A 28-year-old Hernandez man is dead after being shot early Saturday morning by a homeowner who caught him in his garage.
A call was received at the E-911 Dispatch Center around 4:20 a.m., from a woman who told the dispatcher that her husband shot someone they caught in the garage. She said her husband shot the man, later identified as Pablo Hinz, because he attacked the couple and pushed the caller over. The names of the homeowners were not released.
According to a press release from the Española Police Department that was circulated later in the morning on Saturday, EPD officers were dispatched to the 500 block of Middle San Pedro Road regarding a burglary in progress.
“Upon arrival, officers learned, an elderly home owner confronted a burglary suspect within their residence,” the press release said. “During the incident there was a struggle resulting in the home owner shooting the burglary suspect at least one time.”
The press release said Hinz, whose name had not been released until Monday afternoon, succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene. His name was being withheld pending next of kin notification, which was done Monday, EPD Chief Mizel Garcia said.
“He was well known to law enforcement in the area for commission of burglaries,” Garcia said about Hinz.
A new controversial armed citizen patrol has launched in Hartford.
Organizers say the people will be legally carrying as they walk around parts of the city where violence has taken a toll.
Though some – including the city’s mayor – are raising concerns about the effort.
In Hartford’s North End on Saturday, a group of people looked to patrol and clean up Garden Street.
“It was important to come out here because we believe that we have to keep the community safe, keep the community clean. And we’re doing this by being out here for a few hours, clean up the community, pick up the trash,” said Marcus Long, of Hartford.
“We are legally armed and we are patrolling,” said Cornell Lewis, the founder of the Self-Defense Brigade. “The people on Garden Street came to us and asked us for help.”
While there did not appear to be open carry – which is banned in Connecticut – organizers previously told us those armed would be licensed and have concealed weapons.
They were part of Minister Cornell Lewis’ Self-Defense Brigade.
“We are not vigilantes. We are a group of people that are disciplined and trained. We go to the shooting range,” said Lewis.
Mayor Arunan Arulampalam wrote in part:
“Our community has seen so much pain and trauma, and what we need is for those who love this city to do the hard work of healing that pain.”
The mayor added that the city did not need people being trained to walk the streets with guns and trying to take the law into their own hands.
Earlier, there was a talk about gun rights including how to get a permit, safe storage and carry and personal use.
The founder of the brigade says they plan to do the patrols a few times a week. “We’ll be patrolling at night. So it’s not just a one-time thing. It’s going to be on a consistent basis,” said Lewis.
Organizers argue the patrols are needed and they have plans to expand them to other parts of the city.
ATLANTA — Investigators say an off-duty Atlanta police officer fired at a man who tried to break into the officer’s apartment.
It happened around 5 a.m. Tuesday at the Dwell at the View apartment complex at 1620 Hollywood Road NW.
Police say the officer, who was home and off-duty at the time, grabbed a gun and fired toward the man.
The suspect was not hit, but police say he suffered non-life threatening injuries after he fell three floors to the ground.
The names of the suspect and the officer have not been released.
A resident, who declined to give his name and speak on camera, told Channel 2′s Bryan Mims that the apartment complex has recently been hit with several break-ins and other crimes.
Investigators are working to determine all the circumstances surrounding the attempted burglary.
A trespasser who forced his way inside a Reading home Thursday night, March 7, is now recovering from a gunshot wound, according to city police.
Timothy Harris, 37, went inside a house on the 100 block of South 5th Street, an RPD spokesperson told Daily Voice.
When confronted by residents, police said Harris attacked two of them before he was shot in the leg. He fled the scene but was picked up by police a short time later, authorities said.
Harris was treated at Reading Hospital and then charged with criminal trespassing, assault, and related counts, according to police.
No charges are being filed against the shooter, they added.
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ala. (WBMA) — A 33-year-old man was shot and killed at a home in McCalla early Friday morning.
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said the shooting happened in the 6600 block of Newbridge Drive around 4:30 a.m. during a reported home invasion. The sheriff’s office said deputies were told the man broke into the home and engaged in a physical altercation with the occupants.
