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The morning after a deadly attack on two military centers in Chattanooga, residents in Hiram are standing watch outside the local recruiting office with their personal firearms. It is their unique way of honoring the fallen Marines and they said to protect the lives of those who serve in the military. "I teared up. I think any human being would be touched by what happened yesterday. Any U.S. citizen that has a heart and a soul to hear what had happened," said Crystal Tewellow, who organized the watch. Recruiting offices are designated as being "gun-free zones" which means officers working...

Amateur on-site video. Not news footage. This man has it right as he is the first responder when a man tries to carjack him. Great onsite video. Not a news feed story.

Albany, GA Woman Fights Off Burglars With Firearm

ROSWELL, Ga. — A Georgia liquor store clerk credits his police officer son with giving him two life-saving gifts — a cell phone and a gun. Joseph Wescott says the phone he slipped into his shirt pocket stopped a knife to his chest when a robbery suspect attacked him at the store in a northern Atlanta suburb. He then reached under the counter for the .40-caliber handgun and shot the man. "The knife that he had looked like it was about 10-foot long," the 67-year-old Wescott exclaimed. When the suspect lunged at Wescott, he fell back and the knife struck...

Bailey said he thought it was the end of his life and the lives of the 10 people inside his apartment for a birthday party after two masked men with guns burst in through a patio door. “They just came in and separated the men from the women and said, ‘Give me your wallets and cell phones,’” said George Williams of the College Park Police Department. Bailey said the gunmen started counting bullets. “The other guy asked how many (bullets) he had. He said he had enough,” said Bailey. That’s when one student grabbed a gun out of a backpack...

A DeKalb County auto parts store employee shot and killed a would-be thief Thursday night during a botched armed robbery attempt, police said. DeKalb County police are still looking for a second would-be robber, who fled on foot after the shooting. Just before 10 p.m., police responded to an armed robbery and person shot report at the Auto Zone at 1805 Memorial Drive in Atlanta. "One of the employees saw two individuals in the parking lot changing clothes and putting on masks," DeKalb Police spokesman Marcus Hodge said. The two men entered the store with weapons drawn, but the store...

An armed man who tried to carjack a motorist at a DeKalb County gas station Sunday was killed when the motorist shot at him, police said.DeKalb police said the would-be carjacker, Banarrek Von Clayton, 28, was shot in the leg and later died at Grady Memorial Hospital.The motorist, Brian Dean, 24, told police he was at a gas station in the 4300 block of Glenwood Road at about 3 a.m. when Clayton approached him and threatened him with a gun.Dean then took out his gun and shot Clayton in the leg, said Sgt. Willie Durrett.Clayton was able to drive off...

A man whom police say tried to rob a couple outside an Atlanta bar is shot and killed

A robbery suspect was shot six times and killed by his intended victim outside an East Atlanta Village bar Wednesday night, police said. The incident occurred shortly before midnight in the 1200 block of Glenwood Avenue in southeast Atlanta, about two miles from the scene of last week’s high-profile killing of a bar worker near Grant Park. In the Wednesday incident, a man and woman had just left the Graveyard Tavern and were sitting inside their car waiting for the vehicle to warm up when a man approached with a gun and demanded money, Atlanta police Sgt. Lisa Keyes told...

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. -- A father protecting his family during a hold up shot and killed a robber late Thursday night. The family of four had just returned home from a school recital. After parking in their driveway the family was walking up the front walk at their house on Stardust Circle when three robbers stopped them. During the confrontation the father pulled out a gun and opened fire, killing one of the robbers. The other men ran off. "It was a home invasion, but this time the invasion was on the other foot," said one neighbor. The neighbor says...

A Roswell woman on her daily walk Friday morning was attacked by a neighbor's pit bull, which tore into her head, police said. The woman, who was saved by neighbors responding to her screams, was in surgery Friday morning at North Fulton Regional Hospital for severe but non-life threatening injuries, said Roswell Police Lt. James McGee. Neighbors tried to stop the attack by beating the dog with sticks and shovels, but "they didn't faze him," said Charles Tedford, president of the homeowners association in the Lake Forest subdivision, where the attack occurred. The dog finally stopped and turned on a...

It looks like the victim stopped the suspect in his tracks. The victim is a 57 year old woman who lives alone. But that only made her more prepared to protect herself. Even though she was abruptly awakened while asleep, it didn't take long for her to come to her senses and take aim at the suspect who turned out to be a neighbor. Detectives say 19 year old Justin Brent Haynie got into his neighbors home while she slept and put a knife to her throat. During the struggle Sergeant Calvin Chew says the victim, a 57 year old...

GAINESVILLE - A would be home invader was shot and killed early Sunday morning in South Hall County. Sheriff's Major Jeff Strickland said a man approached a home in the 4000 block of Winder Highway and when confronted by the homeowner fired several shots. "The perpetrator fired several shots toward the homeowner ," Strickland said, "The homeowner was able to return fire, striking and killing the perpetrator." Strickland said the homeowner will not face charges. "Preliminary investigating shows the homeowner acted in self defense," Strickland said. "And not charges will be filed." The homeowner was not injured in the incident.

The boy was part of a group of teens, numbering about four, who tried to rob the pizza store employee at the Huntingwood Pointe apartments in the 2900 block of Campbellton Road shortly after 10 p.m. Authorities said the driver, who works for a neighborhood pizza parlor, pulled out a gun and fired, hitting and killing the boy. Police did not say whether they planned on charging the driver, adding they were still investigating.

Police said a 14-year-old boy was defending himself and his mother when he shot and killed an intruder Monday afternoon at their home on Ocean Drive. Capt. John Houston said the 14-year-old boy, whose name was not released, was home from school after becoming ill, and his 46-year-old mother, Rose Ann Kozlowski, had just returned from the grocery store when she was confronted by a man with a knife. ... After the robber caught the woman trying to untie herself once, she was able to free herself and her son and find her husband's pistol in a security box under...

CENTERVILLE - Police will not charge a Macon man who shot a burglary suspect in the arm Friday night on Houston Avenue, Macon police said. Hubert O'Neal, 39, was shot twice in the arm and charged with burglary, according to a police report. He told police he was shot during a drive-by shooting, the report stated. The shooter, Robert Nichols, 60, told police that he saw a man in his fenced-in yard shortly before midnight Friday, the report said. Nichols told police that he followed the man to the side of the house and the man came at him, the...