GUNS IN THE NEWS--January 19, 2004

[MrBenchley]

As CO Liberal sez:
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[MrBenchley]

1. Shot Fired Through Floor Hits Teenage Girl Below (OH)

"A teenage girl who was sitting on her living-room couch Friday afternoon was shot by a bullet fired through the floor of the apartment above.
The shooting happened on Gellenbac Road in West Price Hill, WLWT Eyewitness News 5's Raegan Butler reported.
According to police, a teenage boy in the top-floor apartment was cleaning a gun when it discharged. The bullet went through the floor and hit Sabrina Shell, 13, in the shoulder. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20040117/lo_wlwt/1961873

[MrBenchley]

2. Four Killed in Indiana Shooting

"GARY, Ind. - A woman returning from a shopping trip found her young son seriously wounded and his father and a married couple dead in what police believe were drug-related shootings.
The boy, 23-month-old Anthony McClendon Jr., died a few hours later at a Chicago hospital.
Ronyale Hearne, 23, had taken her son to visit his father Friday evening and then went shopping with a cousin, returning just after midnight Saturday.
The women found the door open and came upon Hearne's son in the arms of Laurice Jones, 47, who was already dead, apparently from multiple gunshot wounds. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040118/ap_on_re_us/brf_four_killed_1

[MrBenchley]

3. 15-Year-Old Suspected In Beloit Shooting (WI)

"Maurice DeShawn Hanna of Beloit has been charged with reckless injury, disorderly conduct and bail jumping. The 15-year-old is also facing charges.
Police found three people with gunshot wounds around 11 a.m. Saturday. Detectives say the injuries are not life-threatening. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20040119/lo_wisc/1963636

[Romulus]

4. Officer Mistakes Cat for Lion (CA)

http://www.dailybulletin.com/Stories/0,1413,203~21481~1896512,00.html#

REDLANDS - A police officer shot and killed a neighborhood cat he thought was a mountain lion Thursday after two cougar sightings were reported in the same area over the last eight days.

Animal control officers were sent to a home in the 1500 block of Crestview Road about 11:30 a.m. They were met by a police officer who emerged from a home carrying an AR-15 assault rifle.

The officer told Redlands Animal Control Supervisor Gayle Lipes he had shot the cat, which he described to her as very large and resembling a wild animal.

"Why the hell did you shoot it before we got here?" Lipes asked.

*snip/end*

I don't know whether to laugh or cry about this. I wonder of the F&G people would have been so "understanding" if it was a homeowner that made the mistake.

[MrSandman]

33. Just like #11

Target misidentification.

[MrBenchley]

5. Man Found Fatally Shot Inside Canton Home (MI)

"A Romulus man is expected to face charges Tuesday after another man was found dead inside a Canton home.
Bernard Williams, 38, was found by police around 2 a.m. Sunday inside a home on Annapolis Street, Local 4 reported. He suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was transported to Annapolis Hospital, where he died, police said.
Officers reportedly questioned a woman at the house and determined the identity of the shooter. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20040119/lo_wdiv/1963556

[MrBenchley]

6. One shot to death, 3 hurt in Akron

"Three people were wounded and another killed in two separate shootings in Akron on Sunday.
Akron police are looking for a 19-year-old suspect -- just released on probation last month following a drug charge in November -- for the shooting on South Arlington Street that sent three people to Akron-area hospitals with gunshot wounds.
A second shooting around LaCroix and Russell avenues after midnight left 35-year-old Anthony L. Gray dead and police searching for leads."

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/local/7744973.htm

[MrBenchley]

7. Two officers shot responding to burglary call (OH)

"TROTWOOD, Ohio - A Montgomery County sheriff's deputy and a Trotwood police officer were shot while responding to a burglary in progress report Sunday night, authorities said.
The names and conditions of the officers were not released immediately, but Sgt. Michael Hild of the sheriff's department said their wounds were not believed to be life-threatening."

