Arizona woman says 'raging' stranger tried to break down her front door: 'Then I shot. I fired.'



An Arizona woman says that she fired through her front door in order to protect herself and her 16-year-old son when a strange man tried to break it down.

The harrowing incident began over the weekend as Jenele Williams and her son tried to leave their apartment in order to go to the grocery store. Instead, they ran back inside. She said that she saw a man yelling and screaming at the apartment complex.

She says the man turned his attention to her apartment and started trying to break down her door after he saw her.

"I opened my door like a deer caught in headlights. We make eye contact and I was like, oh you’re right here," she told KSAZ-TV. "To almost knock a door down like that, you have to be really raging."

She said she retrieved her gun and warned him before firing.

"It was going to come down. I saw it bend in, like bend, not break or crack, just bend. That’s when I was announcing already, ‘Hey, I got a gun, I got a gun. Get away from my house.’ Then, I shot. I fired," she said.

She added that she remembered she was in a stand-your-ground state, and that encouraged her to fire in order to defend herself.

"It’s not the shooting range. It’s real life," Williams explained. "What went through my head was, ‘This is a stand-your-ground state, this is a stand-your-ground state, so you can defend yourself, Jenelle.' I’m just aiming, and I’m like, 'He’s coming in, you can defend yourself, Jenelle.’ It took a lot of courage to do that."

She called police, and they arrived but were unable to identify the alleged suspect. Williams believes that the man was involved in a domestic violence situation with another tenant in the apartment complex.

She added that she was a survivor of domestic violence herself and that her father had recently told her to buy a gun in order to protect herself.

"I finally did earlier this year. It just kind of happened. I happened to be there, and they happened to have it and I happened to get it," she said. "I’m very happy that I did."

Here's the interview with Williams:

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Armored suspect wounds two police officers and kills couple before turning gun on himself



On August 28 around 8:30 p.m., those who retired early at the Days Inn motel in northern Phoenix, west of Interstate 17, suffered a rude awakening. Armed with a semi-automatic rifle and with incendiary devices, 24-year-old Isaiah Steven Williams is said to have exited the motel and started shooting.

The incident may have lasted for only five minutes, but "felt like an eternity," one witness told KPNX. He had been in his motel room when a volley of bullets came crashing through the wall and window.

The suspect reportedly fired over 100 rounds.

Police indicated that the shooter was dressed in full tactical gear, wearing both a carrier vest and Kevlar helmet. In addition to being equipped with multiple magazines, he also had a gas mask in his possession.

Outside, Williams allegedly began firing into the motel as well as into other businesses. He also is said to have thrown a Molotov cocktail at the neighboring Waffle House; however, it did not catch fire. He then shot at a car that pulled into an adjacent parking lot, killing both the man and the woman inside.

When police first arrived at the scene, the shooter targeted their vehicle. Raking the car with rounds, he hit one of the police officers in the shoulder. The second officer, who had been wounded by shrapnel, got out of the cruiser and returned fire.

Williams, whose demise was captured on surveillance footage, attempted to retreat across the parking lot, but is said by authorities ultimately to have committed suicide.

In the shootout, three other bystanders were injured, including Wesley Williams (not related to the shooter).

Williams told AZ Family that he had been staying in a room with his son and 6-year-old daughter when he heard what he figured to be fireworks. He sought out the source of the noise and got shot through a steel door. He indicated that he had been hit in the face and that the bullet had not yet been removed. "When I first got shot, I went back in and woke him up, my son up, had him call 911, and got my 6-year-old put down in a corner."

As for the pain, he added: "It hurts but it's not that bad, I guess, could be worse. I'm not dead."

Both police officers injured in the shootout were taken to a hospital. One was released on Monday, and the other is reportedly in stable condition.

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Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams told reporters: "Once again, this is another example of gun violence in our community. ... How many more officers have to be shot? How many more community members have to be killed before those in our community take a stand? This is not a Phoenix police issue, this is a community issue. If not now, when?"

AZ Family reported that 21 Arizona police officers have been shot in the line of duty so far this year. Although Williams' motive is still unclear, this latest attack on law enforcement has drawn attention to four previous ambush-style shootings in Phoenix this year.

Among the ambushes was the incident on February 11, where several officers were targeted after responding to a call alleging that a woman had been shot. Nine officers were wounded in the ambush, including four who were trying to save a baby abandoned on the steps of the ambusher's residence.

\u201cWARNING: GRAPHIC\n\nFeb 11: The moment a suspect ambushed one of our officers responding to a call of a woman shot. He lured the officer to help the woman, then opened fire. The officer was hit several times and could not return fire due to severe gunshot injuries to his right arm.\u201d
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On March 13, police were ambushed when attempting a traffic stop. Chief Williams said that the officers were targeted by "someone hiding in the darkness, literally trying to pick our officers off."

A 40-year-old police officer, Denise Bruce-Jones, was shot on April 14 when responding to a call in which a woman claimed her boyfriend was acting erratically.

According to a report issued by the National Fraternal Order of Police, as of July 31, 210 officers had been shot in the line of duty. That is a 14% increase over 2021's figure. Of the 210 shot, 39 were killed by gunfire.

Not including the incident in Phoenix on Sunday or other such incidents in August, there have been 46 ambush-style attacks targeting police nationwide in 2022, resulting in 18 officer deaths.

In a state-by-state comparison, the NFOP noted that Arizona is second for the highest number of officers shot in the line of duty this year.

Gunman goes on 90-minute shooting spree in Arizona, killing 1 person, injuring more than a dozen others



One person is dead and more than a dozen were injured after a suspect reportedly opened fire on various people during Thursday drive-by shootings in Arizona, authorities said.

Police detained a suspect in the incidents — which spanned approximately 90 minutes — but the suspect, reported to be an adult male, remains unnamed at the time of this reporting.

Four people in total sustained gunshot wounds, and at least nine other victims suffered a range of injuries, including being hit by shrapnel during the attacks.

What are the details?

According to a report from the Associated Press, police departments in Peoria, Surprise, and Glendale as well as the Arizona Department of Public Safety all responded to shootings in the area.

On Thursday afternoon, Peoria police spokesperson Brandon Sheffert said that authorities are investigating at least eight separate shooting scenes.

KPHO-TV reported that the suspect — who was said to be driving a white Volkswagen Tiguan — began shooting at area residents around 11:10 a.m.

"As officers were investigating the first shooting, numerous other reports of shootings were coming into dispatchers in Peoria Police Department, Surprise Police Department, Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, and the Department of Public Safety," KPHO reported.

According to CNN, police detained the suspect in Surprise after a local firefighter spotted his vehicle. Authorities were able to take the suspect into custody without incident. A weapon was also reportedly discovered in the suspect's vehicle.

Police have yet to issue a possible motive in connection with the attacks.

Peoria police say that its department will be the lead agency conducting the investigation into the incident with the help of other local agencies. The FBI is also assisting in the investigation.

Anyone with information on the attacks is urged to contact the Peoria Police Department at (623) 773-8311.

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