location and interrupted the burglary in progress on Monday. He informed police he had fired shots at the burglars and possibly struck one. While police were at the scene of the...

A 62-year-old Greer homeowner died as a result of a shootout with a woman who attempted to rob him at gunpoint at his front door, authorities said Tuesday evening. Greer Police Lt. Jim Holcombe said officers responded to a 911 call at 9:18 a.m. Monday at 203 Pelham St., and found two people with gunshot wounds inside the residence. “The investigation revealed that the homeowner answered the door at his residence, and the suspect asked for some money. When the victim refused to give her any money, she pulled a gun and he (then) pulled a gun,” according to a...

Parkersburg Police tell us the homeowner fired a shot at the man. But there's much more to this story, and more than one robber. Bobby Oliver told police a white male broke into his home through a side door and went up to the third floor. On his way back down, Oliver was waiting. He fired one shot at the burglar with his pistol, but missed. As the suspect ran away Oliver saw another man on his back porch. Both ran through the back yard. There are no leads right now, but police are hoping the community will help. "I...

January 27, 2012, 3:30 pm A prowler got more than he bargained for early this morning when he tried to break into a home in St. Johns. The homeowners noticed an open gate and things out of place last night, so the husband slept downstairs and armed himself with a 12-gauge shotgun. He heard noise just before 4:00am and confronted a man at his back door trying to get inside, firing three rounds, hitting the suspect who rode off on a bicycle. Officers searched the neighborhood around North Seward and Willamette Boulevard, finding and arresting 54-year-old Oscar Taylor Jr. behind...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. --A retired school librarian and his brother-in-law held three burglars at gunpoint until police could get to a property on West Kearney Street near West Bypass on Monday morning. The three arrested men could face burglary charges. "It was way out of character for me," said Ken Richardson, the retired librarian. Richardson said, when he saw an unfamiliar vehicle parked in his family's driveway, he knew he had to do something. The home belongs to the grandmother of Richardson's brother-in-law. "Gary grabbed his gun and said, 'Let's get in the truck and go,'" said Richardson. Richardson said the...

An intruder is in the hospital after a mother walked-in on him in her house, according to Fort Worth police. The woman picked her son up from school and arrived at her home on Peggy Drive around noon Friday. She said she walked inside her home and found a man in her house. She confronted the unwelcome guest and shot him once in the leg, police said. The man ran out of the house and the woman continued to chase him down the road. The man was quickly found by officers hiding in a nearby creek. He is being treated...

A 6-year-old Whittier Elementary student got the surprise of her young life Friday as she was telling her classmates what she wanted the most for her birthday -- her father back home. Just as she was doing show-and-tell in class, Bailey Page's father, Sgt. Adam Page, walked in to surprise her after coming back from his Afghanistan deployment.

Exiting Occupy homeBy CANDICE M. GIOVE and KENNETH GARGER Last Updated: 7:23 AM, January 29, 2012 Don’t let the door hit you in the collective butt on the way out. Occupy Wall Street squatters have finally begun moving out of an East New York home after their bungled takeover of the vacant property became a major embarrassment for the movement. “I told them that if I see anybody there, I’m going to call the cops,” said the home’s rightful owner, Wise Ahadzi, 27, a struggling single father of two. The occupiers assured him Friday that most of the group had...

Lubbock Police Sgt. Jonathan Stewart said there is a misguided perception as to when most burglaries occur. "A burglar crawling in the middle of the night, that is usually not what we see at all." Indeed, a burglary that turned deadly in Slaton Thursday occurred right in the middle of the afternoon. "That is a time that we see a lot of burglaries, because that is the time people are not home." Lubbock County Sheriff's deputies said 69-year old Fred Melcher entered his home with his friend Edith Ayers when they surprised a burglar. Deputies said the burglar is a...

FORT WORTH -- A wounded burglary suspect was found in a creek bed Friday afternoon by police who had been called by a woman who said she shot an intruder in her home. The woman told officers that she had picked up her 16-year-old son at school shortly before noon. When they returned to their home in the 6400 block of Peggy Drive, a man was inside, said Sgt. Pedro Criado, a police spokesman. The woman said that she fired several shots and that she and her son then chased the man out of the house. The son reported that...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV)-- Leonard Nathaniel discovered two men, one armed with a gun, had broken into his home. What they didn't know is that Nathaniel had a gun as well. North Charleston police were responding to a call of shots fired in Collins Park Villas near Dorchester and Michaux Parkway. On the way there, they saw a vehicle speeding down Dorchester Road. When the officers pulled the car over, they found 18 year-old Rashaun Dawson suffering from a gunshot wound. Dawson was then transported to MUSC. Arriving at the original crime scene on Big Ben Court, police spoke to...

