America the shoot-iful

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A Denver-area police officer was fatally shot by a colleague who mistook him for an armed assailant early Friday, authorities said.

James Davies, a 35-year-old police officer in Lakewood, Colorado, was shot outside a house that he and fellow Lakewood officers – including the firing officer – were checking after hearing shots fired there, police spokesman Steve Davis said.

The firing officer, whom police haven’t identified, thought Davies was an armed threat in the dark of night, the spokesman said.



http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/0...cer-mistakenly-shot-killed-by-fellow-officer/
 
A 7-year-old boy had been buckling himself into his safety seat in the back of his father's truck when he was shot to death after a handgun accidentally went off as his father got in the front seat, police said Sunday.


Joseph V. Loughrey, 44, told police he had been trying to sell the guns Saturday at Twigs Reloading Den in East Lackawannock Township, 60 miles north of Pittsburgh.


He unloaded the magazine at home, but didn't realize a bullet was still in the chamber, Lt. Eric Hermick said.


His son, Craig Allen Loughrey, was shot in the chest and died at the scene.




http://www.indystar.com/usatoday/article/1755809?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|IndyStar.com|s
 
Barely two weeks before Christmas, A 31-year-old father of five was shot to death about 3:15 a.m. Sunday as he was stopped at an intersection attempting a left-hand turn.


The victim was identified as Rene Salinas.



He is the 26th homicide victim of the year in Manatee County.



This was not a robbery, or a result of road rage, but was a senseless act of random violence, said Captain Warren Merriman of the Bradenton Police Department.




http://www.bradenton.com/2012/12/09/4310283/father-of-father-shot-to-death.html



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Kids have the right to bear arms

Two boys, ages 11 and 7, had a loaded gun and tried to carjack and rob a woman in Southeast Portland Saturday afternoon, police said.



After hearing reports of an 11-year-old with a gun, police rushed to 16000 Southeast Alder Street near the Freedom Foursquare church, said Sgt. Pete Simpson with the Portland Police Bureau.



Officers spotted an 11-year-old and a 7-year old boy on the south side of the church. Police told the 11-year-old to keep his hands out of his pockets but he ignored them. The officers grabbed his arms and found a cocked and loaded .22 caliber handgun in his pocket, Simpson said.



The officers were then flagged down by 22-year-old Ami Garrett who said she was sitting in her truck when the two kids approached her in the church parking lot and tried to carjack her while she waited for her parents, Simpson said.



Garrett told officers that the 7-year-old told the 11-year-old to "show her your piece" and the 11-year-old lifted his shirt and showed her the gun.



"They told me they had a gun and I asked if it was real, and they said 'you don't ever ask if a gun is real,'" Garrett told KGW Sunday. "There was a lot of curse words and at first I thought they were just punk kids. I didn't think it was a real gun until he showed me the bullets."



Garrett refused to give up her truck, so the kids demanded her phone and money, telling her they couldn’t leave without something and threatened to shoot her, Simpson said.



"They told me they were going to blow my brains out if I didn't give them something," Garrett said. "My heart was beating a million miles an hour. I definitely didn't think I was going to get out of there alive. I thought I was going to die."



Garrett didn’t give them anything. Instead, she drove away and called police. As she was driving, she saw the 11-year-old pull the gun out.



"It's crazy. It seems like something you would see on CSI," she said. "God was obviously protecting me."
"In almost 20 years of police work, I've never heard of anything like this," Simpson said. "Not only was it young kids with a gun, but the attitude that came out of the kids and the kind of criminal aura that was being displayed is just unbelievable."



Because of the boys’ ages, they were placed into the custody of their families. When the 11-year-old was taken home, he took off running. He was quickly caught again and left in the custody of his parents.


"If they were old enough, they'd be booked into the jail and charged with a measure 11 robbery one, which would land them 90 months in prison. They're too young for that," Simpson said. "They're not set up at the Juvenile Justice Center to be able to handle an 11 and a 7 year olds, so officers took them home to parents to explain the situation to them."




http://www.nwcn.com/home/182760431.html
 
Sacramento County sheriff’s investigators are trying to figure out who shot and killed a 50-year-old man visiting his nephew in Herald on Sunday.


The man, whose identity wasn’t released on Sunday, was shot in the upper body at about 4:30 p.m. in the 13000 block of Purvis Road. The victim wasn’t a Herald resident, but occasionally visited his nephew there, sheriff’s spokesman Jason Ramos said.




The victim was reportedly going on a ride on a dirtbike when the newphew, who was inside his residence, heard a gunshot. He walked outside and found the man’s body in his driveway...




http://www.lodinews.com/news/article_63ba2d0c-4296-11e2-a8a6-001a4bcf887a.html
 
West Precinct officers were called to the 5800 block of Ellington Street at about 10:19 p.m.

The victim was found shot to death in his driveway.

White Christmas lights and red bows were hanging outside the house as police surveyed the area.

Lt. Curtis Mitchell said it was unknown how many times the man had been shot.

Onlookers said the victim was a 34-year-old man.

His young son, they said, hid under a bed as the shots rang out.




http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2012/12/man_shot_to_death_outside_west.html
 
Another post in this thread dedicated with love to chronicling the accomplishments of America's armed citizenry.





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Lansing police said a 22-year-old woman from the Flint-area whose body was found in the Red Cedar River over the weekend had been shot to death.




http://www.freep.com/article/201212...r-River?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s
 
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