Category: Self Defense

‘Give me the video’: Armed man shot dead by Valdosta store clerk after shooting incident

A deadly shooting at a Valdosta convenience store unfolded after an armed man allegedly shot another person, continued firing as the victim fled and then threatened a store employee while demanding surveillance footage. Police say the clerk acted in self-defense and will not face charges.

VALDOSTA, Ga. — A violent confrontation outside a Valdosta convenience store turned deadly when a gunman allegedly shot another man, continued firing as the wounded victim fled and then stormed inside the business demanding surveillance footage — only to be fatally shot by a store employee who feared for his life.

Valdosta police say surveillance video and other evidence confirm the employee acted in self-defense and will not face criminal charges.

The violence erupted around 12:30 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 25, at a convenience store in the 1300 block of North Troup Street.

Gunman shoots victim, continues firing as he flees

According to the Valdosta Police Department, a 53-year-old man was outside the store drinking alcohol and carrying a handgun when he became involved in an altercation with a 38-year-old man. Investigators say the older man pulled his weapon and opened fire. Even as the 38-year-old ran from the store, the gunman continued shooting at him.

Inside the business, an employee heard the gunfire and rushed behind the counter for protection while attempting to activate the door locks. But the armed man entered the store before the employee could secure it.

Police say the gunman began yelling threats at the clerk while holding his firearm and demanding the store’s surveillance video. Fearing for his life, the employee pulled his own gun and fired multiple shots, stopping the threat.

Gunman dies, wounded victim survives

Responding officers found the 53-year-old lying on the store floor with multiple gunshot wounds and a handgun beside him. Officers immediately began lifesaving measures before South Georgia Emergency Medical Services and the Valdosta Fire Department arrived. The man was transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Meanwhile, police received a second 911 call reporting another gunshot victim inside a vehicle near North Ashley Street and Rosedale Drive. Investigators determined that victim was the 38-year-old man who had been shot outside the convenience store. Lowndes County deputies helped get him to the hospital. Police confirmed he was treated and released.

Surveillance video confirms employee’s account. Valdosta detectives and crime scene investigators examined surveillance footage and collected evidence to reconstruct the deadly confrontation. According to police, the evidence showed the 53-year-old initiated the gunfire outside the store before entering the business and threatening the employee.

Investigators determined the clerk fired because he reasonably feared for his life. The employee has not been charged with any offense.

Police seek witnesses who fled scene. Investigators also discovered surveillance footage showing several people approaching the store after the shooting and recording the wounded man lying on the floor.

Police say those individuals fled when they heard approaching sirens. Detectives are working to identify them and determine whether they have information relevant to the investigation.

Police Chief Leslie Manahan criticized the decision to record the aftermath rather than remain to assist investigators. “If you witness a possible life-threatening incident, the priority should be getting the person help and providing truthful information to law enforcement,” Manahan said.

Deadly confrontation remains under investigation. Authorities have not released the identities of the deceased gunman or the surviving victim….

Oregon Gun Rights Advocate Pens Legislation to Prevent Another Bend Shooting

The shooting in Bend, Oregon has largely fallen out of the news cycle. That’s hardly surprising. After all, not just are the midterm elections sucking a lot of the oxygen out of the room, but an armed citizen ended the attack, thus making it an incredibly inconvenient incident to continue discussing for the mainstream media.

But we really should talk about it. After all, for the people in Oregon, it’s still news, and Cam noted that anti-gun groups want new gun control legislation while state Democrats aren’t exactly pouncing on the opportunity. Republicans have differing thoughts.

And so does gun rights advocate Derek LeBlanc.

Derek LeBlanc, winner of the “Activist of the Year” award from the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, posted a lengthy message on the ORGOAL website.

“No longer will we tolerate the elites protecting themselves with guns only to leave our children defenseless or without the same level of protection,” he declared.

“I wrote a piece of legislation on Friday, the day after the shooting, that would repeal all of the insane ordinances that have led to the slaughter of one of our most valuable resources, our children. The bill I wrote would modify all of the Oregon Revised Statutes that created potential criminal penalties for the hero in Bend. It would also give civil protections for the defenders. Gone are the days when we will allow the hypocrisy of gun control to continue to put lives at risk. We are the captains now, if you understand the meme.”

On Nov. 3, Oregon will choose either a new governor, or re-elect its current governor, Tina Kotek, who has shown no appreciation toward gun owners or the Second Amendment.

