Cabbie disarms gunman in robbery attempt

Saturday, January 10, 2015 | 1:15 PM    

KINGSTON, Jamaica – A taxi operator in Falmouth, Trelawny reportedly disarmed a gunman who attacked him on Friday and handed over a Smith and Wesson .38 revolver to the police.

Reports are that about 11:00 pm the taxi operator was held up by a lone gunman when a struggle ensued. The taxi operator managed to disarm the gunman who immediately fled the scene.

The police were alerted and the weapon handed over along with two rounds of ammunition.

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Cabbie disarms gunman in robbery attempt

WEATHERMAN AMBUSH Police seek gunman after TV meteorologist shot

Patrick Crawford, a meteorologist, managed to flag down a construction worker, who called for help. (KCEN-TV)

Authorities were searching for a gunman after a TV meteorologist was shot multiple times during an altercation Wednesday in a Central Texas TV station’s parking lot.

The Texas Department of Public Safety says the shooting occurred around 9:15 a.m. Wednesday outside KCEN-TV’s rural studio on Interstate 35 near Bruceville-Eddy, 75 miles north of Austin.

The station website reports the suspect exchanged words with the victim, on-air meteorologist Patrick Crawford, before pulling out a handgun and shooting several times. Crawford backed his car away from the shooter and drove up to a highway construction crew that called 911. Jim Hice, the station’s news director, says Crawford was wounded in the shoulder and the abdomen.

The shooter fled the scene and police have not yet determined a possible motive.

WacoTrib.com reported that Crawford was stable and resting after undergoing surgery. 

Trooper D.L. Wilson said law enforcement was constructing a forensic map of the scene and said it was still not clear if Crawford knew the suspect.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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WEATHERMAN AMBUSH Police seek gunman after TV meteorologist shot

Three dead, including gunman, in Sydney hostage standoff

Monday, December 15, 2014 | 2:09 PM    

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — Sydney police say three people have died, including the gunman, during a hostage crisis that ended when officers stormed a downtown cafe.

Police said the gunman was killed in a confrontation with police early Tuesday morning. They said in a statement that a 34-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman also died. Four other people were injured.

Police said an investigation is underway because police were involved in an incident in which people died.

Heavily armed police stormed the cafe in the heart of Sydney, ending a siege by an Iranian-born gunman who had held an unknown number of hostages for more than 16 hours.

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Three dead, including gunman, in Sydney hostage standoff

Gunman kills bodyguard of senior Trinidad public servant

Curtis Gibson was shot several times at his home in Malabar, east of Port-of-Spain. (File photo)

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, Friday June 27, 2014, CMC – Police were searching for the gunman who shot and killed the bodyguard of a public servant who had recently indicated that threats had been made against her life amid allegations of corruption within a government-funded programme.

Curtis Gibson was shot several times at his home in Malabar, east of Port-of-Spain. Television reports on Thursday night quoted the wife as saying that she could only scream in terror as the gunman fired several shots at Gibson, whom she said had also received death threats.

Gibson, 42, had been identified as the bodyguard of the deputy director of the controversial Life Sport Programme, Ruth Marchan, who had earlier this month gone public with a threat on her life and that of two senior officials at the Ministry of Sport following the suspension of the programme.

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Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar had ordered an audit into the programme and moved it to the Ministry of National Security away from the Ministry of Sport.

Marchan told the Trinidada Express newspaper Friday that the murder of her bodyguard was “very serious” and that he had links to a section of the Jamaat-al-Muslimeen that were beneficiaries of the Life Sport programme.

“They come for him …Burst down his door,” she told the newspaper.

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Gunman among seven dead after Florida apartment shoot-out

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Sunday, July 28, 2013

HIALEAH, Florida (AP) — A gunman holding hostages inside a South Florida apartment complex killed six people before being shot dead by a SWAT team that stormed the building early yesterday morning following an stand-off, police said.Sgt Eddie Rodriguez told The Associated Press that police got a call around 6:30 pm EDT Friday that shots had been fired in a building with dozens of apartments in Hialeah, just a few miles north of Miami.Although a crisis team was able to briefly establish communication with the man, Rodriguez said talks eventually “just fell apart” with the gunman, who was holding two hostages on the fifth floor. Both of them survived when officers stormed the building, fatally shooting the gunman during an exchange of gunfire.The dead bodies of three women and two men were found at two different apartment units inside the building, which Rodriguez said was in a “very quiet neighbourhood”. Another man who was walking his children into an apartment across the street was also killed.

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