Been a busy March… Some of the DGUs during the past few weeks…

Louisiana: Carjack victim shoots suspect to death in 9th Ward…
Joshua McElveen, 24, approached a man in a pickup truck in the 1800 block of Lamanche Street about 9:30 p.m., according to authorities. He pointed a handgun at the man and told him to open the door
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The unidentified truck driver refused. Williams said the truck driver pulled out his own handgun and fired several bullets at McElveen

Popeyes manager fights off alleged robber at Covington restaurant
Fearing for his life, a Popeyes Famous Fried Chicken and Biscuits’ manager in Covington wrestled a gun away from a robber, then – after firing a warning shot into the ceiling – told him to scram, police said.
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The man, who is still at large, ordered Robinson back into the business and told him to open the safe, West said. As he attempted to open it, the suspect told him he was going to kill him, and so, feeling he had nothing to lose, Robinson attacked the gunman
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After a struggle – which West described as fierce, saying both men were injured – Robinson gained control of the gun and told the robber to leave.
The man then asked for his gun back and Robinson refused, firing one round into the ceiling, which prompted the robber to flee, West said.

California: Modesto store clerk shoots and kills robber
A liquor store clerk shot and killed one of two armed, masked men who tried to rob the shop on Tully Road late Friday night, Modesto police said today
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A second suspected robber fled the scene after struggling with a second clerk, police said. They said this evening that the suspect, a 17-year-old boy, had been arrested and will be booked into Juvenile Hall on charges of homicide and attempted robbery.

Florida: Homeowner interrupts Heathrow robbery attempt (not the airport. Guns in England… Now that’s crazy!)
When Richard Zahn heard noises on his back patio, he opened his sliding glass door and grabbed his shotgun.

Then he chased after two men who ran out his back gate toward a lake. And the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office gave chase in its own way — with a K9 unit and helicopter unit, according to an incident report from the Sheriff’s Office
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For Zahn, the episode has a positive ending so far: He got his TV back. It was recovered at the shoreline of the lake.

Florida: Burglar Shot, Hospitalized And Then Jailed In Marianna
A Marianna burglar was shot as was breaking into a home Friday night on Myles Street. He was apparently shot in the foot by a resident there and fled.
Marianna Police a short while later arrested the suspect, Ben Thomas, who was found in front of a home on Old Cottondale Road.

Ohio: Man Turns Tables On Would-Be ATM Robber
An attempted robbery at a bank ATM was thwarted early Wednesday morning when the would-be victim produced a loaded handgun.
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“I didn’t see anything that looked like a knife or looked like a gun,” he said. “It was just an instant reaction and I pulled my weapon.”
Tehoke pondered what would have happened if he had left his gun at home, like he almost did.
“The funny thing is I almost didn’t take it with me that night,” he said. “I’m happy I did.”

Indiana: Neighbor shoots pit bull mix that attacked dog, invaded home
A New Albany woman says her friend shot and killed one of two dogs that unexpectedly attacked her dog as it sat in her back yard in the 1900 block of Culbertson Avenue late Monday afternoon. The owner of the dog that was killed says he understands and most likely would have done the same thing himself.

Alaska: Woman shoots, wounds ex-boyfriend
Anchorage police say a man upset by child custody issues was shot by his former girlfriend at her home.
The woman told police that 31-year-old Tommy Robert Thomas at 12:14 a.m. Monday entered her home on East 73rd Avenue acting aggressively.
When he refused to leave, she fired a warning shot into the floor.
Witnesses say he moved toward the woman and she shot him twice, striking him in the leg and his side, just under his armpit.

Arizona: Man choking his ex-girlfriend shot by her dad
A woman’s father comes to her rescue by shooting her ex-boyfriend during an argument.
Phoenix police say 26-year-old Daniel Fuches was choking the woman outside her residence near 51st Avenue and Beardsley when her dad came down from a second story window and shot her attacker twice.
Detective James Holmes says the dad shot the suspect in the leg first. “At that point he got the suspect’s attention. The suspect pulled away from the daughter, picks up a big rock, comes at the dad now with the rock threateningly and the dad shoots him in the abdomen.”
“I’m just picturing what state of mind he had to have been in seeing his daughter getting choked and worried about her to the point where he’s jumping out of a window and down into the driveway to try to save her.”
Police are still determining if they should press charges against the woman’s father.

