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FAIRFIELD, Calif. -- A woman shot and killed her suspected kidnapper as he was fleeing officers with her and a baby in the car, police said. Fairfield police say the woman was in a car when she tried to get the attention of an officer, saying she was being assaulted and kidnapped. The car drove off, with the officer in pursuit. The driver crashed into several other cars a few blocks away.

Police said they killed a suspected shooter Sunday after the gunman injured several other people at an apartment complex in Southern California. Advertisement According to police, the shooter opened fire in the pool area of a San Diego apartment complex. The shooter pointed a gun toward police when three officers shot him, police said. There are least eight victims, four men and and four women, San Diego police Chief Shelley Zimmerman said. The names of the victims have not been released. Police will only say four African American women, two African American men, and one Hispanic man were shot. Another...

ST. LOUIS (KTVI) – The carjacking suspect wounded in a shootout near Busch Stadium last month has died. (Follow up story from earlier post.)

VERONA, Kentucky (CBS, AP) -- A home intruder was fatally shot in a Kentucky home by 92-year-old farmer and World War II veteran Earl Jones, who reportedly said he had no fear of the man and aimed "right for his heart." Jones he heard a noise in his basement around 2 a.m. on Monday and grabbed his .22-caliber rifle. He said the intruder, 24-year-old Lloyd Maxwell, came up the stairs and kicked open the basement door to his home in northern Kentucky's Boone County. The war veteran said he served in the military from 1941 through 1946. He sat in...

A Texas sheriff called an Oklahoma grandmother a hero Wednesday for preventing a man from abducting one of her granddaughters. Sharrel Blankenbaker, 63, from the small Oklahoma Panhandle town of Felt, was shot to death in the parking lot of a Love's store on Interstate 40 in Amarillo, Texas. Her three grandchildren, ages 5, 12 and 16, witnessed the killing. "It was a tragic event,” Potter County Sheriff Brian Thomas said. "The grandmother at the Love's can be called nothing but a hero.” A man identified as Gary Don Carner, 58, tried to abduct two women, killed Blankenbaker, abducted an...

An off-duty customs agent shopping at a west Houston liquor store shot and killed a man who attempted to rob the store Friday night, police said. The man, who has not yet been identified by police, approached the front counter of Spec’s Town and Country, at 12901 Queensbury around 7:30 p.m., pulled out a gun and ordered customers to the floor. “The agent pulled out his weapon and ordered the suspect to drop his weapon,” Houston police spokesman Gabriel Ortiz said. “The suspect ignored that order and pointed his weapon at the agent,” he continued. “It was at that point...

SAN DIEGO – Neighbors shot and killed a man violating a restraining order early Friday after his ex-girlfriend found him inside her University City apartment, police said. William and Nicole Porter, both 22, were each booked on one count of murder, Capt. Mary Cornicelli said. The 47-year-old victim hasn't been identified

September 29, 2005 -- A "second date" with a couple of hookers left a Brooklyn college student clinging to life yesterday after the women lured him and a buddy to a Bensonhurst street, where they were set upon by a pair of thugs who shot him in the head during a robbery. In a bizarre twist, one robber fatally shot the other during the struggle. Azmat Mushtaq, 19, and Muhammad Usman, 20, met the women Monday night at a Midtown gyro stand and paired off to have sex in Mushtaq's white Infiniti, police sources said... ...two men approached the car...

A Walnut Hills man got a terrifying surprise Friday morning. Two men stormed through the front door of his home and shots were fired. When it was over, one man was dead and another man was traumatized. Corey Simley told FOX19 over the telephone that he did not know the intruder and feels horrible about what happened. Around 8:00 p.m. Friday morning, at his apartment in Walnut Hills, Simley's life was forever changed. In Simley's own words to a 911 operator, here's what happened. Simley told the 911 operator that he shot Michael Harris, 22, in the face. Harris died...