GUNS IN THE NEWS--September 23, 2004

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"NewsCenter 5's Gail Huff reported that a man identified as John R. Chen, 30, was taken into custody about 7 a.m. after security screeners at Terminal B detected a Glock 27 pistol in his bag. He was trying to board a U.S. Airways flight to Buffalo, N.Y. Authorities inspected the bag and determined that it was fully loaded.
Some passengers were incredulous that anyone would carry a gun in their bags.
"Shouldn't have people on the planes with guns. It's ridiculous. You kidding me? Shoot people. It's ridiculous. After 9/11? I come from New York. It's ridiculous," passenger Kevin Cronin said.
Chen told police he did not know the gun was in his bag. He is licensed to carry a gun, but it is a criminal offense to carry a concealed weapon on an airplane. He was booked and appeared for arraignment at East Boston District Court. "

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/3753893/detail.html

"BOWLING GREEN - A Bowling Green man charged last week with shooting two men after a quarrel in a downtown parking lot was bound over to Wood County Common Pleas Court yesterday.
During a preliminary hearing in Bowling Green Municipal Court, Judge Mark Reddin found probable cause to pursue charges of felonious assault, inducing panic, and improperly discharging a firearm against Brian Steen, but he dismissed a second count of felonious assault relating to a gunshot that missed one of the victims.
Police said Mr. Steen fired at three men in the parking lot of a convenience store at East Wooster and Prospect streets Sept. 15, striking Matthew Llanas, 20, of Bowling Green in the legs and Josaph McGlaughlin, 22, of Wayne, in the shirt. The bullet did not hit Mr. McGlaughlin's body."

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040923/NEWS03/409230410/-1/NEWS

Another innocent "collector"....(snicker)

"BRUNSWICK, Md. -- Police removed 51 guns and a large amount of ammunition from the home of a Brunswick man who allegedly threatened to kill officers and Frederick Mayor Jennifer Dougherty.
Richard Macalarney, 39, surrendered to authorities Tuesday evening after a 5 1/2 hour standoff. He's been charged with threatening a local or public official, a misdemeanor.
Police removed the guns from his home late Tuesday, including some AK-47s, .22-caliber rifles and black-powder muskets.
Police said Macalarney, who operates a flower shop in downtown Frederick, was upset that In The Street, an annual October event, would cause him problems making deliveries."

http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/3754024/detail.html

"Detective Jeff Arbogast says 21-year-old Stephanie Gutierrez was shot in the eye (Sunday night) at her Albuquerque home.
Arbogast says Gutierrez and her boyfriend had just arrived home from a gathering.
Arbogast says the boyfriend removed a gun from a bag and for some reason, the gun fired."

http://www.krqe.com/crime/expanded.asp?RECORD_KEY%5BCrime%5D=ID&ID%5BCrime%5D=6996

"A Virginia Beach man is in critical condition after officials say he was shot while riding his bike early Wednesday morning.
According to police, emergency personnel were dispatched to the corner of Cape Henry Drive and West Great Neck Road around 1:15am on reports of a man lying in the roadway near a bicycle.
When they arrived, they discovered 49-year old Carson Simpson was suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. "

http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=2338452&nav=23iiRE5F

"Investigators are searching for clues in Amarillo's second homicide in three days and ninth of the year after a man died Wednesday afternoon from a gunshot wound to the head.
Police converged on Wagon Wheel Trailer Park, 7003 E. Amarillo Blvd., about 3:30 p.m. after a woman found an injured Raoul Lozano, 31, inside his home, said Lt. Gary Trupe, coordinator of the Potter-Randall Special Crimes Unit.
"All we know is that man did not shoot himself," Trupe said.
While ambulances were on their way to the home, the blood-covered victim was on his sofa inside his mobile home, said Sandy Mendoza, 38, who called 911 after seeing Lozano."

http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/092304/new_fatalshooting.shtml

"Police are investigating two shootings in Savannah. About 10:30pm last night, police were called to the corner of West 38th and Harden Streets, where they found a young man lying next to a bicycle with bullet wounds in both legs.
A short time later, officers found another man at a nearby house, wounded in the lower back."

http://www.wtoctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2339070&nav=0qq6REPO

Another family made safer by guns....

