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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (1069614)	5/17/2018 3:18:30 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1573866

Yes, the getaway driver waiting outside for the home invaders has been charged with murder.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (1069614)	5/17/2018 3:24:45 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1573866

Man shoots, kills carjacking suspect near Millenia mall Tape (Orlando Sentinel) Jason Ruiter Contact Reporter A man in his 20s is dead after a carjacking attempt at a New Texas Fried Chicken east of the Mall at Millenia in Orlando turned fatal early Sunday, an Orange CountySheriff’s Office spokeswoman said. Leon Anthony Ducally, 49, told deputies he shot Jan Demetri Goodman, 26, who was assaulting and carjacking him as he walked into the business at 2200 Americana Boulevard, spokeswoman Jane Watrel said. Watrel said Ducally has a valid concealed-carry permit. Deputies said they arrived at 12:01 a.m. to find Goodman on the ground, unresponsive and suffering from a gunshot wound. After CPR failed to resuscitate him, Goodman was transported to Orlando Regional Medical Center where he was pronounced dead a short time later, Watrel said. The case remains open. orlandosentinel.com

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (1069614)	5/17/2018 3:26:59 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1573866

FBI Claims 8 Active Shooters Thwarted By Good Guy With A Gun Posted at 10:00 am on May 11, 2018 by Tom Knighton Every time there’s a mass shooting, gun owners routinely comment that we only wish there’d been a good guy with a gun there to stop the attack. Anti-gunners routinely scoff at such a suggestion, arguing that good guys with a gun don’t stop mass shootings. So, who is right? Well, according to the FBI, we are. Citizens, both armed and unarmed, successfully intervened in eight active shooter incidents over the last two years, according to a new report from the FBI. The agency said the “selfless actions” of those who thwarted the attacks “likely saved many lives.” In total, the FBI recorded 943 casualties — 221 deaths and 722 injuries — across 50 mass shootings, including 20 in 2016 and 30 in 2017. All the shooters were male, ranging in age from 14 to 66, according to the report. “The enhanced threat posed by active shooters and the swiftness with which active shooter incidents unfold support the importance of preparation by law enforcement officers and citizens alike,” the report concludes. In one instance of citizen-involvement, an armed volunteer firefighter restrained a 14-year-old who opened fire at an elementary school playground in Townville, South Carolina, killing two and injuring three others. In another case, a citizen held an attacker at gunpoint inside a church in Antioch, Tennessee after he killed a person in the parking lot and wounded six others. The most high profile was Stephen Willeford who famously stopped the shooter at Sutherland Springs last year. However, what we see time and again is a simple statement that anti-gunners refuse to acknowledge: guns save lives. They’ve saved an untold number of lives in just these eight incidents. You never know when something like this is going to go down, which is why armed citizens are so important. The more places they are and the more of them there are, the greater the chance of an armed citizen being able to stop it. The police, despite their best efforts and desires, simply can’t stop these things. They’re almost never in the right place at the right time. While I have little doubt that just about every police officer in the nation, with some exceptions, wouldn’t hesitate to rush into a such a situation, they don’t have the opportunity most of the time. By the time they get there, it’s too late for far too many people. But an armed citizen can act. They can be there, ready to respond to the threat. Meanwhile, anti-gun zealots spend all their time trying to disarm these people, the good people who put their lives on the line for their fellow man and fail to understand that the bad guys won’t stop. At most, they’ll shift weapons to something else. That’s only if they don’t know how to get their hands on firearms illegally, which many of them do. It’s the armed citizen that stands against these atrocities. It’s also the armed citizen that is the one who will ultimately suffer for every policy proposed by anti-gun crusaders. Not that the anti-gunners care. After all, in their minds, the good guy with a gun doesn’t exist, even though the FBI says otherwise. bearingarms.com

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (1069614)	5/17/2018 3:29:00 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1573866