LeBlanc’s lengthy actually challenges his readers to give this some thought.

“So how do we fix this problem, you ask,” he posits. “For one, we end the war on guns. Yes, we can admit some guns are used inappropriately, but in the majority of cases, guns are used for defensive purposes. In fact, the CDC just reported that guns are used defensively up to 3 million times annually, quite often without a shot being fired.”

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Trump’s CDC Resurrects ‘Buried’ Data on Armed Self-Defense

Gun control advocates have a bad habit of attempting to rewrite history. Few of their revisionist efforts, however, have been as brazen as their campaign to strong-arm the Biden administration into scrubbing the website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of accurate but inconvenient data on defensive gun uses. Now, as the Trump administration restores the agency’s longstanding acknowledgement of basic defensive gun use data, gun control advocates have audaciously declared it a “politically motivated” move to “inflate” defensive gun use numbers.

It’s hilariously bad faith framing, even for them.

For years, the CDC’s website included a small but objective and accurate section providing information on defensive gun use data and related research. It linked to a 2013 report commissioned by the CDC itself, and in a single sentence informed the public that the report “indicates a range 60,000 to 2.5 million defensive gun uses each year.” The CDC only removed this information from the website in 2022 at the behest of gun control advocates, who spent a year in private closed-door meetings with the agency, browbeating it with demands to erase the defensive gun use data for purely and blatantly political reasons. One prominent gun control activist went so far as to attack the data as something that “needs to be killed, buried, dug up, killed again and buried again.”

Their anger is somewhat ironic, given that the CDC’s original online characterization was arguably far more favorable to gun control advocates’ claims than the actual language of the 2013 report. Compared to the one-sentence website summary, for example, the report offered a more robust and positive assessment of the available research, including evidence that defensive gun use effectively decreases the risk of victim injuries. The website also neglected to include the report’s assessment that “defensive use of guns by crime victims is a common occurrence.”

The 2013 report, moreover, strongly downplayed the lower end of the defensive gun use estimate range, asserting that “almost all national survey estimates” actually fall within a range of 500,000 to 2.5 million incidents. It noted that only a few outlier scholars reached “radically lower estimates” of 60,000 to 120,000 times a year, based on a survey that didn’t even specifically ask about defensive gun use. More recent and comprehensive studies have only bolstered the evidence for annual defensive gun use numbers well into the 1-to-2.5 million range.

To celebrate the CDC’s “resurrection” of its buried defensive gun use data, here are some of the defensive gun use stories you probably missed last month (and that gun control advocates love to pretend rarely happen):

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Man arrives uninvited at East Side home, gets shot after fight breaks out, SAPD says
Man allegedly attempted to run over 2 people at the home with his vehicle, police say

SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio police are investigating whether a shooting on the East Side was an act of self-defense after a man was hospitalized with a gunshot wound Monday night.

The shooting happened just before 11:30 p.m. near North Onslow and Lamar streets, not far from the Freeman Expo Hall.

According to a San Antonio Police Department preliminary report, the man arrived at a home uninvited and wanted to fight the people there. A fight broke out between them.

The man fled but later returned and allegedly attempted to run over the two people at the home with his vehicle, the report states.

One of the people at the residence, a 21-year-old man, was armed with a handgun and fired multiple rounds at the vehicle, according to SAPD.

The man fled again and was located in the 300 block of Coleman Street. Police at the scene said he crashed into a parked vehicle nearby at the corner of East Carson and Ash Streets, before walking and calling for help.

Police treated the man for his injuries and transported him to the hospital in critical condition, as he reportedly had gunshot wounds to his abdomen and arm.

The two people at the residence were not injured.

At the original location on North Onslow Street, police at the scene said officers detained two people for questioning.

Authorities are working to determine whether the shooting was an act of self-defense or whether charges will be filed, police said.

Concealed carry holder shoots suspect during altercation in North Lawndale
Chicago police are investigating after a CCL holder shot an alleged assailant during an incident in North Lawndale

A concealed carry license holder shot an alleged assailant during an altercation in North Lawndale Sunday morning.

According to Chicago police, the 23-year-old man was walking in the 3100 block of West Cermak at approximately 10:25 a.m. when he was approached by two individuals.

A physical altercation then unfolded, and the 23-year-old, who has a valid CCL and a FOID card, pulled out a weapon and fired shots, striking one of the alleged assailants.

That suspect was taken to an area hospital, where they were listed in critical condition according to police.

