Necklace with a machine gun pendant LILY ALLEN condemned

LILY ALLEN has been condemned for glamorising guns by wearing a necklace with a machine gun pendant. The Smile hitmaker - who previously met with London mayor Boris Johnson to outline proposals to reduce knife crime - was photographed wearing the gold pendant on Friday (26Sep08). But the choice of jewellery has outraged anti-violence groups, who have branded Allen "irresponsible".Lyn Costello, from anti-violence group MAMAA, says: "She is glamorising the use of guns. It's totally irresponsible. "She's a role model and people look up to her. The last thing we want is people looking at her and thinking guns are fashionable. "I'm really disappointed in her. She had a meeting with the Mayor saying she's worried about knife crime but is she not worried about gun crime too. "If she's really worried...

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Guns are back with a vengeance on Bronx streets

Guns are back with a vengeance on Bronx streets - gun arrests are down in the double digits. In some precincts, gun arrests are down as much as 50% or more, while shootings there are up in the 30% range. The percentages are high, but the numbers are nowhere near as bad as the bad old days of the early '90s, when crack cocaine drug wars were littering the streets with bodies and emergency rooms with shooting victims. As of Oct. 5, there were 100 murders in the Bronx so far this year, compared to 88 for the same period last year - a 13.6% jump. Two years ago, murders were down 13%. Citywide, the numbers were 400 homicides versus 359 in 2007, up...

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loud music gave way to gunfire on East Chase Street in front of the Belvedere, leaving two people wounded by bullets, a third person stabbed

loud music gave way to gunfire on East Chase Street in front of the Belvedere, leaving two people wounded by bullets, a third person stabbed and a bartender using a towel to try and stop the flow of blood. City authorities said an argument led to a fight that led to the shootings, and that it involved patrons of Ultralounge.As city homicides decline, special police team gets most of the credit The establishment, which recently made a comeback from a police raid and criminal charges filed against the owner two years ago, has long been able to skirt scrutiny by city officials because of an odd zoning designation and its status as a "bottle club," which until just four months ago allowed it to operate outside the reach of the liquor board.A bottle club, explained liquor board Chairman Stephan...

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Chinese authorities say they dealt with 4,666 gun cases last year

Chinese authorities say they dealt with 4,666 gun cases last year. Officials often respond to sensational gun crimes in the U.S. and elsewhere by affirming the need to maintain tough laws.With guns often hard to buy, some criminals forge them instead. Late last year, Shanghai police responded to a call about a robbery in progress at a gritty scrap yard. According to a police spokesman, officers spotted a man fleeing the scene and yelled "freeze," but he pulled a crude homemade pistol from a bag.Witnesses say the suspect was brought down after a gunfight that had shots echoing all around the neighborhood. A police spokesman said the suspect, identified as Tang Qingjie, was shot in the leg by an officer. He said Mr. Tang had never managed to fire his weapon, which in a police photo appeared...

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Hassan J. Peters multiple gunshots were fired at Peters by the occupants of a passing vehicle.

Homicide detectives last night were still investigating the circumstances surrounding the slaying on Bellevue Avenue of Hassan J. Peters, but Detective Capt. Joseph Ju niak said preliminary information gathered from witnesses suggest that multiple gunshots were fired at Peters by the occupants of a passing vehicle. No descriptions were available, however, of that vehicle or its two male occupants. Juniak said last night that it is too early to tell if there is any gang connection to the killing. He said detectives will be looking into Pet ers' background and speaking to his family to learn more about why he might have been targeted. It was about 6:15 p.m. when police received reports of a shooting on Bellevue Avenue, between Fowler and Calhoun streets. Officers and emergency medical personnel...

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Four teens were arrested Saturday evening in DeKalb County after a drive-by shooting

Four teens were arrested Saturday evening in DeKalb County after a drive-by shooting near a skating rink, police said.A 16-year-old boy was shot in the leg and taken to a nearby hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening, police said. The teens were riding in a black Honda Civic just after 6 p.m. when they pulled up to a bus stop in the 2700 block of Wesley Chapel Road, DeKalb police spokeswoman Keisha Williams said.They shot at another group of teens — including the victim — and then drove off, Williams said.Officers in a police helicopter soon spotted the car in the Autumn Lake neighborhood and saw four persons fleeing the vehicle, police said.Within an hour, Williams said, police captured two of the suspects on a nearby road. The other two were arrested in a house.The four youths,...

