GUNS IN THE NEWS--January 9. 2004

[MrBenchley]

As CO Liberal sez:
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[MrBenchley]

1. Three Ga. Girls Safe After Manhunt Ends

"ELLIJAY, Ga. - The frantic manhunt for a jealous ex-husband who allegedly killed three former in-laws and his infant daughter before fleeing with three girls ended near the Tennessee line when the suspect shot himself in the face during a police chase.
The girls — his former stepdaughter and two of his daughters — were in the vehicle with him. One was splattered with his blood, but they were unharmed following the pursuit late Thursday, said Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokesman John Bankhead.
The suspect, Jerry William Jones, 31, was hospitalized in critical condition and under armed guard, but "he does not have a life-threatening condition," Vernon Keenan, director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, said Friday. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040109/ap_on_re_us/children_abducted&cid=519&ncid=716

<sarcasm>Another family made safer by guns </sarcasm>

[MrBenchley]

2. Police Officer Finds Crash, Driver Shot To Death (FL)

"A police officer found a man was found dead in his car off Atlantic Boulevard early this morning, and investigators said he was apparently killed in a drive-by shooting.
An officer found the car had driven through a barricade in front of the U.S. Army Reserve building on Atlantic at Bell-Tell Way just after 3:15 a.m. with the back window shot out. The man inside was dead of an apparent bullet wound. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20040109/lo_wjxt/1950190

[MrBenchley]

3. Club Patron Shot Outside Bar (TX)

"A crowd outside a northeast Houston bar forced a crowd to dodge bullets early Friday morning after a gun battle broke out between a club patron and a constable.
Plastic cups marking bullet casings showed the aftermath of an alleged shootout between a club patron and a deputy constable at JR's Bar on South Richey around 2 a.m. Friday.
"(Constables) kept an eye on them as they got into the vehicle inside the parking lot, which was described to us as a white truck. Someone from that white truck, in the passenger side, armed with a semi-automatic weapon, fired shots toward the club and in the direction of the deputies who were here," Cannon said.
The men took off, and then one of the patrons standing near the doorway went back into the club and said he had been shot, according to officials. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20040109/lo_kprc/1950242

[MrBenchley]

4. Calvert County boy, 16, is charged with assault in 2 sniper-style shooting

"State police in Calvert County charged a 16-year-old boy with two counts of first-degree assault last night in two sniper-style shootings in Huntingtown, one of them apparently targeting a school bus.
Aaron Daniel Barrett, 16, of Huntingtown was charged as an adult due to the seriousness of the incidents, said Cpl. Rob Moroney. Barrett is accused of using a firearm to shoot at a bus carrying 25 students from Northern High and Northern Middle schools about 3 p.m. Thursday. The bullet did not penetrate the interior of the bus, and no one was hurt. "

http://www.sunspot.net/news/yahoo/bal-md.sniper09jan09,0,998036.story?coll=bal-newsaol-headlines

You might recall the imbeciles at the NRA actually publish a gun magazine for kids.

[Romulus]

7. I guess kids' baseball should be banned

because it teaches them how to swing a bat, and they might go beating people? Maybe home ec should be banned as well, because the cooking portion teaches kids how to cut with knives, and therfore "puts other kids at risk?":shrug:

[MrBenchley]

11. Yeah, that sounds like the sort of thing

a member of the RKBA crowd would "guess" all right.

[RoeBear]

10. Oh my god. Oh My God! OH MY GOD!!!

OHMYGOD!!! HE'S TOUCHING A BULLET!!!

[timebandit]

21. Wining Strategy

And they have parents who vote. So keep trashing the NRA and
the next time you run into President Al Gore ask him what the
heck happened in his home state and W.V.
Yep he got the popular vote but this isn't France and we have to
win in the Electoral College. Remember !!
Ops I forgot you anti's gun control is a belief system IE religion
and you are not open to reason.

[MrBenchley]

5. 9-Months Later, 2 Charged In Orange Park Robbery, Shooting (FL)

"Clay County sheriff's deputies have made two arrests in a nearly year-old robbery and shooting.
John Furman was charged with armed robbery and attempted murder, and Cyrus Baker was charged with accessory after the fact. On April 15, 2003, two men robbed the Roadhouse Bar and Liquor Store, when clerk Bill Lutz wrestled one man to the ground and was shot three times.
Lutz, who was shot in the leg, arm and stomach, spent 2-½ months in the hospital. But he said he knew police would catch the triggerman. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20040109/lo_wjxt/1949810

[MrBenchley]

6. Firearms case has a sense of deja vu

"A Kansas City man who was convicted a decade ago of running from and shooting at police officers was indicted on federal firearms charges Wednesday.
Roy R. Thornton, 31, was charged with being a felon in possession of a handgun after his arrest early on New Year's Eve. In a hearing after his arrest, U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert Larsen ordered him jailed, saying he was a danger to the public and posed a risk of fleeing.
Thornton has not entered a plea.
According to court records, Thornton accused a police officer of lying when the officer said he saw Thornton throw something down during a foot chase. Officers said they later recovered a .40-caliber handgun."

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/7657315.htm

[Superfly]

8. New Jersey: City man pistol-whipped, robbed

Link

<snip>

A 29-year-old Walnut Street resident reported to police early Wednesday that he was assaulted, pistol-whipped and robbed by three assailants on Irving Avenue just east of South Jersey Hospital-Bridgeton.

The victim was treated at the hospital, where he received stitches to the right and left side of his head, according to a report by Ptl. Ryan Shinn.


No arrests have been made in connection with the reported armed robbery, according to authorities.

The victim was only able to provide vague descriptions of the three individuals, due to the clothing they were wearing and injuries he sustained.

