Two men armed with handguns walked into GameStop in Uptown Solon

Two men armed with handguns walked into GameStop in Uptown Solon Monday tied up an employee and two customers and left with more than $3,500 in cash. The robbers also took several video games from the store. They stole a gift card and money from one of the victims, a 12-year-old Chagrin Falls boy. None of the victims were hurt.
The robbery took place at about 10:25 a.m. GameStop, 6130 Kruse Drive, sells new and used video games. The boy and an accompanying 31-year-old Chagrin Falls woman were in the process of buying two video games. The robbers took new Xbox games, including 10 "Left 4 Dead," 10 "Madden NFL 09" and 15-20 "Gears of War 2" games. The robbers also stole three-four PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles The robbers were black. One wore a blue hoodie, blue jeans and a "paintball-type" foam mask. He was carrying a silver revolver. The other robber was wearing a red American Eagle hoodie and blue jeans with a multicolored arch on the back right pocket. He had a semiautomatic black pistol.

Roberto Ramirez, who headed up the Delicias precinct, was the sixth Ciudad Juarez officer killed this week.

senior police commander's bullet-riddled body was found in the same spot where an apparent hitlist naming 26 officers was found days earlier, police said Thursday.
Roberto Ramirez, who headed up the Delicias precinct, was the sixth Ciudad Juarez officer killed this week. He was abducted late Wednesday and his body was found hours later, city police spokesman Jaime Torres said.Ramirez's body was left near a dog racetrack where the bodies of four civilians were found Monday, along with a hitlist that included the names of 26 officers. One of the four had been decapitated, and a Santa Claus hat had been placed on his head. A fifth man who survived was left bound and gagged next to the bodies.It was not immediately known if Ramirez's name appeared on the list.More than 40 Ciudad Juarez police have been killed this year, many in attacks blamed on drug gangs battling over territory. Some officers have quit, fearing for their lives after their names appeared on hitlists.
Ramirez was named precinct chief in May after several police commanders asked for early retirement because of the violence.City police officers have been ordered to patrol only in groups of three, and the city has shut down small guard stations this week because of the police killings, Torres said.Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, has been hit the hardest in a surge of drug-gang homicides sweeping Mexico. More than 1,300 people have been killed in the city of 1.3 million this year.Elsewhere, in the Pacific coast state of Michoacan, a decapitated body was found Thursday along a street in the town of Altamirano with a message believed left by drug gangs, according to a statement from state police. The victim's hands were bound with duct tape and the body's showed signs of being tortured.Across Mexico, more than 5,300 people have died in gangland-style killings in 2008 — more than double the number last year, according to government figures.President Felipe Calderon has sent more than 20,000 soldiers across the country to battle the drug trade, but cartels have responded with more violence.

Ballistics matched the shotgun shells to a July 2005 shooting at a junkyard near East 63rd Street and Swope Parkway. Gunmen shot and killed two guard

gun used in what police called a "thrill kill" could be linked to other random acts of violence, they said.Kansas City detectives have the shotgun.They know what shootings it's linked to, but they can't prove who pulled the trigger, so they can't file charges.And that is proving extremely frustrating for them. "The shotgun -- (that Fabian D. Brown Jr., and Raphael Willis used the shotgun to kill Robert Wynn Osborn, 43, in November of 2005) -- kept coming up in several other shootings that we had," said Sgt. Richard Sharp.Osborn was riding his bike home from his job as a grocer when Brown, 23, and Willis, 22, shot and killed him. They admitted it was a thrill kill and both men were sentenced to 15 years in prison."They're shooting at people just to be shooting at people. They had really no valid reason for doing it," Sharp said.Sharp said he believes Brown and Willis were part of a gang that shared the shotgun and used it in five or six other unsolved thrill shootings."We basically know who was at the scene. We basically know everything that happened, but the one instance that we don't have is who actually pulled the trigger," Sharp said.
Ballistics matched the shotgun shells to a July 2005 shooting at a junkyard near East 63rd Street and Swope Parkway. Gunmen shot and killed two guard dogs, then shot at the security guard, who was in his 90s.Two weeks later, police said the gunmen fired the same shotgun from the Sni A Bar Bridge at a motorist driving down Interstate 435.They wouldn't give out details in the other unsolved thrill shootings but they said the trend worries them."It makes it extremely dangerous for everybody because anybody can be a target," Sharp said.Police can only solve the unsolved shootings if someone comes forward and identifies the shooter, they said.

motorist was robbed by a man and woman who said they had car trouble before pulling a gun on him early today.

motorist told Anne Arundel County police that he was robbed by a man and woman who said they had car trouble before pulling a gun on him early today.
About 5:30 a.m., officers responded to Wasena Avenue and Church Street in Brooklyn Park for a reported robbery. The 42-year-old motorist said a man and woman flagged him down as he was driving and said that they had car trouble. The man pulled a gun and took the driver's wallet, and then both suspects ran off, the victim told police.