Chicago police say they are speaking to a person of interest in connection with the shooting, and Area Four detectives are investigating

Yes, Armed Civilians Can — and Do — Stop Mass Shootings

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Data ignored by the FBI show the importance of defensive gun use in bringing down active shooters.

Two days after last week’s attack on an Oregon elementary school, the Associated Press opened a news story with a familiar claim: “Few mass shootings in the U.S. end like the deadly attack on an Oregon elementary school: with an armed civilian opening fire on the gunman.” NPR also noted “how rarely an armed civilian ends an attack like this.”

Yet since January 2025, the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) has documented 16 defensive gun uses in which police credited armed civilians with stopping what otherwise might have become mass public shootings, as in the attack in Oregon. During that same period, five mass public shootings occurred in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.

The AP bases its claim on data from the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) Center, which the FBI uses for its active-shooting reports. But the story ignores detailed challenges to those data that have appeared in such places as the Washington Post, Washington Times, and RealClearInvestigations.

The FBI defines an active shooter as someone actively killing or attempting to kill people in a populated, public area. An incident can qualify even if a gunman fires at just one person and misses. The category includes mass public shootings, but the FBI generally excludes shootings connected to other crimes, such as robberies or fights over drug turf.

I encountered problems with these data firsthand. Until January 2021, I served as senior adviser for research and statistics in the Justice Department’s Office of Justice Programs, where my responsibilities included evaluating the FBI’s active-shooter reports. I discovered that the reports omitted or misclassified numerous cases in which armed civilians stopped attacks.

The problem persists. From 2014 through 2025, the FBI identified 408 active-shooter incidents but credited armed citizens with stopping only 16 — just 3.9 percent.

The CPRC, however, has identified numerous additional cases and maintains an updated list. Our research tells a dramatically different story. We identified 615 active-shooter incidents from 2014 through 2025 and found that armed citizens stopped 225 of them. We excluded another 35 cases in which law-abiding armed citizens stopped attackers before they could fire a shot.

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Armed Citizen Who Stopped Oregon School Shooting Speaks Out

Kaylub Giamanco, the man who shot and killed the 16-year-old engaged in a murderous rampage at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, has shied away from the press in the wake of that horrific incident.

Giamanco has now broken his silence in an interview with Oregon Public Broadcasting, and in doing so has dispelled some of the myths created by the media about him. One “expert,” for instance, claimed that the “average” gun owner couldn’t have responded the way Giamanco did, declaring that his actions were the result of extensive training.

Giamanco, though, says that the gun he used to stop the attack had been “collecting dust” in his truck’s console.

When he saw the shooter throw the gun over the school fence before climbing it, “that’s when panic fled into my brain, and that’s when I opened my center console.”
His “heart dropped” for a second, he said, as he wondered if the .40 caliber handgun he rarely used would be there. It was. He got the magazine from a separate compartment and drove into the school parking lot while watching the shooter walk across the school grounds.

“I just was in full panic, like, ‘No, there’s children, there’s babies in there.’ I told my Siri to call 911,” he said. The dispatcher had questions for him, but he didn’t stay on the call to answer them.

“I said, ‘I’m sorry, I have to go in. People are going to die.’”

So how much experience does Giamanco have with firearms? Honestly, it sounds like he really is a fairly typical gun owner. He tells OPB that his grandfather bought him his first gun (a shotgun) when he was seven, and he would go hunting with his grandfather and even helped him teach classes on gun safety, archery, and wilderness survival.

He stopped hunting when he was about 18, and didn’t pick up a firearm for years. Giamanco shared a Facebook post in 2018 that talked about shooting with a group of Iraq veterans, and he told OPB that he was introduced to the group when he was building a restaurant for an Iraq War veteran, who reintroduced him to shooting.

“He was highly decorated. He’s had multiple tours in Iraq and he is an amazing gentleman,” Giamanco said. “His platoon would come out to Bend and I built targets and walls for them.”

The veterans offered to train him on using military drill and weapons, and the experience inspired him to own guns again.

“I felt like if I didn’t have that training, I probably wouldn’t be alive today,” he told OPB.

That experience was clearly important to Giamanco and stuck with him, but he didn’t speak to OPB about how often he’s shot or trained in the years since. I think it’s fair to say that he’s knowledgeable and proficient with firearms, but nothing in the interview suggests that he’s been spending every weekend at the range since he got back into shooting eight years ago.