The sheriff’s office said that during the altercation, shots were fired, killing the man who entered the home. The man and the occupants knew each other, according to the sheriff’s office.
The Jefferson County Criminal Division detectives are conducting an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the shooting.
A Clark County man was entitled to argue self-defense when he intentionally shot toward a person, and was not required to show he intended to kill or harm the man who threatened him, the Supreme Court of Ohio ruled today.
A divided Supreme Court vacated the felonious assault conviction of Tyler Wilson for his altercation at a Springfield gas station in 2021. At trial, Wilson was acquitted of attempted murder but convicted of felonious assault after he fired a shot at Billy Reffett. The shot struck the window frame of Reffett’s truck, near his head.
The trial judge refused to instruct the jury to consider Wilson’s argument that he acted in self-defense. The judge ruled Wilson was not claiming self-defense because Wilson testified that he did not aim the gun at Reffett and had no intention of harming him but was just trying to get Reffett to “back off.”
In the Court’s lead opinion, Justice Melody Stewart stated that the Ohio self-defense law does not require an intent to harm or kill another, just the “intent to repel or escape force.” Shooting toward another with the intent to stop an aggressor is sufficient to justify a self-defense jury instruction, she concluded.
The Supreme Court remanded the case to the Clark County Common Pleas Court to vacate Wilson’s sentence and conduct further proceedings.
Justices Michael P. Donnelly and Jennifer Brunner joined Justice Stewart’s opinion. Justice Patrick F. Fischer concurred in judgment only without a written opinion.
In a dissenting opinion, Justice Joseph T. Deters wrote that Wilson’s version of what had happened did not warrant a self-defense instruction.
Because Wilson insisted that he was not aiming the gun at Reffett or trying to shoot him, Wilson was arguing that he had not committed felonious assault. Arguing he was not guilty of felonious assault is different than claiming he acted in self-defense, which would require Wilson to admit he attempted to harm Reffett but was justified in doing so, Justice Deters explained.
Chief Justice Sharon L. Kennedy and Justice R. Patrick DeWine joined Justice Deters’ opinion.
INDIANAPOLIS — An attempted home break-in led to a man being shot and wounded on Indy’s near east side.
Just after 5 a.m. Tuesday on Forest Avenue, police were called following a confrontation between a homeowner and a would-be thief that turned violent.
The homeowner admitted he shot the suspect, who was trying to steal his generator. “As I confront him about my generator, he goes into his pocket like he’s about to pull a weapon, and I shot him in the leg to make him stop,” said Alfred Burdine.
Burdine had to have his home and garage doors repaired after they were damaged during the overnight break-in. Alfred admits he didn’t want to shoot the victim, but felt he had to defend himself and his property.
Burdine wishes the city would do a better job to help fix the root causes of violence.
“You’ve got too many homeless people and drug addicts in the neighborhood, and no one is offering them treatment,” said Burdine.
At the same time, IMPD has reported that there has been a double-digit decrease in non-fatal shootings over the first two months of the year.
So far this year, there have been 80 non-fatal shooting incidents. That’s a decline of 20% compared to the 100 incidents at same time last year.
The number of victims has also gone down.
That continues a trend of non-fatal shootings decreasing over the last three years.
Fewer non-fatal shooting victims has translated to fewer fatal incidents. Total homicides have declined by 13% compared to last year as well.
“We’re doing well, but we have a lot more work to do,” said Antonia Bailey.
Bailey supervises IMPD’s non-fatal shooting victims support program, which connects shooting survivors with assistance and tries to prevent violence by sharing an important message.
“Please just put the guns down,” Bailey said. “There’s plenty of resources out here that can assist you. “We’re just hoping people think before they act.”
Bailey’s team is also taking proactive steps to prevent non-fatal shootings by speaking to students in middle and high schools about gun violence.
The team also plans to begin canvassing high-crime neighborhoods in the coming months to make people aware about resources offered by the city.
