The details are complicated, and I would say not explained very well, but then the reporter is relying on some bystanders/witnesses for parts of the story, and they are not as clear as the police statement.
He was apparently stalking the girl, and he showed up at her stepdad's home. He fired through the door, and then kicked in the door. He was shot twice for his trouble, and did not survive. The girl was also shot, and was taken to a local hospital.
That is my interpretation, but I may be completely wrong. The police said much less about the incident.
The police chief, RaShall Brackney, went on at some length about "finding the triggers of domestic violence." I would say human nature, but what do I know? And in all the ways this could have turned out, I think I can say that the bad guy got justice in this case, though he managed to inflict some harm, so we can't say "Bad Guys 0."
The homeowner was released after questioning, without being charged, because self-defense is a human right. It appears to be a legal right in Mississippi.
A hateful mob of keffiyeh-clad anti-Israel protesters flooded the streets near a historic Manhattan synagogue Tuesday night — clashing with cops as they repeatedly shouted “Israel should not exist.”
It was an organized "protest."
The 7 p.m. protest was led by the anti-Israel activist group Pal-Awda NY/NJ, which promoted the rally with slogans such as “No settlers on stolen land” and “Stop the sale of stolen Palestinian land.”
Authorities confirmed that two German citizens were killed — a 63-year-old woman and a 77-year-old man. At least two people were seriously injured, while around 20 others suffered minor injuries, according to emergency services.
You can click thru for the details.
Leipzig, Germany is in the state of Saxony. It is about 140 kilometers, or 87 miles, southwest of Berlin.
Authorities have not commented directly on his mental health but both the Bild daily [a German newspaper] and local broadcaster MDR reported that he had recently been receiving treatment in a psychiatric facility.
Bild said he had admitted himself to the centre, but was asked to leave on Sunday due to aggressive behaviour towards other patients.
On December 20, 2024, six people were killed here — five women and a 9-year-old boy — and more than 300 were injured, some severely, when a man drove a vehicle into the crowds. His precise motives remain unclear.
A French court on Tuesday convicted eight people charged in connection with a truck attack more than six years ago by an Islamic State sympathizer that killed 86 people celebrating Bastille Day in the French Riviera city of Nice.
The judge's verdict followed 3 1/2 months of sometimes heart-wrenching testimony from survivors of the 2016 attack, who during the trial described the horrors and carnage they witnessed that Thursday summer night and the impact on their lives since.
Nice, France is about 133 kilometers, or 83 miles east of Marseille, or about 140 kilometers south of Turin, Italy.
A judge sentenced a man who killed six people and injured many others when he drove his SUV through a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee to life in prison with no chance of release Wednesday, rejecting arguments from him and his family that mental illness drove him to do it.
Waukesha, Wisconsin is about 14 miles west of downtown Milwaukee.
If your goal was actually saving lives, actually preventing innocent people from getting killed, you'd be having the exact same conversation about cars that you have about firearms.
The American Left Is In Thrall To Political Violence
Jack Posobiec on X: "Posobiec says WCHD shooter Cole Allen suffers from “main character syndrome”: “They all think they’re the hero of a movie”
Appalachia Lithium Cache Could Power U.S. for Centuries
The newly published lithium resource numbers are estimates, and much more work needs to be done to take advantage of our current mineral capacity.
The Democratic Party’s America: Kamala buys a house. Matt Walsh – Abandon the truth. The critics are wrong. A moderate Muslim speaker.
China Carney’s Canada: Motive unknown. China is our new strategic partner.
ITEM 4: The U.S. Geological Survey found enough lithium in the USA to replace 328 years of imports from Red China and other backward places.
The bad news is it is located in New England and New York.
1. A decent example of Canada moving from a nation of rule of law to a dialectically driven, narrative based state
2. Multiculturalism in Spain is going as expected
A United Airlines aircraft on Sunday struck a light pole on its final descent into Newark International Airport causing damage to the post and a tractor trailer traveling on a nearby highway
We Can't Talk Anymore Because Our Moral Visions Are So Far Apart
Democrats’ leftist takeover is complete with Graham Platner’s rise in Maine US Senate race
Secret Service agent in town to do security analysis at Trump Doral is arrested for following women around and then dropping his pants outside their room and masturbating right in the hall.
During their investigation, it was determined that the male subject arrived at the residence and knocked and banged on the front door and windows prior to entering the residence through the unlocked sliding glass door. After entering the residence, the male subject then kicked in the male resident’s bedroom door, at which point he was shot two times, according to authorities.
The guy who got shot was taken to a local hospital. The investigation is just getting started.
The police did say this was in relation to a domestic dispute, but offered no other information.
Mt. Dora, Florida is about a 30 mile drive northwest of downtown Orlando.
Self-defense is a human right, and this didn't take place in NYC.
I used to ask, "How is the criminal justice reform working out?" I don't ask anymore, because it is clear that it has failed the people the system is supposed to protect.
This murder took place in 2024, but someone has now been charged.
