Man Wanted By Police, Killed In Car Theft Shooting

By Bob Irwin

Bob Irwin highlights the latest self defense and other shootings of the week. Read them and see what went wrong, what went right and what we can learn from self defense with a gun.

USA –-(Ammoland.com)- WMC Action News 5 reports 07-28-2017 in Memphis Tennessee, a shooting took place shortly before 5:30 p.m. on Poppen Drive near Kimball Street and Semmes Street.

Memphis Police Department has identified a man shot on Friday afternoon as a local 36-year-old. He was found inside a 2015 Nissan Frontier pickup with a gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police said the 36 year old reportedly broke out the back window of the vehicle with an iron chair and climbed through the window. The truck was in its owner’s driveway. The owner said warned he the suspect, “I said don’t do nothing else, walk away, don’t do nothing, he looked at me then he dived into the truck.”

The owner told police that weapons were in his vehicle, and he thought the criminal was armed. Therefore he shot him with a handgun. The …Read the Rest

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