Limestone County: Woman to intruder, ‘If you take one more step I'll kill you’ Area woman tells intruder, If you take one more step I'll kill you By John Carroll \| Posted: Fri 6:10 PM, Apr 27, 2018 \| Updated: Mon 7:08 PM, Apr 30, 2018 LIMESTONE COUNTY, Texas (KWTX) Laura Williams says she grabbed her pistol and held an intruder at bay while her teenage daughter called 911 after the man kicked in the front door of her home on U.S. Highway 84 just outside of Mexia and charged her with a shovel. Laura Williams demonstrating how she confronted the intruder. Deputies later arrested Allen Tompkins (inset). (Photo by John Carroll/Jail photo) “I aimed it at him and said if you take one more step I'll kill you,” she said Friday. The man ran, but Limestone County deputies later arrested him. Allen Tompkins, 47, was charged with burglary of a habitation, but additional charges are possible. He’s held in the Limestone County Jail in lieu of $20,000 bond. The incident happened Tuesday and Williams’ daughter, Hannah, 17, hasn’t been quite the same since. "I felt really scared and my adrenaline was pumping so I don't really remember a lot of it, but I'm not sleeping well at all." Laura Williams was awakened Tuesday morning by a ringing doorbell. "I went to the door and just kind of opened it and there was an older man standing at my front door with a shovel and he asked for a lady's name and I said ‘there's no one here by that name I'm sorry, you're at the wrong house, she doesn't live here,’” Williams said. The man left, but Williams says she felt uncomfortable. She looked out through the blinds of her bedroom window to see if he had left. "I looked out and he was standing at the opening of the woods with a shovel still in his hand and he kept looking back and looking, I said ‘no this is not going to go down like this.’" Williams ran to the other side of her house where Hannah was asleep. “I woke her up and I said ‘go to my bedroom, get the dogs and let's go’ because that's where we keep our guns in our house." "No sooner did we get to the bedroom and shut the door, he was kicking in the front door and hitting it with the shovel,” Williams said. Williams got her pistol out of the drawer of a bedside table and confronted the man in the living room while her daughter called 911. “I had time to grab the revolver and come out the door. So when he came in the shovel was up on his shoulder, he was headed straight towards us,” she said. "I aimed it at him and said ‘if you take one more step I'll kill you.’" The man stopped, mumbled some words and turned to leave. As he walked out the door he turned to back to Williams. “He said 'Well all y'all need to know is y'all need to leave me the F alone,' and I said ‘I don't even know you, get out of my house, ‘" Williams said. After the man left, she says she rushed back to the bedroom to look through the blinds again. "I went back into my bedroom, I locked the door and I watched him go into the woods with a shovel still in his hands while we were still on the phone with 911." Deputies arrived 14 minutes later and flooded the area, she said. They found Tompkins in a nearby trailer park. Williams, who once worked as a police officer in Bastrop, admits the confrontation left her rattled. "My husband says I'm having nightmares calling Hannah's name trying to make sure she's safe. As much as I hate to say I killed somebody, I wished I would have so that I could sleep at night knowing that he's not going to come back,” she said. kwtx.com

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (1069614)	5/17/2018 3:30:57 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573866

Southworth homeowner shoots, wounds man trying to break into his home Christian Vosler, christian.vosler@kitsapsun.comPublished 10:14 a.m. PT April 27, 2018 \| Updated 2:34 p.m. PT April 27, 2018 SOUTHWORTH — A 28-year-old South Kitsap man is in an area hospital after being shot by a man whose house he was attempting to break into early Thursday. Kitsap County Sheriff's Office deputies responded to a report of someone trying to break into a home on SE Scatterwood Lane, off Southworth Drive, at about 2 a.m. Thursday. The caller reported hearing a loud banging sound on windows on the lower level of his home, according to a statement from the Sheriff's Office. The homeowner, who had a handgun, also reported hearing yelling outside the house. When he opened the door, the 28-year-old man allegedly charged at the homeowner and pushed him. According to the statement, the homeowner fired one shot at the 28-year-old man, who continued to try to enter the home while yelling "Let me into your house." The man eventually collapsed at the threshold of the door, where Sheriff's Deputies found him, according to the statement. Deputies reported that the man was soaking wet, shaking and had scratches on his face and arms. The suspect was taken to St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma with non-life threatening injuries, according to spokesman Scott Wilson. The Sheriff's Office is investigating. kitsapsun.com