GUNS IN THE NEWS--July 26, 2004

[MrBenchley]

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[MrBenchley]

1. Man Held in Gun Death (CA)

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A 74-year-old Simi Valley man was arrested during the weekend on suspicion of fatally shooting one man and injuring another, police said Sunday.
Robert Sorrells was arrested about 5 p.m. Saturday after the fatal shooting of Arthur De Long, 45, and the wounding of Edward Sanchez, 40, both of Simi Valley, at the Regency Lounge in Simi Valley, police said. De Long was shot in the back; Sanchez was hit in the face and back.   
Responding to numerous 911 calls Saturday, Simi Valley police arrived at the lounge in the 1600 block of Los Angeles Avenue to find the two gunshot victims inside the bar, authorities said. Witnesses said the suspect had fled in a Volkswagen van."

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-vnfatal26jul26,1,6225983.story?coll=la-headlines-california

[MrBenchley]

2. Gunshot Goes Through Window Into Child's Closet (IL)

"MURPHYSBORO -- The Jackson County Sheriff's Department is investigating an apparently random shooting that landed a bullet in a 4-year-old girl's bedroom closet.
Craig and Tracy Stewart returned Saturday afternoon to their Cedar Road home in Somerset Township after camping at Lake Murphysboro. As they unloaded their camper, Tracy Stewart noticed the broken glass in their daughter's bedroom.
Tracy Stewart said she found the bullet inside her little girl's closet among her clothes. The bullet had smashed through the window and gone through the closet door opposite the window.
Stewart said she was especially disturbed because, by the light of the lamp that is always on in her daughter's room, it is apparent from outside the room is a child's bedroom. "

http://www.southernillinoisan.com/rednews/2004/07/25/build/top/TOP004.html

[MrBenchley]

3. 15-Year-Old Girl Wounded in Saturday Shooting (OH)

"A 15-year-old girl, Leanna Marshall of 433 Hough Road, was shot around 4:30am Saturday morning on Mariette Road near the Village of Hallsville.
Deputies said 18-year-old Tyler A. Norman of 13639 Marietta Road -- where the shooting occurred -- fired a 9-mm pistol into the passenger-side door of the car in which Marshall was riding with the bullet going through her right thigh and then the calf of the left leg.
Sheriff Ron Nichols said the bullet was recovered in the car. He said Norman was arrested for felonious assault and the pistol confiscated. Marshall was treated and released from Adena Regional Medical Center. "

http://www.wkkj.com/cc-common/feeds/view.php?feed_id=188&feed=/localnews.html&instance=1&article_id=5537

[MrBenchley]

4. Troy man suffers gunshot wounds (NC)

Another glorious celebration of the Second Amendment...

"ROY - Troy Police Department officers are investigating a shooting in the South Main Street area of town early Saturday night that left one man in critical condition and his accused assailant in Montgomery County jail under $50,000 secured bond.
Troy Police Chief E.J. Phillips said Brian Junior Bowden, 32, of Troy, was taken by private car to the FirstHealth Montgomery Memorial Hospital about 7:15 p.m. Saturday night. Emergency room personnel notified the police at 7:56 p.m. that a man had been brought in with multiple gunshot wounds.
Phillips said Bowden was shot several times in the chest and legs with what appears to have been a handgun, but the weapon has not been positively identified. No motive has been established. Phillips said Bowden and Shipp apparently knew each other, but he had no information as to what led to the shooting. As far as officers have been able to determine, the shooting happened in the street."

http://www.courier-tribune.com/nws/shooting072604.html

[MrBenchley]

5. Two killed in an apparent murder-suicide, cops say (LA)

"A man and a woman were found shot to death Saturday night in the bedroom of a West End high-rise condominium in what authorities called an apparent murder-suicide.
New Orleans police responded to a medical emergency call at 7:35 p.m. at the Lake Marina Tower Condominium, 300 Lake Marina Ave., where they found a 55-year-old man and a woman of undetermined age dead from gunshot wounds.
It appeared that the woman shot the man and then herself, said Police Department spokesman Sgt. Paul Accardo. "

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-3/1090746043107460.xml

[MrBenchley]

6. Man found shot dead outside home (LA)

"A man was found shot to death early Sunday at his eastern New Orleans home, the New Orleans Police Department said.
Police found the body of Patrick Fisher, 36, lying on the ground outside his home in the 6400 block of Chestershire Drive, said Sgt. Paul Accardo, department spokesman.
Police were responding to a call of a shooting Sunday about 2:30 a.m. when they found the body, Accardo said. Emergency medical technicians pronounced Fisher dead at the scene. "

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-3/109083217586680.xml

[MrBenchley]

7. Coast Guardsman shot to death, two charged (NC)

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"Two cousins were charged in the fatal shooting of a Coast Guard petty officer, police said Monday
Brian Colletti was shot to death at about 2:20 a.m. Sunday near a city parking deck, Officer Linda Rawley said. He would have been 25 next Monday.
James Lee Moore, 18, was charged with second degree murder and his cousin Jefferey Junior Moore, 21, was charged with being an accessory after the fact, Rawley said. Both men are from Wallace. "

http://www.wcnc.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D842IO6O1.html

[MrBenchley]

8. Several shot in Orange County crime spree (FL)

"Police said the pair's first target was a man walking out of an ABC Liquor store on Edgewater Drive at about 6:45 p.m. Sunday.
About 30 minutes later, the same two people are believed to have shot a woman outside a Best Buy in Ocoee, Fla., according to the report.
Then, just before 8 p.m., the men reportedly shot a man in a Wal-Mart parking lot in Metrowest.
"The other customers around that had seen it were screaming," witness Erin Hawkins. "I mean the guy actually told his wife or girlfriend, I've been shot." "

http://www.floridatoday.com/topstories/072604orlshooting.htm

[MrBenchley]

9. Accused shooter saw UFOs (PA)

Doesn't seem that much weirder than some of the other crap gun owners post here on a daily basis...