Giamanco says he plans on teaching his two daughters how to shoot safely and responsibly, telling OPB that “It’s more dangerous to be afraid of a gun than it is to just be comfortable with one and know that they’re there to either provide you food or to provide you protection.”

He also wants to use his position to help make schools safer.

An idea has taken hold in the days since the Silver Rail shooting: a motocross race that donates all proceeds to schools for improving their safety. That could mean funding bulletproof glass on the doors, better locks, and better research to make these kids feel safe at school. He also wants school resource officers at every school.

“We have AI. We are in a world of technology right now. We have smart homes. We have smart cars. Why can’t we have smart schools?”

The shooting at Silver Rail Elementary was traumatic for everyone, including Giamanco, who struggles with not being able to save everyone in the classroom targeted by the killer. He told OPB that he wanted to “apologize for not saving their babies,” and called the unarmed teacher who fought the attacker before he stepped into the classroom a “real true hero.”

Giamanco’s entire interview is worth reading, and I appreciate him sharing his story.

I also hope he comes to realize that he has nothing to apologize for. He didn’t the deadly circumstances for those children and teachers. He simply refused to stand by when he realized what was happening, even though he had no way of knowing whether he’d survive his attempt to stop the killer.

Kaylub Giamanco couldn’t save everyone. But because he was there, because he was armed, and because he was willing to act, there are children alive today who otherwise might not be.

Europe on Fire Proves the Value of Our Second Amendment

As arsonists, rioters and looters swarmed the streets of Paris Sunday night, French police were completely ineffective and President Emmanuel Macron and his wife were off attending a concert, which featured Céline Dion.

Well-planned rioting and thievery are taking place throughout France and other European countries. Some say the actions are coordinated by the extreme far left and will continue unabated. France is still six months away from its next presidential election.

Europe is on fire.

Its victims are on their own.

Extreme anti-gun laws throughout the continent have helped fuel the fires.

France has some of the strictest anti-gun laws in the world.

For a permit to purchase a “sporting arm”—not a handgun or a semi-automatic rifle—the applicant must be 18 years old and possess a valid hunting license or a shooting club membership. The applicant must also have completed and passed a medical exam, a mental health exam, an extensive criminal background check and government-approved firearm safety training.

Once they’ve completed all of these legal requirements, they are required to submit an application to their local police. This alone can take months or even years. Many applicants have been rejected for no reason.

Even if they manage to pass the requirements and purchase a firearm, concealed carry is outlawed. Gun safes are required. Ammunition must be stored separately, and law enforcement can conduct an in-home inspection whenever they want.

Anyone caught violating these rules can face the loss of the firearm, stiff fines and years behind bars.

France’s stiff anti-gun laws have had a horrific impact on the ongoing crime spree.

One female shop owner in Paris tried to reason with the masked rioters as they calmly walked past her into her shop and stole her merchandise.

“What’s the point of doing this?” she asked the criminals who paid her no mind.

If she had a firearm, she might have been able to stop them, right?

This is the point where many will point to our Second Amendment and claim that the riots spreading across Europe could never happen here.

Unfortunately, that is not true.

We have far too many large America cities where the Second Amendment has been bankrupted by local politicians, where the crazy French gun-ownership requirements seem almost par for the course, where only the bad guys have guns.

Try to buy an AR, magazines and ammunition in New York, Boston or Washington D.C. and you will soon learn this is true.

Millions of Americans are being stripped of their Second Amendment rights by their state and local politicians. Honest, hard-working Americans are serving decades in state prisons for “offenses” that aren’t even considered illegal in free states. Meanwhile, those of us who live in states that recognize the value of the Second Amendment often take for granted the pain and suffering the victims and their families are going through.

“Move!” we tell them. “Get out of New York!”

This, friends, needs to change, and we can help make the change.

When we hear about the decades in prison someone received in a deep blue state for an “offense” that’s not even considered a crime in the rest of the country, we should be spurred into action. After all, we are still one country.

Our Second Amendment rights are simply magnificent. They allow us to defend ourselves. However, we need to ensure that every American has equal access to these rights—as the Founders intended—regardless of where they have chosen to live.

We need to make this a key issue while we have a President and an administration who value both our concerns and the Second Amendment.

We need Second Amendment rights and protections for every American.

Mesquite homeowner shoots intruder during early morning home invasion, police say

MESQUITE, Texas – A homeowner shot an intruder who broke into a residence early Saturday morning in Mesquite, police said.

