- MA: Joseph Domurat, 61, shot and killed his wife, 57-year-old Noreen and the couple’s dog, a Great Dane, then turned the gun on himself.
- CO: Man accused of shooting wife’s cat for revenge ‘to get back at her’. Paul John Vickers also faces charges of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, cultivation, and possession of more than 450 grams of marijuana.
- MI: Hassan Masbouth, 52, the man accused of gunning down a competing gas station owner in Detroit last year during a gas price war was shot and killed today; he was scheduled for trial on April 7. Masbouth was pulling out of a driveway when a man between 25 and 30 years old walked up to Masbouth’s SUV and fired multiple shots with a handgun.
- OH: Dad fatally shot as he tried to ‘jump on’ son, ex-wife told 911.
- CA: One man was killed and four others injured in a drive-by shooting outside the ‘Church of the Living God’ in Richmond, as a group of volunteers were bringing homeless people off of the street to feed them. Police don’t believe the homeless people and church volunteers were the intended targets.
- IL: An 18-year-old student, Chavez Clarke, was shot and killed outside a parking lot of a Chicago South Side high school, Simeon Career Academy on Saturday afternoon; 4 males are in custody.
- CT: Police Officer Matthew Morelli apparently staged his death in a South Norwalk church parking to make it look as if he were the victim of a homicide while on duty. Morelli, 38, an officer for 11 years, fired two bullets into the parking lot pavement from his Sig Sauer P226 service weapon, then aimed an AK-47 at himself and pulled the trigger.
- KS: A mother begged for justice after her son, Jose Macias Jr., 17, was gunned down as he walking down a Kansas City street from a drive-by shooting. A second person was shot and in critical condition.
- SC: 18-year-old Jerry De La Rosa was involved in a fight with two other men Friday afternoon when he was fatally shot in the chest.
- CA: Rescuers on a San Fernando freeway found a driver fatally shot in the head, while another driver was shot and wounded in a separate attack about 30 miles away in Long Beach. The incidents were the latest in a string of Southern California freeway shootings stretching back several weeks.
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Gun Policy News Feed- Site has been updated May 17, 2010