On Oct. 22 just after 8 p.m., two young women were walking together in Canton, Ohio, when a car stopped near them and the vehicle’s male passenger started trying to talk to them. One woman tried to pull her friend away, but she still approached the car, whereupon the passenger exited and confronted her with a gun. The woman tried to push the man away from her, but he pulled the trigger and grazed her with the shot. The woman who’d tried to dissuade her friend from approaching ran from the scene, but security footage showed the other woman still fighting the assailant, then pulling her own firearm and shooting him in the chest as she retreated. The man later died of his wounds. The friend returned and she and another woman helped the woman who’d been attacked. She was in stable condition at the time of reporting. Reports did not indicate whether the vehicle’s driver had been apprehended. (cantonrep.com, Canton, Ohio, 10/23/24)
Just after 5 a.m. on Oct. 25, a 19-year-old man broke into a residence in Herrick, Ill., and threatened the occupants. One of the residents armed themselves and ordered the suspect to stop, but he ignored them and continued advancing. The resident then shot the intruder, who later died of his wounds. The suspect was well-known to police for “prior involvements,” including an open criminal case and previous incidents of aggravated fleeing from an officer and possessing a firearm without a FOID card. (effinghamdailynews.com, Effingham, Ill., 10/25/24)