Ohio: Prosecutor – Fatal incident to go to grand jury
In an exclusive interview with the News-Sun on Friday, March 12, Christina Knight, the woman who reportedly shot and killed Timothy Ratchford, said the whole thing shouldn’t have happened.
Police reports state Knight, 46, shot Ratchford, 50, in the chest after an argument turned physical in their home at 25 E. Liberty St. at about 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 10.
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“I told him that I didn’t get paid for the last job I did,” Knight said.
“And I don’t know what was going through his mind, but the next thing I know, my face ends up in the … wall,” she said.
During a struggle, Knight said she and Ratchford ended up on the floor, where a puddle had collected in the leaky basement.
“Then he took my head and said, ‘… I’m going to drown you,’” Knight recounted, sobbing. “He was slamming my face in the puddle. And I said, ‘Go ahead and kill me then, just get it over with.’ ”
Ratchford let her go, but wouldn’t allow her to go upstairs until she told him she had to go to the bathroom, Knight said.
She went to her room to change her muddy clothes and Ratchford “just kept screaming my name. The more he said my name, the more I started shaking.”
Ratchford came up to her room, asking what was wrong with her, she said. Knight said he became enraged when she told him he had broken her nose and warned she’d “better not say that again.
“And then he said, ‘… I’m just gonna kill you, you need to be dead anyway,’” Knight said. “And I just (grabbed the gun from the dresser) and swung around.
“I didn’t even know I pulled the trigger,” she said. “I didn’t even hear the gun go off.”

Michigan: Customer swipes masked man’s gun, kills him
Romulus police are seeking three suspects after a party store customer wrestled a gun away from a masked man, shooting and killing him.
Police say the robber and two other men were robbing the store at 9:30 p.m. Saturday in the city about 20 miles southwest of Detroit when the customer walked in with a woman.
Romulus Police Sgt. Corey Sadler tells the Detroit Free Press that the customer successfully fought the gunman for control of the weapon and fired two rounds.
No other injuries were reported.

Oklahoma: Homeowner fires at invaders
“It was one of those things that I was just glad I was home and my family didn’t come home to that.”
Bachhofer had just gone to sleep after working through the night when he woke up to the sound of his doorbell.
He says, “I knew that it wasn’t anybody I knew the way they were ringing the doorbell. They just kept on ringing and ringing and ringing.”
He called 911 and then realized the men ringing the bell weren’t waiting for an invitation.
Next came the sound of someone trying to get in the side door.
Then the home alarm system beeped alerting Bachhofer that the men made their way inside through the back door.
Bachhofer says, “I came out and confronted them and told them I had a gun and they took off and I chased them. I could have shot them both in the house, but I couldn’t live with that on my conscience.”

Mississippi: Cops – store’s owner shot gunman in self-defense
Vicksburg police say they won’t charge a store owner who shot and killed an armed robbery suspect. Assistant Police Cheff Jeffery Scott says the suspect fired first, and was shot in self-defense.
Police were still looking on Saturday for a second man accused in the holdup Thursday at La Chiquita grocery store, and had not released the dead man’s name.
Scott says the men put a rifle to the clerk’s head, ordered her to the ground, hit her in the back of the head, and took cash, merchandise and a customer’s wallet.
He says the clerk told the owner, who was in an adjacent restaurant and chased the gunmen’s car to try to get a license number. Scott says the car crashed on an overpass, the gunmen got out and one shot at the store owner, who fired back.

Oklahoma: Homeowner Shoots Intruder Overnight
A man was hospitalized and is now in jail after police say he broke into a man’s home and was shot by the homeowner.
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The homeowner says Hill was unfazed and began coming after him. He says he gave ground for about 30 feet, but when he was backed into his own bedroom, he opened fire, hitting Hill once in the leg.

Arizona: 82-year-old fights off attacker
An 82-year-old woman takes matters into her own hands after she’s attacked in a Wal-Mart parking lot in Sierra Vista.
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She said she was just walking to her car with some groceries when she was approached by the suspect. She said, “In a very mild voice he said, ‘this is your day. You are too old to be alive anyway.’”
Moments later she said he grabbed her cane and started beating her and she’s got the bruises to prove it. She said, “I got boo boos where I didn’t know I had a place to put boo boos.”
She eventually went for the gun in her purse and opened fire. She didn’t hit him but said it still saved her life. She said, “In the long run I think it saved me because if I hadn’t shot the thing no one would have known there was anything wrong and come running.”