Burdine was not arrested following the shooting. He said just a few hours after the shooting, a second suspect also tried to break into the home. That suspect was detained without violence until police arrived.
Alfie Steadmon, 30, was named as the suspect caught breaking into the home. He is charged with one count of burglary, a Level 5 felony, and possession of meth, a Level 6 felony.
Gun control activists are urging Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) to reject a bill that would fund training for teachers who want to be armed for classroom defense.
The Associated Press reported that gun control activists gathered at the Utah State Capitol on Monday to pressure Cox to reject the funding bill.
On March 1, 2024, Breitbart News noted that two pieces of legislation — one aimed at arming teachers in particular and the second at allowing school employees other than teachers to be armed — passed the legislature and were headed to Cox’s desk.
The bill aimed at teachers puts in place funding to provide free training for teachers with concealed carry permits who want to be able to defend their students and themselves in the event of an attack.
Christy Belt, Timpanogos Academy fifth-grade teacher, engages in an exercise, designed to help teachers make good decisions in active shooter incidents, at the Utah County Sheriff’s Office shooting range on June 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
The AP pointed out that legislation provides a “free…annual program training them to defend their classrooms against active threats and to safely store, carry, load and unload firearms in a school setting.”
The bill sponsor, State Rep. Tim Jimenez (R), responded to criticism by stressing that the goal of armed teachers is to provide a “strictly defensive” response to would-be school attackers.
SAN ANTONIO – A suspected car thief was shot dead apparently by the vehicle owner who says he was protecting his property.
Caption: West Side Fatal Shooting
The man was found shot to death just before 4 a.m. at an apartment complex off Micron Drive near Culebra Road.
A resident of the complex told police that he came out to find the 40-year-old suspect inside his vehicle and attempting to steal it. As the man was driving away with the car, the vehicle owner opened fire on him. The suspect was hit by gunfire, got out of the car and ran off.
He didn’t get far, falling over dead from his wounds.
No word on if the vehicle owner will face any charges.
A twice-convicted sex offender was stabbed to death at a laundromat in Louisiana by a woman he was allegedly trying to assault, according to authorities.
The incident happened around 3:30 p.m., on Sunday, March 3, after deputies were dispatched for a 911 call to a laundromat in the Lacombe-area.
According to the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office, Nicholas Tranchant, 40, was found unresponsive with a visible stab wound and taken to a nearby hospital where he later died.
Deputies stated that an investigation into the incident revealed that Tranchant, a known convicted sex offender, had entered the laundromat armed with a sharp weapon and was attempting to sexually assault the woman when she fought back.
A convicted sex offender was stabbed to death at a Louisiana laundromat by the victim he was allegedly trying to attack, police said.
According to deputies, the woman was able to gain possession of the weapon, and used it to stab him before fleeing to safety, claiming it was self-defense.
Deputies say the woman was also injured during the altercation and was transported to an area hospital, where she is being treated.
“I want to compliment this brave woman on the courage and strength she showed in fighting back against her attacker and ask for prayers for her continued recovery,” Sheriff Randy Smith said in a statement.
The sheriff’s office said the dead man, identified as 40-year-old Nicholas Tranchant, had been convicted twice, in July 2003 and May 2008 for sex crimes.
The sheriff’s office confirmed Tranchant was convicted in July 2003 for Indecent Behavior with Juveniles. He was then convicted again in May 2008 for Attempted Aggravated Rape and Aggravated Burglary.
As I got ready to go out this morning, I slipped on my canvas brush jacket and put on my silverbelly hat. And, as an integral part of my morning routine, I stuffed a Smith & Wesson 2 1/2-inch Model 19 into my belt. I got to thinking about the column that I wrote last week that included the admonishment to live with your defense guns and this compact revolver sure fit that bill.
Many moons ago, as a young peace officer, I discovered the Model 19 revolver and found that I shot it pretty well. I’ve never been without one since then and particularly get along well with the 2 1/2-inch version. A pair of them have lived with me for years, sporting pinned barrels, recessed cylinders, smooth magna stocks and grip adapters. Extra ammo is carried in HKS speed loaders and Bianchi speed strips.
