Wednesday FGS
1 killed, 17 wounded in Chicago weekend shootings
Chicago Sun Times
Two men shot by Washington Park business owner during attempted burglary, police said
BY CAROLYN P SMITH
Two men were shot by the owner of a Washington Park salvage yard early Tuesday when they tried to burglarize the business, police said. One of the men died.The dead man was identified as Darnel R. Gully of the 700 block of N. 71st Street in East St. Louis, according to St. Clair County Coroner Calvin Dye Sr.
Gully was pronounced dead at the scene at 7:53 a.m. in the 1900 block of Kingshighway, Dye said.
“We are in the early stages of a police investigation,” Bonds said.
Here’s what police have learned so far:
“Sometime between 1:30 a.m. and 3:30 a.m., two men hopped the fence of a salvage yard in the 1800 block of Kingshighway,” Bonds said. “The owner was at the business and started shooting when the men hopped over his fence. He struck both of them, but didn’t know he did.
“Both suspects ran and hopped over the fence to get out. One ran one way and the other fell the other way,” Bonds said.
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Read the rest here: BND
Man killed in Melbourne home invasion shooting, police say
Shooting happened at Eagles Nest Condominiums
A man was fatally shot during a home invasion at Eagle Nest Condominiums Monday night, according to the Melbourne Police Department.
Police said after the shooting was reported around 10:19 p.m., they learned that the isolated incident involved a resident and several others in what is believed to be a home invasion.
The man who was fatally shot — 22-year-old Evan Jackman, of Rockledge — was described by authorities as a suspect.
Detectives are conducting interviews and attempting to identify and locate the others who were involved in the incident, according to a news release.
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Read the rest here: Click Orlando
County prosecutor finds Grand Rapids intruder shooting justified
Kent County Chris Becker call the shooting justified in a detailed report of the incident.
The man who shot an intruder who pushed his way into a home is justified in fatally shooting him, the county prosecutor said Tuesday.
Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker said his office will not be filing criminal charges out of the shooting. Becker detailed his decision in a press release March 17.
Matthew Jakubowksi shot and killed Adam Whitz, after Whitz pushed his way into his ex-girlfriend Anastasia Hahn’s home. Jakubowski and Hahn were living in the home together as a couple and according to the prosecutor’s detailing of the situation, Whitz had come to her home on multiple occasions and caused disturbances
On Jan. 8 around 2:20 a.m., Grand Rapids Police were called to Hahn’s house on Houseman Avenue NE reports that her ex-boyfriend had been shot while breaking into her home. When officers arrived, they located Whitz on the floor in the living room with a gunshot wound to the right side of his upper chest. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Hat tip to UpNorth for the update. Read the rest here: WZZM
Humpday trifecta, Delta Whiskies and Whiskettes. No one is going to argue about that. One inconvenienced and several in the wind as well.
1. “Aim small, miss small.” Benjamin Martin, played by Mel Gibson, from the movie The Patriot, 2000
2. “I’ve shot many a sassy bandit with just my pistol.” Gus, played by Robert Duvall, from the TV miniseries Lonesome Dove, 1989
3. “I bet you could almost get that fancy gun outta that fancy holster before some fast gentleman with on old fashioned six gun blew a hole in ya.” Jacob McCandles, played by John Wayne, from the movie Big Jake, 1971
4. “When you have to shoot…shoot, don’t talk.” Tuco, played by Eli Wallach, from the movie The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, 1966
5. “It aint so easy to shoot a man anyhow, especially if the SOB is shootin back at ya.” Little Bill Daggett, played by Gene Hackman, from the movie Unforgiven, 1992
6. “A gun that’s unloaded and cocked ain’t good for nothing.” Rooster Cogburn, played by John Wayne, from the movie True Grit, 1969
7. “I just don’t wanna be killed for lack of shootin back.” Clyde (one armed deputy), played by Ron White, from the movie Unforgiven, 1992
Category: Feel Good Stories, Guest Link, Trifecta
Happy Trifecta Hump Day to our miscreanted d’weeded Brother Wilted Willy. This one’s for you. Winning keeps us grinning.
That little Wilson is just darling cute. Again, they all want to try and compare to the works of his most Saintliness, John Moses Browning (Howitzer be his name), “reminiscent of the 1911”, “grips like the 1911”, “trigger pull like the 1911”. Rest easy JMB, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. FTA, “Who needs a $2900 pistol?” All of God’s children needs every kind of pistol they can get, including overpriced miniature clones of the 1911. Please turn in the Book, you know the Chapter, you know the Verse.
“Dying ain’t much of a living, Boy.” If you don’t know where that is from, then you just need to get off our lawn.
Missed one of my favorites, too. “Fill your hands you sonofabitch!” another from The Duke in “True Grit.”
I know what you’re thinking. ‘Did he fire six shots or only five’? Well to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, i kind of lost track myself. But being that this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well do ya, punk?
“Are you gonna pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?”
~ The Outlaw Josey Wales
“Mister, you better find another line of work. This ‘un sure doesn’t fit your pistol.”
And on a never-let-a-crisis-go-to-waste note, Champaign IL just passed a measure allowing the mayor to suspend any or all transfers of any firearms or ammunition in any transaction, commercial or private.
So? Are the guns publicly registered (to you) (outside of the ATF Form 4473)? If not, just have a “private sales” between two sovereign citizens, none of Teh Gooberment’s biznezz. If you want to keep a private Bill of Sale, “just in case”, but tucked away, never to see the light of day, that’s fine too.
As I learned from re-enlistment duty, there’s always a way around everything.
Been said before, “He (Hiz Honor Teh Mayor) has made his decision, now let him enforce it.”