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OP-ED COLUMNIST And in Last Week’s Gun News
...<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/29/opinion/nocera-and-in-last-weeks-gun-news.html?ref=opinion&_r=0>
By JOE NOCERA

Eleaquin Temblador had plans. He was working to earn his high school
diploma and wanted to join the U.S. Marine Corps and marry his girlfriend.
... Instead, family members are planning Temblador’s funeral. For reasons
no one can explain, gunmen in a light-colored, older-model vehicle gunned
down the 18-year-old ... as he rode his bicycle home from his girlfriend’s
house.

— Dailybreeze.com, Los
Angeles<http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_22444931/wilmington-drive-by-shooting-ends-eleaquin-tembladors-dreams>

Relatives of a teen who was shot while playing basketball at a local park
said the 16-year-old is now paralyzed from the waist down. ... Police said
the shooter, a 17-year-old boy, had a gun stuck in his waistband. While he
was playing basketball, someone bumped into him and the gun went off. ...

— Click Orlando.com<http://www.clickorlando.com/news/Family-says-teen-paralyzed-after-shooting-at-Orlando-park/-/1637132/18217228/-/6gg5swz/-/index.html>

*Tuesday, Jan. 22:*

A Baton Rouge man who authorities said was playing with a gun was booked
... in the accidental shooting of his 2-year-old brother. ... [The man’s
uncle] said the teen had armed himself due to “environmental pressure” from
neighborhood friends.

— The Advocate<http://theadvocate.com/news/police/4980795-123/br-toddler-shot-in-accidental>,
Baton Rouge, La.

The New Mexico teenager who used an assault rifle to kill his mother,
father and younger siblings told police he hoped to shoot up a Walmart
after the family rampage and cause “mass destruction.” ... Nehemiah Griego,
the 15-year-old son of an Albuquerque pastor ... “stated he wanted to shoot
people at random and eventually be killed while exchanging gunfire with law
enforcement,” the [police] report said.

— ABC News<http://abcnews.go.com/US/mexico-teen-killed-family-planned-shoot-walmart-cops/story?id=18284667>

*Wednesday, Jan. 23:*

Kansas City police arrested a 16-year-old Ruskin High School student
accused of shooting at a school bus after the driver refused to allow him
to board on Wednesday.

— The Kansas City
Star<http://www.kansascity.com/2013/01/25/4031559/ruskin-high-student-accused-of.html>

A 4-year-old boy has died after being shot in the head Wednesday. ... The
deputy [sheriff] located the child’s body inside of a Ford Taurus. There
was a bullet hole in the roof of the car. ... “Jamarcus loved Batman,
Spider-Man and football and was looking forward to starting kindergarten,”
[his mother] said.

— Newsnet5.com<http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/akron_canton_news/Summit-County-Sheriffs-Office-investigating-after-man-shot-in-the-head-in-Akron>,
Akron, Ohio

*Thursday, Jan. 24:*

The estranged husband of a woman found dead in her Madison apartment
Thursday was found dead in his home ... of an apparent self-inflicted
gunshot wound. ... “We can’t really believe it; I mean, these things happen
on TV, they don’t happen to us,” [her stepmother] said. “We’re middle
class, normal Americans, and she was a nice girl.”

— WISC-TV<http://www.channel3000.com/news/Husband-of-homicide-victim-found-dead/-/1648/18277442/-/a4hil4/-/index.html>,
Madison, Wis.

Police said an 11-year-old girl is in critical condition after being shot
in the face by her father in a New Jersey home on Thursday night.
Investigators said 27-year-old Byaer Johnson apparently entered the home to
visit his young daughter. ... He was asked to leave, then picked up a
handgun and shot his daughter.

— CBS News<http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57565897-504083/byaer-johnson-n.j-dad-arrested-after-allegedly-shooting-11-year-old-daughter-in-the-face/>

*Friday, Jan. 25:*

An Oakland police officer was shot and wounded Friday evening, the second
officer in the city to be injured by gunfire this week. ... The shooting
happened after a man in a car ran a stop sign, crashed into another car ...
and ran off. Shortly thereafter, an uncle and his nephew reported that they
were shot a block away by a man who tried to steal the uncle’s bicycle.

— SFGate.com<http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-police-officer-wounded-in-shooting-4224855.php>

A man has been charged with murder for fatally shooting his brother during
a “domestic” dispute outside a South Side Englewood home Friday afternoon.
...

— Chicago.CBSlocal.com<http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/01/27/man-charged-with-murder-in-domestic-englewood-shooting/>

*Saturday, Jan. 26:*

A party in Salem that spilled outdoors ended in drive-by gunfire that hit
at least two people and riddled a car and nearby homes. ...

— KOINlocal6<http://www.koinlocal6.com/news/local/story/SALEM-DRIVE-BY-SHOOTING-INJURES-TWO-MEN/IBQ6n3WQT0yEdyVOhi38Hw.cspx>,
Salem, Ore.

A 55-year-old man has been released from custody after allegedly shooting
and killing his own dog. Police say Gordon Lagstrom was drunk Saturday
night when he pulled a .38 caliber handgun and shot to death his 4-year-old
Australian terrier, Lena.

— Boston.CBSlocal.com<http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/01/28/middleboro-man-arrested-after-shooting-killing-his-own-dog/>

The city broke a nine-day murder-free streak last night when a man was
found dead in the basement of a Queens apartment complex, police said. The
20-year-old victim, whose name was not released, had been shot in the head.

— New York Post<http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/qns_shooting_ends_city_nine_day_AXvtqCyWp1rJznvPD3fP4L>

Among those killed Saturday was a 34-year-old man whose mother had already
lost her three other children to shootings. Police say Ronnie Chambers, who
was his mother’s youngest child, was shot in the head while sitting in a
car. Police say two separate double-homicide shootings also occurred
Saturday about 12 hours apart. ... Chicago’s homicide count eclipsed 500
last year for the first time since 2008.

— CBS News<http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57566080/chicagos-deadly-day-shootings-kill-7-wound-6/