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Man released from Stockton police custody after fatal shooting deemed self-defense
Story by Hannah Workman
A man questioned after a fatal shooting in Stockton was released from custody, and detectives are investigating the shooting as a self-defense case, the Stockton Police Department announced Tuesday.The shooting occurred at about 9:03 p.m. Monday in the 100 block of West Poplar Street.
Officers who responded to the report found a 50-year-old man suffering from a gunshot wound. The man was taken to a local hospital, where he later died from his injuries.
The man’s identity hasn’t been released, pending notification of family by the San Joaquin County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Police found a firearm at the scene and detained a 32-year-old man, who was released from custody after further investigation.
The deadly shooting is being considered self-defense, authorities said.
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MSN
Police: Resident shoots break-in suspect near Kalamazoo
by: Rachel Van Gilder
KALAMAZOO TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — A resident shot and injured a person trying to break into a home east of Kalamazoo early Tuesday, police say.It happened around 2:30 a.m. on Nazareth Road near E. Main Street in Kalamazoo Township. Kalamazoo Township police say they were called there on a report of a home invasion in progress, then learned that a second break-in was happening at a neighboring home.
A resident in the second house told police someone tried to get in, so the resident opened fire.
Police found the person, a 49-year-old from Kalamazoo, behind the home with a gunshot wound. The person was hospitalized with injuries that were not considered life-threatening.
The person who was shot is expected to face charges, police said.
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Wood TV
MPD: Store employee shoots suspect during attempted robbery
A store employee shot a suspect during an attempted robbery early Wednesday morning in North Memphis, according to a police report.
Memphis police responded to the robbery call around 3:40 a.m. at the Twin Food Mart on Jackson Avenue, where a store employee told officers that two suspects tried to rob the store.
According to the police report, he said that one of the suspects came to the counter and flashed a handgun while the other suspect went behind the counter area. The victim then pointed his own gun at the suspect, yelling for him to leave. The suspect pushed the victim to the ground, where they struggled.
The victim then shot the suspect, who ran off along with his partner.
Police later found the suspects at Regional One Health, one in the emergency room and the other outside. The suspect who was shot told officers he had went inside the store to buy chips and talked with the employee inside when the employee pointed the gun, leading to the struggle.
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Somehow, I doubt Officer Friendly bought off on the famous ‘bag of chips’ defense. Today’s FGS trifecta care of our own Gun Bunny.
To have no proud monarch driving over me with his gilt coaches; nor his host of excise-men and tax-gatherers insulting and robbing me; but to be my own master, my own prince and sovereign, gloriously preserving my national dignity, and pursuing my true happiness; planting my vineyards, and eating their luscious fruits; and sowing my fields, and reaping the golden grain: and seeing millions of brothers all around me, equally free and happy as myself. This, sir, is what I long for.
-General Francis Marion
Category: Feel Good Stories, Guest Link, Trifecta
If you have to talk to the po-po, make sure yours is the only story told.
Make sure the story you tell matches the evidence. Fictional tales aren’t much appreciated for their creativity in those situations.
WHAT! You don’t get paid by the word? Tsk! Hardly makes it worthwhile to even try.
Giggle.
::GIGGLE::
That is outstanding.
Stolen. And I’d do it again.
“Where is Tallman?”
(Fred Rogers, greatest hits)
Dad purchased a 1903 Springfield in .30-06 when I was a wee lad. IIRC it still had the grease in the barrel when I first saw it.
Teaching proper gun safety to me at such a young age (knowing, that is, that children are naturally curious) he let me pick it up. I may have been 5, and my impression was “ooof, that is heavy”. Having satisfied my curiosity (and indubitably with some other instructions I’ve forgotten) he put it away, and I never tried to play with it.
Shot it some as an adult, and AB Brother got it when we divided the estate, hoping to use it in some competitions.
I’d love to have one like it, but need to get a MSR first.
Oh – what’s with the older perps taking dirt naps? Did they finally get out of prison and decide to continue their poor choices?
Took the kids to shoot .22s on a chilly breezy day with spitting sprinkles. Absolutely no romance or excitement at all… None have ever had any wildness issues with guns.
When I was in Great lakes Navy Boot camp, we were issued American Enfield rifles to carry all over the place and drill with. Great having the piece wrapped around your fist with your prone body on the grinder and doing pushups. Lots of scraped knuckles..
We’ve let the Swamp Fox down.
Keep your hatchet sharp.
Indeed we have, Young Sir. The Good Gnrl was the epitome of hitting hard, then beating feet. A certain Brit Lt Colonel learned his lessons and went home with his tail tucked be-twixt his legs…only to come back and make war on women and children…because he couldn’t defeat a real Warrior. Had a GGGGrand Pappy that fought in them swamps. Towns and counties are named Marion all thru the Southland. The exact geographical center of Georgia is the former town of Marion. Sadly, being bypassed by the rail roads on 3 different occasions led to the downfall of the town. Nothing there now but a coupla Historic Markers.
I can take no credit for the trifecta of FGS today. THAT honor goes to the dumbasses with piss poor victim selection skilz.
I believe it was Jeff Sharra, in his novel “To The Last Man” that had a “quote” from a WWI Marine, to wit…”Thank God for the Springfield.” The 1903, IMHO, was the FIRST truly modern “Reach out and touch…” shoulder fired Artillery Piece.