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/local/7746131.htm

[MrBenchley]

8. Suspect Turns Himself In After Shooting Death (OH)

"The shooting happened at the intersection of Concord and East McMillan streets in Walnut Hills at about 10:40 a.m., WLWT Eyewitness News 5 reported.
Police officers arrived to find that the shooting victim, Jason James, 22, had been taken to University Hospital by a bystander.
James was pronounced dead a short time after he arrived at the hospital, WLWT reported. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20040119/lo_wlwt/1963189

[MrBenchley]

9. Landlord Finds Tenant Dead In Apartment (TX)

"A northwest Houston homeowner found his tenant dead in a garage apartment, police told News2Houston.
The homeowner, who lives in the 5700 block of Larkin at Sherwin, went to check on the man Sunday around 11:30 a.m. The tenant was found naked, with a large head wound. He had died from a gunshot wound to the head, according to authorities."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=320&ncid=320&e=1&u=/ibsys/20040119/lo_kprc/1963768

[RoeBear]

31. Desperate

For all you know this was an adult committing suicide.

[CO Liberal]

32. With a Gun

Don't forget that.

[demsrule4life]

10. Eight People Shot in Robbery at NY Diner

Two Gunmen Opened Fire in a Brooklyn Diner Shooting Eight People

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20040117_1133.html

Gun free NYC making life safer...for the bad guys.

[CO Liberal]

12. NYC is Just Over The River From New Jersey

And isn't a gun dealer in NJ currently being investigated for running guns in from Ohio???

[MrBenchley]

13. Little wonder

why sane people don't want MORE guns on the street, is there?

[demsrule4life]

15. Just an observation

I hardly if ever see news stories posted from states with "sane" gun laws. Is there a reason for that?

[MrBenchley]

16. Gee, dems,

you tell us...

[CO Liberal]

18. I Post What I Find On The Internet

Regardless of what state the incident occurs in.

[slackmaster]

22. Bogus statement on two levels

MrBenchley is not qualified to say who is sane and who is not.

Nobody except a few extremists say they actually want more guns in circulation.

[demsrule4life]

14. But does't NJ have sane laws to?

Shoudn't be no guns getting over the river.

[MrBenchley]

17. Wow, dems....

And this by you is an argument for throwing out those laws?

[demsrule4life]

19. They don't seem to be accomplishing anything

except to make sure that only the bad guys are armed.
But then both sides here have already agreed to that.

[MrBenchley]

21. Sez you...

[MrBenchley]

11. Teen Accidentally Killed By Father While Hunting (FL)

"A 14-year-old boy Jacksonville boy was shot and killed by his father Saturday morning in what the Baker County sheriff called a tragic hunting accident.
Dennis Plucknett was on a weekend trip in a hunting camp near the Georgia state line with his two sons, 14-year-old Alex and 17-year-old Jonathan.
Investigators said that about 9:30 a.m., Plucknett asked his older son to see if he could see an animal moving in the woods. He couldn't, so he handed the .308 rifle to his dad. Thinking it was a hog, Plucknet fired one shot, hitting his son in the back of the head. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=422&ncid=422&e=1&u=/ibsys/20040119/lo_wjxt/1963360

[MrBenchley]

20. Fort Lauderdale man recovering after being shot by police officers

"A Fort Lauderdale man was in fair condition at Broward General Medical Center on Sunday, wounded by police when he refused to drop the gun he brandished.
Police were called to the 800 block of Southwest 27th Street about 9:20 p.m. Saturday, where they said they found Tim Retcher, 42, drunk and carrying the gun.
A woman who lived at the house "informed the officers he had been drinking and had been causing a disturbance," said Sgt. Alfred Lewers, Jr., a Fort Lauderdale public information officer.
Two officers arrived and told Retcher to drop the gun. "He refused, and started telling them that he would have to kill them, that they would have to take him out," Lewers said."

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/yahoo/sfl-cshooting18jan18,0,2433071.story?coll=sfla-newsaol-headlines

[MrBenchley]

23. Brother arrested in killing (ND)

"A heated argument between two brothers -- one loud enough to be heard by neighbors -- ended early Sunday in an apartment at 2513 9th St. N. in Fargo with a single gunshot blast.
“I heard something like a very loud sound -- something big dropping down on the floor,” said Seonghee Lee, who lives in one of two lower-level apartments in the fourplex.
Chad Gunnar Erickson, 26, is being held in the Cass County Jail pending charges for the shotgun death of his brother, Aaron Erickson, 29."

http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=48345

[MrBenchley]

