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HOLLYWOOD, FL -- A Hollywood man turned the tables on two robbers outside his home early Saturday morning, leaving one attacker dead from his own gun and the other nursing a bullet hole in his leg and a bite on his arm, authorities said.
Police say the two robbers were after new chrome rims on the homeowner's pickup truck.
Police identified the robbery suspects as Jason Robert Melendez, 23, and Ronald Magano, 22, both men with lengthy criminal histories, according to state records.
Magano died in the attack, and Hollywood police picked up a wounded Melendez a short time later. Melendez, who is on probation, will be charged with "a multitude of felonies, including felony murder," said Capt. Tony Rode, spokesman for the department.
FRAYSER, TN -- A Frayser woman shot and killed an intruder who kicked in her apartment door and tried to rob her around midnight Sunday.
Tameca Drummer, a resident at Carriage House apartments at 1115 Frayser Blvd., told police the man, along with two others, forced their way into her home demanding money.
The people in her apartment, including her two children, were forced into the living room, while one of the intruders forced her into the bedroom looking for money, police spokesman Sgt. Vince Higgins said.
When that man struck her on the head with his handgun, she wrestled the gun away from him and shot and killed him, according to a police incident report.
CORPUS CHRISTI, TX -- Police said a 14-year-old boy was defending himself and his mother when he shot and killed an intruder Monday afternoon at their home on Ocean Drive.
Capt. John Houston said the 14-year-old boy was home from school after becoming ill and his 46-year-old mother, Rose Ann Kozlowski, had gone to the grocery store.
"She came home and was confronted by a man with a knife," Houston said.
Cmdr. Jesse Garcia confirmed police received a call at 12:55 p.m. and responded to a report that a man was inside with a knife during a news conference across the street from the house, 4221 Ocean Drive.
CEDAR CITY, FL -- A Cape Coral, Fla., man was justified in shooting an intruder who forced his way into the man's motor home at a Wal-Mart parking lot, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
Iron County Attorney Scott Garrett said no charges will be filed against Carl Coltellino, who was taking his wife, Tracy, and their two daughters to Grand Canyon National Park when they made an overnight stop July 25 at the Wal-Mart.
Garrett said Stephen Stubbs, 26, of Cedar City, forced his way into the motor home and during a struggle tried to take a hand gun away from Coltellino, who shot and killed the stranger.
SAN ANTONIO, TX -- A man was shot and killed Thursday after an East Side homeowner awoke to noise by his front door and found the man inside his house, opening the door for another person, police said.
The homeowner had just hours earlier returned to his house on the 800 block of North Pine Street after a trip to the Hill Country.
His house had been burglarized earlier that day, Sgt. Dave Berrigan said. He was with his wife in their bedroom, their 1-year-old son in another room, when around 10:30 p.m. he heard a scuffle and grabbed the shotgun lying next to his bed, Berrigan said.
SEGUIN, TX -- A Seguin homeowner shot and killed a burglar Monday morning after the man broke through a back door and attacked him and his wife, authorities said.
Police identified the burglar as Esequiel Urias, 28, of Seguin.
Seguin Police Department spokesman Aaron Seidenberger said the homeowner and his wife were awakened at 5:20 a.m. when Urias smashed through a back door at their home in the 700 block of Renee Street.
After picking up a wooden object in the home, he used it as a club, attacking the couple, Seidenberger said.
The couple repeatedly pleaded with Urias to leave while he struggled with the husband. When he attacked them a second time, the husband fired a handgun, striking him once in the upper torso, Seidenberger said.
OAKLAND PARK, FL -- A man shot and killed an intruder who was breaking into his parents' townhouse in Oakland Park today, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office.
The intruder, Jeremy Goldwire, 20, lived across the street from the gated community where the shooting happened.
Richard McKinley, 26, was sleeping in his parents townhouse at 3259 NW 44th St. around 11:54 a.m. when he was awakened by a noise, according to the sheriff's office.
McKinley came face-to-face with three intruders and pulled out a gun. There was a brief struggle and then McKinley shot Goldwire, a BSO spokeswoman said.
FORT WORTH, TX -- A suspected burglar shot several times Monday with his own gun remained in critical condition but is expected to survive his injures, police officials said Tuesday.
Avery Harris, 36, checked into Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital with gunshot wounds to the abdomen, not long after a Fort Worth man called police to report that he had shot an intruder inside his apartment and that the burglar had fled.
Lt. Gene Jones, a police spokesman, said investigators were able to collect evidence that confirmed Harris was the suspect involved in the burglary. He faces a charge of burglary of a habitation.
THORNTON, TX -- A Thornton man shot an intruder who tried to break into his home early Friday morning as he was on the phone with 9-1-1 waiting for sheriff’s deputies to arrive.
Vincent Llanas called the Milam County Sheriff’s Office at 12:32 a.m. Friday, saying a man was trying to open the door to his home on County Road 433, according to a statement from the department.
While Llanas spoke with the dispatcher, the suspected intruder, Joel Warren Simank, 30, of Thornton, broke a window and tried to unlock the front door, according to the statement. Llanas grabbed a .12-gauge shotgun and shot at the door.
ALIQUIPPA, PA - A shooting on Irwin Street in Aliquippa Sunday afternoon had an unexpected result for city police - the victim was a man they had been searching for since a May homicide on Franklin Avenue.
Michael W. Ross, 21, was shot in the leg Sunday after he entered a home at 1221 Irwin St. around 4:15 p.m. and demanded money from residents, said Sgt. Don Couch, city police detective. Ross got some cash and fled, chased by Willie Jordan Jr., a resident of the Irwin Street home, who was also armed.
Couch said gunfire erupted between the two on Irwin Street. Ross, who was struck in the leg, made it around the corner to Maratta Road, where he was found by city police.
