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SHIAWASSEE COUNTY, Mich. — A Shiawassee County jury has come to a decision in the first-degree murder trial of a trucker charged with two fatal shootings. Harlan Drake, 33, was found guilty of first-degree premeditated murder. The verdict means Drake will spend the rest of his life in prison with no chance for parole. Drake, who admitted killing anti-abortion activist James Pouillon and Owosso-area businessman Mike Fuoss, claimed he was insane last September and should not be found guilty. Pouillon, an aggressive pro-life activist, was shot four times while clutching a sign with a picture of a dead fetus near...

Harlan Drake, the 33-year old man arrested in connection with the murder of the Christian pro-life activist James “Jim” Pouillon as well as business owner Mike Fuoss told detectives that he targeted Pouillon because he was “offended” by his pro-life message. Drake also revealed that he planned to target a third man, but was arrested before he could carry out his plan. This morning around 7:20 a.m., Drake drove to Owosso High School where he shot and killed Pouillon as he held a poster of a baby with the word, “Life,” written across the front. A press release from Citizens...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- President Barack Obama waited over 48 hours before finally releasing a very short statement condemning the Friday shooting of pro-life advocate James Pouillon. in hours of the shooting of late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller, Obama had a statement, but he drug his feet on this incident. As LifeNews.com reported, Pouillon, 63, was shot Friday morning as he protested abortion outside a local hospital in Owosso, Michigan.Local officials have detained 33-year-old Harlan Drake, who told police he killed Jim Pouillon because he didn't like how he would protest abortion in front of the school.Obama's brief statement is...

The mainstream media don't know what to do with the recent killing of a pro-life (anti-abortion) activist who was killed on Friday of this week in Owosso, Michigan. Rachel Maddow proves that in the video below, as she just doesn't want to admit that someone would kill a Pro-Lifer over ideology. Such an acknowledgment would necessarily discredit her "Pro-Choicers-Are-Heroes-and-Anti-Abortionists-Are-Dangerous" paradigm. This killing, which comes only three months after late-term abortionist George Tiller was shot to death in his own church, hopefully will cause not just the media but all those involved in the culture war over abortion to stop...

Someone needs to ask the question. The media liked that question whenever they could turn a unitarian shooting into an attack on talk radio. So it must be a fair question to ask of liberal activists too, no?

OWOSSO, Mich. (AP) - A jailed Michigan trucker charged with gunning down two people, including an anti-abortion protester, cut his arm in an apparent suicide attempt, prosecutors said Saturday as they disclosed that the man's mother once worked with another intended victim. Harlan James Drake, 33, was taken to a hospital with a self-inflicted wound near his wrist, Shiawassee County Prosecutor Randy Colbry said. He didn't know exactly when Drake was transported or what he used to cut himself. "He attempted suicide. It sounds like he's going to make it but it's a serious gash, a very serious wound to...

OWOSSO, Mich. (AP) - A man carrying grudges against several people in town set off on a shooting spree Friday morning, authorities said, killing an abortion protester outside a school because he didn't like that the activist carried a sign with graphic images of a fetus in front of students. Before he was done, the gunman drove to a gravel pit and shot and killed the owner, apparently for different reasons, police said. Authorities believe they stopped a third killing by catching up with him before he could pull the trigger. "The defendant had ill will toward these three individuals—not...

He was known for his outspoken anti-abortion protests all around Owosso. "When I went into town, you'd often see him on his corner," says friend Ron Ackals. And as he was picketing Friday morning outside Owosso High School, prosecutors say 63-year-old James Pouillon was gunned down-- shot up to 10 times-- by a drive-by shooter targeting the man for his message. When 33-year-old suspect Harlan Drake was apprehended at his home, police learned more. "Upon his arrest, he made statements he'd been involved in another homicide that day," says Owosso Police Chief Michael Compeau. That led them to another crime...

CORUNNA, Michigan -- The Shiawassee County Prosecutor's office has charged Harlan J. Drake, 33, of Owosso with two counts of first-degree, premeditated murder in Friday's slaying of an anti-abortion activist in Owosso and an Owosso Towship gravel pit owner. County Prosecutor Randy Colbry said Drake also had plans to kill an Owosso realtor but was arrested before he could carry out his alleged plan.