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Man shoots intruder in apartment
2002-07-01
By Robert Medley
The Oklahoman
A man shot an intruder Sunday morning in his northwest Oklahoma City apartment, police Lt. Dee Patty said.
The man and his wife told police they were sleeping about 5 a.m. at Prairie Springs Apartments, 9777 N Council Road, when the wife heard their security alarm beeping.
The husband, whose name was not released, told police he grabbed his .40-caliber pistol and walked out of his bedroom to look for an intruder. He said he found a man in another part of the apartment. When the intruder tried to run, he shot him in the hip.
The burglar made it to the second-floor balcony and jumped.
A short while later, a woman at the Lyrewood Point Apartments, 7806 Lyrewood Lane, called police to report that her boyfriend had been shot while the couple were jogging, Patty said.
Police found the man at Lyrewood Point Apartments with a gunshot wound in his hip. After questioning the man and woman, police arrested them.
Bryant Rice, 25, and Leslie Ellason, 24, were taken to the Oklahoma County jail, Patty said. Rice was treated for the gunshot wound, she said.
Ellason was booked on complaints of possession of marijuana and burglary and held in lieu of $11,000 bail.
Rice was being questioned Sunday night.
http://www.newsok.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=881765&pic=none&TP=getarticle
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
2002-07-01
By Robert Medley
The Oklahoman
A man shot an intruder Sunday morning in his northwest Oklahoma City apartment, police Lt. Dee Patty said.
The man and his wife told police they were sleeping about 5 a.m. at Prairie Springs Apartments, 9777 N Council Road, when the wife heard their security alarm beeping.
The husband, whose name was not released, told police he grabbed his .40-caliber pistol and walked out of his bedroom to look for an intruder. He said he found a man in another part of the apartment. When the intruder tried to run, he shot him in the hip.
The burglar made it to the second-floor balcony and jumped.
A short while later, a woman at the Lyrewood Point Apartments, 7806 Lyrewood Lane, called police to report that her boyfriend had been shot while the couple were jogging, Patty said.
Police found the man at Lyrewood Point Apartments with a gunshot wound in his hip. After questioning the man and woman, police arrested them.
Bryant Rice, 25, and Leslie Ellason, 24, were taken to the Oklahoma County jail, Patty said. Rice was treated for the gunshot wound, she said.
Ellason was booked on complaints of possession of marijuana and burglary and held in lieu of $11,000 bail.
Rice was being questioned Sunday night.
http://www.newsok.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=881765&pic=none&TP=getarticle
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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2002-06-21
By Bryan Dean
The Oklahoman
Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers Thursday shot out the radiator of a tractor-trailer, ending a 40-mile chase near Shawnee that started after a shooting at an Oklahoma City truck stop.
No one was injured during the chase, authorities said. Several motorists were run off the road by the fleeing rig.
Cordell Robinson, 22, of Lakewood, Colo., was held late Thursday at the Oklahoma County jail on complaints of assault with a deadly weapon and attempting to elude police, Oklahoma City police Sgt. Kevin Southerland said.
The incident began about 6 p.m. in the parking lot of the Pilot Travel Center, 1901 E Reno Ave.
"He (Robinson) apparently got into a confrontation here with a prostitute," Southerland said. "Apparently there was an argument over the money and services rendered. Mr. Robinson got his shotgun and attempted to shoot her."
Earl Pigg, a tractor-trailer driver from Roland, said he saw the altercation from the cab of his rig parked nearby. Pigg said he heard several women calling on a citizens band radio looking for the victim; a short time later he heard a woman's voice over the CB radio saying she was being raped in an orange truck.
Pigg said he grabbed some binoculars and looked inside the cab of a nearby orange rig.
"The boy was sitting in the seat and had the gun pointing down towards the floor," Pigg said.
Pigg then got on his CB radio to tell the women where their friend was. They helped her escape from the rig before the driver and a passenger in the tractor-trailer followed them, he said.
When one of the women pointed to the shotgun the driver had concealed down his pants, the group scattered, Pigg said. The victim got into a blue tractor-trailer parked nearby.
"He pulled the gun halfway out and says, 'Get back out of the truck and get over there!'" Pigg said. "As they were moving out, he pointed the gun and fired a round off."
The woman and the driver of the blue tractor-trailer ducked when the shot was fired and left the scene, Pigg said. The woman suffered a cut on her face, but it was unclear whether it was from a shotgun pellet or shattered glass, police said.
The driver and passenger from the orange tractor-trailer climbed back into their rig and tried to leave, Pigg said.
Pigg called on his CB radio and told an approaching flatbed truck to block the fleeing rig. But the rig squeezed between the flatbed and another tractor- trailer, driven by Virgil Hodges of North Carolina.
"They were cut off trying to get away, and they took the trailer over my hood," Hodges said. "I came out and found my truck destroyed."
Police arrived on the scene as the rig fled, Southerland said. A police cruiser followed the rig east onto Interstate 40, he said.
At least 17 law enforcement vehicles from Oklahoma City police, Oklahoma County Sheriff's Department and the patrol were involved in the chase.
As the driver reached Choctaw Road, troopers deployed stop sticks, which flattened several of the rig's tires.
"He slowed down and let the other driver or witness out," Southerland said.
The driver exited I-40 onto U.S. 177 near Shawnee. Southerland said troopers then fired at the radiator in the rig, and it slowly came to a stop.
The driver of the truck, identified as Robinson, surrendered, Southerland said.
