Gunfire Breaks Out In Store Parking Lot

PHOENIX -- Phoenix police were on scene of an unusual fight that ended with a shooting.

It happened in the K-Mart parking lot near Interstate 17 and Northern Avenue.

Police said three men got into a fight over bike parts.

At one point a man pulled out a gun and shot another man in the face.

That victim is expected to survive.

Investigators said the shooter took off on a seatless bike.

The third man in the fight also ran off, but police have not called him a suspect.

 

 

Seatless bike?

Never really been, now I sure don't wanna go.

Small-town mayor stoned to death in western Mexico

 

MEXICO CITY, Sept 27 (Reuters) - The mayor of a small town in western Mexico was found on Monday stoned to death in the third attack on a public official in the country in less than a week, local authorities said.

The bodies of Gustavo Sanchez, mayor of Tancitaro in Michoacan state, and an aide were found, officials said.

"It appears they stoned them to death," a source from the local prosecutor's office said on condition of anonymity.

Local media reported that the bodies were found in the back of a flat-bed truck.

There was no immediate indication whether the killings were related to drug violence. More than 29,000 people have been killed in violence between rival drug cartels and between cartels and state security forces since President Felipe Calderon launched his offensive on cartels in 2006.

On Friday, a mayor-elect in northern Chihuahua state was shot in the head and chest by suspected drug hitmen, leaving him in critical condition.

A day earlier, armed men killed the mayor of a town outside Mexico's northern business city of Monterrey.

PD: Phoenix man shoots teen trying to break into home

• By: Deborah Stocks

PHOENIX - Phoenix police say a homeowner will probably not face charges after he shot a suspect trying to break into his home Tuesday.

Phoenix Police Sgt. Tommy Thompson said there had been two previous attempted break-ins at the home near 51st Avenue and Baseline. In one case the homeowner's wife scared the suspects away as they tried to knock down the door.

Thompson said in Tuesday's incident, the homeowner heard "aggressive" knocking at the front door and went to his bedroom for a gun.

The homeowner told police the suspects were trying to push down the door and as they broke through the homeowner fired his shotgun, striking one of the suspects in the lower back.

The 19-year-old suspect was taken to the hospital with a non-life-threatening injury, according to Thompson. He will face charges in the burglary.

The second suspect was able to get away and was described as wearing a long white t-shirt and black hat.

The 30-year-old homeowner has not been taken into custody and the investigation is ongoing, Thompson said

Fw: Amen bro

Chandler man shoots, kills 2 suspected gang members

The intruder who punched out a Chandler man while stealing beer at a keg party picked the wrong victim.

The man, who had been attempting to defend his wife during the beer theft, had a permit to carry a concealed weapon. Fearing for his life and under attack, he pulled out a gun and fatally shot two men believed by police to be gang members early Sunday morning.

"People in Arizona carry guns," said Detective David Ramer, a Chandler police spokesman. "You better be careful about who you are picking on."

Ramer said police have concluded the shooter, who fears reprisals and whose name is not being released, acted in self-defense and have cleared him of any potential wrongdoing in the shooting deaths.

The names of the two men who were shot to death also have not been released by police.

The shootings occurred early Sunday morning in the 600 block of North Sunland Drive. A group of men showed up as uninvited guests at the keg party, paid a $2 admission fee, then became angry when the organizers started to shut the bash down, Ramer said.

"They thought they weren't getting their money's worth," he said.

The intruders were stealing the beer when they were confronted by a woman who had been attending the party, Ramer said.

After the men started yelling at the woman, her husband attempted to come to her defense and was punched to the ground.

"This guy was punched, he was attacked," Ramer said.

When one of the intruders threatened the man with a gun, he pulled out his own gun and shot the two men to death, Ramer said. Police said they have documents confirming that the men are gang members.

Ramer said the husband showed restraint during the incident and only fired when he was threatened with a gun.

The man involved in the shooting had passed a concealed-weapons course, Ramer said. Although he had a permit, the Arizona Legislature passed a bill earlier this year to allow residents to carry concealed weapons without one.

Chandler police have arrested seven other men and plan to recommend that they be charged not only with robbery but with murder because the slayings occurred during the commission of another crime, Ramer said.

Phoenix police arrest 3 men suspected of aggravated assault

by Colin Lecher - Aug. 13, 2010 10:25 PM
The Arizona Republic

Three men were arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault after threatening a Phoenix man with a shotgun after his sister broke up with one of them, police said. One man remained on the loose Friday night.

Four men, one armed with a shotgun, went to the victim's apartment near 19th and Glendale avenues and tried to goad him out, said Phoenix police Sgt. Steve Martos. The men had threatened him with a knife earlier in the day and threatened to damage his property earlier this week, Martos said.

The victim, who was inside the apartment with two of his nieces, refused to leave and called 911. When police arrived, the four men ran to a vehicle and drove to a nearby apartment complex, Martos said.

One man was arrested trying to get out of the car, but police set up a perimeter to catch the remaining three. Two more made it to a QuikTrip convenience store down the street, where they hid in the bathroom before employees called 911, Martos said. The fourth suspect was last seen at the complex and had not been found as of 10 p.m.

The two men fled the QuikTrip out a backdoor and into a nearby neighborhood. One was caught on the streets, but another forced his way into a woman's home and kept her from leaving, according to Martos.

A police officer searching the neighborhood saw her through the window and motioned for her to come outside so she could be interviewed. The officer found it suspicious when the woman ignored the officer's request, however, and police entered her home, arresting the man without incident.

Lesson in gun safety takes deadly turn of events in Mesa

PHOENIX – A young mother is dead and her boyfriend is behind bars after police say a lesson in gun safety took a deadly turn of events.

Initially the call came out as a possible suicide but police say the boyfriend changed his story and now they believe he is responsible.

Det. Steve Berry, with the Mesa Police Department, tells 3TV, "He had said that he had been somewhere else inside the home and heard a gunshot."

Police say 20-year-old Sheila Schurz was shot in the upper body although they would not say where or how many times. She was taken to the hospital where she later died.

Now police say her boyfriend, 21-year-old Bernardo Barraza is to blame.

Berry explains, "Some things in the story as to how it all occurred after she was transported away didn't seem to add up."

Police say Barraza gave them misleading information first claiming Schurz shot herself but then later changing his story.

Berry says, "They had recently purchased the handgun and he had apparently fallen asleep with it or something like that. There was some discussion as to the safety of the handgun…during the course of that discussion or whatever the gun discharged and she was struck."    

Barraza is charged with one count of second-degree murder, meaning it was not premeditated.

Investigators submitted second-degree charges instead of manslaughter or accidental death but have not explained why.

Police say there is no indication that the couple fought before Schurz was shot. The couple lived together in the apartment near McKellips Road and Mesa Drive with children from previous relationships although no kids were home at the time of the fatal shooting.

SHE SAYS: Guns scare me, why did you buy that, I don't want it in my house!!

HE SAYS: YO!! WASSUP BITCH? You think I don't know guns?  Lemme show you how I know guns (Puts his finger on the trigger, holds the gun on it side "gangster style", points it at her and shoots. DAMMIT BITCH!! Who put bullets in the gun??  Stop fuckin around and get up off the floor, you ain't hurt!!!  Get up Bitch!! oh Shit....

Even the ugly parts of life can be beautiful if you look up.