Martin Melvin Fowler Junior has major head trauma and a gun shot wound to his left thigh.

Wichita Falls Police need help investigating a brutal assault. Officers found forty-eight year old Martin Melvin Fowler Junior last night, face down in the middle of the 1500 block of North Seventh Street. He has major head trauma and a gun shot wound to his left thigh.

Gun is missing in a Champaign neighborhood.

Gun is missing in a Champaign neighborhood. This after an apparent suicide where a man was found shot in the head. 50-year-old Robert Winsor was found slumped over a picnic table Saturday night at Kaufman Park. Police searched the area but can't find the gun. A man was walking his dog through the park when he found Winsor shot in the head. Police say it shows all the signs of suicide and believe it happened sometime between five and 9-30 Saturday evening. Now they're worried someone tampered with the crime scene and took the gun. Police are telling parents to talk to their kids. The kids in the neighborhood are definitely talking about a gun on the loose. Police are wanting to make sure the gun does not fall into the wrong hands.

Joseph Raymond Buttelo was arrested Friday evening in the 2600 block of Bell Street, sheriff's officials said. According to the sheriff's department,

Joseph Raymond Buttelo was arrested Friday evening in the 2600 block of Bell Street, sheriff's officials said. According to the sheriff's department, Buttelo allegedly shot and killed Gustavo Lopez following an argument in the 2700 block of Lerwick Road.Arrest has been made in connection with a Halloween shooting that killed an 18-year-old man and injured another, Sacramento County Sheriff's officials said.
The victims were shot after the van they were riding in stopped and the occupants traded words with three pedestrians, two men and a woman.According to sheriff's officials, Buttelo pulled a gun and fired into the van, striking two passengers, officials said.The second victim, 19, was expected to survive a gunshot wound in his lower body.

Guns are the weapon of choice for the teenagers in the gangs of north Liverpool.

Guns are the weapon of choice for the teenagers in the gangs of north Liverpool.
Footage of boys, hardly out of childhood, wielding revolvers, shotguns and jumping on police cars was posted on YouTube just two weeks after Rhys Jones was killed.
Yet it was the 11-year-old's murder during an unprecedented feud between youths in Croxteth and neighbouring Norris Green which brought Liverpool's gang violence to public prominence. The battle between the Croxteth Crew, to which Sean Mercer belonged, and the Strand Gang, operating in the city's L11 postcode, formed the backdrop to the schoolboy's murder - an innocent victim caught in the crossfire of gangs blighted by a hatred for one another. But this rivalry stems from petty turf spats rather than organised crime, police revealed. Ch Supt Steve Watson, commander of Liverpool north, said: "They (incidents of gang violence) tend to crop up on the most petty of arguments. "They can be disagreements about girlfriends, arguments about having stolen someone else's pedal cycle that unfortunately bubble over into people accessing firearms and actually demonstrating a propensity to use them."
These (gang members) are a growing number of people growing up without a lot of hope in their lives Dr Karen Evans, the University of Liverpool The feud dates back to New Year's Day 2004 with the killing of the Croxteth Crew's Danny McDonald, 20, who was shot several times by a masked gunman in the Royal Oak Pub. His death sparked a series of attacks. During the trial over Rhys's killing it emerged there had been 17 shootings and 70 acts of criminal damage involving the two gangs between 2004 and 2008. The police impetus to reduce gun crime suffered a setback when Strand Gang leader Liam 'Smigger' Smith, 19, was executed after visiting a fellow gang member at Altcourse Prison on 23 August, 2006. Rhys's death almost a year to the day since Smith's killing was a link not lost on police. In fact the bullet which killed Rhys was intended for a rival gang member of the Strand gang. Gang members are recruited from an early age. One 12-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of shooting a van driver in the face in 2004. Rhys Jones' murder thrust Liverpool gangs to national prominence Four years on, the same child, known only as Boy M had become a member of the Croxteth Crew and was convicted of helping dump the gun used to kill Rhys, as well as the bike used and clothes worn during the killing. Demonstrating his hostility to other gangs, he told police during one interview: "I hope all Norris Green people die." Mercer himself was just 16-years old when he shot and killed Rhys. Ch Supt Steve Moore, commander of the Matrix team, said: "Many gang members are the third generation of families who have never worked. "Crime is all they know and so have no normality to be rehabilitated back into." Dr Karen Evans, professor of Sociology at the University of Liverpool, said: "These are a growing number of people growing up without a lot of hope in their lives.
"Around their teen years they lose the aspirations that can change their lives for the better." While Merseyside Police recognise the issue of territorial feuds and gun-fuelled violence, the force is reticent to label these groups as "gangs". The preferred term is "loose networks". Mr Moore insisted the L11 criminals amount to no more than 100 people in a population of 300,000. Their instinct, behaviour and moral compass is far off what we describe as normal Chf Supt Steve Moore, Merseyside Police "These are young people from similar backgrounds and similar geographical locations, but they are not gangs. "Elements of the media have bagged them gangs and they have taken that title because it gives them recognition that they don't really deserve. "We have to be careful about the term 'gang', it implies a level of organisation. There is no hierarchy." Mr Moore believes the problem escalated with the progression from anti-social behaviour to guns. He added: "My personal theory is that these teenagers have accessed guns through older, more mature criminals, passed on to siblings to sort out petty disputes. "Of course once guns are in circulation it is conceivable that some would be acquired by younger people."
In light of the death of Rhys, Merseyside Police have focused their resources on hitting the heart of Liverpool's gun crime. But senior officers conceded their plan, which includes visiting schools to inform youngsters before they are recruited to any gangs, will take 10 years to see results. "It's about a culture change for these kids, but for one or two individuals I think it is too late," admitted Mr Moore.
"Their instinct, behaviour and moral compass is far off what we describe as normal."

