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Category Archives: Random Victim

Armed Citizen Shootings: the Chris Bird Collection

From full article at findarticles.com:
Remember the officers’ appreciation of Rory Vertigan’s actions the next time you hear some anti-gunner saying, “The cops don’t want private citizens to carry guns.”

“How a Gun Could Have Saved My Parents’ Lives”

From full article at GOA:
Texas state Rep. Suzanna Gratia-Hupp is recognized worldwide as one of the leading advocates for an individual’s right to carry a concealed firearm. Several years ago, while testifying in opposition to additional gun control legislation, she related the emotional account of how she lost both of her parents to a lone [...]

Edward McMichael (“Tuba Man”)

From full article at Seattle PI:
Seattle knew Edward McMichael by sight or sound, the bespectacled guy with the wispy beard and floppy Uncle Sam and Dr. Seuss hats. For decades he breathed life into his shiny brass instrument, outside city sports venues.
On Oct. 25, police say, McMichael, 53, was near a bus stop in the [...]

Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom

From full article at Las Vegas Now:
Christian, a University of Tennessee student, and Newsom were on a date Jan. 6, 2007, when her sport utility vehicle was carjacked at gunpoint by several people in Knoxville.
The attackers blindfolded and bound the couple and took them to a rundown rental house. Police concluded Newsom was soon taken [...]

William A. Petit Jr., Jennifer Hawke-Petit, Hayley and Michaela

From full article at NY Times:
The men, the authorities say, had already strangled Dr. Petit’s wife, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, 48, and in short order would also kill the couple’s two daughters, Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11. The elder suspect, Steven J. Hayes, 44, had poured gasoline on the girls and their mother, according to a lawyer [...]

Michael Woolson

From full article at Seattle Times:
A 17-year-old Kirkland resident who prosecutors say stabbed a man to steal his iPod “apparently for the fun of it” was charged Wednesday as an adult.
Michael J. McMahill-Dearmond, who lives in the 13000 block of 105th Avenue Northeast with his mother, was charged with first-degree assault and first-degree attempted robbery, [...]

Shannon Harps

From full article at KIRO TV:
According to Seattle police, they have arrested a suspect in the stabbing death of 31-year-old Shannon Harps in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood on New Year’s Eve.
Shannon Harps, an organizer with the Sierra Club, was killed outside her apartment building on Capitol Hill.
Seattle police announced Friday that they have arrested 48-year-old [...]

Meredith Emerson

From full article at WSB TV:
Authorities have said they believe Emerson was kidnapped in Union County and killed in Dawson County.
Her body was found nearly 50 miles from where she vanished during a New Year’s Day hike near Blood Mountain in Union County. An autopsy report says Emerson was beaten to death and then decapitated.
Hilton [...]

Mary Cooper and Susanna Stodden

From full article at Seattle PI:
A mother and daughter slain this week while hiking a popular trail in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest were shot, a Snohomish County Sheriff’s spokesman said Thursday.
Deputy Rich Niebusch provided few other details about the killings of Mary Cooper, 56, a librarian at Decatur AEII Elementary School, and her daughter, [...]

Denise Lee

From full article at CNN:

A Florida jury has recommended the death penalty for a plumber who kidnapped, raped and murdered a police detective’s daughter.
Michael King, 38, showed no reaction Friday afternoon as the jury’s 12-0 decision was announced in Sarasota. Jurors deliberated for nearly three hours.
King was convicted a week ago of first-degree murder and [...]