Not being monogamous, I have also had a long-term relationship with the Commander-size 1911 pistol. One old friend is a Colt lightweight that has had Novak fixed sights added, with a gold bead in the front and a trigger job. The Colt also wears a set of custom silver stocks with my badge in the center of each panel. My newest is a Border Special from Nighthawk Custom which I had a hand in designing. It, too, wears combat fixed sights with a gold bead on the front sight.
Through the years, I’ve certainly shot and tested many defensive guns, revolver and semi-automatics, but these are the two designs that I always come back to for my personal use. They are like old friends, and we have seen some rough, dangerous times together. I give the revolvers the edge for accuracy while the Commanders get the nod as pure fighting guns.
I was fortunate to have had good advice from old Rangers, other lawmen and gunfighters not only about gun selection, but about using them when the chips were down. Col. Jeff Cooper’s teachings were also a great help. I tried to listen and remember when my elders were speaking.
It all comes together when you combine quality guns with the commitment to shoot them often and a lot. As time goes by, and it does take time, a fella will settle on guns that just suit him. The proof is in how accurately and how quickly one can get lead in the air.
I’m not, for one minute, suggesting that my choice should be your choice. Just know that the selection process takes time and commitment. Once you’ve been down that road, you’ll find that it’s hard to quit winners.
Deputies investigated what led to a man being shot on an elderly woman’s property in Wagoner County.
The shooting happened in the Whitehorn Cove area, about 11 miles north of Wagoner.
Sheriff Chris Elliott said the man who was shot is expected to survive, but said they were waiting to learn more about why the victim was on the property in the first place.
“Her cameras went off this morning, she looked into her cameras, looked out on her front porch and she saw an individual on her front porch that she’s never seen before and he’s wandering around out there,” Sheriff Elliott said.
The Sheriff said just after 6 in the morning, a 74-year-old woman who lives alone reported someone on the property who she didn’t know.
The Sheriff said she called her son-in-law who lives next door for help, who showed up to the house armed with a gun.
Deputies said the son-in-law confronted the man, there was an altercation and the son-in-law ended up shooting the man twice.
Sheriff Elliott said the victim was taken to a hospital to be treated for his injuries.
He said they weren’t sure what type of confrontation occurred before the shooting, or why the man was on the woman’s property.
The Wagoner County Sheriff’s Office planned to watch surveillance video from the house to help with the investigation, “we have a lot of data to look at. We have people to interview, but at this time we are not effecting arrest,” said Sheriff Elliott.
Sheriff Elliott said they believe the man who was shot lived in that same area of Wagoner County.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) — A Nashville rideshare driver is claiming self-defense after shooting and killing a man he says kidnapped him at gunpoint.
Metro Police report 44-year-old Davin Campbell called 911 twice Monday night, first saying that he had been kidnapped by someone in his vehicle and secondly that he had shot a man who robbed and kidnapped him.
Campbell told the 911 dispatcher during the second call that he was at the intersection of Herman Street and 16th Avenue North after shooting 23-year-old Kyrin Gardner.
When officers arrived, Gardner was found unconscious on the ground at the intersection, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He died at the scene, police add.
Officers also found a loaded pistol on the sidewalk near Gardner and Campbell’s pistol in the driver’s seat of his vehicle.
Campbell fully cooperated with Homicide Unit detectives and provided a detailed statement at police headquarters, Metro Police report.
He said while giving Gardner a ride to a public housing area, he became agitated, pulled out a gun and started making threats.
Campbell first called 911 around 10 p.m. Monday from the 1100 block of Broadway. The call disconnected before the dispatcher was able to obtain additional information. Campbell then called 911 again at 10:14 p.m. after he had shot Gardner.
The shooting location is only 0.2 miles away from Fisk University’s campus in West Nashville.
Campbell was released after giving his statement. This is an ongoing investigation.
Findings will be staffed with the District Attorney’s Office at the end of the investigation.
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT)- Lawman Tactical Guntry Club is holding a new event to teach women about gun safety and self-defense.
