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Man Shot By Concerned Citizen During Domestic Disturbance Dies

By Felicia Martinez
PROVO, Utah – A man who was shot during a domestic disturbance with a woman Monday night has died.

Provo police said Jeremy Sorensen, 26, was shot twice by another man who tried to intervene when Sorensen was physically fighting with an 18-year-old woman.

Auhorities said they were called to the area of 500 North 200 East after receiving several 911 calls regarding the fight, but before they arrived a passerby pulled over and tried to stop Sorensen. That man then reportedly pulled out a gun and shot Sorensen at least once in the chest.

“Officers found 26-year-old Jeremy Sorensen had been shot twice. Investigators believe Mr. Sorensen and an 18-year-old woman were physically fighting in a driveway when a passerby stopped to intervene in the fight. That person got out of his car and told Sorensen to stop fighting and warned him he would shoot. At some point the man in the vehicle produced a firearm and shot Sorensen twice,” according to a Provo Police Department Facebook post.

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Read the rest of the article here: KSL TV

Mom holds intruder at gunpoint waiting for deputies to arrive
8 On Your Side investigates response time after complaints

By: Mahsa Saeidi
HUDSON, Fla. (WFLA) – A Tampa Bay area mother says she experienced 26 minutes of terror recently. During half of that nightmare, Lauren Richards was forced to hold an alleged intruder at gunpoint.

The incident happened in Rolling Oaks Estates in Hudson in the early morning hours of Saturday, May 25. The accused intruder, 25-year-old Devin Cooke, lives nearby, according to a PCSO incident report.

Surveillance video shows an armed neighbor trying to help before deputies arrived at the scene.

Neighbors say that’s when deputies went back to the house and for the first time, they took official witness statements and pictures of the scene. According to an incident report, that occurred on Wednesday, May 29.

A PCSO spokesperson tells 8 On Your Side Cooke will face a felony burglary charge once he is released from a medical facility. The 25-year-old was taken in for a mental health evaluation, as per a prior court order.

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Read the rest of the article here: WFLA

Sheriff: Wife shoots, kills abusive husband after he breaks jar over cousin’s head

By: WFLA 8 On Your Side Staff
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (WFLA) – A Winter Haven woman allegedly shot and killed her abusive husband after he attacked her and her cousin on Friday.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said things escalated after Tyrinda Goosby, 44, and her husband, Trevor Goosby, 46, started arguing about a game she was playing online. Trevor went into their bedroom to grab a firearm, then returned and began physically attacking his wife, according to Judd.

Tyrinda’s cousin, Patrice Wilson, 44, was at the home and tried to intervene by threatening to hit Trevor with a jar of peppers. Judd said Trevor ended up taking the peppers from Patrice and broke the jar over her head, leaving her with an “ugly laceration.”

The firearm was no longer in Trevor’s hand, so Tyrinda picked up the gun and fired two rounds, striking her husband, Judd said. The cousins may have been communicating with a 911 dispatcher when the shots were fired, according to the sheriff.

Judd said Trevor staggered out into the front yard and died.

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Can’t make this up- read the rest here: WFLA

Okay Delta Whiskies and Whiskettes, this fine Navy day we have two who have perished from acute stupidity and one on the way to the gray bar, just as soon as he’s released from the body and fender shop. None in the wind, doubtless in awe of never before having seen an assault by pepper jar.
Did I just type that? Heh, must be the new prescription.

If you make 10,000 regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. —Winston Churchill

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