A man inside his home said he fatally shot an intruder who had a gun Thursday morning.

AN INTRUDER was shot and killed when he attempted to rob a pharmacist at his home in Chaguanas on Monday night. The dead man, who was not yet identified up to late yesterday, was shot once in his chest and died in the yard of the home of the man he came to rob. The shooting happened at around 2.45 a.m. at the home of Ravi Sobie, 35, at Edinburgh Village. Other relatives were asleep in the house at the time, police said. Sobie told police he too was asleep when he was awakened by a noise in his bedroom....

DANA POINT, Calif. (KABC) -- A Dana Point resident woke to the sounds of an intruder Monday night, then fatally shot the suspect. The resident has not been charged in the shooting, though the case is still under investigation. The incident happened at a house on the 34000 block of Capistrano By the Sea in Dana Point. At least two bullets shattered a window at the house. Authorities say at least one bullet hit the male intruder who allegedly confronted the victim around 11 p.m. Monday. "The homeowner heard some noises inside his home, checked around initially, did not see...

DAYTON — A woman is dead following the attempted burglary of a residence on Burbank Drive, according to police. The woman was fatally shot by the resident of 1932 Burbank Dr., after she broke in to the residence Saturday afternoon and was confronted by a resident of the home. The resident told the unarmed woman to stay put after he discovered her intruding, but the woman threw an object at him. He then shot the woman in the chest using a semiautomatic handgun, according to Dayton Police. When asked if the resident was justified in firing his weapon, Lt. Kenneth...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A Kansas City woman was able to protect herself and her home from multiple intruders over the weekend. Neighbors said three people forced their way into the woman's home in the 7600 block of Richmond Avenue. The woman is a cat lover and neighbors said the intruders scratched at the woman's door to get her attention. "They know she had a lot of cats, and they tricked her and scratched on her door," said neighbor Regina Porter. "They ambushed her." Police said the intruders were looking for the basement, where multiple firearms were stashed away in...

Date: 01/23/12 Contact: Ed Reynolds, Chief of Police Synopsis: Aggravated Burglary Location: 1800 block of Lamina Loop Silver City, New Mexico Narrative: On Saturday, January 21, 2012 officers of the Silver City Police Department responded to Gila Regional Medical Center in reference to an adult male suffering from a gunshot wound. When officers arrived at GRMC, they interviewed a male subject that brought the male who was suffering from a gunshot wound to the hospital. He stated he was awakened at his residence on the 600 block of Oro, by loud banging on the door of his residence. When he...

LA CENTER, WA (KPTV) - A suspected prowler at a La Center home has died after being shot by a homeowner early Tuesday morning, sheriff's deputies said. Clark County sheriff's deputies said they received a 911 call about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday about a prowler in the 900 block of northwest Pacific Highway. While deputies were on their way to the scene, the homeowner called 911 again, reporting he had shot the alleged intruder outside the house. When deputies arrived, they found Barry Parnel, 29, in the driveway. He had a gunshot wound to the chest and abdomen. Parnel was rushed...

Jim Pethokoukis thinks it might be, but I’m not so sure. As described by Barack Obama, the program is a significant expansion of a couple of programs that so far had been limited to Fannie/Freddie-backed mortgages. CNBC explains that the new initiative will now promote refinancing for mortgages no matter if backed by one of the two troubled GSEs or not, but with “precious few details� on hand, much of the program remains unclear: After several largely ineffective programs to help troubled borrowers and after fruitless attempts at budging the hard-line conservator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, President Obama...

An increasing number of intruders in St. Louis are being gunned down by homeowners, due in part to a 2007 self-defense law known as the castle doctrine. But now, authorities are changing how they review apparent justifiable homicide cases.

CONVERSE, Texas -- Police say a man will not face charges for shooting a suspected burglar over the weekend, and we've learned late Monday that the two suspects are just out of Judson High School. A spokesperson for the Converse Police Department says a woman ran to her neighbor's house for help around 4:20 p.m. Saturday after she arrived home and spotted a burglar inside her house on Anderson Court. As the neighbor came out of his house with a gun, the burglary suspect took off. Reportedly, the driver of the getaway car tried to run him over with a...