Missouri: Police arrest two after Springfield MO man shoots at home invaders
Two men are in custody after a home invasion on Wednesday night in which a man in the home shot and wounded at least one of two masked invaders. City police say two men broke into a home in the 1300 block of East Calhoun Street near Rogers Avenue about 11 p.m. Police say one man was armed with a large knife.
Police say the man in the house, who was watching his 2-month-old grandchild, heard some rustling at the back door and grabbed his gun. The invaders then went around to the front door and broke in.
“Two individuals came in through a locked door,” said Maj. Kevin Routh. “The victim fired a few rounds at the suspects. The first ran through the house and jumped through a back window. The other spun and went out the way he came in.”

Ohio: Convience store clerk shoots, kills suspected robber
A would-be robber who walked into Bengal’s Food Mart in South Toledo. wearing a wig was shot and killed by a store clerk on Sunday morning
Toledo police Sgt. Tim Noble said the man walked into the store, announced the robbery, and displayed a handgun. He then was shot by the clerk at the store at 2625 Airport Highway near Westwood Avenue.

Virginia: Intruder shot in Henrico County home
An intruder was shot this morning after forcing his way into a home in a Henrico County.
Henrico police say an adult male was shot in the lower torso around 5:30 a.m. in the 10300 block of Longdale Ave. The victim was transported to VCU Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.
According to police, an elderly female homeowner reported that an intruder forced his way into her home, physically attacked her and then physically attacked her adult grandson, who was also present inside the home.
The woman was knocked to the floor and her grandson obtained a handgun and “fired one round into the lower body of the assailant, causing him to drop to the floor,“ said Henrico Lt. Jim Price.

Florida: Homeowner Kills Attempted Robber In Driveway Shootout
A man returning home from work was met at gunpoint overnight. Little did suspects know, he was armed with a gun of his own.
It happened around 12:30 a.m. in the driveway of a quiet Ocoee neighborhood.
The homeowner, identified as Dave Henry, got out of his car and may have been pistol whipped by the suspects, according to police.
Police said one of two suspects had a gun and they were trying to rob the man.
But the homeowner, who has a concealed weapons permit, pulled his own handgun. He exchanged gunfire with the suspects.
When the smoke cleared, one suspect was killed, one got away and the homeowner was taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center.

A college student working in his father’s convenience store shot and wounded a would-be robber and it was caught on tape, WPLG-TV in Miami reported.
Samir Al-Madi was back at work behind the counter of the Snappy Convenience Store the next day.
He had apparently spotted the suspect in the parking lot, and quickly pulled a gun from behind the counter when the masked man barged in with a gun in his hand and demanded money, store owner Fares Al-Madi said.
“It’s very scary,” Fares Al-Madi said.
The suspect, who was wounded and required surgery, is named Alexander Brown, WPLG reported. He is a convicted felon.
Fares Al-Madi said that he was proud of his son.

Kentucky: Stabbing Victim Speaks Out
“This is something that’s going to play on my mind for a long time,” said victim Billy Vaughn.
Vaughn begins his physical and emotional recovery just one day after he says his neighbor — Rickie Mosgrove– tried to kill him with a knife.
“At the time he stabbed me I wasn’t for sure that he had stabbed me until I got up and I could feel the blood running down my back,” said Vaughn.
Vaughn says his neighbor’s daughter came to his house for help Saturday night and Mosgrove followed.
“He approached the property and wanted to talk and when he came on the property he brought out a knife and we wrestled to the ground,” said Vaughn
That’s when Vaughn says he pulled out his gun in self defense.
“You have a weapon for self defense but you never think you are going to have to use it and when you do use it’s kind of like scary,” said Vaughn.

North Carolina: Suspected Robber Shot, Taken To Hospital
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said a robber became a victim Thursday night.
Officers responded to a shooting at the Windsor Harbor apartments on Shamrock Drive just before 10 p.m. Thursday. Officers found a man with a gunshot wound to the neck.
Police said they believe the man was trying to commit a robbery when the intended victim shot him.

Ohio: South Toledo store owner shoots man during apparent robbery
A store owner at the Allied Music of Ohio in South Toledo shot a man Friday after the suspect held a gun to a clerk’s head, police said.