What we know:
Mesquite Police responded to a report of a shooting around 4:15 a.m. Saturday in the 2600 block of Brushwood Lane. Upon arrival, officers found a man outside the home with a gunshot wound and rendered first aid.

According to investigators, residents inside the house woke up to the sound of loud banging. When one resident went to investigate, they saw an individual breaking into the home and fired a weapon, striking the suspect.

The suspect was taken into custody on a charge of burglary of a habitation and transported by paramedics to a local hospital for treatment.

What we don’t know:
Police said the case remains under investigation, and no additional details regarding the suspect’s condition or identity were immediately released.

The Source: Information in this article is from the Mesquite Police Department.

Who is Kaylub Giamanco? Meet the carpenter and father who stopped the 16-year-old shooter at Oregon elementary school

Who is Kaylub Giamanco? Meet the carpenter and father who stopped the 16-year-old shooter at Oregon elementary school

The armed bystander credited by law enforcement with stopping a deadly mass shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, has been identified as Kaylub Giamanco, a 36-year-old local carpenter and father of two students at the school.

Giamanco’s identity was confirmed Friday by his brother, Kyle Giamanco, shedding light on the critical civilian intervention that halted 16-year-old gunman John J. Griffin II before responding police units breached the school’s doors.

The Thursday afternoon attack claimed the lives of four victims—three children ages 5, 8, and 11, and a teacher—while leaving two others critically injured. According to family members and law enforcement reports, Giamanco’s decision to pursue the shooter inside prevented a catastrophic situation from claiming further lives.

Kaylub Giamanco, 36, works as a carpenter in the Bend community and is the father of two young daughters who attend Silver Rail Elementary.

Contrary to initial rumors circulating online that Giamanco was on campus to pick up his daughters, his brother explained that Giamanco was simply driving home from work for his lunch break just before 1:00 p.m..

As he drove near the school, Giamanco heard gunshots echoing from the street—where Griffin had fired multiple rounds into a passing pickup truck—and saw the armed teenager breaching the perimeter and entering the elementary building.Holding a valid concealed-carry permit, Giamanco armed himself and ran toward the campus without waiting for law enforcement to arrive.

How to Use Cover, Tactics for Self-Defense

Cover is a gift from the heavens if someone tries to kill you with a long-range, portable hole puncher. Cover projects a literal blanket of security that sits between you and certain death. I guarantee anyone reading this owns a gun for self-protection and likely carries the gun for self-defense purposes. If you carry a weapon and intend to defend your life and the life of your family, then you need to know how to use that bulletproof heavenly gift.

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“When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.” is once more proven true.

First 30 Seconds: The Active Shooter Problem
by Ed Monk

“Ed Monk is today’s leading expert on thwarting mass murderers. His recommended strategy is by far the most effective, as proven in cases where the defenders did what Monk suggested.” — Massad Ayoob

The basic tenet of Mr Monk’s solution is simple;

“Fighting back quickly gives the best chance of a low victim-count. Fighting back without a gun has often worked. Fighting back with a gun has almost always worked.”

Very bad, but it could have been worse.

Bend, Oregon elementary school shooting: 3 children, 1 teacher killed; teen suspect dead

Three children and one teacher are dead after a shooter forced his way into an elementary school in Oregon on Thursday afternoon and opened fire, authorities said.

The suspected shooter, a 16-year-old, was fatally shot by a community member who saw the teen going into the Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz told reporters at a news conference Thursday evening.

The three children who were killed were 5, 8 and 11 years old.

In addition, a 7-year-old child and a 54-year-old teacher were taken to the hospital with critical injuries, police said.

Police have not publicly identified the suspected shooter saying only that he is a Bend resident. They have not said whether he attended the school or knew anyone at the school.

How the shooting unfolded
The incident began unfolding shortly before 1 p.m. PT Thursday.

At 12:59 p.m., police received a call from a driver who reported being shot at multiple times by a person with a long gun, the police chief said.

Shortly afterward, the Deschutes County dispatch center began receiving multiple 911 calls that a shooter had entered Silver Rail Elementary School.

Krantz said the initial investigation indicates the shooter “forced” his way inside the school by shooting at locked doors.

At 1:01 p.m., the school was directed to go into lockdown, Krantz said.

A minute later, officers arrived on the scene. An officer reported that the suspected shooter had been shot by a community member who had seen the teen entering the school, pursued him and engaged him, Krantz said.