Court records show prosecutors have now charged Shontrell Moon, 20, with Campbell’s murder.
The shooting occurred three months after Moon skipped court on a pending felony gun charge, records show.
So he's arrested on a felony gun case, and set free. (No cash bail is the thing in Illinois. Social Justice.) He ignores his court date, and (allegedly) shot 20-year-old Keyante Campbell in the head. So who is the no cash bail protecting, and from what? It didn't protect Campbell.
This report continues our coverage of individuals accused of killing, shooting, or trying to kill or shoot others on pretrial release for a felony allegation. CWBChicago began our series of reports in November 2019 after then-Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans publicly stated, “We haven’t had any horrible incidents occur” under the court’s bond reform initiative.
I think Keyante Campbell's mother would disagree with that "no horrible outcome" statement. Click thru for the stats on the horrible outcomes.
There will always be a market for factual and accurate journalism, but by publishing only one side of an important issue with layoffs looming, the Associated Press may get what it certainly deserves.
It is an insult to defend such a map by shouting “RAAAAACISM” at anyone who criticizes it, which is the essence of the Democrats’ reaction. One wonders whether they are (a) so ignorant they don’t understand the law and the Constitution, or (b) so dishonest they think they can frighten people with their feigned outrage and false claims.
I’ve been seized by inspiration (or maybe madness, they’re hard to tell apart sometimes) and begun scribbling a baseball fantasy that I hope has more interesting story and not so much number crunching.
But I’d forgotten that Social Justice has neither time nor use for happy, successful minorities. I should’ve been ashamed: by internalizing a positive view of the world, I’d become divorced from my Blackness. I was no longer a militant upstart at Williamstown, but a rising New York talent that had graduated to sharing stages with Broadway stars.
I’d fallen out of step with the aggressive identitarianism of the progressive creative class.
There is very little information provided about this incident.
Once at the home, the fire crew and police officers found a man who had been shot once and who died despite efforts to keep him alive, according to police officials.
The initial 911 call indicated that the shooting was in self-defense during a domestic violence attack and involved multiple family members, including a juvenile
This sounds like a violent husband/father attacked the mother and/or the child. The child put an end to the attack. We don't know that is what happened. Because it is a domestic violence incident, and it involves a child, it is unlikely that any more information will be released.
The Left loves to say that children should not have any access to firearms. So are the saying that it would be better for this guy to continue beating his wife, and perhaps beat her to death? Also, how old do you need to be to defend yourself?
The Left also loves to go on about the statistic that if you own a gun, you are more likely to shoot someone you know than a perfect stranger. They want you to believe that every one of those shootings is a tragic accident. This shooting was not a tragic accident. People you know, can be a threat.
Benicia, California is about 18 miles north of Oakland in the San Francisco Bay Area, though the drive from Oakland will be more like 30 miles.
In any event, self-defense is a human right. I don't think even a deep-blue city prosecutor, is going to go after a juvenile for defending his mother from a domestic assault, but it is California. (Hat tip to Keep and Bear Arms.)
"A teacher chose to designate a student as the “most likely to become a dictator.” A parent brought this issue to my attention. I immediately took action to investigate the issue," Kamoutsas wrote in an Aug. 21 X post. "I found probable cause and will take every necessary action to ensure this teacher never teaches again."
Because the school system is not about teaching. It is about indoctrination.
There was a shooting near a stip of bars in the vicinity of OSU. Cops are searching for "person of interest." Click thu for those details.
Ashlyn Caldwell is apparently a student at OSU, getting notifications from the university. She was on the strip and disturbed to discover that there was a shooting.
“You hear about shootings every day, but you never think that you’re going to witness one or like be in the same proximity as one, and it’s weird to see the strip today, it’s completely normal,” said Caldwell. “It’s like nothing happened, but I was here just 12 hours ago or whatever, and there was a shooting here.”
As Tolkien said, you can fence yourself in, but you cannot fence the world out. OSU and environs are not Mayberry RFD, they are in fact part of the Real World were crime can, and often does, happen. You are not protected by your zip code.
I doubt this will change Ashlyn Caldwell's outlook on life, or the outlook of any other university student in 2026.
This is May the Fourth. Star Wars Day. And we are about 3 weeks out from the release of Star Wars movie, and interest in the franchise couldn't be lower.
The first 30 or 40 seconds of the video are definitely worth your time, even if you don't care about Star Wars. It is how they tell people who object to politics being forced into everything, to not read the books, watch the shows or movies, and then are shocked when people stay away.
The entire video is 23 minutes, which I enjoyed, but most of it you don't need to watch... just listen to. (Watch the first 40 seconds)
A while back when had a tribute to Phil Campbell of Motörhead. I thought we would have another go at that band.
I didn't use this song, because while Campbell did have a songwriting credit on it, they brought in C.C. DeVille of Poison for the guitar solo. Campbell does play guitar throughout the song.
Officials said it appeared to be a first-degree burglary, possibly turned self-defense.
Police said the suspect was shot in his upper torso; they didn’t have an update on his condition.
