SANTA ANA A 22-year-old man is in custody after police said he and another man unwittingly tried to carjack an unmarked police car with two uniformed officers inside.
At 9:30 p.m. Thursday, the officers were investigating illegal fireworks activity in the 2200 block of Eastwood Avenue when a sports utility vehicle pulled up in front of their unmarked police sedan, said Santa Ana Police Department Comm. Steve Colon.
The two men got out of the SUV and took 'an aggressive approach toward the officers,' Colon said. The driver acted as if he had a weapon in his waistband, police said.
At that point, the officers got out of the car; the two suspects ran back into their SUV and attempted to get away, Colon said. Police suspect the two men didn't realize there were officers in the vehicle.
The officers chased the SUV a short distance before the suspects jumped out of the car and ran, Colon said. The unidentified driver managed to get away.
Eleazar Lopez, of Santa Ana, was caught and arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and conspiracy, Colon said. Nobody was hurt during the incident.
Two armed men barged into a Subway Sandwich shop shortly after 11 p.m., demanding money from the employee, behind the counter. When they tried to force John Lovell - the lone customer, age 71, into the bathroom, he pulled out a gun and shot both men, police said.
Donicio Arrindell, 22, was shot in the head and later died at the hospital. Fredrick Gadson, 21, was shot in the chest and ran from the Subway, but police found him in hiding in some bushes on the property of a nearby BankAtlantic.
Lovell, 71. Police said he had a concealed weapons permit. Retired US Marine.
Lovell's neighbor said he made the right decision.
"He did the right thing," said Wendi Hill. "I mean, I was glad that it was them that got shot and not him."
The dead criminal's grandma told Local 10 News that Lovell was wrong for pulling the trigger. "He should not have taken the law in his hands," said Rosa Jones, again, Gadson's (the perp who is still living via ventilator) grandmother. Her husband, (not Gadson's grandfather? It's a little vague with the details...) Ivory Jones, also condemned the media for its portrayal of Lovell's actions. "I don't condone what they did, (but) I definitely don't condone the news people making him out to seem like they're making a hero out of this man because he shot somebody down," he said.
Police said Lovell, the retired Marine, wouldn't be charged.
As stated in the SCOTUS decision - a gun levels the playing field - a victim has a chance against their aggressors. Where else does a 71 year old have a chance against two gun wielding 20 year old? How much imagination does it take to imagine reversing this narrative - an employee and 71 year old customer are found dead in a Subway bathroom? Not much, right?
And how about the criminal being the "victim" here? That sickens me. John Lovell isn't a vigilante. He defended his life. Now he's alive. Simple.
And yes, I have rewritten this story, because the first time I read it - it was very anti John Lovell. The fact John is alive was on the bottom of the story, and the Grandma statement was on the masthead of the story. Totally bogus.
In fact, there's even a picture of the perp and his grandma complaining into a microphone.
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Maybe if you raised your kids right, they wouldn't be robbing Subways, Ms. Jones. Either way, it is a natural consequences of his actions and I'm happy at least one of them has assumed room temperature.
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ION this July 4th INDEPENDENCE = FREEDOM DAY, REGNUM > REMAINS OF US PILOT FOUND IN VORONEZH REGION RUSSIA. Along wid logbook - possible 1942 WW2 PILOT VOLUNTEER FOR SOVIET AIR FORCES + UNCLE/CPOMRADE JOE STALIN???
A 38-year-old refugee from Iraq has been charged with stabbing his ex-wife to death on the grounds of a school in Setesdal Wednesday. His teenage son was charged as well on Thursday.
The victim, age 31, had feared her ex-husband and was equipped with a portable alarm to alert police if she felt threatened.
Her alarm went off Wednesday afternoon, but police didn't arrive at the scene soon enough. In front of several witnesses, including children, and in broad daylight, the 38-year-old defendant stabbed her to death on the grounds of the Bygland School.
On Thursday, police also charged her 16-year-old son as being an accessory to the crime.
"We believe he played a role in the murder," prosecutor Folke Åmlid of the Agder Police District told Aftenposten.no. He declined to elaborate.
The victim and her ex-husband came to Norway from Iraq around seven years ago. They had four children, two boys and two girls, and the boys lived with their father.
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the problem is they gave her an alarm... should have given her means to protect herself instead of making her rely on someone who would be too late
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Once again we see that a pager and cops arriving after the fact are no substitute for a .45 cal.
This woman should have sent this loser on his path to 72 raisins. Also, I'll bet that punk had eyes the size of saucers when the 71 yr. old Marine put the barrel between his eyes and commenced to blow his head off.
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