Bystander ‘heroically intervened,’ governor says

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No charges for man who shot attacker inside Valdosta Dollar General

VALDOSTA, Ga. (WALB) — One man is facing charges and another is not in a shooting that happened at Dollar General in Valdosta on Oct. 1.

According to the Valdosta Police Department, on Oct. 1 just before 5 p.m., someone called 911 to report a man was beating a woman at the Dollar General in the 2100 block of Bemiss Road. As officers were responding to the store, the caller told dispatchers someone had been shot.

When officers got there, they were given a description of the shooter, who they found standing in the parking lot of the store. They detained the 28-year-old man without incident.

Police say officers went inside the store and found Tevin Jay Love, 32, being held down by another person. Love had been shot in the torso, police say. Officers provided medical care to Love until paramedics arrived to take him to the hospital.

Officers then found the woman Love had reportedly attacked. Officers noted injuries to her head. She was also taken to the hospital for treatment.

During the investigation, officers determined the woman was inside the Dollar General shopping with her teenage daughter when Love went into the store and immediately started hitting her. Police say the woman was Love’s girlfriend. As the woman fell to the ground, Love continued to attack her, police say. The woman’s daughter tried to stop Love, and Love also hit her, according to the report.

Meanwhile, the 28-year-old man was shopping in the store when he saw and heard the attack, police say. The man pulled out his gun and tried to stop Love from attacking the woman. Police say the woman was able to get away and run out of the store. As the man tried to hold Love at gunpoint, Love reportedly charged at the man and began to hit him too. that’s when the man fired once, hitting Love.

Police say Love was released from the hospital Friday, Oct. 9 and taken to the Lowndes County Jail. He’s charged with terroristic threats, aggravated assault, simple battery, and simple assault.

The shooter will not face any charges, police say.

“This citizen observed a female getting viciously beaten by the offender, and he took action to stop the physical assault against her, even putting his life in danger,” said Chief Leslie Manahan. “Because of his quick actions, the assault against the female stopped, preventing her from receiving more violent injuries.”

Man shot, killed during attempted robbery in Tuscaloosa

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WBRC) – A man is facing murder charges in Tuscaloosa after an attempted robbery turned deadly Saturday night.

Tuscaloosa Police said they were informed of a shooting victim being taken to DCH Regional Medical Center at around 7:30 p.m.

Investigators learned the shooting happened in the parking lot of Magnolia Apartments at 5621 Highway 69 South where they processed scene and spoke with witnesses.

Police said Kurtae’vious Earl Tyson, 22, of Oxford, and Daronte Collins, 22, of Oxford, attempted to rob a 25-year-old Tuscaloosa man. Shots were fired during the incident, leading to Tyson being shot and critically injured.

He later died from his injuries.

Daronte Collins has been charged in connection with the shooting death of Kurtae’vious Earl Tyson

Collins was charged with felony murder, first-degree robbery, attempted murder and shooting into an occupied vehicle. He is being held in the Tuscaloosa County Jail without bond.

Lynnwood, WA jewelry store owner shoots at suspects during attempted robbery

Lynnwood police responded to a reported armed robbery with shots fired at 12:26 p.m. at 6501 196th Street Southwest.

There, officers found a pickup truck rammed into the front entrance of Medina Jewelers, where multiple armed suspects tried to rob the store.

Surveillance video captured the suspects driving three vehicles in circles around the parking lot. Then, the truck barrels into the store, sending glass flying and store employees running.

A group of masked suspects jumped from the other cars and ran inside through a gap in the glass, with one holding what looked like an axe.

The store owner then grabbed his gun and fired shots at the group, sending them running without taking anything. The suspect driving the truck then gets out, appearing hunched over while waiting for the getaway car.

Police said it’s unknown if any of the suspects were struck by gunfire.

What they’re saying:
“Oh my God, it sounded like a total crash,” said Julie Baumgartner, a neighbor. Baumgartner was watching a movie next door in her apartment when the robbers struck.

“I mean glass breaking loudly, very loudly, that’s what made me look out my living room window right away and I saw the truck inside the jewelry store,” she said.

Police are searching for the cars the suspects fled in: a black BMW SUV and a silver Toyota or Infiniti sedan. Police said the black BMW struck a parked vehicle while fleeing and may have visible damage to the front passenger side.

“It was broad daylight and a pretty rare occurrence for us,” said Commander Joe Dickinson with Lynnwood Police.

