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While the three suspects left their wounded accomplice behind, the off-duty officer and his neighbor, who is a doctor, treated the man on the scene.

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Guns are not allowed at the fair, even for those with a valid concealed carry permit, but authorities said this was the second weapon confiscated this year.

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The suspect attempted to break into a car, assaulted and robbed a man, then went for a cup of coffee before running into an off-duty police officer, who he also tried to rob. But after a brief struggle over the officer's gun, the man was shot.

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An off-duty Ugandan police officer fatally shot a “very big white tortoise” after it became “aggressive’ and “violent.” Off-duty police officer Charles Onegiu was sipping a cup of tea in his Nebbi district home when an uninvited tortoise entered. Onegiu tried to scare the creature off with a stick, and then a plastic chair, before […]

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Off-duty Pennsylvania state trooper Brian Knirnschild opened his front door to find his neighbor, Kristopher Barkus, standing outside with what appeared to be a gun. When Barkus aimed it at him, Knirnschild opened fire.

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A Chicago woman has filed a lawsuit seeking $1.35 million in damages nearly a year after an off-duty police officer fatally shot her puppy. On March 15, 2013, Samantha Maglaya’s 5-year-old daughter was in their front yard playing with Maximus, their 4-month-old pitbull, when an off-duty police officer shot the dog eight times in the […]

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An off-duty deputy fatally shot an armed robber as three crooks closed in on him at a Chicago gas station Monday night. The off-duty sheriff’s sergeant found himself surrounded by three men as he pumped his gas around 10 o’clock. Deonta Dewight Mackey, 16, held the sergeant at gunpoint and demanded his wallet. The sergeant […]

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A retired Florida police officer fatally shot a man at Cobb Grove Theaters during a screening of “Lone Survivor” yesterday after a dispute over texting broke out. Retired Tampa Police Capt. Curtis Reeves, 71, quickly became agitated after the man in front of him, 43-year-old Chad Oulsen, texted his daughter during the previews of the […]

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Police did not state whether the two women who were arrested were the same women that the men had come to the apartment complex to meet. However, one Houston detective did refer to the incident as a set-up.

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Little did the three suspects know that one of their intended victims was an off-duty St. Charles County sheriff’s deputy who was packing his .40-caliber service pistol.

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“What he did was so heroic. He was having coffee with friends when it happened. He went back in 12 times and saved 100 people. Imagine going back in when you knew what was going on inside," a friend said.

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One witness, who owns a nearby restaurant, told reporters that the suspect’s lifeless body could be seen at the top of the steps near the entrance, his head covered with a coat.

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