Guns Saving Lives

ATLANTA, GEORGIA — An off-duty Atlanta police officer, at home during the early hours of Tuesday, responded to an attempted break-in by firing a gun at the intruder. This incident occurred at Dwell at the View apartments on Hollywood Road NW. Although the suspect wasn’t hit by gunfire, he sustained non-critical injuries after falling from…

BESSEMER, ALABAMA — In the early hours of Friday morning, a 33-year-old man was fatally shot during a reported home invasion in McCalla, located in the 6600 block of Newbridge Drive. The incident, occurring around 4:30 a.m., involved the man breaking into a residence and getting into a physical fight with the people inside. The…

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA — In the early hours of Tuesday, a man was shot in the leg during a break-in at an Indianapolis residence. The incident, which occurred around 5 a.m. on Forest Avenue, involved a homeowner, Alfred Burdine, confronting an intruder attempting to steal a generator. Burdine reported that he shot the suspect in self-defense…

CUMBERLAND COUNTY, NEW JERSEY — In Cumberland County, New Jersey, Silvestre Marroquin, 31, was fatally shot after allegedly breaking into a house on Old Deerfield Pike. The incident occurred around 7 p.m. on Monday. Kevin Lucero, 24, an occupant of the residence, admitted to police he shot Marroquin during a forced entry by two intruders.…

WAGONER COUNTY, OKLAHOMA — A home invasion incident led to a man being shot twice by a nearby relative. The event unfolded when an intruder trespassed onto a woman’s property. She promptly alerted her son-in-law, who resides in close proximity. In response, the son-in-law confronted the intruder and subsequently shot him. The injured man received…

In Guayaquil, Ecuador, a driver thwarted a robbery attempt, resulting in the death of one assailant. The incident, captured by a security camera near a busy intersection, showed four men exiting a vehicle and surrounding another car, where two brothers, who recently arrived from the United States, were seated. In response, the driver fired shots…

HOUSTON, TEXAS — Police have released multiple videos, both surveillance and body worn camera, of the shooting incident at Lakewood Church back on February 11th. In that incident, a mother brought her child to the church and had concealed multiple firearms under a trench coat that she was wearing. The woman was shot and killed…