A man in his 70s was in his home in Jacksonville, Fla., shortly after lunchtime on Nov. 18, 2025, when an intruder broke in through a back window and demanded his keys and valuables. The suspect allegedly pointed a gun at the homeowner and forced him into a back bedroom; fortunately, the homeowner was able to retrieve a gun he had in that room and fire one shot, striking the alleged assailant in the shoulder. The suspect then fled in the armed citizen’s vehicle, but police located him about half an hour later and took him into custody. “They’re moving up in a special kind of formation on the back of the car, heard a pop, they grabbed him and pulled him out, put him on the ground, and EMS was tending to him […] Glad to have another one of these guys off the streets,” a witness to the arrest told reporters. (firstcoastnews.com, Jacksonville, Fla., 11/18/25)
On Nov. 25, 2025, a jewelry store assistant manager in Murray, Utah, buzzed in two potential customers, despite some misgivings about their appearance. “I noticed that the beard on one of [the suspects] looked a little too groomed, too straight. I was like that’s kind of odd, but I buzzed them in—that was a bad idea,” the assistant manager later told reporters. The other man was apparently wearing a wig as a disguise as well. Immediately upon entering, one of the “customers” took out a gun and pushed the assistant manager backwards. He then forced him and another employee to the floor and took out tape to restrain them with. At this point, the assistant manager drew his own gun and fired at the suspects, striking one and causing them both to flee. Police later found the wounded suspect at the hospital where the other one had dropped him off. The other suspect had not been detained at the time of reporting. (fox13now.com, Salt Lake City, Utah, 11/25/25)
In Horry County, S.C., when police responded on the evening of Dec. 8, 2025, to a call about a shooting victim, they discovered a man inside a laundromat with a gunshot wound in his thigh. The man reportedly claimed he’d been randomly shot by an unknown assailant and had fled into the laundromat to escape. However, another person returned to the scene and explained to police that the man had attacked them and they had shot him in self-defense. (The gender of this victim was not reported.) Police arrested the wounded suspect for first-degree domestic violence with strangulation as an aggravating factor. (myrtlebeachonline.com, Myrtle Beach, S.C., 12/9/25)
On the evening of Dec. 10, at a bar in Muncie, Ind., a 53-year-old man allegedly punched a female bartender and then spat on her, on another employee and on another customer. He then reportedly threw metal barstools and chairs with “immense force” at four other people, causing significant injuries, including broken ribs and collapsed lungs. One of the victims reportedly finally stopped the attack by shooting the assailant, who was later arrested after police found him walking from the scene with a gunshot wound. The suspect is being charged with multiple felony counts of battery. (fox59.com, Indianapolis, Ind., 12/10/25)
Just after 7 a.m. on Dec. 11, 2025, in Gulfport, Miss., two women were at home when a man whom both women had protective orders against broke in through a window. The two women fled from the man, who was armed with a knife and a hammer, as he slashed at them. The women managed to barricade themselves in another room, but the assailant was not deterred. As he tried to break into that room, one of the women retrieved a firearm and shot the man dead. The 29-year-old assailant had been released from jail on bond after being arrested for kidnapping one of the women in October of 2025. One of the women suffered knife wounds, but her condition was otherwise not indicated in news reports. (fox10tv.com, Mobile, Ala., 12/11/25; and sunherald.com, Biloxi, Miss., 12/11/25)
On the night of Dec. 15, 2025, a man reportedly kicked in the back door of a home in Waco, Texas. The homeowner, fearing for his life, shot the man as he entered the residence, striking him in the left forearm. Witnesses said they had seen a white Dodge Charger circling the area before the incident and saw a man fleeing to that vehicle after the shooting. A 32-year-old man with a facial tattoo showed up at the hospital within the hour for treatment of a matching gunshot wound; police also matched the pattern on his shoes to the footprint he left on the home’s door and of his clothing to security video footage. The suspect was arrested and charged with a second-degree felony for burglary. (fox44news.com, Waco, Texas, 12/17/25)
