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A Florida man in his 70s fatally shot a home intruder who busted through the glass front door and began attacking his wife on Tuesday, investigators said. Deputies arrived at the Panama City home around 6:05 a.m. and found 31-year-old Nathan Jerrell Edwards laying on the floor dead and a handgun on the counter, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office said.

A suspected home intruder was shot and killed Tuesday night (Sept. 12) in LaPlace by the homeowner, according to the St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office. The shooting happened around 8 p.m. in the 3000 block of Cambridge Drive, the sheriff's office reports. The man, identified by authorities as 27-year-old Kalvin Ferrygood of Garyville, was transported to a New Orleans hospital where he later died, according to the sheriff's office. The homeowner, a 32-year-old man who has not been identified nor arrested, told authorities that he opened his backdoor after he heard people talking in the backyard. Ferrygood was...

Dan from Squirrel Hill's Blog Poet Maya Angelou shoots gun at home intruder. Barack Obama thinks she should be in jail because of it. Checking both google and google news, I did not see this reported on by any of the mainstream media, other than Time magazine. No New York Times, Washington Post, or Associated Press articles. No CBS, NBC, or CNN coverage.No wonder why some on the political left hate Fox News, which did report it.For News reports:Poet Maya Angelou Blasts Gun at Home IntruderObama supporter and famous poet Maya Angelou was asked by Time Magazine if she had ever...

When Edward Lucas Sr. checked to see why the neighbor's German shepherd was barking at Sunday at 5:40 a.m., he had no idea that minutes later an intruder would be lying dead on his living room rug. Lucas, 63, of the 3900 block of West Mallory Street, never wanted to have to use his .22 caliber rifle that way, but Tyrone Fyoungious Preyer, 29, would not stop breaking through the door, he said. "I yelled 'Get out of my house,' but he kept coming," said Lucas, a retired Sears employee who resided at that house for almost eight years. "I...

There were others, but they scattered when the owner fired (Memphis suburb) A Collierville homeowner shot and killed one of several people who broke into his house early Saturday, police said. The group forced its way through a back door of the Brian Harper home at 1376 Panola Cove, setting off a security alarm, Lt. Greg Flint said. The 3:45 a.m. alarm awakened Harper, who shot one of the intruders with a .45-caliber handgun. The dead man was identified from fingerprints as 28-year-old Lakim Duffy. Flint said Harper fired several shots, and it was not known if he hit anyone...

Intruder putting Lewisville on edge Victims wake up to man at foot of beds; his motive is unclear 12/06/2002 By RACHEL HORTON / The Dallas Morning News LEWISVILLE - Linda Moody awoke to the sensation of a cold breeze brushing across her foot. She opened her eyes. The figure of a stranger, crouching at the foot of her bed, crept from right to left across her room, passing in front of her digital clock. It was 12:37 a.m. Wednesday. The 61-year-old and her husband, Aubrey, had just become the victims of a home invasion. Their house was the ninth...