"A manhunt is underway after an incident in Beaverton where police believe a man may have shot his father to death and then taken off.
The shooting happened just before 10:00 p.m. on Wednesday in a house on Southwest Ridgecrest near Hall Boulevard.
Officers arrived to find one man dead inside the home.
The victim's wife says she heard a shot and then found her husband's body downstairs. "

http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=71304

"The search is on Thursday morning for the gunman responsible in shooting a 9-year-old girl on the Westside.
Police say the girl was caught in the crossfire of a gunfight on Miss Muffett Lane Wednesday. "

http://www.fox30online.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=6D2C2B4D-E077-4CF5-B192-F1A68F9E767D

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"A Kansas City, Kan., man was charged Wednesday with shooting at a vehicle, a crime authorities believe is related to the fatal shooting of Debora Jackson on Monday night.
The Wyandotte County district attorney charged Marcus Carson, 19, with one count of discharging a handgun at a vehicle. Authorities said the vehicle carried two passengers when the shooting occurred about 1 p.m. Monday near 24th Street and Wood Avenue in Kansas City, Kan.
Jackson's husband, John Jackson, said that someone shot at a vehicle that his wife and son's girlfriend were in near North 25th Street and Lafayette Avenue earlier Monday."

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/9734970.htm

"ANDERSON, Ind. -- The brother of Portland Trail Blazers forward Zach Randolph was back in the Madison County Jail after being extradited from Georgia to face charges in a nightclub shooting.
Madison Superior Court Judge Dennis Carroll revoked Roger Randolph's $40,000 bond two weeks ago after the 22-year-old was arrested in Atlanta and charged with possession of marijuana and with several weapons violations. He was returned to Indiana on Tuesday.
Roger Randolph was charged with three counts of battery with a deadly weapon for shooting three men on a dance floor following an argument inside Sinbad's Lounge in Anderson. "

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=1887117

Last I checked, the Bangor Daily News had not put this article on their website, so I'll give you a few snippets from today's print copy (pB6):

Senate Dems reject proposed weapons ban

by Jeff Tuttle
of the News Staff

BANGOR -- A group of Senate Democrats came out firing Wednesday against a plan from one of their own to enact a statewide assault weapons ban similar to the federal ban that expired last month.

"Maine doesn't need this bill," said Sen. Stephen Stanley, D-Medway, one of a handful of rural Democratic candidates who, locked in tough campaigns that could help determine control of the Senate, came out to oppose the proposed ban at a Bangor news conference.

"We should only pass laws that are needed and will be effective. The proposal ... is neither," said Stanley, who because of redistricting is facing another incumbent, Sen. Paul Davis, R-Sangerville, who also opposes the ban.

(...)

"Our people wanted to make it clear to voters where they stood on this issue," said Benjamin Grant of the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee.

I don't think that Ethan Strimling (the Portlander who made the proposal) is a bad person, and I like most of his stands on the issues. However, I think that when it comes to guns, he displays the heedless bigotry that characterizes the anti-rkba faction. That he would risk alienating most of the party just to make a proposal that cannot reasonably be expected to change any Mainer's life for the better -- and which has NO chance of making it out of committee in the first place -- is extremely disturbing, especially when you consider what all is at stake in this upcoming election.

It's great to see that the Dems are wasting no time in slapping this nonsense down.


Mary


(edited to add section and page number: nb, this news story re Strimling's doomed proposal has been stuck in with the obituaries!)

