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Easton police officer dies after being shot at station
Officials aren't releasing details of Jesse Sollman's death.
By Tracy Jordan
Of The Morning Call
An Easton police officer died after being shot in his own police station near the end of the 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. shift Friday.
Patrolman Jesse E. Sollman, 36, an 11-year veteran of the force who lived in Washington Township, Northampton County, died of his wounds about 4:25 p.m. after being flown by helicopter to St. Luke's Hospital in Fountain Hill, authorities said.
Two days after Marion Alexander Lindsey was ordered by a judge to stay away from his estranged wife, the 31-year-old followed her after she left work and fatally shot her.
The stakes for shooting his 27-year-old wife, Ruby Nell Lindsey, were raised because of where Lindsey committed the crime — a police station parking lot.
The following mind-boggling attempt at a crime spree in Washington appeared to be the robber's first (and last), due to his lack of a previous record of violence, and his terminally stupid choices:
1. His target was H&J Leather & Firearms, a gun shop specializing in handguns.
2. The shop was full of customers - firearms customers.
3. To enter the shop, the robber had to step around a marked police car parked at the front door.
4. A uniformed officer was standing at the counter, having coffee before work.
Upon seeing the officer, the would-be robber announced a hold-up, and fired a few wild shots from a .22 target pistol. The officer and a clerk promptly returned fire, the police officer with a 9mm Glock 17, the clerk with a .50 Desert Eagle, assisted by several customers who also drew their guns, several of whom also fired.
The robber was pronounced dead at the scene by Paramedics. Crime scene investigators located 47 expended cartridge cases in the shop. The subsequent autopsy revealed 23 gunshot wounds. Ballistics identified rounds from 7 different weapons.
0n the morning of September 3, 1998, Joseph Montgomery watched as two men entered his store. The 56-year-old owner of the store 500 Guns, located near the Indianapolis 500 Speedway, remembered them as having come in earlier.
The men walked to a glass case that held three shelves filled with handguns. "I want that one," said the taller of the two and pointed to a Smith & Wesson .38 revolver, which Montgomery reached down to remove from the display case. Montgomery later recalled that after his head came back up, one of them grabbed him by the neck as the other one stuck a 9x19 mm Ruger to his forehead. The man holding the gun said, "This is a stickup!"
An Eastside gun store owner has died two months after he was robbed and beaten with a hammer.
Tucson Police say someone walked into Jerry's Gun Exchange on December 29 before 12 p.m., beating and robbing owner Jerry Zwicker.
Police say the 78-year-old suffered severe head trauma as a result of the attack. Zwicker is believed to have lost consciousness for more than 30 minutes before calling police himself.
Zwicker's daughter, Robin, said her father was healthy before the incident, suffering only from arthritis.
As you can see, It is relatively easy to find incidence of gun violence to bolster either side of this claim. While it is true Guns can serve as a deterent, or indeed as a way to ease in the commision of a crime, Attempting to back your opinion on this with individual stories is not supporting the position......just as the above stories do nothing to back my own.
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