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FRISCO -- Police are telling the public: don't do what Shirley Reed did. The 60-year-old woman turned the tables on a would-be carjacker and shot him with his own gun, detectives say. Officers responded to the Wade Crossing Apartments at 9399 Wade Blvd. in Frisco just before 8:00 p.m. Tuesday night. Reed says she was getting out of her car when a 19-year-old Charles Poursolanti approached her with a gun, fired it in the air, and demanded her car keys. ...

A homeowner shoots and kills a man authorities say broke into the family's Bullard home. It happened just after 12:00 p.m. on County Road 150 in Smith County. The Smith County Sheriff's Department says the owner of Graham Farms came home to find a strange car in his driveway, and the door to his house open. They say Terry Graham shot and killed 34-year-old Hiram J. Chambers, of Tyler, after coming face-to-face with the man. Chambers allegedly reached for something in a bag, and authorities say they later found two loaded weapons. Chambers was out of jail on parole for...

For the second time in less than 48 hours, a Texas Tech student is forced to put two would-be burglars on the other end of the gun barrel. But these Tech students are finished being targets and are fighting back by turning the trigger on the crooks. Around 8:30 Tuesday night, Ron Harmon was at his home at 5705 Grinnell studying, when he heard someone rattling his front door knob. Relying on instinct, Harmon grabbed his gun and hid. “So I waited and acted like I wasn`t home and they broke in the back door” says Harmon. Two Hispanic men...

Resident says he shot man during break-in By BILL MILLER Star-Telegram Staff Writer FORT WORTH -- A man was in surgery Tuesday after he was blasted with a shotgun during what the shooter described as a break-in at an east-side residence, police said. The shooting occurred at 5:55 a.m. in the 4600 block of East Berry Street, said Lt. Dean Sullivan, a Fort Worth police spokesman. The alleged burglar was reportedly in serious condition at John Peter Smith Hospital, Sullivan said. A resident told police that he was in the process of moving out of the home, Sullivan said. He...

Homeowner shoots robber in Montgomery County 01:51 PM CST on Wednesday, November 29, 2006 From 11 News Staff Reports Montgomery County officials are searching for an armed man responsible for an aggravated robbery. It happened at a home in the 19000 block of Laurette Drive in Porter, Texas just after midnight Wednesday. That’s east Montgomery County.

A burglary suspect, who was shot early Friday during a break-in at an Arlington home, was arrested by police who tracked him to a wooded creek bed west of the house, police said. The unidentified suspect was taken to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth about 7 a.m. after officers caught him near the home he allegedly burgled in the 2000 block of Mill Creek Drive, police said. Sgt. Steve Williams of the east patrol division said the suspect was shot more than once, but he did not know how many times. Police responded at 4:15 a.m. to a...

A 14-year-old boy shot and killed a man who broke into his family's home Monday and threatened to kill him and his mother, Police Chief Bryan Smith said. Smith said the man, whose name was not immediately known, confronted a woman as she was carrying groceries into her home shortly before 1 p.m. The man forced her inside and tied her and her son up. Smith said the woman was able to loosen the binding and free her son, who got his father's revolver from a security box beneath a bed. As the man tried to break into the room...

Fighting back Woman defends herself from attack with gun A 38-year-old woman staying at the Homewood Suites in Wichita Falls turned the tables Tuesday night on a potential attacker in the parking lot. The woman's father said she pulled her .380 automatic pistol on the man, who came up behind her as she was getting sinus medicine from her van about 9 p.m. He gave the following information about the incident: The man asked her, "Do you have anything good in that van?" The woman knew she was in trouble. She told him yes and moved to the front passenger-side...

Police have arrested two suspects in Tuesday’s failed robbery attempt at Gun Sport Ltd. According to an OPD news release, two men entered the store Tuesday afternoon, and one pepper sprayed an employee. The employee, whose name was being withheld, managed to keep one of the men from leaving the store by holding a gun on him, according to Sgt. Bob Forbus. The other man reportedly fled on foot. On Tuesday, police arrested Jameyl Loud Webb, 19, 2617 San Andres Drive, inside the store and charged him with robbery. The owner of Gun Sport Ltd., Jon Thomas, said he was...

When Arthur Winters saw two armed robbers terrorizing his neighborhood, he did the only thing he could think of: He asked his wife to bring him his AK-47. "I had to get it to protect my family and the neighbors and all that," Winters said. advertisement It was part of a series of events, including a fistfight, rock-throwing and haphazard gunshots, that hammered the plans of two robbery suspects Saturday afternoon, leaving one shot and the other stuck in the mud. Both men faced aggravated robbery charges. A police report told the tale: The suspects pulled up in a Ford...

Val Verde County Sheriff’s Office deputies and a U.S. Border Patrol agent have arrested a man and a boy after the two were found burglarizing a residence near the Mexico border. In custody are a 15-year-old male juvenile who told officers he lived in Ciudad Acuña, Coah., Mexico, and Mario Leyva, 35, who said he lived in San Jose, Coah., Mexico, according to Val Verde County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Terry Simons. “They had both crossed the river into the United States to steal that night,” Simons said Thursday in an interview about the incident. Simons said the sheriff’s office...

HURST — To protect his store, Jahangir Alam armed himself with a pistol last year and kept it ready behind his counter. His plan didn’t work in July, when a man robbed Alam’s H.E.B. Food Mart and took his pistol. The same man, police say, came back three more times in the next six months. But on Wednesday night, Alam stopped him. The unidentified gunman was fatally shot in an exchange of gunfire with Alam as he tried to rob the store for the fifth time. A videotape from a surveillance camera showed Alam firing as he hid behind the...

Man's wife and children had been tied up by robbers A Corpus Christi man shot and wounded one of several intruders who tied up his wife and small children and ransacked his home early Wednesday morning, police said. Frank Pizzini, 23, told police he and his wife were sleeping at their home in the 4700 block of Mokry Drive when he heard a crash at his front door about 3:15 a.m. Police reported that as Pizzini went to the door to confront three men wearing hoods or ski masks, his wife rolled off their bed onto the floor and called...

Police: Dallas Homeowner Confronts, Shoots Alleged Burglar POSTED: 10:42 am CST December 12, 2005 UPDATED: 10:52 am CST December 12, 2005 DALLAS -- Police say a Dallas homeowner took the law into his own hands when he shot an alleged burglar. Investigators said the homeowner saw a man peering into his window on the 3700 block of Crown Shore Drive on Sunday afternoon. The man told police he got a gun and went outside. Investigators said the man reported seeing two men leaving his home carrying boxes. He followed them into the driveway and confronted them. The man shot one...

FORT WORTH - An apparent burglary attempt at an east Fort Worth apartment turned violent Monday when a man who lives in the apartment shot at the intruder as many as nine times with the intruder's gun, police said. Despite being shot, the intruder walked out and either drove away or was driven away by an accomplice, said Fort Worth Police Lt. Gene Jones. Jones said a man with gunshot wounds checked into Harris Methodist Fort Worth hospital later that afternoon, but police had not said late Monday whether he is a suspect. A Harris spokeswoman declined to confirm that...

Police are questioning a southeast Houston man who fatally shot a suspected robber early Tuesday during an apparent home invasion. The homeowner, who was not injured, found two armed men dressed in black about 3:30 a.m. after pulling into the garage of the house in the 9500 block of Almeda Pines. The accused robbers forced open the back door and began shooting at the homeowner in the living room. He returned fire, police said, fatally striking one of the men who collapsed and died in the back yard. The other man fled the scene. Police said the homeowner is licensed...