"A shooting Wednesday night claimed the life of a 16-year-old Oakland girl standing in front of her home, an Oakland Police Department spokesman said today.
Sgt. Pete Sarna said that police received a report of gunfire in the 2500 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Way around at 10:47 p.m.
Responding officers found a 16-year-old female suffering from gunshot wounds, Sarna said.
The girl, identified as Greshanda Williams, was apparently standing in front of her residence when the shooting happened, Sarna said. "

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2004/09/23/OAKLAND23.DTL

"GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- A four-year-old Alachua County boy is dead after being shot in the head at his family's apartment, and deputies believe it was an accident.
Officals said Natron McCreary was at home with his mother Natalie, 22, her boyfriend, a family friend and two other small children Wednesday. They said he was shot in the living room.
Natron's mother ran out of the apartment to get help and a neighbor called 911. The family friend then drove the group out of the apartment complex, flagging down a fire truck at a nearby intersection.
Paramedics took the child to Shands hospital at the University of Florida, where he died. Details of the shooting itself are still under investigation. "

http://www.local6.com/news/3753925/detail.html

"Police are investigating after a dozen gunshots were fired at a Salt Lake City home early Monday morning. That was just one incident in a recent string of drive-by shootings.
Police say all types of crimes, including drive-by shootings, go up when the weather warms up and when kids go back to school. That's disturbing for law enforcement and neighbors.
The night before, gunshots rang out in another Salt Lake City neighborhood. No one was hurt and police are still investigating.
Then, over the weekend, another drive-by after a fight broke out at a four-plex in Salt Lake City. That shooting was an apparent retaliation over a fight where one man was stabbed and died. Police have arrested two brothers, Alejandro Carillo and Raul Carrillo, for homicide. "

http://tv.ksl.com/index.php?nid=5&sid=121342

"A young man was shot to death yesterday afternoon by Richmond police after allegedly opening fire on an officer who confronted him on an East End street.
Police said the man may have been one of two suspects being sought in an armed robbery of a woman on North 24th Street, about six blocks away from the fatal encounter, which began at 1:30 p.m. near the corner of Mosby Street and Fairmount Avenue.
"One of the officers encountered an armed suspect who fired upon the officer," said police Chief Andre Parker. "The officer gave chase to the individual."
The chase ended with what Parker described as "an exchange of some gunfire" that left the man dead in an alley behind the Marketplace 14 convenience store on Mosby, across the street from Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School."

http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031778067641&path=!news&s=1045855934842

"It was about 19 hours of semi-freedom for Dominic Queentry, and it ended Wednesday afternoon with a few words from a judge and an escorted trip back to the Macomb County Jail.
Queentry, the third suspect charged in the case of a Clinton Township teen accused of plotting a Columbine-like massacre at his high school, was arrested last week on charges of possessing explosives and marijuana-related offenses. At the time, police said he helped Andrew Osantowski, 17, obtain bomb-making materials and showed him how to blow up a tree.
Later that day, police displayed three marijuana plants taken from Queentry's home next to an assault rifle, knives, shotguns, Nazi paraphernalia and other items taken from Osantowski's home. Queentry acknowledged to the Free Press that he uses marijuana, but he denied any connection to Osantowski or his apparently racist views.
Kaplan also is prosecuting Osantowski and his father, Marvin Osantowski, 52. Andrew Osantowski could face 20 years in prison if convicted on charges of threatening terrorism, receiving and concealing stolen firearms and other offenses."

http://www.freep.com/news/locmac/bomb23e_20040923.htm

"Northeast Indiana residents have good reason to question where Congressman Mark Souder’s priorities lie.
Souder has been receiving national exposure, not for anything he’s doing for his constituents but for his attempts to use the federal government to overturn a local government decision.
Our congressman believes people in Washington, D.C., should be able to carry assault rifles and handguns.
He believes that Washington police should not be able to jail anyone for having unregistered weapons."

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/news/editorial/9720438.htm

A blistering editorial about one of the leading "stars" of the Second Amendment Fuckwits, er, Caucus...