24. Man slain, another is shot near NN club (VA)

"NEWPORT NEWS -- Two Chesapeake men were shot - one fatally - early Sunday near Jefferson Avenue and 79th Street.
Terrance Lamar Bynum, 21, notified an off-duty Newport News police officer shortly after 2 a.m. that there had been a shooting and that Bynum was wounded, said Officer Holly Hileman, a spokesperson for Newport News police.
The off-duty officer was working at Infinity's, a nightclub, she said.
Police went to the Soaps-N-Suds laundry across the street from Infinity's and found the body of Daniel Maurice Riddick, 23.
Riddick, of the 2900 block of Fireside Road in Chesapeake, was pronounced dead at the scene at 2:09 a.m., Hileman said."

http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-44820sy0jan19,0,1674708.story?coll=dp-aol-yahoo-nws-hed

[MrBenchley]

25. 3 Injured In Shooting At Party (LA)

"New Orleans police are searching for three people involved in a triple shooting at a party Monday.
One person was shot in the thigh, another was shot in the arm, and a third person was grazed by a bullet. Three suspects involved in the shooting got away. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20040119/lo_wdsu/1964338

[MrBenchley]

26. Teen goes on trial in slaying of friend (IN)

"A 15-year-old boy accused of executing his boyhood friend in an alley goes on trial for murder this week in Marion Superior Court.
Jury selection begins Tuesday morning in the trial of Keith Munden, the youth accused of gunning down 14-year-old William Anthony Boicourt on Jan. 2, 2003, over a drug debt.
Munden, prosecutors say, fired four .30-caliber rifle shots into Anthony and left his body in an alley in the 400 block of East Parkway Avenue.
During a trial in August, Munden's accomplice, Nicholas Harritt, admitted providing the gun, car and cell phone used in the ambush and slaying."

http://www.indystar.com/articles/2/112900-1102-009.html

[MrBenchley]

27. Shelbyville man killed; 20-year-old arrested (IN)

"Indianapolis -- A Shelbyville man was fatally wounded on the Eastside in a Sunday morning shooting. The shooting suspect's mother was slightly wounded by the same bullet that killed the man, according to Marion County sheriff's deputies.
Kristopher Holzhausen, 19, was declared dead on Sunday afternoon at Methodist Hospital. He had been shot at a residence in the first block of North Sadlier Drive.
The incident happened during a gathering of people from Shelbyville and Indianapolis at the house on Sadlier Drive. Deputies said a disagreement over a woman led to an argument outside between Holzhausen and Biddinger."

http://www.indystar.com/articles/4/112904-3774-009.html

[MrBenchley]

28. Officers Kill Man Who Pointed a Gun at Girl, 2 (CA)

"A man who pointed a gun at the head of a 2-year-old girl as they passed on the street was shot to death shortly afterward when he confronted police.   
The man had passed a mother and toddler at Lemon Avenue and Pacific Coast Highway on Saturday afternoon and pointed his gun, but the mother grabbed her daughter, police said. The man then walked into a motorcycle shop a few blocks away and argued with customers."

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-briefs19.2jan19,1,4149448.story?coll=la-headlines-california

[MrBenchley]

29. Shooting Outside Mission Valley Denny's Restaurant (CA)

"Bullets apparently meant for someone outside a Denny's restaurant in Mission Valley Monday missed the target and hit the eatery's facade instead, San Diego police said.
Several rounds from a semiautomatic pistol were fired about 3 a.m. at a man standing in front of the restaurant in the 7600 block of Friars Road, San Diego Police Department Sgt. Rey Armstrong said. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20040119/lo_kgtv/1964444

[MrBenchley]

30. 3 sought in home invasion (NC)

"Three gunmen are being sought in connection with a home invasion Saturday night in north Charlotte that included a robbery, sexual assault and car theft.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg investigators declined to release the number of victims in the home or their conditions Sunday.
The incident began at 11:54 p.m. Saturday, when three men kicked down the door of a residence in the Hunter Chase development in north Charlotte near North Tryon Street and Interstate 85, investigators said.
The three men tied up the male occupants of the home, then sexually assaulted a lone female victim at the residence, investigators said."

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/7744263.htm

[davidinalameda]

34. locking

old thread