GUNS IN THE NEWS--December 17, 2003

[MrBenchley]

As CO Liberal sez:
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[MrBenchley]

1. Gunfire ruining theater dream (CA)

"For about five years, Hewitt Robinson has fought an uphill battle. As the leaseholder of the Colonial Theater, he has struggled to transform another broken-down theater into a gem of artistic expression.
On Monday, after a weekend shooting outside the Stockton Boulevard theater left four people wounded, Robinson said he's grown tired of the fight.
"I'm thinking about getting out of the business," he said. "If I can find anyone interested, I'll do it. I've been in the arts all my life, but I'm not sure it's worth the hassle and worry anymore."
Just two hours after the start of Saturday's rap show, a barrage of gunfire erupted in the streets south of the theater. Police said 20 or more shots were fired."

http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/7963032p-8900092c.html

[MrBenchley]

2. Family, friends recall slain teen at an emotional Del Oro service (CA)

"About 500 people gathered Monday afternoon to remember Steffen Ohland, a 15-year-old who loved basketball and soggy corn flakes, and -- said a girl who went with him to a Sadie Hawkins dance -- was "one of the few boys who actually danced" at school dances.
The gym at Del Oro High School in Loomis was packed with students, teachers and family friends of the teenager who died Dec. 10 during a violent conflict between his parents, Ronald Ohland and Daphne Pettit.
Police believe Ronald Ohland fatally shot Steffen and Pettit before killing himself."

http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/7963034p-8900093c.html

[MrBenchley]

3. Slain East P.A. man also shot at last month (CA)

"Nakia Smith last spoke to her husband, Eddie Myles, early Monday afternoon on the phone.
``As far as I know he was supposed to be setting up the Christmas tree at home,'' the East Palo Alto woman said Tuesday.
But just after they talked, about 1 p.m., Myles was shot to death in his car by two men driving by in a truck on the 1200 block of Westminster Avenue, police said. It was almost exactly a month after the 29-year-old father of two was shot on nearby Alberni Street, police and relatives said. In the Nov. 14 incident, he was found lying in the road.
Myles' death was the ninth homicide in the city this year. Last year there were seven. Authorities have made arrests in two of this year's shooting deaths -- in the April killing of 30-year-old cafe owner Kenneth Hamel, and in the June killing of Lisa Hernandez, who was 19 and pregnant."

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/7511165.htm

[MrBenchley]

4. Store Shooting Suspect Chased, Arrested (NY, MA)

"WORCESTER, N.Y. - A man wanted in a shooting that wounded two at a Massachusetts home supply store was arrested in upstate New York early Wednesday after a brief highway chase, authorities said.
Mark Anthony LeBreton, a 38-year-old contractor, was accused of wounding a former business collaborator and a second man Monday at a Lowe's Home Improvement store in Worcester, Mass.
The shooting touched off a two-day manhunt through Massachusetts, New Hampshire and New York that ended with LeBreton's arrest in Worcester, N.Y., about 50 miles southwest of Albany. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031217/ap_on_re_us/store_shooting_1

[MrBenchley]

5. Police Investigate Alleged Murder-Attempted Suicide (OK)

"A Bethany woman was found dead in her apartment unit Tuesday, a victim of what police are calling an alleged murder-attempted suicide.
Upon entry, authorities said the found the body of a woman and her husband, who had a gunshot wound to the head. The husband was taken to OU Medical Center in critical condition. "


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=299&ncid=299&e=2&u=/ibsys/20031217/lo_koco/1922826

[MrBenchley]

6. Closing arguments heard in Malvo case

The latest on the gun rights poster boy....

"CHESAPEAKE -- Sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo's lawyers say he was insane, having fallen under the spell of a controlling, older man described by some as a pied piper.
The prosecution says that if any brainwashing took place, it was by the mental health experts who examined the now-18-year-old. Malvo and John Allen Muhammad were two "peas in a pod," prosecutor Robert F. Horan Jr. said Tuesday, and their motivation was nothing more than greed.
Now, it's up to the jury to decide.
After an afternoon of closing statements in Chesapeake Circuit Court - and more than a month of testimony - Malvo's capital murder case was turned over to the jury of four men and eight women just after 4 p.m. Tuesday."

http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-28005sy0dec17,0,3776443.story?coll=dp-aol-yahoo-nws-hed

[slackmaster]

7. Jeebus, MrBenchley

A BLACK poster boy for a group you insist is racist?

[MrBenchley]

8. Sonic Worker Shot, Killed During Robbery (TX)

"Police said two men and a woman walked into the kitchen area of the drive-in at 11 p.m. when one of them took out a gun and demanded money from five employees who were closing up.
When a man tried to run out the back door, he was shot in the back, police said. The victim died at the scene.
The robbers got away with $500. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20031217/lo_ksat/1923353

[MrBenchley]

9. Two Dead, One Critically Injured In Brunswick Abduction (FL)

"A 25-year-old woman died Sunday, more than 24 hours after police said she was shot in the head by a man who abducted her from a Glynn County home, where the assailant also shot a man after a fight.
According to Glynn County police, 28-year-old Joel Chris Blankenship entered a home on Dovewood Drive in the River Ridge subdivision north of Brunswick just after 8 a.m. Saturday and got into a fight with the homeowner, 38-year-old Andrew Worsham of Jesup.
Investigators said Blankenship shot Worsham in the face, abducted Wasdin at gunpoint and drove her about two miles south, where he abandoned the vehicle. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=422&ncid=422&e=1&u=/ibsys/20031216/lo_wjxt/1921432

[MrBenchley]

10. Man Kills Wife, Shoots Self, Authorities Say (OK)

"A father of two killed his wife, then shot himself in the head at the couple's apartment Tuesday night, authorities said.
Ronnie Nail, 28, of Bethany, was bleeding profusely when police arrived at the apartment complex. He died Tuesday night at OU Medical Center, Bethany Police Chief Neal Troutman said.
Andrea Nail, 27, died of a point-blank gunshot wound to the head, authorities said.
Troutman said Ronnie Nail grabbed his wife by the head and shot her in front of her brother. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20031217/lo_koco/1922826

[CO Liberal]

11. Guns Can Bring Your Family Closer Together

Side by side and six feet under.......

[MrBenchley]

12. Forever....

[Wcross]

14. So can a car running in a closed garage n/t

[MrBenchley]

13. Shot at House Linked to Ohio Shootings

"COLUMBUS, Ohio - Investigators on Wednesday linked a shot fired at a house to a series of 15 other shootings along a highway.
No one was injured in the shooting Monday, the third shooting since Nov. 25, when a woman was shot to death in a car on Interstate 270 south of the city. No one else has been hurt in the string of shootings that began in May.
The bullet from the latest shooting — found in a bathtub — is the seventh to be linked ballistically to the shootings, Franklin County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Steve Martin said. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031217/ap_on_re_us/highway_shootings_1