Southerland said authorities may make more arrests or file more charges.
http://www.newsok.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=877385&pic=none&TP=getarticle
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Savannah Morning News
A Chatham County business owner shot a male teen-ager Friday morning, whom he suspected of burglarizing his convenience store.
Jeremy Yates, 17, was shot once around 4 a.m. during a scuffle with David Bledsoe, who owns El Cheapo Convenient Mart at the 1000 block of John Carter Road.
Yates was at Memorial Health University Medical Center Friday in serious condition.
He will face burglary and battery charges after he is released from the hospital, police said.
Detectives are not planning to charge Bledsoe with any crime.
Evidence -- including whether or not Yates was armed -- will be turned over to the district attorney's office, said Sgt. Mike Wilson.
Bledsoe, 52, had been burglarized several times before Friday's incident, police said.
When he heard the sound of glass breaking from his home near the store, Bledsoe armed himself with a small-caliber handgun and walked to the front of the store.
There, he saw a man wearing camouflage and a ski mask walking out of the store, police said.
The man scuffled with Bledsoe after he screamed for him to stop, police said.
Bledsoe received cuts and scratches during the struggle.
Jason Cannon, who police say was involved and left the scene, was arrested and charged with burglary. http://www.savannahnow.com/stories/062202/LOCshootingbrief.shtml
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Employee returned fire, hitting customer, 83; Pronounced dead at scene
By Richard Irwin and Johnathon E. Briggs
Sun Staff
Originally published June 21, 2002
An 83-year-old customer at a Fallston gun and pawn shop was shot and killed as he fled the store yesterday evening after an exchange of gunfire with an armed employee.
Milton Caplan, who lived with his daughter in the 1800 block of Hayden Way in Bel Air, was fatally shot about 5:15 p.m. outside the Fallston Gun and Pawn Shop in the 2800 block of Belair Road. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Detective Sgt. Doug Zeller said that Caplan entered the store and had a heated conversation about ammunition with a clerk. Another employee dialed 911 as Caplan pulled a .38-caliber revolver and fired one shot at the clerk, missing him, but shattering a portable television on a counter in front of the clerk, Zeller said.
He said that after Caplan fired, the clerk returned fire with a .40-caliber Glock semiautomatic as Caplan fled toward the exit.
The clerk, whose identity was withheld by police, fired four shots, at least one of which hit Caplan in the upper torso and two that struck the store's glass door.
Caplan collapsed on the parking lot near his car, a late-model Mercury.
Zeller said no other customers were in the store at the time.
According to property records, the store is owned by Robert and Dawn Scheuerman, whose family owned a city gun shop where a homicide occurred during a robbery in 1991. The Scheuermans were unavailable last night.
Moments after yesterday's shooting, state troopers from the nearby Bel Air barracks arrived and two of them, along with a nurse who stopped at the lot, attempted to revive Caplan.
Zeller said the employee who shot Caplan and the other employee were interviewed at the barracks. The detective said the incident is being reviewed by the Harford County state's attorney's office.
Brian Kelly and Keith Clark, both 20, and employees at Fast Eddie's Pit Beef, a shop two doors from the gun shop, said they walked outside when they noticed two state police cars.
Kelly said that he and Clark didn't hear the shots because of the noise in their restaurant and nearby heavy road traffic.
Clark said Caplan was wearing a white dress shirt and slacks. He also described him as thin and frail looking.
"The police worked on him real hard, but he died right there on the parking lot," Kelly said.
Kelly said that the man's shirt was covered with blood and that he appeared to be shot in the lower left chest.
The brother of the gun shop's owner, Charles E. Scheuerman Jr., refused to comment on yesterday's shooting, but confirmed that his brother owns the store and that their father's store was the scene of a fatal shooting in 1991.
In 1991, Charles E. "Eddie" Scheuerman, 53, owner of the Northeast Gun Shop in the 4900 block of Belair Road, was shot to death by robbers who looted display cabinets and stole about $20,000 worth of high-quality handguns.
Nine men were arrested over two weeks after the shooting Sept. 11, 1991. Eight pleaded guilty in the murder and their prison sentences ranged from 20 years to life. A ninth man, accused of driving one of the getaway cars used in the robbery, was acquitted of murder and related charges after a jury trial.
Copyright c 2002, The Baltimore Sun
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"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
A MOTHER faced a terrifying ordeal after four masked and armed raiders burst into her Huddersfield home.
Detectives hunting the gang today appealed for information.
Police said the four men - all wearing balaclava masks - got into the house in Abbey Road, Fartown, through an unlocked front door at 11.15 last night.
The demanded cash from the 26-year-old woman, who was sitting in the lounge.
Her young son was asleep upstairs.
The men continually demanded to know where the woman kept her money.
One of the thugs produced a small handgun, threatened her with it and forced her upstairs, where they searched a wardrobe in a bedroom.
Nothing was found and the gang fled empty-handed in a small, red hatchback car.
A Huddersfield police spokesman said the woman was terrified but unhurt.
The man who spoke to her was a light-skinned, mixed-race Afro Caribbean, aged between 18 and 22. He was of medium build and wore dark clothing and a dark balaclava.
The second man was white and the other two were light-skinned, mixed-race Afro-Caribbeans, all aged 18-22 and wearing dark clothing.
Anyone with information about the incident should phone Pc David Poole on 01484 436582 http://www.blacknet.co.uk/Whats_New_v2.0/Whats_New_v2.0.cgi?v=news&c=Stop_Press&id=0621102103014
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878