The series, called ‘Women’s Wednesday,’ launched last week. The next session begins on March 13th. Women who attended the first session last week will spend the next couple of weeks practicing in the shooting range.
“I think that just knowing that I am capable as a woman of protecting myself and learning the correct way, when, how, and what to do is super important,” says Ginger Whitler.
Whitler says her husband offered to sign her up for the series as a birthday present. The first session was held in a classroom and started with the basics. Instructors say nearly a dozen women attended.
“Women can learn how to handle a gun, and what the parts of the gun are,” says Whitler.
Bryan Bishop owns Lawman Tactical and created the curriculum for the sessions.
“You know, learn how to hold a firearm, how to operate a firearm, and just get more comfortable with holding a firearm to protect their family,” Bishop says.
And the feedback was great, so we had to try it out for ourselves. Bishop taught us how to load and fire a gun.
Bishop says classes like these and self defense classes are needed now more than ever.
“We want to give women the confidence that they can protect themselves. We want to provide some realistic training, just for females. With hand-to-hand combat training, like learning how to defend themselves when someone is trying to choke or grab them and get away from that,” Bishop says.
More information about ‘Women’s Wednesday’ and self-defense classes can be found here
Bodycam footage from the Lakewood Church shooting shows multiple off-duty officers working on the church security team engaging a 36-year-old would-be mass murderer. The attacker, reportedly a Muslim transgendered woman named Genesse Moreno, brought a rifle with “Free Palestine” written on it.
Ultimately, the church security team shot and killed the woman, who was an illegal alien with a criminal history and mental problems.
Tragically, the social misfit terrorist also brought her 7-year-old son Samuel. He took a round to the head that was apparently fired from the security team.
While it’s always easier to Monday morning quarterback a dangerous situation after the fact, particularly if you weren’t the one in the middle of the fire fight, there are some takeaways every police officer, security team member and, simply put, gun owner who carries a gun for self defense can walk away from after watching the video of the attack and ensuing shootout at Lakewood Church. In the videos released, it appears at least one of the Houston cops did not quite rise to the level of training needed to handle such a situation. Far from it. Specifically, the bodycam from “Officer Moreno” (yes, the officer shared the same last name as the shooter) showed a poorly-trained officer struggling to properly hold his gun
Moreover, “Officer Moreno” didn’t exactly aggressively engage the perp. To the contrary, it was almost as if he was hiding from the homicidal attacker. His barricade tactics seemed nonexistent as well. He’s lucky he didn’t get killed.
You can watch for yourself. Here’s the video on Twitter.
🚨 BREAKING: Houston police have released the body-worn camera footage of the Texas megachurch shooting where an armed Hispanic woman with pro-Palestine beliefs attempted a mass murder. pic.twitter.com/XYemU4nIxP
When Soviet Red Army troops poured across the Finnish frontier three months after the outbreak of World War II, Simo Häyhä, a farmer and member of Finland’s Civil Guard, laid down his pitchfork, picked up his M28-30 Mosin Nagant, jammed his Puukko knife in his belt and calmly went out to kill communists.
Häyhä shot more than 540 Red Army troops in just three months — most using iron sights — becoming the most successful sniper in history. Häyhä survived the Winter War, died at the age of 96 and remains one of Finland’s most celebrated national heroes.
Finnish sniper Simo Häyhä is credited with killing more than 540 Soviet troops during the Winter War of 1939-1940.
Today, Finland maintains a tradition of arms seldom seen outside of the United States. There are approximately 1.5 million registered firearms, but it is estimated there are about the same number of unregistered firearms, which were secretly cached after World War II and the Winter War. The Finns cannot afford to be disarmed, which even their government understands. Their country of 5.6 million people shares an 830-mile border with Russia, which has a population of 143 million, so the Finns can never stop preparing to fight the Russian Bear.
Tensions escalated last year after Finland joined NATO. Russian saw this as a threat and vowed to retaliate. The government in Helsinki took this very seriously. Unlike the Biden-Harris administration, which views law-abiding American gun owners as a threat, Finland incorporates armed civilians into its national defense strategy, so they decided to boost civilian firearm training to help counter the latest Russian threat.