Dickenson said they’re still working to learn if the suspects had a gun, and says it’s fortunate that no employees of the jewelry store were hurt.

“You had several witnesses that were out and about, several pedestrians walking around, all of a sudden a car crashing into a building and shots ringing out is cause for alarm,” said Dickinson.

“It’s just sad, because they’re just really nice people,” said Baumgartner. “I’m glad there wasn’t any customers in there that got hurt, because they would have, the way the truck went into the building.”

Fitting Together Two Self-Defense Frameworks

Ability, Opportunity, Jeopardy & The Five Elements: how two self-defense frameworks fit together.

Spend enough time studying the law of armed self-defense and you will eventually run into two influential ways of thinking about when deadly force is justified. Massad Ayoob has spent decades teaching ability, opportunity and jeopardy—the AOJ triad. Attorney Andrew Branca, author of The Law of Self Defense, offers a five-point framework: innocence, imminence, proportionality, avoidance and reasonableness.

More than a few gun owners have seen these as competing systems. Which one do you pick? But that’s the wrong question. AOJ and the five elements aren’t rivals. Rather, they are complementary frameworks and understanding how they fit together makes both more useful.

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Woman uses shotgun to defend family members from two men fighting her family members

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) – Two brothers were arrested in the early morning hours of October 6 after a fight with one of the men’s girlfriend’s family.

Dazeon Hersey, 19, and Juawan Hersey, 21, face multiple charges after police responded to a home on Pinewood where they found a woman holding a shotgun, defending her family from the men.

Juawan was living at the home with his girlfriend at the time.

Units forced entry and placed the men under arrest.

Dazeon faces charges of Domestic Violence, Assault, Obstruction and Resisting Arrest.

Juawan is charged with Domestic Violence, Assault and Using Weapons While Intoxicated.

South Glens Falls homeowner shoots alleged intruder
State Police said the homeowner shot the person around 4:30 a.m. Tuesday on Main Street

SOUTH GLENS FALLS — A homeowner allegedly shot someone breaking into their Main Street home early Tuesday morning.

Troopers responded at 4:39 a.m. for a reported home invasion, where they learned someone entered the occupied home at 46 Main St. before being shot by the homeowner, State Police said. No one else was injured.

The suspected intruder was taken to Albany Medical Center Hospital for treatment of the gunshot wound, which troopers believe is non-life-threatening. State Police spokeswoman Trooper Stephanie O’Neil said the person has remained in police custody at the hospital. No one had been charged with a crime as of Tuesday afternoon.

O’Neil declined to comment on whether the shooting was justified, noting it remains under investigation.
New York does not have a “stand your ground” law, meaning in the state, a threatened person has a duty to retreat to safety before using deadly force in self-defense against a crime. That changes, however, if a person is in their own home and is not the initial aggressor or if there is a reasonable belief someone is attempting to break in to commit a crime such as a burglary.

Kip Dare, owner of barbershop Kipper’s Clippers across the street from the home where the shooting occurred, said he arrived to work around 9 a.m. Tuesday.

“As I round the barbershop, I see the yellow tape,” he said. “When you see the yellow tape, you know it’s not good.”

Dare said he didn’t know the residents, who rent, well, but had cut the hair of an employee of a family-run water sprinkler business at the home.

Troopers said the investigation is ongoing and a large number of police remain in the area. Two State Police cars remained around the taped-off home as late as 1 p.m. Tuesday.

Homeowner shoots, kills man who broke into his Lytle home after disturbance, police say

LYTLE, Texas — A 36-year-old man was shot and killed after police say he ran from a disturbance and broke into a nearby home at random, where he cornered the homeowner late Sunday night.

Lytle Police said the incident began just after 10:30 p.m. Sunday in the in a home off Butch Cassidy Street in the Saddle Ridge Estates subdivision.

Police said the man was involved in a disturbance at one home and appeared aggressive and out of control, according to witnesses. He then ran from the house and broke into another residence just a couple of houses away.

Police said the man had no connection to the second home and appeared to have chosen it at random.

Once inside, police said the man cornered the homeowner. The homeowner then shot him to protect himself and his family.

 

The 36-year-old man died at the scene. His name has not been released.

Police also found a juvenile girl with knife wounds at the home where the initial disturbance occurred. She was taken to University Hospital. Her condition was not immediately released.

The Texas Rangers were called in to assist Lytle police with the investigation at both locations.