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Police in Avondale were searching for suspects in a drive-by shooting that left two men injured Saturday night.

Police in Avondale were searching for suspects in a drive-by shooting that left two men injured Saturday night.It happened near 111th Avenue and Lower Buckeye Road.Police say a car drove past a home and two or three suspects inside fired several rounds.Two adult men were hit but are expected to be OK.Police say the car was involved in another shooting a few blocks away a few minutes before. No one at that location was injured.Police say they don't have a very good description of the vehic...

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Salinas police arrested Pedro Coyt and recovered evidence, including a gun believed to have been used in the shooting.

Salinas police arrested Pedro Coyt, 34, in the 600 block of Countryside Drive at 11:22 p.m. and recovered evidence, including a gun believed to have been used in the shooting. Coyt was charged with shooting at an inhabited dwelling and possession of a loaded and concealed firearm. Search leads to man's arrest for drugs, guns A search of a Salinas residence in the 700 block of Archer Street led to the arrest of the resident on suspicion of drug and firearm violations. Salinas police went to the house looking for Gerardo Yanez, 23, who was wanted on outstanding warrants. When officers searched the residence they found cocaine, gang indicia and several thousand dollars in cash. Yanez was lodged in Monterey County Jail on a variety of gang-related drug and firearms charg...

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Danielle Calbrese was taken to Southside Hospital in Bay Shore where she died a short time later.

The Suffolk County Police Department Homicide Squad is investigating the shooting of an Islip Terrace woman.Police were called to 1755 Stein Drive in Brentwood on Friday, October 10 at 10:45 p.m. after a 911 caller told police a woman had been shot.When police arrived, they found Danielle Calbrese, 20, of 11 Karp Drive, Islip Terrace, had been shot in the face. She was taken to Southside Hospital in Bay Shore where she died a short time later.Witnesses told police a group of friends was standing on the sidewalk when a number of shots came from a passing vehicle, which fled the scene.Danielle Calabrese stood with a group of friends on a Brentwood sidewalk in the warm autumn air Friday night, making plans to go out, police and friends said Saturday.Around 10:45 p.m., eyewitnesses said, a white,...

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Drive-by shooting at Eighteen Mile,Baryulgil on the weekend that left one man injured.

Police are hunting for four people involved in a drive-by shooting and car chase at Baryulgil on the weekend that left one man injured. Police were called to the shooting at Eighteen Mile, near Baryulgil on Saturday around 4.30pm, following reports a white Ford Laser had allegedly pulled up outside a house on Eighteen Mile Road and its occupants opened fire on the home. A male and a female, believed to be inside the house at the time, escaped injury. After shots were fired, the white Laser was driven off. Police said a 49-year-old man left the house and jumped into a Holden ute and followed the Laser. Police believe there were four people in the white Laser, three male and one female, all of Aboriginal appearance. During the chase, shots were allegedly fired at the Holden ute. The 49-year...

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William Leslie Baptiste, 20, was arrested and charged with robbery with a dangerous weapon

William Leslie Baptiste, 20, was arrested and charged with robbery with a dangerous weapon and placed on a $40,000 secured bond, according to police spokeswoman Lucy Crockett and the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office. Baptiste was convicted on several counts of larceny, credit card theft and fraud earlier this year, according to the N.C. Offender Database.Baptiste is now accused of robbing a male victim at gunpoint at the Krispy Kreme at 2822 S. College Road, Crockett said. The incident happened shortly before 1 a.m. Saturday, and “before calling for help, the victim followed the robber’s vehicle, a white van, to an apartment complex in the...

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Martin Ceaser brandished a handgun while driving in Cedar Rapids after earlier threatening an acquaintance.

Martin Ceaser was arrested on Friday night. Police say he brandished a handgun while driving in Cedar Rapids after earlier threatening an acquaintance.Police say they attempted to pull Ceaser over but he did not stop, instead bumping the driver's side of the police car with his car's front bumper. According to police, he then stopped his car and ran from officers who caught him a few blocks later.Police found a handgun in the front of Ceaser's car.He is charged with two counts of assault or display of a dangerous weapon, driving while barred, interference with official acts, and failure to yield to an emergency vehi...

