Self Defense News

A 24-year-old man was found guilty last week of first-degree murder for killing a father of eight during a fight outside an East Oakland home last year.

One of three women accused in a July revenge plot against a philandering Fond du Lac man may make a self-defense claim should the case reach trial.

Prosecutors say a Georgia man was defending himself and his wife when he shot and killed a 24-year-old Cherokee County man on his property.

A Huntsville man facing a murder charge for a February 2007 shooting said he fired in self-defense when he saw the other man reaching into his belt for a gun.

A 25-year-old Louisville man pleaded guilty on Thursday to killing a Jeffersonville man at a New Albany apartment complex in 2006.

The Dodge City Daily Globe is challenging a county attorney's efforts to obtain a reporter's notes and information from an interview she conducted with a murder suspect.

Lawyers for Jennifer Lisa Benton said in opening arguments Tuesday that she was acting in self-defense when she fatally shot husband James M. Benton four years ago.

A Danville man facing charges he killed is landlord by repeatedly hitting him in the head with an ax-like weapon wants to claim he was acting in self-defense. Fifty-year-old Paul McDonald is due to go on trial for first-degree murder in January for the June 2008 killing of 54-year-old Richard Wilcox.

The Cape Coral Police Department is sponsoring monthly classes on self-defense strategies for women beginning November 18 and continuing through October 2010.

Gary Lamont Hayes of Havelock is expected to testify next week that he pulled the trigger of a 12-gauge shotgun, pumping three shots into Odell Foster Jr.

A preliminary hearing to determine whether a Valencia County man who shot and killed a suspected burglar acted in self defense or committed murder will continue this afternoon.

An Orangeburg man wants to establish the Guardian Angels in this riverfront village of restaurants, shops and theaters.

Prosecutors have filed a murder charge against a Denver sushi establishment owner accused of shooting a man after a dispute inside the restaurant.

A Metro employee who was fired for allegedly stabbing a fellow mechanic with a screwdriver has been found not guilty by a D.C. Superior Court judge and now wants his job back.

A Rowan County, NC man shot an armed intruder in self defense, saving himself and his father from a second violent home invasion that week.

A UN human rights inspector has told the United States to back away from its use of unmanned warplanes.

A 62 year old Toledo resident shot a burglar in self defense, after the burglar advanced on him despite two warnings to "freeze." Police say that the homeowner was asleep at about 10:40 PM when an unexpected noise caused him to awaken and believe that a burglary was in progress.

An argument between a landlord and her tenant ended in a shooting death. Police say officers shot an armed man in self defense.

An attorney for a man accused of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon said his client was acting in self-defense when he struck a man in the neck with a beer bottle.

The attorney for a Wyoming man accused of taking a grizzly bear without a license says the shooting was done in self defense.