Saturday FGS
Armed intruder shot, killed in shootout at southwest Michigan apartment, police say
BENTON HARBOR, MI – A man shot and killed an armed intruder late Wednesday, Nov. 20, at Briarwood Apartments, Benton Township police said.
Seven people, including three children, were in the apartment but none of them were hurt in the shootout.
The incident happened around 11:30 p.m. Two masked intruders, armed with handguns, broke into an apartment at 1915 Union Ave. in Berrien County’s Benton Township, police said.
They ordered the occupants in the living room to “get down,” police said.
The renter, who was in a bedroom, heard the commotion. He armed himself with a rifle and came out. When he encountered one of the intruders, armed with a handgun, the two exchanged gunfire. The alleged attackers fled, firing shots at the apartment as they left, Benton Township police said.
Police were looking for the intruders when they found one of them on the pavement outside of the apartment complex.
The man suffered a gunshot wound to the chest. Life-saving efforts were not successful. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police have not identified the other man involved in the break-in. A Berrien County sheriff’s tracking dog was not able to find the man.
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The rest of the article may be found here: Michigan Live
N Carolina police rule robbery death ‘justifiable homicide’
Police in North Carolina say they won’t charge a man who fatally shot someone trying to rob him during a botched drug deal.
The Winston-Salem Journal reports that Lt. Gregory Dorn said 25-year-old Charvez Kent Brown went to a home on Tuesday to sell 22-year-old Danielle Miller marijuana. However, Dorn says the potential buyer, along with 22-year-old Ajian Lynell Jones and 19-year-old Andres Harris, tried to rob Brown. The newspaper says Brown ran away but the three began shooting at him. He was wounded and returned fire, also wounding the others.Police say Jones later died from his injuries.
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Read more here: News Observer.com
Robbery suspect, Uber Eats worker drew guns on each other, Austin police say
By Kelsey Bradshaw
An Uber Eats worker and a would-be robber drew guns on each other after a food delivery to a customer over the weekend, court documents say.The delivery worker went to Arbor Terrace apartments, which is just off Interstate 35 near East Oltorf Street in Southeast Austin, around 2:25 a.m. on Saturday, an arrest affidavit says.
When the delivery was done, the worker turned around to find a man aggressively standing very close to him. That man was identified by police as 37-year-old Gabriel Menchaca Palomino.
The delivery man told Palomino to get away from him, the affidavit says.
“Palomino asked (the man) ‘Do you know what time it is,’ as if he was trying to distract (the man), while grabbing the bandana that was around his neck, and pulling it up over his mouth and nose,” the affidavit says.
Palomino then pointed a black, semi-automatic Glock handgun at the man, the court documents say.
The delivery man pulled out a Sig Sauer P238 handgun and pointed it at Palomino.
“For a brief second both Palomino and (the man) just stood there, not moving, when Palomino moved off toward the end of the parking lot,” the affidavit says.
The delivery man hid between vehicles in the parking lot before he could get to his car and call 911. The emergency operator told him to go to the nearest gas station.
The man went to a 7-Eleven nearby where he waited for an officer. When an officer arrived, the man got out of his vehicle and noticed Palomino walking down the sidewalk.
“That’s the guy who just tried to rob me,” the man told police.
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The rest of the article may be viewed here: The Statesman.com
Starting the weekend, Delta Whiskies and Whiskettes, we have two permanently down and out, three inconvenienced and one in the wind. Not shabby at all.
“Secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy … censorship. When any government, or any church, for that matter, undertakes to say to it’s subjects, ‘This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,’ the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything. You cannot conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.” –Robert A. Heinlein, “Revolt in 2100” (Pg. 68-69, Baen Books paperback edition, 1999 printing)
Category: Feel Good Stories
Since Hack Stone missed getting first post on WOT by one comment, he will gladly accept first post on the Saturday FGS as a consolation prize.
I’ll see your FIRST on the Saturday TAH FGS and raise you a 3 pete on the Coveted, earned never awarded, TAH Friday Weekend Open Thread FIRST. The ONLY FIRST that is listed in the Hallowed Book of FIRSTS. Ol’ AW1Ed and you musta stayed up all night to get this posted this early of a morning. Since no one has climbed the clock tower to reset the time your post was dropped at 0530 hrs EST. Normally at that time on a Saturday “Ed is just dreaming about carnal congress with the Mrs.
Be of good cheer Lads and Lassies, next WOT should be wide open, unless of course I find me an orphaned key pad and get on the net down south. What with the planned menu for the Thanksgiving feast, I may just still be in a food coma.
Good score for today, may need Claw and the Whiz Wheel on #2. #3 with the Sig meets Glock coulda got interesting. If you gonna pull it, shoot the son of a bitch.
Memorial Service for the Men who fell at the Battle of Griswoldville today. The paying of Honors, the reading of the Names and a Rifle and Cannon Salute. That will be followed this evening with the Homegoing Services for another of our Compatriots that we lost this past summer. The placing of his stone and another Rifle and Cannon Salute. The First Sergeant was as good a man as ever tore a cartridge.
See y’all this evening.
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Double double! Is Ed’s toil and trouble!
The usual overnight shootings and mayhem in the Chicago area occurred overnight.
It disgusts me that this ongoing slaughter is considered acceptable and normal, in the United States of America.
“Mayor, you have thirty days to restore order in your city, or I declare your city in a state of insurrection, declare Martial law, and deploy the Army to restore order by suppressing the insurrection. Anticipate prosecutions. Thirty days, Mayor.”
Because when organized armed bands of mayhem-makers kill innocent civilians with impunity, as an ongoing campaign of control, that -is- insurrection.
Bad fiction? Real possibility? Accepting the status quo sickens me. SF teams organizing militia? Occupy and pacify with the First Infantry Division? At what point are we obligated to try to stop the rising tide of spilled innocent blood in that failed-state city?
Just disgusted.
Re: Story #2, the Whiz Wheel spins:
Ajian Lynell Jones (DOT) 33 x 3 = 99
I doubt the guy pulling up his bandanna to rob the Uber guy watched any 30’s, 40’s and early 50’s B westerns where the stage coach robbers rode up to the stage all wearing different colored bandannas around their faces as well as different colored shirts and horses but strangely were not recognized by the driver and shotgun if they survived and the passengers on board who usually arrived when the bad guys were just getting off of their horses to go into the saloon to meet with the owner whom was secretly running the show along with the local banker or town lawyer/judge.
So, the Jones boy died. Everyone’s talking about the Jones boy. “Jones Boy”-Mills Brothers, 1954.
Where is Sister Mary and her patented Ruler-of-Grammar©™?
Benton Harbor article quote: “… but none of them were hurt in the shootout….”
Since “none” is the same as “no one,” the linking verb should be “was”, not were: “None (of them) was hurt.”
That grammatical faux pas is almost as bad as using the plural “they” instead of the singular he, she, or he/she when writing about an individual. Usually “they” is used to disguise the gender of the person being written about.
So SIG beat Glock again! man those Austinites really know how to party. Amazing that they were able to get the of the gun the Uber Driver used, but not able to say for sure that it was a Glock 19, 17, or something less common…oh well, at least they learned not to call them Boomsticks or Pew-Pews!