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Juvenile arrested after demanding plane at Arkansas airport

by: Marlo Lacen, Hunter Trombetta
TEXARKANA, Ark. (KTAL/KMSS) – Texarkana 911 dispatch was called just after 7:30 a.m. for a disturbance at an aviation hanger on Tuesday morning.

According to TAPD, the service call requested officers at 601 Airport Drive at Signature Aviation. The caller stated there was a male with a rifle and handgun. Police say the call notes went on to say that the armed suspect walked into the business and demanded a plane at the front counter while brandishing firearms.

“The staff there remained calm and used the training of, run, hide, fight. They were able to get away from them and call the police department.” said Texarkana Regional Airport Director Paul Mehrlich, “The individual, realizing that they were not coming back, breached through a door onto the airfield.”

The pilot for a local private business grabbed his firearm and ordered the suspect to the ground. When confronted, the suspect complied and was disarmed after lying on the ground. TAPD officers arrived on the scene, and the suspect, identified as a juvenile, was arrested on multiple counts.

Aggravated assault, attempted aggravated robbery, and terroristic threatening – first-degree. The youth was transferred to an Arkansas juvenile detention center.

Police and airport officials credit the actions of the pilot, who was able to help resolve the potentially dangerous issue. He did not want to be identified.

“So today we are very thankful that there were no injuries, no lives lost, but really it was through the actions of this pilot and by the staff at Signature Aviation, that their actions saved lives today.” said Mehrlich.

Airport officials say the security plan worked as intended.

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KTAL News

If the airport security plan involved a random gun owner stepping up to take care of business, then yeah, the plan worked.

Circumstances explained in Boardman shooting incident

by: Laurel Stone
BOARDMAN, Ohio (WKBN) — More information has been released by police involving an early-morning Tuesday shooting incident on Shields Road.

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Boardman police were called to the 100 block of Shields Road around 2 a.m. Tuesday for reports of a burglary, with a man stating someone kicked his door in before running down the hallway. Police said the caller then hung up.

When officers arrived at the apartment building, reports state a man was laying on the ground by the front entrance with another man standing over him. One man told officers that he had been shot, and the other man told officers he was the shooter, according to reports.

Reports state Lawrence Simon, the man who had been shot, kicked in a neighbor’s door. The neighbor said he feared Simon was going to cause him “serious physical harm” and shot him in the shin.

The man who had his door kicked in told police Simon was texting him earlier in the night “talking weird,” claiming he got a text from Simon stating “get ready” and later heard loud banging and found his door had been kicked in.

Simon told police he “lightly” kicked on the other man’s door. Police inspected the doorframe and note in reports it was “forcefully” kicked open.

Neighbors told police before the incident they heard doors slamming, yelling that lasted for approximately an hour, followed by music and then more door slamming.

One neighbor told police she heard a door slam and followed by a man yelling “shoot me, shoot me,” reports state.

Two shots were fired in total during the incident, according to the crime scene report. One bullet was recovered in an uninvolved neighbor’s apartment after it traveled through the upper floor and through her bathroom wall.

Court records show Simon is charged with a first-degree felony of aggravated burglary. He is set to be arraigned next week.

Reports state when officers told Simon he was under arrest, he became “irate and uncooperative” with medical staff treating his gunshot wound, pulling off medical devices and stating if he was being placed under arrest, he would rather bleed out in the hospital.

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WYTV

Bleed out from a shin wound in the hospital? Maybe next time, Mr. Simon. Thanks again, Gun Bunny.

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