<snip>

[MrBenchley]

9. 'Patient' Robs Dentist's Office

"The man entered the Nova Dental Center, 9210 Highway 6 South near Bissonnet, shortly before 11 a.m. Wednesday complaining of severe tooth pain.
When he was taken to a treatment room, he pulled a gun and demanded money, officials said. Then he gathered the dentist, employees and patients and took them to a back bathroom, where he robbed them, according to authorities. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=320&ncid=320&e=7&u=/ibsys/20040108/lo_kprc/1949752

[MrBenchley]

12. Police prevail in standoff (AZ)

A murder suspect staged a two-hour standoff with police Thursday on the North Side, forcing evacuations and major traffic delays before she walked outside and surrendered.
Officers quickly surrounded Carole Ann Grijalva, 33, and led her away in handcuffs, marking the third arrest made in a Wednesday shooting outside at a Midtown convenience store that killed one man and injured another. Robbery was the apparent motive, police said.
Altogether, more than 70 officers responded to the area, evacuating nearly 20 residents and shutting down one lane of Fort Lowell before Grijalva emerged. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/azstar/20040109/lo_azstar/policeprevailinstandoff

<sarcasm>Hey, maybe if we made it easier to get assault weapons, thugs like this might prevail against the cops. THERE's a winning issue</sarcasm>.

[MrBenchley]

13. Bank Robbery Suspects Facing Federal Charges (LA)

"An Orleans Parish Criminal Sheriff's Office deputy was killed and another deputy and two suspects were wounded Thursday in a botched bank robbery on the Westbank. A third suspect, who was not injured, is in police custody.
Field training Officer Sidney Zaffuto, 50, served previously as a deputy and was rehired in 2001. He died of a gunshot wound to the chest. Capt. Andrew Jenkins, 48, is a 27-year police veteran. He was hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the leg and is listed in good condition. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=378&ncid=378&e=1&u=/ibsys/20040109/lo_wdsu/1949032

[Superfly]

14. Doesn't that just

"Pad federal stats"?

[MrBenchley]

16. You mean you think

Louisiana authorities would have smiled placidly and let them go?

Guess that's more of that RKBA "logic" or whatever it is, in action.

Bank robbery has been a federal crime since 1934.

[MrBenchley]

15. D.M. teen dies after friend's gun goes off (IA)

"A Des Moines teenager died Wednesday from a gunshot wound to her head suffered when her boyfriend mishandled a weapon that he had been carrying for weeks, police said.
Alexis Jordan, 16, died about 16 hours after she was shot Tuesday afternoon in her boyfriend's home at 1303 Sixth Ave. Cordara "Cory" Lewis, 16, is charged with reckless use of a firearm as an adult and involuntary manslaughter as a juvenile. He is in Polk County Jail on $100,000 bond.
"He was acting out with a real gun the way kids do with toy guns," Detective Dennis O'Donnell said Wednesday."

http://desmoinesregister.com/news/stories/c4788993/23201182.html

[MrBenchley]

17. Man Charged in Attempted Murder of Deputy (FL)

"Monroe Thornhill, 30, of Fussell Road, was booked into the Polk County Jail on Jan. 1 and is being held without bail. He also faces charges of marijuana possession and carrying a concealed firearm, according to reports.
According to a Polk County Sheriff's Office report, the following events occurred when Deputy Roger Burgess responded to a call about an armed man wearing camouflage clothing walking on Fussell Road on Dec. 28:
After hearing the shots and seeing Thornhill in his mirror, Burgess went to Thornhill's driveway and tried to talk with him.
Thornhill was holding an AR15 assault rifle and a handgun, and he refused to put down the weapons, the sheriff's report said.
Another witness told investigators that he saw Thornhill walk out of the woods later that day with two assault rifles. When the witness asked Thornhill what he was hunting, Thornhill responded he "was hunting sheriffs," the report said."

http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004401060373

[MrBenchley]

18. Hialeah police investigate fatal shooting between husband, wife

"Hialeah police are investigating a shooting that left a woman dead inside her home and her husband hospitalized.
A call came in to police at 8:24 Friday morning from the couple's neighbor. Police arrived at the townhouse at 5322 W. 24th Ave. and found the woman dead. The husband was airlifted to Ryder Trauma Center where he is recovering."

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/breaking_news/7671622.htm

[MrBenchley]

19. Trouble is just one stool down at Montana's bars

"DEWEY, Mont. — After he shot his dog but before he murdered the jukebox, Gregory Michael Pepin explained to the bartender that he would dearly love to shoot himself. He just didn't have the nerve.
What he did have, as he sat at the bar, was a snootful of tequila and a semiautomatic rifle with 30 bullets in the clip. The bartender, his hands trembling, poured Pepin a drink and tried to talk of happy days.
It was going rather well, Roger Malmquist, the bartender, remembers thinking, when the jukebox suddenly started up. As the bartender tells the story, Pepin whirled on his barstool and fired four rounds into the jukebox. The music stopped. Moments later, the phone rang behind the bar. Pepin silenced it with five more bullets. Then the jukebox, wounded but not yet dead, erupted with another song. Pepin whirled again, fired and finished it off. "

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/2001831353_montana07.html

[MrBenchley]

20. 3 Indicted In Fatal Drive-By Shooting (AK)

"ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Three people have been indicted in a drive-by shooting that killed a U.S. Air Force policewoman from Ohio.
Airman Crystal St. Auburn, 22, Dover, Ohio, was shot and killed while riding in a car in Anchorage, Alaska, on Nov. 25.
The indictment charges 20-year-old Steven Michael Hinshaw with first-and second-degree murder. Regina Bibbs, 23, and Dorian Dixon, 17, are charged with second-degree murder. "

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/2753935/detail.html

[davidinalameda]

22. locking

old