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A man in North Carolina was arrested after a 6-hour standoff for allegedly holding people hostage in a residence and threatening to shoot them.

According to reports, around 3:00 AM on May 21, the Spindale Police Department was notified about gunshots that were believed to have been fired inside a home.

Officers were dispatched to the address, and when they got there someone told them that there were people, including children, that were still inside the house with the suspect. They were informed that the suspect allegedly intended to shoot any law enforcement that came to the residence.

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When a man reportedly became angered by his neighbor’s use of a leaf blower, he allegedly approached while wearing his bathrobe and threatened him and his dog with a semi-automatic pistol. 

51-year-old Curtis Manfred Franz lives in a quiet, residential neighborhood in Largo, Florida. 

On March 8, just before 8:00 AM, Franz’s next-door neighbor was doing yard work. The man was using a leaf blower to remove leaves from his roof, and his dog was sitting in the backyard while he worked. 

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MMA fighter Jonathan Dwight Jones was apprehended after police accused him of driving while intoxicated, and discharging a firearm.

32-year-old Jonathan Dwight Jones, known to mixed martial arts fans as Jon “Bones” Jones, became the youngest person to ever hold the title of light heavyweight champion in the UFC on March 19, 2011. Jones won for a second time on October 10, 2018, and he is the current holder of the light heavyweight championship title.

Around 1:00 am last Thursday, the Albuquerque authorities were hailed by a person who reported that they heard gunshots in the area.

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A South Carolina man reportedly attacked officers during a drug arrest causing one of them serious injury and harming another. He is facing several charges for the assault.

Demetrius Lamont Jamison, a 26-year-old man who resides in Orangeburg, was walking home on Thursday around 4:30 p.m. He decided to walk through a wooded area near the Craven Lane Trailer Park to get to his destination.

At the time that Jamison was walking officers from the Orangeburg Department of Public Safety were in the process of investigating a report that there had been gunshots fired at the trailer park.

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Over 60 people attending a birthday party on New Year’s Eve in Cartersville, GA were taken into custody after officers discovered marijuana on the premises. They have all been charged for possession, though a vast number of them say they had no involvement with the substance in any way.

A nearby resident returning from an evening out called 911 to report what he believed were the sounds of gunshots in the area. When police responded they came across a party taking place, and they detained the remaining attendees while inspecting the premises to try to determine the origin of the reported gunfire.

When people at the party were questioned they alleged that the shots heard coming from the 21st birthday celebration were fireworks, and not a discharged weapon.

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A gunman, now identified as Stephen Craig Paddock, of Mesquite, used a fully-automatic assault rifle to fire hundreds, perhaps thousands of rounds down onto a crowd of fans enjoying the conclusion of a three-day country music festival near the Mandalay Bay Casino in Las Vegas, NV. Over 58 people are dead and at least 400 wounded in the now-deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.

In footage of the attack, dozens of shots can be heard going off in a matter of seconds. Officers and SWAT team personnel stormed the hotel room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Casino to find Paddock dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Among the wounded and dead were four off-duty police officers.

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