GUNS IN THE NEWS - August 7 - 9, 2004

[CO Liberal]

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[CO Liberal]

1. Investigation continues in apparent murder-suicide (TX)

*** singing ***
"The guns at night,
Are quite a fright -
CLAP-CLAP-CLAP-CLAP
Deep in the heart of Texas...." - Wayne

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Investigation continues in apparent murder-suicide

SAN ANTONIO Police were continuing their investigation but had few details in an apparent murder-suicide that left four family members dead.

Police say the bodies of 29-year-old Robert Trevino, 27-year-old Rebecca Contreras and their eight-year-old son Nathan were found Friday morning in a rural Poteet home. A second son, three-year-old Masion, died after being airlifted to University Hospital in San Antonio.

Poteet Police Chief Frank Leal declined to identify the shooter or detail circumstances leading up to the deaths. However, relatives said authorities told them that a domestic dispute had escalated into murder-suicide.

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http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2145813

[CO Liberal]

2. Two teens' deaths probably the result of a murder-suicide, police say (KY)

Yet ANOTHER Junior NRA Member.... - Wayne

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Two teens' deaths probably the result of a murder-suicide, police say

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- The deaths of two Lexington teenagers in a shooting appear to be the result of a murder-suicide, police said Thursday.

David Nolan, 17, died Wednesday inside his home in west Lexington. Thomas Allan Woodrum, 18, died at 2:45 a.m. EDT Thursday at University of Kentucky Hospital, according to the Fayette County coroner's office. That office said Woodrum's death was being investigated as a murder and Nolan's death was being investigated as a suicide.

Lexington Police Lt. James Curless said it appears that Nolan shot Woodrum before turning the gun on himself.

"As the investigation stands today, no one else has been identified as being involved," Curless said. "There are no other suspects."

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http://www.wkyt.com/Global/story.asp?S=2138735

[MrBenchley]

3. Autopsy set in death of man who rented gun (OH)

"Richard Borruso, 52, shot himself in the head shortly after 5 p.m. Saturday and was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said. He had rented the handgun at the store shortly before the shooting occurred."

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040809/NEWS08/40809006/-1/NEWS

[MrBenchley]

4. Keyes fires up GOP faithful (IL)

Another quality "gun rights" candidate...

"Alan Keyes strode onto the Illinois stage Sunday and began one of the speeches of a lifetime with two little words: "Thank you."
"Thank YOU!" the crowd roared with gratitude at finally having a GOP candidate for U.S. Senate.
Keyes, a Maryland resident, doesn't even have a home here yet, but he boomed dramatically: "I have confidence because the victory is for God."
Keyes stirred the crowd of party faithful, anti-abortion activists and homeschoolers with a speech that started with media-bashing and hit strong on the issues where he considers Democratic challenger Barack Obama vulnerable: gun rights and abortion."

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-sen09.html

[CO Liberal]

5. Alan Keyes IS an Abortion

A sorry excuse for a human being...

[MrBenchley]

6. Check this out....

"Keyes still owes $524,169 from his two presidential bids, according to federal elections records. He also owes $7,481 in unpaid state income taxes in his home state of Maryland, according to court records.
The state filed a lien against Keyes in December 2001 for those unpaid taxes. Bill Pascoe, a Keyes adviser, said the tax bill was erroneous and Keyes only owed $152, which he paid on Friday."

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/080804_ap_ns_keyes.html

[enfield collector]

27. he's screwed. he's got NO CHANCE against Barack Obama.

[MrBenchley]

7. In Swing States, Kerry Reaches for the Gun Votes

Yeah, but remember, it's gun cotnrol advocates that are attacking the ticket, to hear th epropaghanda...

registration required
"We're going to be very active," promises Wayne LaPierre, the gun lobby's longtime executive vice president. LaPierre says the NRA will spend $20 million this year, roughly the same amount it laid out in 2000 on behalf of George W. Bush and his allies. But this time, the money will be more targeted and will also be supplemented by a vastly expanded network of volunteer activists. Over the past two years, the NRA has recruited its most energetic members and directed them to organize voters in more than 400 congressional districts nationwide.
Those "election victory coordinators" have been preparing voting drives for months. Through telephone, e-mail and door-to-door canvassing, the coordinators have identified thousands of fellow NRA members and other sympathizers. And to each of them they've relentlessly depicted the Democratic nominee as what LaPierre calls "a Second Amendment phony."
Despite what Kerry's commercials imply, LaPierre says, the Democrat doesn't support the Constitution's Second Amendment right to bear arms. For two decades, LaPierre says, Kerry has voted consistently for gun-control legislation and against the gun lobby.
The NRA is making that case to the general public as well -- in newspaper, radio and television ads. The organization has prepared a 30-minute commercial, for airing in September, in which people from Kerry's home state of Massachusetts call him an elitist rich guy who may hunt occasionally but doesn't back gun-owners' rights. And in a NRA commercial that's already being broadcast in tossup states, LaPierre puts it this way: "Senator Kerry, how can you talk out of both sides of your mouth and keep a straight face?"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50660-2004Aug8.html

Good thing we have all those pro-Democrat messages on gun owners forums...oh that's right, they're scarcer than hens' teeth, and our "pro gun democrats" have nothing but excuses as to why they can't post any....