"WEST CHESTER -- The attorney representing the man accused of shooting two sheriff’s deputies began to lay the groundwork for an insanity defense for his client.
Walter J. Rosengarth, 64, allegedly wounded the officers who had arrived at his home on the 400 block of Pierre Drive in East Marlborough on July 24, 2003, to serve him with an eviction notice. After the shooting, Rosengarth barricaded himself into his residence during a three-and-a-half-hour standoff with state police.
Rosengarth told both analysts stories about being poisoned by a neighbor, suffering from cancer though he never had been diagnosed and seeing a UFO hovering near Kennett Square."

http://www.dailylocal.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12463912&BRD=1671&PAG=461&dept_id=17782&rfi=6

Good thing he had a gun to "defend himself."

[MrBenchley]

10. Man faces attempted murder charge after standoff (IA)

Another charmer....

"SIOUX CITY, Iowa A Sioux City man faces a number of charges, including attempted murder, after a shooting which led to a police standoff.
Forty-year-old Ryan Adams is accused of firing a shotgun at a person walking down the street early yesterday. According to police records, he allegedly shouted racial slurs before firing.
Police say Adams then went inside his house. When officers arrived, he refused to surrender. The standoff ended about three and a-half hours later after police went inside the house and arrested Adams."

http://www.whotv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2089037

Wonder how much that little celebration of the Second Amendment cost the taxpayers?

[MrBenchley]

11. Mom Claims Deadly Shooting Was An Accident (PA)

"The mother of a 14-year-old boy who was fatally shot three days ago said a friend of her son told her the shooting was an accident.
Sheree Good said a 13-year-old boy, who hasn't been charged with a crime, told her he and her son, Anthony Oliver, had been playing with a .25 caliber pistol he had purchased for $50.
Police said they received calls from teenagers about 8 p.m. Friday saying Oliver had been shot with a BB gun, but when police arrived they found a .25 caliber pistol, a matching shell casing and bloody gloves. Oliver died less than an hour later at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Good said she went to the home of the alleged shooter in search of answers, and the boy told her the two had been playing. "

http://kyw.com/Local%20News/local_story_208095428.html

[TX-RAT]

12. 13 yr old boy, buys a 50 dollar pistol?

Enough said.

[FeebMaster]

14. I'll say.

I didn't realize you could still buy pistols that cheaply. I guess the black market is more efficient than the legal market.

[TX-RAT]

17. Did you read the part about a 14 yr old dying Feeb?

Or did you just overlook it? Or do you just not care?

[FeebMaster]

18. Oh, it is indeed unfortunate

but it happens and not a thing in this world is going to stop things like that from happening.


I'm still impressed that you can get a pistol for $50 on the street. I wonder if you could get one that cheap in a gun store.

[MrBenchley]

13. Two men let loose with AK-47 (NY)

"Daniel Spignardo, 27, and Daniel Diaz, 30, were arrested and charged with reckless endangerment in the first degree after an investigation into a shooting that occurred at about 4:30 a.m. outside the Hang Time Bar on Lake Street.
The two men are alleged to have removed an AK-47 assault rifle from the trunk of their vehicle and fired at least a half dozen times.
The were stopped by Newburgh Town Police in their vehicle shortly after the incident and turned over to Newburgh City Police Police recovered the assault rifle and a .38 cal. revolver."

http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/Newburgh_Shooting-25Jul04.htm

[MrBenchley]

15. After girl's shooting, gun owner arrested (FL)

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"A South Miami-Dade man was charged with culpable negligence Friday after police say he left a revolver where a child could find it.
And a child did.
Five-year-old Ronald Moss of Homestead apparently thought the gun was a toy when he pointed it at his 3-year-old sister and shot her dead Thursday morning. The gun was in his toy box.
Guns killed 4,334 children nationwide in 2001, the latest year for which statistics were available, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/9231621.htm

[MrBenchley]

16. Deadly Shooting Outside Buffalo Bar (NY)

"27 year old Robert Kowalewski was killed outside the O's Zone Bar on Genesee Street on Sunday morning. His sister was there when it happened. She says he followed 3 men out the door at around 2 am, just before the bullets flew"

http://www.wivb.com/Global/story.asp?S=2088956&nav=0RapPBHj

[MrBenchley]

19. Second death in Ingleside shooting (CA)

"A second victim of a shooting in an Ingleside home early Saturday morning has died, according to the San Francisco Police Department.
The man died Sunday afternoon at San Francisco General Hospital after being shot about 1 a.m. in the 700 block of Plymouth Avenue along with another man and a woman, according to police. A 25-year-old man died at the scene. The woman was in critical condition after the shooting.
Police responding to reports of gunfire inside the home at 715 Plymouth Ave. found the 25-year-old man dead and two acquaintances, a man and a woman who were both in their 20s, with gunshot wounds, police said. "

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/07/26/BAGL07T46P1.DTL

[MrBenchley]

20. Two Charged With Murder After Shootings, Kidnappings From Robbins (IL)

"HARVEY, Ill. -- Two men were facing murder and attempted murder charges Monday in a series of shootings and kidnappings that began in Robbins and left three people dead.
A $2 million bond was set for one of the man, Samuel Dupree, 32, who was charged with one count of first-degree murder and attempted murder in the slaying of Carmalita Taylor, 32, and the shooting of her housemate, who survived.
A second man, Deandre Greer, was also charged with one count each of first-degree murder and attempted murder."

http://www.nbc5.com/news/3578284/detail.html