According to the Guardian, the Finnish Defense Forces started by building 300 additional shooting ranges to “encourage more citizens to take up the hobby in the interest of national defense.”
“The present government aims to increase the amount of shooting ranges in Finland from roughly 600-700 up to 1,000. This is because of our defense model, which benefits from people having and developing their shooting skills on their own,” Jukka Kopra, a Minister of Parliament who chairs the country’s defense committee told the British newspaper. A government spokesman added that the new construction will include “rifle” and “tactical” ranges.
If a freedom-loving NRA member from, say, 1994, had been able to look into a crystal ball and see 30 years forward to today, they’d no doubt be pleased and perhaps a bit jealous, but also a little perplexed.
They’d notice the U.S. Supreme Court decisions in D.C. v. Heller (2008), McDonald v. Chicago (2010) and New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen (2022), which together decree that the Second Amendment is not a second-class right. It protects each law-abiding citizen’s right to own and carry firearms for self-defense and for other legal purposes. They’d be pleased to see this.
They’d notice the massive expansion of constitutional carry, the passage of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act in 2005 and the huge growth in gun ownership and of concealed carry in general and, again, they’d be pleased.
They’d see all the new and useful carry options in handguns, holsters and more and would likely be a little jealous.
Indeed, they’d marvel at the renaissance for this freedom.
But they’d also shake their heads and clench their fists at the endless, and often novel, attacks from gun-control proponents on our Second Amendment rights.
And then, finally, they’d have to be perplexed as they wondered what this “sensitive-places” thing is all about.
Violent crime peaked in 1993 within the United States. Since then, it has trended downward due in great part to the “broken windows” style, proactive police work, video surveillance everywhere, and the increase of concealed carriers. In 2020, the year of the Covid 19 lockdowns, crime spiked again in the wake of the rioting surrounding a particular incident of police action.
What has followed since is an increase in lawlessness. The combination of police being afraid to do their jobs due to progressives seeking to prosecute them even when they do everything right, along with progressive prosecutors who confuse justice reform with simply not prosecuting violent offenders, has led to a complete breakdown of law and order in urban areas.
Police retirement is at an all-time high, and recruitment is at an all-time low. The movement to defund and hamstring police while simultaneously not prosecuting violent offenders is a social suicide pact that is gleefully embraced by large cities, so here we are.
For many years, the leaders in the self-defense community have warned, “You are on your own; nobody is coming to save you.” While it has always been true in the sense that the police simply cannot arrive on time to stop an in-progress assault, now it is quite literally true that police may never come at all. Response times are at a low, and many departments are running on skeleton crews, so depending on where you live, you may get no response, no matter what the situation is.
Ironically, most who have driven this political agenda of defunding the police are also entirely on board with civilian disarmament. Make no mistake, this faction wants you unarmed and helpless and wants to ensure that there are no police to protect you either, from the criminals that they intentionally set loose on your streets.
Those who support such policies remain willfully foolish until the point that their own door gets smashed in or they get carjacked, personally, even though they think such things only happen on the other side of town, not in their gentrified neighborhood.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis Police are investigating a shooting that took place outside of a home in Frayser overnight.
The incident happened in the 2700 block of Crackelrose Drive. When officers arrived, they found a man outside with a gunshot wound to the knee.
Reports state that the victim and a woman, the mother of his children, had got into a verbal argument over infidelity.
The woman claimed she put his belongings outside for him to pick them up.
When the man arrived, he began talking to the front door camera. He then broke it and used it to smash open a window at the back of the house, police say.
The woman allegedly grabbed a gasoline container and threw it at the man. After he rinsed his eyes with the outside water hose, he entered the home and reportedly began assaulting her.
MPD says the woman was able to get out of the home, but the man followed; she then fired one shot, hitting him in the leg.
A neighbor came out of the home, and the woman urged them to call the police.
The man remains in non-critical condition. No charges have been filed.