[MrBenchley]

8. Man may survive multiple gunshot wounding (LA)

"BATON ROUGE, La. Baton Rouge Police say a man may survive multiple gunshot wounds he suffered in what looked like an early-morning hit.
Police spokesman Don Kelly says the 25-year-old man was shot several times yesterday around 5-20 a-m by the driver of a white four-door car that had pulled up beside him.
Kelly says the victim was taken to a hospital with life-threatening wounds, but is now expected to survive."

http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=2145491

[MrBenchley]

9. Police search for man after weekend shooting death (MS)

"MOSS POINT, Miss. - Authorities were still searching Sunday for a man they say is responsible in the weekend shooting death of a Moss Point man.
Police are looking for Christopher Clausell, 32, on murder charges.
Clausell is suspected in the Friday evening shooting of 48-year-old Timothy "Flat" Green.
Green died Saturday afternoon at Singing River Hospital from a gunshot wound to the head."

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/politics/9351601.htm

[MrBenchley]

10. Shootout leaves residents in shock (NC)

"CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Residents of one northwest Charlotte neighborhood are still in shock after witnessing a shootout just after 6 p.m. Saturday. The shots were fired at the intersection of LaSalle Street and Senior Drive, just blocks away from West Charlotte High School.
On Sunday, the community returned to its normal slow pace, only now neighbors are keeping a watchful eye on the streets. In all, at least 50 shots were fired and witnesses say following the shootout, one suspect ran down the street with a shotgun and pistol in hand. Two others were shot but are expected to recover.
Most residents in this neighborhood are senior citizens who moved in decades ago. They say they cannot believe what they saw.
"I'm in disbelief because this never happened here,” said resident Donald Belk. “I grew up in this neighborhood all my life. I came back in this neighborhood, bought a house in this neighborhood and too see something like this is unheard of.""

http://www.news14charlotte.com/content/local_news/Default.asp?ArID=71111&SecID=2

[MrBenchley]

11. Man dies of gunshot wound after near three hour standoff (AL)

Wonder how much this idiotic celebration of the Second Amendment cost taxpayers?

"The standoff began about 12:30 p-m at a residence on Jefferson Avenue in Birmingham.
Dozens of officers were called to the scene after the gunman, identified as Benjamin Griggs, fired several shots.
Griggs refused to surrender and fired shots at police. Officers, seeking to end the standoff, fired tear gas into the home and the suspect reportedly shot again. That's when police opened fire, then stormed the house. A coroner pronounced Griggs dead on the scene."

http://www.wkrn.com/Global/story.asp?S=2143148

[MrBenchley]

12. Washington man in custody in shooting death

"At 3:30 a.m. Saturday, police responded to a report of an injury accident at a Jack In The Box and found the fatally wounded man near the drive-through window.
Travis Palmer, 19, died Saturday night from a gunshot wound to the head.
An anonymous phone call tipped officers to Droogs' location at 10 a.m., and officers and SWAT members surrounded the house and persuaded him to surrender, said Police Capt. Allan Sharp.
Droogs told officers he had taken a half-ounce of methamphetamine and he collapsed as officers were taking him into custody, Sharp said."

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/aplocal_story.asp?category=6420&slug=ID%20Lewiston%20Slaying

Anybody else remember what Alex and his ultra-violent friends called themselves in Clockwork Orange?

[MrBenchley]

13. Toddler Shot (PA)

"PHILADELPHIA (KYW) A one-year-old girl was shot twice early Monday in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia.
CBS 3’s Natasha Brown reports that the incident occurred just after 12:30 a.m. on the 800 block of North Warnock Street. The victim, Nivera Saunders, was apparently shot in both her leg and hand.
According to police, the shooting occurred after the gun of the girl’s 18-year-old father accidentally fired while he was cleaning it. Brown has learned that the father quickly ditched the gun in a flowerbed before heading to the hospital."

http://kyw.com/Local%20News/local_story_222111209.html

[TX-RAT]

15. He accidental shot his daughter twice, while cleaning his gun?

At 12:30 am
Oh the questions, i would love to ask him.

[CO Liberal]

16. Just Another One...

...of those "law-abiding gun owners" that none of us have to worry about. :shrug:

[MrBenchley]

17. Bang! Oops! Bang! Oops!

I'm reminded of the old Redd Foxx routine about the friend of his who was unjustly railroaded into prison by the system just because he was walking down t he street peeling an apple and a gun came around the corner and bumped into the knife.....while walking backwards....seventeen times........

[TX-RAT]

18. Yes sir

Had to fire a couple of warning shots in his back.

[MrBenchley]

19. "Bang!" Well, that IS a shame, kiddo...