there's nothing wrong with a little shooting as long as the right people get shot

advert for the Robert de Niro and ­Al Pacino police thriller Righteous Kill, which used the line "there's nothing wrong with a little shooting as long as the right people get shot", was criticised by a watchdog for running ­during the inquest into the police shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes.The promotional campaign for the film, which used the tagline "Most people respect the badge, everybody respects the gun", led to six complaints to the Advertising Standards Authority from people who argued that the advert glamorised ­violence and gun crime by suggesting it was "morally acceptable to kill in the right circumstances".The authority lodged its own challenge, saying that the placing of one of the ­posters at Stockwell tube station, in London, was likely to cause serious or widespread offence at the time of the inquest into the death of de Menezes. The train station was where police officers shot the 27-year-old Brazilian. The jury in the de Menezes case had inspected the Stockwell site of the shooting in September.Lions Gate, which released the film, said the advertising line came from the film and was the "kind of dialogue expected from a film or TV portrayal [of the New York police department] and contained an element of humour". However it said placing the poster at Stockwell was an "unfortunate oversight".The standards agency dismissed the public complaints about the advert, ­stating that it was not irresponsible and was unlikely to glamorise or glorify gun crime. However, it said that having the poster displayed at Stockwell tube station was likely to cause serious or widespread offence. The poster advert therefore breached the advertising code.Lions Gate removed the poster from Stockwell tube station as soon as the company was made aware of the inquest into the shooting of de Menezes.The Brazilian was shot seven times on 22 July 2005 as police hunted for terrorists in a planned operation. In the early hours of that day police traced a gym card, found in a bag holding an unexploded bomb, to an address in Scotia Road, south London. They believed the premises were being used by a suspected terrorist, Hussain Osman. The police followed de Menezes – never identified as Osman – on his way to work. He was attacked by officers after he entered a tube train at Stockwell station.An inquest into his death recorded an open verdict this month.

Criminals need no longer waste time wiping down or washing the cartridge cases

Criminals need no longer waste time wiping down or washing the cartridge cases of the bullets they intend on using in a crime to get rid of their fingerprints ahead of time, you will still be caught! Researchers at the University of Leicester and the Northamptonshire police have teamed up to develop a technique to see fingerprints even if a metal surface has been wiped down. When people hold metal objects, the natural residues on their hands, like sweat, corrode metal surfaces. Their technique is particularly useful with cartridge casings, because the heat from shooting the weapon helps to imprint the fingerprints on the metal. Basically, you dust the metal of interest with a fine layer of conducting powder, and then apply an electrical charge to it. This causes the conducting powder to be attracted to the areas where the metal is corroded from fingerprints. Would be criminals would need to use abrasive cleaning techniques to remove the layer of corroded metallic surface to destroy their prints.