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Antoine Armour was shot inside the club 2301 sending three others to the hospital

Club 2301 is a public nuisance, and soon may be shut down.Today at Club 2301, everything is quiet. showed up, employees inside the club locked the doors.Around two this morning, three people were shot: Antoine Armour was shot inside the club -- a bullet piercing his head, arm and shoulder. Two others were wounded in the club's parking lot.Despite this, no one bothered to call authorities.Jerri Weary of the Chattanooga Police Department related the details to Eyewitness News:"In this particular situation we had an officer who was responding to a call and overheard the gunfire and was able to respond as it unfolded. So I don't know if they had an opportunity to call in and report the situation, but even if they didn't call and report it after the fact, it's still a violation."Moments after...

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Steven Munoz 11-year-old boy and a 19-year-old man were shot dead at the Staples Center, victims of a drive-by shooting

11-year-old boy and a 19-year-old man were fatally wounded Sunday evening a few blocks from Staples Center, victims of a drive-by shooting that police said may have been gang-related.The victims were sitting on a lawn with others about 6:30 p.m. near Valencia and Connecticut streets when someone fired at the group multiple times from a passing gray Honda, police said.The group scattered. The 11-year-old, whom police identified as Steven Munoz, ran around the corner to an apartment building in the 1400 block of West 11th Street, where a police spokeswoman said she believed he lived. The 19-year-old, whom the spokeswoman did not identify pending notification of next of kin, collapsed in an alley.Both were taken to a local hospital where they died later Sund...

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Two men who opened fire on a pair of people at an apartment complex Friday were shot at in retaliation as they fled

Two men who opened fire on a pair of people at an apartment complex Friday were shot at in retaliation as they fled, but police believe no one was struck by the gunfire, police said. Police received a call about the shootout around 9:30 p.m. in the 1100 block of Post Street. The victims, a man and woman, were standing in a carport when two men approached and shot at them, but missed, said Redlands spokesman Carl Baker. The shooters then fled the scene. A witness told police he saw a man fire a gun at the shooters while they were running. Police are investigating the incident as a gang-related shooting because the man who was shot at first is a documented Redlands gang member, Baker sa...

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Jason Cardoza,Ronald Montoya two stolen guns were recovered

Two stolen guns were recovered over the weekend at the end of a short chase in which police arrested two suspected gang members. Officers were called just before midnight Saturday because of a suspicious car parked in an alley behind Domino's Pizza at 345 W. Pearl Ave. The brown 2001 Chevrolet Malibu was pulling out as police arrived and the driver refused to stop, instead leading officers through a shopping center parking lot on Orange Street. A passenger threw a loaded semiautomatic handgun that had been stolen from Yucaipa out the window during the chase, according to a police news release. Jason Cardoza, a 31-year-old San Bernardino man, was arrested on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession of stolen property. The driver, Ronald Montoya, 35, of Bloomington,...

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Jose Arreola, 20, Bryan Padilla, 18, and Omar Vargas, 18 wounded in a gang-related shooting

Three Fontana men were wounded in a gang-related shooting outside a house party Sunday, police said. Paramedics took Jose Arreola, 20, Bryan Padilla, 18, and Omar Vargas, 18, to an area hospital for treatment. Police received several reports of shots fired in the 1400 block of Altissimo Lane at 12:43 a.m. Officers said the shooting occurred following a party in the neighborhood. Members of two gangs got into an argument in the street, and a 17-year-old boy shot at the victims, police said. The boy, whose name wasn't released because of his age, was arrested and booked into juvenile ha...

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Ramon Guerra was shot multiple times in the head and then his car crashed into a tree

Ramon Guerra was shot multiple times in the head and then his car crashed into a tree around 10 p.m. in the 15000 block of Rose Avenue, said police Sgt. Jeff Decker. 26-year-old Fontana man was shot and killed Sunday night inside his Jaguar. A witness saw a dark Chevrolet Tahoe or similar vehicle drive away from the scene, Decker said. He said a motive was not known but that investigators thought it was not an accident. "It sounds like an intended target," he said. Guerra was the only person in the car and was pronounced dead at the sce...

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