With a gunshot wound to his stomach, Rafael Encarnacion, 22, crawled out of a back bedroom of a Vassalboro home early Tuesday. The man identified by police as the trigger-man, Joseph L. Gagnon, 55, of Vassalboro, told his brother that he shot Encarnacion in self-defense with a “homemade gun” because Encarnacion was threatening him and his family, according to a police report filed in Kennebec County Superior Court. Gagnon, who has yet to be charged in connection with the shooting, turned himself in to Hallowell Police following the shooting, which was reported at 12:30 a.m. at Gagnon’s home on Whitehouse...

The Allegheny Township homeowner who shot a man he thought was trying to get into his house in the middle of the night gave plenty of warnings and was "well within his legal rights" to pull the trigger, his attorney said. Attorney Steven Passarello said Thursday his client, Timothy Lepore, and his wife were frightened for their lives as Brandon L. Zeth, 24, pounded on their windows and doors while screaming, "I'm coming in!" just after midnight Saturday morning on Cunningham Lane in Allegheny Township. "Of course my client didn't know what the individual was there for, banging on the...

GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. -- Greenville County deputies have released a sketch of the man they say was involved in an attempted armed robbery last week. Deputies say a 68-year-old woman pulled a gun on a man who tried to force his way inside her home. It happened on Cutler Street on Jan.8. The woman and her friend, Diane Gordon, said they had seen the man walking on Cutler Street. "This fellow had been pretty much canvassing the neighborhood all day," Gordon said. The victim says the man borrowed a flashlight from her friend, and later in the day, at about...

Aside from a 9 mm pistol and 16 years of military experience, Sgt. 1st Class Eddie Waiters was on his own in the wee hours of Tuesday morning when an intruder shattered his window and tried to open the front door of his house. But when Waiters opened fire and shot the would-be burglar in the groin, state law was also on his side, authorities determined after an investigation of the shooting. “If I didn’t have my weapon, I could have been dead,” Waiters said several hours after the 2 a.m. encounter. “The police weren’t there and they wouldn’t have...

COLUMBUS, GA - One Columbus homeowner took full advantage of his second amendment rights this morning. Officials say he shot a man allegedly trying to break into his home on Woodland Drive around 2:30 this morning. "Georgia law says that you can own a handgun in your home and in your vehicle as an extension as your home," Major Randy Robertson with the Muscogee County Sheriff's Office says. After shooting the man in the leg, the homeowner and Fort Benning Soldier called police. When they arrived on scene they were able to take the suspect into custody in a neighboring...

TEXAS CITY, TX (KTRK) -- Officials said a teen in Texas City was alone when a pair of intruders broke into her family's house, but she turned the tables on the suspects by grabbing her father's handgun. It happened Saturday afternoon at the 15-year-old's home on Meadowlark. Texas City police said it wasn't a home invasion. They believe it was a burglary and the goal was to steal the family's truck. But the would-be thieves had a spunky high school freshman standing in their way. "She says she was in the bathroom showering and when she came out she met...

BLAIR COUNTY, Pa. — A scary situation unfolds for a homeowner in Blair County. Police said a man attempted to break into a house in Allegheny Township, but didn’t get away because the homeowner shot him. 6 News spoke with police Sunday afternoon. Allegheny Township Police confirmed a man in his 20s was shot in his chest with a .22 caliber because he was demanding entrance inside of a neighbor’s home. “This is a quiet area, it's a secluded area. We like it here and it's a little bit of a surprise to me," neighbor Gerald Waring said. Waring has...

HOUSTON – A homeowner shot and killed an armed man who was trying to break into an apartment in southwest Houston Thursday, according to Houston police. Police said two men, with guns drawn, tried to force their way into an apartment on Oakmoor at Airport Blvd. around 8:45 p.m. Two people were inside the apartment and one of them had a gun. The homeowner opened fire and shot one of the suspects. That suspect died in front of the apartment. The other suspect fled the scene on foot.

As a West Palm Beach home­owner confronted two intruders in March, the encounter turned deadly. One intruder was shot and killed. Weeks later, two men were fatally shot in a dispute aboard a boat near Phil Foster Park in Riviera Beach. Initially charged with murder, the boat's owner, 65-year-old Michael Monahan, was later set free after a judge cited the state's controversial "Stand Your Ground" statute. And in July, 19-year-old James Fritz was killed after he allegedly broke into a Green­acres home and charged at the homeowner with knives. Though Palm Beach County's overall homicide rate continued to decline in...