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A Texas gun owner who says he returned fire at break-in suspects early Wednesday morning gave them a stern warning about what their futures might hold if they keep up their lawlessness.
"Stop the stupidity because you're going to end up getting hurt," Greg Willis told KXAS-TV.
What are the details?
Willis told the station his Ring camera outside his Arlington home in the 6100 block of Vancil Drive started going off just before 2 a.m.
"[I] wake up, see someone in my son's car," he recalled to KXAS.
Willis added to the station that he and his son went after reportedly three suspects, and at least one of them pulled out a gun and began firing.
"They started shooting at us first, and I returned fire," Willis noted to KXAS.
Willis told the station his son took cover behind a neighbor's truck, which was hit by gunfire.
“I could have been shot, or they could have been shot," Willis added to KXAS, noting it was like something out of the Wild West. "A lot of bullets ringing out."
He also told the station this was the first time he's used his gun in an incident like this and that his adrenaline is still pumping: "I still haven't been to sleep."
"Pretty much now all the neighbors, we are on high alert," Willis added to KXAS.
What happened next?
Police noted to the station that while the suspects ran away, officers set up a perimeter and found two of them hiding in a nearby shed. Police told KXAS they also found a gun and took the two suspects into custody without incident.
Arlington Police said 19-year-old Keaundre Lemon was booked into the Arlington City Jail for criminal trespass along with an outstanding warrant, the station reported. However, a Thursday review of jail records shows no entry for Lemon.
Police also arrested 18-year-old Ahmad Bland for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and criminal trespass, KXAS said, adding that cops noted they're still looking for the third suspect.
While the station said no one was hurt in the shootout, Willis gave a stern warning to the suspects: "You can't run to the well too many times without getting caught. Stop the stupidity because you're going to end up getting hurt."
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Judge halts toppling of Reconciliation Monument in Arlington National Cemetery
A Trump-nominated federal judge has halted the removal of the Reconciliation Monument in Arlington National Cemetery, which the cemetery indicated Saturday would otherwise take place by week's end. While the iconoclasts have been momentarily restrained, the fate of the historic monument, also called the Confederate Memorial, remains uncertain.
The group Defend Arlington, affiliated with Save Southern Heritage Florida, filed a federal lawsuit last month in the District of Columbia accusing the Army, which oversees the cemetery, of violating regulations in an apparent effort to rush the process and get the monument down by January.
The National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2021 requires that the Pentagon remove "all names, symbols, displays, monuments, and paraphernalia that honor or commemorate the Confederate Sates of America (commonly referred to as the 'Confederacy') or any person who served voluntarily with the Confederate States of America from all assets of the Department of Defense."'
The deadline for such removals is Jan. 1, 2024.
The D.C. federal court dismissed the lawsuit last week; however, Defend Arlington attempted once more to preserve the monument, this time in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, reported the Associated Press.
Their lawsuit reportedly stated, "The removal will desecrate, damage, and likely destroy the Memorial longstanding at ANC as a grave marker and impede the Memorial's eligibility for listing on the National Register of Historic Places."
With ostensibly no movement on the legal front, the cemetery announced over the weekend that the removal of the Reconciliation Monument, also called the Confederate Memorial, was in compliance with both the National Environmental Policy Act and the National Historic Preservation Act and would be completed by no later than Dec. 22.
Additionally, the cemetery claimed that "[d]uring the deconstruction, the area around the Memorial will be protected to ensure no impact to the surrounding landscape and grave markers and to ensure the safety of visitors in and around the vicinity of the deconstruction."
U.S. District Judge Rossie Alston, Jr., threw a wrench in the removal plans, granting Defend Arlington a temporary restraining order on Monday, barring the Pentagon from tearing down the 109-year-old monument.
Alston was reportedly concerned by the possibility that grave sites might be disturbed — a prospect raised by the lawyer for the plaintiffs. Alston also made clear that just as he takes the possibility of such disturbances seriously, he "takes very seriously the representations of officers of the Court."
"Should the representations in this case be untrue or exaggerated the Court may take appropriate sanctions," added Alston.
David McCallister, a spokesman for Save Southern Heritage Florida, indicated the Virginia case is stronger than the case dismissed in D.C. because there is now evidence that the removal underway disturbs grave sites.
Although it won't bring closure, this turn of events may nevertheless bring some hope to those in both parties who have denounced the effort to remove the monument.
Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) and 40 Republicans called on Defense Secretary Austin in a letter last week to suspend all removal activities related to the Reconciliation Monument until Congress finalized the appropriations process for fiscal year 2024.
Clyde stressed that the memorial is exempt from the removal requirement because it "does not honor nor commemorate the Confederacy and that it commemorates reconciliation and nation unity." Additionally, "the Naming Commission's authority explicitly prohibits the desecration of grave sites."
Former U.S. Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) indicated in an August Wall Street journal op-ed that the statue's toppling would signify the desire of a "deteriorating society ... to erase the generosity of its past, in favor of bitterness and misunderstanding conjured by those who do not understand the history they seem bent on destroying."
The Reconciliation Monument was approved in 1906 by Secretary of War William Taft; commissioned by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1910; designed by Jewish former Confederate soldier Moses Jacob Ezekiel; and unveiled in Section 16 of the cemetery by President Woodrow Wilson on June 4, 1914.
A hearing concerning the removal has been scheduled in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia for Wednesday.
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Unhinged Democrats Harass Republican Poll Watchers In Virginia: ‘I’m Gonna F-cking Remember You’
Tuesday’s state legislative elections are a big deal for Virginia Republicans. If they can maintain their majority in the House of Delegates and flip the Senate, they’ll have trifecta control of the state government for the first time in 10 years. With bills protecting the unborn, increasing transparency in education, and furthering election integrity likely […]Today's top stories
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