Tacoma hotel employee shoots man who threatened 3 employees with a knife
TACOMA — A hotel employee shot a man who was threatening three employees with a weapon Tuesday night in Pierce County.
Police say a 45-year-old man, who brandished a knife, threatened workers at the Quality Inn and Suites Tacoma in the 8800 block of South Hosmer Street around 11:45 p.m.
A 32-year-old female employee shot the man, who was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. He was shot in the left abdomen, according to the police scanner. The woman called 911 claiming she shot someone outside and the victim was still moving on the ground.
The man was booked for three counts of assault upon being released from the hospital.
Homeowner justified in fatal shooting of armed intruder, Kent County prosecutor says
KENT COUNTY, MI — A Kent County homeowner who traded gunfire with an intruder trying to steal his truck keys, killing the man, was justified in using deadly force, prosecutors have ruled.
Kent County Prosecutor Christopher Becker issued a ruling Tuesday, May 3 on the March 30 shooting at a Byron Township home on 108th Street just east of Wilson Avenue.
He ruled that homeowner Alan Lenhart was within his right to shoot and kill 39-year-old Christopher Carl-James Worth of Middleville…….
Los Angeles armed suspects scramble for cover after employee whips out his own gun
Gunfire erupted when four suspects tried committing an armed robbery in the Compton smoke shop, authorities said
Two suspects are wanted in connection with an armed robbery in a Los Angeles smoke shop that resulted in a shootout between a security guard and four others in which one person was killed, authorities said.
The gunfire broke at the “Smoke Shop” just before 7 p.m. in Compton, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department said. Four people entered the store and pointed handguns at an employee behind a counter.
An employee appears to be wearing a ballistic vest with “SECURITY” written on it, according to security footage released by authorities Wednesday. One suspect can be seen taking out a gun and pointing it at him.
Four suspects got into a shootout with a smoke shop employee in Compton, California during an armed robbery. One suspect later died, authorities said. (Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department)
The employee pulls out a gun and a gun battle ensued. The suspects trip over each other as they try to flee and fire several rounds at the store employee.
He was shot in the neck and face but was later released from the hospital.
A half-hour after the gunfire exchange, deputies responded to Martin Luther King Hospital for a gunshot victim. Investigators said the victim was one of the four suspects at the smoke shop who had been wounded.
The sheriff’s department told Fox News that suspect later died. A second suspect was arrested the following day on April 4.
Keith Rachel and Kahlel Lundy. (Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department)
Kahlel Lundy, 23, and Keith Rachel, 21, were identified as the other two participants in the robbery and are wanted for murder, authorities said.