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Hostage-taker killed during standoff BY KERRY DRENNAN AVALANCHE-JOURNAL A Lubbock Police officer fired the fatal shot that ended a 17-hour standoff with an ex-con who, at one point, held a Friona family hostage after stealing several cars and firing at multiple law enforcement officers. Officer Scott Weems was placed on paid administrative leave Sunday, as is Lubbock Police Department policy pending the outcome of the investigations into the shooting death of Robby Lynn Vaughn, 37, of Muleshoe, Chief Claude Jones said. "We'll be looking at it policy-wise, but everything looks good," Jones said. The Texas Rangers are conducting an independent...

(MOBILE, Ala.) Mar. 10 - A man is dead after Mobile police open fire in a crowded shopping center parking lot. It started around 9:30 Wednesday morning in front of the Big K-Mart on Schillinger Road near Airport Boulevard. Police say they were called because a man was driving erratically in the parking lot. When police arrived, 40-year-old Wayne Stewart was changing a tire. Officers say Stewart was bleeding and appeared very upset. When they attempted to calm him down, police say Stewart pulled out a carpet-cutter and lunged towards them. It was then that two officers shot Stewart as...

Cop's bullet hit bystander Albany -- Police say one of two officers firing at moving car shot David Scaringe, 24 An errant bullet that killed a young engineer as he walked along Lark Street came from the gun of one of two police officers who opened fire on an unarmed Delmar man as he allegedly backed his car along a sidewalk to elude arrest. The slaying of 24-year-old David R.A. Scaringe, whose home was less than 50 yards from the busy intersection where he collapsed and died, has triggered an intensive internal investigation into whether the officers were justified in...

<p>A naked maniac hacked his wife to death with a sword in their Bronx apartment yesterday and then lunged at cops howling, "I'm God, kill me!" before an officer shot him and accidentally hit her own partner, too, police said.</p>

<p>A Jefferson County grand jury declined yesterday to indict two detectives in the fatal Dec. 5 shooting of an African-American man holding a box-cutter knife with his hands cuffed behind his back.</p> <p>''Every person in Kentucky, whether a citizen or police officer, has the right of self-defense,'' Commonwealth's Attorney Dave Stengel said at a news conference last night, after the grand jury's decision in the slaying of James Edward Taylor was announced.</p>

Hurst police officer involved in shooting 02/06/2003 By DEBRA DENNIS / The Dallas Morning News A Hurst tactical police officer shot a 38-year-old suspect as they were attempting to serve a search and arrest warrant Wednesday night, authorities said. The unidentified Hurst man was shot two to three times at his apartment after trying to grab the officer's MP-5 submachine gun, said Assistant Police Chief Richard Winstanley. "The suspect had an unknown object in his hand and physically grabbed the officer and the barrel of the officer's gun," he said. The suspect was treated by paramedics at the scene...

FBI studies Garland police shooting 01/25/2003 From Staff Reports Garland Police Chief Larry Wilson asked the FBI on Friday to investigate his officers' fatal shooting of Jorge Cruz. The request comes in response to complaints about the department's use of force against minorities. On Wednesday, a Dallas County grand jury declined to indict the four officers who fired at Mr. Cruz on Aug. 31. The officers also have been cleared by a Garland department shooting review board. According to police reports, Mr. Cruz had threatened neighbors with a knife and attacked the officers after ignoring their commands in English...

(Canada) Officers cleared in dog's shooting But Bear's owner was distressed to learn the German shepherd was shot four times. By KELLY PEDRO, Free Press Crime Reporter Nine officers involved in a botched drug raid in which they killed a family dog were cleared yesterday by an internal London police investigation of any wrongdoing. But Marcie Carroll, whose apartment was mistakenly raided by police, was upset to learn Bear, her six-year-old German shepherd, was shot four times by police, not once as they first told her. "She has had an opportunity to learn things . . . she has not...

<p>Ocean County prosecutor Greg Sackowicz said officials have positively identified the body as Edward Lutes, a 15-year veteran of the Seaside Heights Police Department. He appeared to have died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a vehicle, Sackowicz said.</p> <p>According to Dover Township Police Chief Michael Mastronardy, the body was that of Edward Lutes, a 15-year veteran of the Seaside Heights police department.</p>