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And in Last Week’s Gun News ...
by JOE NOCERA
JAN. 28, 2013
Monday, Jan. 21:
Eleaquin Temblador had plans.
He was working to earn his high school diploma and wanted to join the U.S.
Marine Corps and marry his girlfriend. ... Instead, family members are planning
Temblador’s funeral. For reasons no one can explain, gunmen in a light-colored,
older-model vehicle gunned down the 18-year-old ... as he rode his bicycle home
from his girlfriend’s house.
Relatives of a teen who was
shot while playing basketball at a local park said the 16-year-old is now paralyzed
from the waist down. ... Police said the shooter, a 17-year-old boy, had a gun
stuck in his waistband. While he was playing basketball, someone bumped into
him and the gun went off. ...
Tuesday, Jan. 22:
A Baton Rouge man who authorities said was
playing with a gun was booked ... in the accidental shooting of his 2-year-old
brother. ... [The man’s uncle] said the teen had armed himself due to
“environmental pressure” from neighborhood friends.
— The Advocate, Baton
Rouge, La.
The New Mexico teenager who
used an assault rifle to kill his mother, father and younger siblings told
police he hoped to shoot up a Walmart after the family rampage and cause “mass
destruction.” ... Nehemiah Griego, the 15-year-old son of an Albuquerque pastor ... “stated he wanted to
shoot people at random and eventually be killed while exchanging gunfire with
law enforcement,” the [police] report said.
— ABC News
Wednesday, Jan. 23:
Kansas
City police arrested a
16-year-old Ruskin
High School student
accused of shooting at a school bus after the driver refused to allow him to
board on Wednesday.
A 4-year-old boy has died
after being shot in the head Wednesday. ... The deputy [sheriff] located the
child’s body inside of a Ford Taurus. There was a bullet hole in the roof of
the car. ... “Jamarcus loved Batman, Spider-Man and football and was looking
forward to starting kindergarten,” [his mother] said.
— Newsnet5.com, Akron,
Ohio
Thursday, Jan. 24:
The estranged husband of a
woman found dead in her Madison
apartment Thursday was found dead in his home ... of an apparent self-inflicted
gunshot wound. ... “We can’t really believe it; I mean, these things happen on
TV, they don’t happen to us,” [her stepmother] said. “We’re middle class,
normal Americans, and she was a nice girl.”
— WISC-TV,
Madison, Wis.
Police said an 11-year-old
girl is in critical condition after being shot in the face by her father in a New Jersey home on
Thursday night. Investigators said 27-year-old Byaer Johnson apparently entered
the home to visit his young daughter. ... He was asked to leave, then picked up
a handgun and shot his daughter.
— CBS News
Friday, Jan. 25:
An Oakland police officer was shot and wounded
Friday evening, the second officer in the city to be injured by gunfire this
week. ... The shooting happened after a man in a car ran a stop sign, crashed
into another car ... and ran off. Shortly thereafter, an uncle and his nephew
reported that they were shot a block away by a man who tried to steal the
uncle’s bicycle.
A man has been charged with
murder for fatally shooting his brother during a “domestic” dispute outside a
South Side Englewood home Friday afternoon. ...
Saturday, Jan. 26:
A party in Salem that spilled outdoors ended in drive-by
gunfire that hit at least two people and riddled a car and nearby homes. ...
— KOINlocal6, Salem,
Ore.
A 55-year-old man has been
released from custody after allegedly shooting and killing his own dog. Police
say Gordon Lagstrom was drunk Saturday night when he pulled a .38 caliber
handgun and shot to death his 4-year-old Australian terrier, Lena.
The city broke a nine-day
murder-free streak last night when a man was found dead in the basement of a Queens apartment complex, police said. The 20-year-old
victim, whose name was not released, had been shot in the head.
Among those killed Saturday
was a 34-year-old man whose mother had already lost her three other children to
shootings. Police say Ronnie Chambers, who was his mother’s youngest child, was
shot in the head while sitting in a car. Police say two separate
double-homicide shootings also occurred Saturday about 12 hours apart. ... Chicago’s homicide count
eclipsed 500 last year for the first time since 2008.
— CBS News
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