PA Bill Number: HB274
Title: In compensation, providing for eligibility related to domestic violence.
Description: In compensation, providing for eligibility related to domestic violence. ...
Last Action: Laid on the table
Last Action Date: Jan 29, 2025
Defense Stories
Kentucky Self-Defense: Man arrested after Fort Thomas home invasion :: 02/10/2017
FORT THOMAS, KY (FOX19) - Fort Thomas Police have arrested 57-year-old Ricky Lovins of Alexandria, KY after they say he broke into a Churchill apartment building early Thursday morning.
Michigan Self-Defense: Customer armed with handgun shoots assault suspect in local party store :: 02/10/2017
HOLLAND, Mich. -- A man who walked into a party store on the lakeshore ended up breaking up an assault late Thursday night by shooting the suspect. Police say he was legally carrying his firearm and acted in self defense.
Missouri Self-Defense: Woman shoots, kills man trying to rob her :: 02/10/2017
A woman shot and killed an attempted robber Thursday afternoon after he and one other man tried to rob three people in her apartment.
Pennsylvania Self-Defense: Deli owner shoots armed robbery suspect in Overbrook :: 02/10/2017
OVERBROOK (WPVI) -- A Philadelphia deli owner shot an armed man who was attempting to rob him, police say.
West Virginia Self-Defense: Mason County deputies say homeowner shoots, wounds intruder :: 02/10/2017
MASON COUNTY, WV (WCHS/WVAH) — Mason County deputies said a homeowner shot and wounded a man who forced his way into his residence.
Georgia Self-Defense: Army Ranger Dies Committing Bizarre Home Invasion In Georgia :: 02/09/2017
An active duty U.S. Army Ranger apparently irate with his wife forced his way into an apartment where he believed she was hiding, despite protests from friends that he was trying to get into the wrong apartment. After trying to kick in the door of the unit, he broke out a front window and crawled inside to the horror of the woman who lived there. She yelled at him to leave, and when he advanced upon in her bedroom door instead, she fired one fatal shot to defend her life.
Montana Self-Defense: Gun Owner Stops Road Rage Attack, Arrests Driver Who Ran Man Down :: 02/08/2017
A Billing Heights man who was the passenger in a vehicle that cut off a panel van pulled his personal handgun and stopped a road-raging panel van driver at gunpoint after the van driver plowed over the driver of the pickup not once, but twice.
Texas Self-Defense: Homeowner shoots attempted burglar :: 02/08/2017
A 19-year-old San Antonio man was shot Saturday night as he attempted to enter a residence on the 1100 block of Dewey Street.
Indiana Self-Defense: Resident, suspected intruder shot during attempted home invasion on Indianapolis' south side :: 02/07/2017
INDIANAPOLIS -- A resident and a suspected home intruder were both shot during an attempted home invasion on Indianapolis' south side.
Oklahoma Self-Defense: Mother Shoots At Woman Trying To Break Into Tulsa Home :: 02/07/2017
A Tulsa mother is urging others to teach their kids to never answer the door if a stranger knocks.
Florida Self-Defense: Barbecue restaurant owner guns down suspected robber :: 02/06/2017
A barbecue restaurant owner shot one of two suspected robbers Saturday night, police said.
Florida Self-Defense: Shopper with gun kills suspected diaper thief at Florida Walmart :: 02/05/2017
Deputies say they were called to a South Florida Walmart after a shopper shot and killed a suspected diaper thief in the parking lot.
Indiana Self-Defense: Elwood homeowner shoots intruder :: 02/05/2017
ELWOOD, Ind. – An intruder picked the wrong home to hit. On Thursday around 9:30 p.m., Elwood police responded to a home on South K Street. Detectives learned a man caught an intruder breaking into his home and shot him.
New Mexico Self-Defense: Surveillance Video: Armed Suspects Flee Foiled Home Invasion :: 02/04/2017
The incident occurred Thursday night around 9 pm. According to KOB 4, Alamogordo Police says “three armed men and a woman [tried] to break into a home.” The woman knocked on the door and the three men approached with weapons once the resident opened it.
Maryland Self-Defense: Lothian homeowner shoots alleged intruder :: 02/03/2017
LOTHIAN, Md. - An intruder who broke into a Lothian home was shot by the homeowner, Anne Arundel County police said.
Missouri Self-Defense: Vietnam veteran shoots two robbers, one fatally :: 02/03/2017
An attempted robbery Thursday morning in Venice, Missouri, left one suspect dead and another with serious injuries after their intended target pulled his own gun and shot them both.
Tennessee Self-Defense: Man Shoots Teenager in Self-Defense :: 02/01/2017
A Warren County High School student was shot to death Tuesday, January 31 during an incident on Spurlock Road near Blues Hill community.
Georgia Self-Defense: 2 suspects shot after attempted robbery on Abercorn St. near Truman Pkwy. :: 01/31/2017
SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) - Two armed would-be thieves tried to stick up a Brinks truck parked near a storage business off Abercorn Street near the Truman Parkway. But the guards inside the truck were able to defend themselves and shot both suspects, who then ran from the scene but didn't make it far.
Kansas Self-Defense: Suspect fatally shot after attempting home invasion :: 01/31/2017
BAXTER SPRINGS - It's a frightening ordeal to imagine, but one Baxter Springs resident was recently the victim of an attempted home invasion in broad daylight. The nightmarish situation forced the homeowner into what is being called a self-defense shooting. The home invasion occurred early Sunday afternoon at 234 East 6th Street, in Baxter Springs.
California Self-Defense: Suspected Napa burglar detained by resident with a shotgun :: 01/30/2017
A suspected burglar was arrested after his alleged victim caught him in the act and held him there with a shotgun on Wednesday night, according to Napa Police.
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