But the gun is STILL dirty... "Bang!" whoops!

[CO Liberal]

23. Like The Old Sonny & Cher Song....

"Bang bang, he shot me down
Bang bang, I hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful sound
Bang bang, my baby shot me down..."

[MrBenchley]

24. Except in this case it was the other way around....

[MrBenchley]

14. Man, Woman Shot To Death Inside Car (CA)

"LOS ANGELES -- A man and a woman died Monday of gunshot wounds after being shot by a pedestrian while in a car at a South Los Angeles intersection, police said.
The shooting occurred at the corner of 58th Place and Brynhurst Avenue about 11:45 p.m. Sunday, said Sgt. Peter Casey of the Los Angeles Police Department's 77th Street Station.
The victims' identities were not immediately disclosed. They were described only as a black man in his 20s and a white woman approximately 35 years old, according to Lt. Roger Murphy."

http://www.nbc4.tv/news/3632566/detail.html

[MrBenchley]

20. Deadly Shooting In Fort Dodge

"FORT DODGE-- Police are releasing the name of the victim in Sunday's deadly shooting. Fort Dodge Police say Paul Benton, the ex-husband of Dr. Dan Cole's wife, was killed after being shot one time. Dr. Cole is the Webster Co. Medical Examiner.
Around 3 p.m. Sunday, Fort Dodge Police responded to a 911 call about a shooting at 1329 N. 22nd St. Neighbors say the house is owned by the Webster Co. Medical Examiner. He lives here with his wife along with their two teenage children. Police say this all started when a man came into the home, an argument broke out and that's when Benton was shot. "

http://www.woi-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2150140&nav=1LFXPfVo
 

[MrBenchley]

21. Police look for suspects in drive-by shooting (NV)

"Reno police are looking for information about a drive-by shooting over the weekend.
Police say someone drove up to a parked car near Apple and Orange Streets Sunday morning and fired three shots at the car."

http://www.krnv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2149911&nav=8faOPfOk

[MrBenchley]

22. Cape Cod man arraigned in shooting death

"A Sandwich, MA building contractor has been ordered held on $500,000 bail following his arraignment Monday morning in connection with the shooting death of a Barnstable man.
Daniel Prunty pleaded innocent to a charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
Police said 23-year-old Jason Wells was shot once in the head Saturday at Prunty's home on Palomino Way in Sandwich."

http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/headlines/?ArID=88323&SecID=33

[MrBenchley]

25. Shooting at dairy hospitalizes man (CA)

"A Dinuba man surrendered to authorities in connection with a workplace shooting Friday that left a Visalia dairyman hospitalized from multiple gunshots he received in a barn at a dairy north of Visalia.
Tulare County Sheriff's deputies on Saturday arrested Benito Muro, 30, on an attempted murder charge in an orchard north of London, sheriff's Lt. Ron Castaneda said.
It is Visalia's third workplace shooting in nine months. "

http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/news/stories/20040809/localnews/1009879.html

[CO Liberal]

26. "Got Bullets?"

[MrBenchley]

28. Syracuse police investigate Merriman Avenue shooting

"It happened on the three-hundred block of Merriman Avenue at around 3:15 Sunday afternoon.
The victim and a woman were involved in what appeared to be a domestic dispute.
Another man ran by and opened fire.
The victim was shot three times, twice in the stomach, and once in the arm."

http://news10now.com/content/all_news/Default.asp?ArID=25533&SecID=83

[MrBenchley]

29. Shootings leave man, wife dead (MS)

UNION CHURCH - Jefferson County authorities say a Union Church man killed his wife and then killed himself during an early Saturday morning incident at the couple's home on Highway 550.
Coroner Will T. Turner Sr. said authorities were called to the home of Joseph and Alice Hellom at 216 Highway 550 around 3:55 a.m. Saturday. There they found the man and woman dead in the living room.
Turner said Mr. Hellom shot his wife once in the head with a .38 snub nose revolver before shooting himself in the head. The two were pronounced dead at the scene."

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12651365&BRD=1377&PAG=461&dept_id=172922&rfi=6

[MrBenchley]

30. Bar fight escalates into shootings (PA)

Oh yeah...fuckwits with guns in restaurants and bars is SUCH a good idea....NOT.

"POTTSTOWN -- A fight that started in the Bliss Lounge continued into several areas of the borough Saturday with a man being shot on King Street.
Police believe the fight that started in the bar of the Travel Lodge on King Street was related to the four calls reporting shots being fired throughout the borough.
The fight continued to 124 King St. where 24-year-old Kevin Heck of Pottstown was shot in the back twice at about 1:40 a.m., police said. He was flown to an area hospital for treatment. Police reported his injuries are not life-threatening.
Police began receiving calls at midnight when they responded to the 400 block of Union Alley, where a car was shot several times."

http://www.pottstownmercury.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12648515&BRD=1674&PAG=461&dept_id=18041&rfi=6