The homeowner was not injured.
Oklahoma has what's been called an extreme form of the Castle Doctrine, called Make My Day. That is how it was phrased when the law, overturning the judge-invented mandate for the "duty to retreat" in your own home. (Details at this link.)
I'm not a lawyer, but the Castle Doctrine is a long-standing tradition in the West, even if it has been abandoned by the UK and Europe. Click that 2nd link for an Oklahoma lawyer's explanation of self-defense laws.
Self-defense is a human right, and Oklahoma City is a long way from NYC.
On the judge-invented duty to retreat. No politician ever voted for a law that says you cannot defend your family in your own home. Prosecutors and judges, who hate self-defense (You must rely on the State, even for things it cannot provide) created that "duty" out of whole cloth.
I think people should leave windows. Most people are not using software that requires Windows, and Micrslop has turned a once good, if not great operating system, into a nightmare of issues, and broken systems. From Bleeping Computer: April KB5083769 Windows 11 update causes backup software failures
This issue sounds like it probably hit corporate users more than home users, though it does impact Windows 11 Home. But my stance on Windows holds. Most people are using web browsers, word processors, and spreadsheets, and you don't need to use Windows for that.
Multiple vendors have been impacted by this change. This tells me something fundamental was changed, and API or something similar, without thought, or advanced notice. But mostly without thought. Changes were made to Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS), which was introduced in 2003 to make sure that backups worked.
The list of software impacted by this known issue includes, but is not limited to, products from Acronis (Cyber Protect Cloud), Macrium (Reflect), NinjaOne Backup, and UrBackup Server.
Acronis has also published a support document confirming that the issue affects Windows 11 Pro and Home editions, causing backup operations to fail.
At least there is a fix, and you can click thru for that, and more technical details on the issue.
This kind of thing is becoming so common on Windows, it is hard to decide what, if any, quality control is being done. If they had done any testing around this feature, they would have discovered the impact to 3rd party software. Maybe they just don't care about quality anymore.
There was a shooting incident at a Costco in Ohio. Click thru for some details on that. The real issue was that people were not getting out of Dodge.
If you hear gunfire, anywhere but at a shooting range, get out of the vicinity. Run, like your life depended on it. And another thing...
A public service announcement of sorts:
For the love of sweet Baby Jesus riding a winged camel, abandon the gorramed shopping cart and get the fuck out of the area!
At best toss it to a side where it won’t be blocking a escape route for others or incoming route for First Responders.
Do people not realize that you don't own the stuff in "your shopping cart" until after you've checked out? And even if you have checked out, $200 worth of stuff is not worth my life. Where do you draw the line on abandoning paper towels? (Nothing in that cart is an irreplaceable family heirloom.)
I don’t recall the last time I got so mad reading a book. And I am not mad at the author by any stretch of the imagination, but I am seething at bureaucrats and politicians that have blocked, impeded and belittled armed personnel in schools.
Ed Monk did an amazing job collecting the data on active shooters, what made them most of them “successful” and what made some a failure. And then he goes on to make us rethink in realistic terms about the number of casualties which will never be zero, but we can keep to a minimal number if real common sense is applied and not what passes a “common sense regulations” by politicians and activists who I believe are just stuck of what does not work to line their pockets with that sweet donations’ cash.
The AI Menace will not invade the Oscars. Not that anyone outside of Hollywood cares about the Oscars anymore. Oscars: No AI Actors, Screenplays; Acting, International Rule Changes. And Only some parts of movies will be clanker free, if I read this correctly. The people who "matter" will be protected. The working stiffs are SOL.
This just made me smile. Well, Pixy Misa's take (see below) made me smile.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in an announcement on Friday of updates to its rules and regulations, eliminated any gray area about its position on artificial intelligence: AI is not welcome at the Oscars.
This is mostly about AI actors, and AI written scripts.
I don't expect that this will stretch to work done for post-production, like digital/special effects, and I don't think it includes music.
I usually don't cover an infrastructure failure more than once, but Grady, of Practical Engineering, has a new video review of the failure. It turns out that he worked on a similar dam after the failure.
Here is a reference from The US Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation factsheet on the incident. Teton Dam History & Facts. (For more links, see below the embedded video.)
On June 5, 1976, Teton Dam in southeastern Idaho catastrophically failed during its first fill. Early that Saturday morning, bulldozer operators tried in vain to plug seepage holes on the downstream face of the dam. By 11 a.m., a torrent of water ripped through the dam, releasing more than 1 million cubic feet per second.
For more from the Bureau of Reclamation, see this link. That collects a lot of info, including some interviews with people impacted by the failure, and there is a link to the final report on what went wrong from the independent panel assigned to investigate the failure.
The backstory: The officer in question, Jason Valenzuela, was involved in a shooting that killed Christian Diaz on Jan. 26, 2026. Diaz had disarmed an intruder at his home near 75th Avenue and Lower Buckeye Road.
He basically showed up, shouted, and opened fire in a handful of seconds.
