WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukraine’s military is allowed to use longer-range missiles provided by the U.S. to strike targets inside Russia across more than just the front lines near Kharkiv if Kyiv is acting in self-defense, the Pentagon said. President Joe Biden initially loosened the restrictions on how Ukraine could use U.S.-provided munitions to give it […]
A woman was killed Wednesday and the man who shot her will not be charged because Rock Hill police said he did it in self-defense. Rock Hill police responded to the shooting at about 3:10 p.m. at Riverwalk Parkway near Cel River Road and found a woman who was shot in the chest. Police seek […]
One of the most experienced pro MMA fighters ever claims self-defense after fatally shooting a man in North Phoenix. According to a media advisory issued by the Phoenix Police Department and acquired by MMA Junkie, Shannon Ritch shot and killed Alejandro Samplina at approximately 9:20 p.m. ET. The alleged incident was first reported by FOX10 […]
PHOENIX – A parking-related issue in the parking lot of a north Phoenix Twin Peaks ended in the death of a 32-year-old man and an MMA fighter claiming self-defense, police said. At around 9:20 p.m. near 31st Avenue and Beardsley Road on Saturday, June 15, officers responded after getting word a person was shot and […]
A Manhattan man accused of fatally bashing in his neighbor’s head with a cricket bat says the weapon actually belonged to the man he killed and he was defending himself from an attack. Victor Springer, 35, faces murder charges for the Saturday killing of 40-year-old Guillermo Edgardo Ortiz Palacios in Harlem, but his lawyer contends […]
On the night a Boise man was shot at a Vista neighborhood house, Jed Earls showed off the gun he had tucked into his waistband and worried that he would “do something stupid” with it, according to a friend’s testimony at his recently concluded trial. Earls did do something with that gun. He pointed it […]
For the past decade, “Stand Your Ground” laws have been invoked time and time again by gun owners who claim self-defense after carrying out shootings. Critics have denounced them as “shoot first” laws that have created a climate of vigilantism in which gun owners operate with impunity in killing largely Black people. The concept resurfaced […]
An 85-year-old Idaho woman shot and killed an intruder in her home in what a county prosecutor called “one of the most heroic acts of self-preservation I have ever heard of.” Bingham County Prosecutor Ryan Jolley said in a case review that the woman, identified Wednesday as Christine Jenneiahn, acted in self-defense and ruled it […]
A hair salon owner heading to work on a July morning was suddenly the target of a racist, road rage-fueled pursuit in Coral Springs that ended in the death of the man chasing him and his own arrest, attorneys say. Melvin Foster said he shot Thomas Sconzo that day in 2021 because he was afraid […]
FOND DU LAC — With the investigation concluded, more information has been released in the October officer-involved shooting at Drury Place. Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney said during a March 25 joint press conference with Fond du Lac County Sheriff Ryan Waldschmidt that his office found no basis to issue criminal charges […]
Mar. 23—If danger presented itself, would you be able to recognize a threat and have the confidence to defend yourself ? The West Virginia University Police Department is hoping to provide a little extra confidence for those lacking—or hoping to refine—their self-defense skills. WVUPD is hosting a P.R.O.T.E.C.T. training class from 5-9 p.m. March 25, […]
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s government has prepared new legislation to boost the nation’s capacity for self-defense, including more funding for first aid courses, better public warning systems, and more emergency shelters, officials said Friday. Ministers of defense and of the interior said the bill was prompted by the war that neighboring Ukraine is fighting […]