Shot in the Dark

Tag: Evanovich Shooting

  • The Media And The Evanovich Shooting: Here’s A Question For Our Media Friends

    With last week’s statement by Hennco Attorney Mike Freeman that the “good samaritan” who shot Darren Evanovich acted in justifiable self-defense, I have a question for the Twin Cities media. I’ll direct it first and foremost at my, well, good acquaintance, Bob Collins at MPR, who wrote a piece on the NewsCut blog which asked…

  • Did I Hear That Correctly?

    I caught Heather Martens – astroturf mistress from “Citizens For A Safer Minnesota” – on Channel 9’s late debate segment last night, along with my old friend John Caile. And while there were the inevitable lapses of reality from Martens (as bad as the media was at covering last week’s Evanovich shooting story, I don’t…

  • No Charges

    Channel Five is reporting that the man who shot Darren Evanovich after he pistol-whipped a 53 year old woman last week won’t be charged: That word today from the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office. But the sister of the dead robber faces two counts of Aggravated First Degree Robbery. Authorities say they believe 20-year-old Octavia Marberry of Minneapolis has possibly been…

  • Matt McKinney’s Whitewash Job

    Earlier this week, when three media outlets (WCCO-TV, KSTP-TV and Rick Kupchella’s Bring Me The News) released near-simultaneous hagiographies of Darren Evanovich – the Minneapolis man who was shot by a “good samaritan” with a carry permit after Evanovich allegedly robbed and pistol-whipped a woman in a grocery store parking lot – I said (in…

  • Deterred: A Few Details

    From the Minnesota Carry Forum, unverified but utterly plausible information about the pistol-whipping victim in the Evanovich case: A little inside firsthand facts directly from the pistol whipped lady (my wife knows who she is from work) and overheard her talking today about it. There was 3 perps. (dead guy, his sister, one still unknown one)…

  • A Family Matter

    Not a lot of updates in last week’s case in Minneapolis, where a “good samaritan” with a carry permit chased 23 year old Darren Evanovich after seeing Evanovich “pistol-whipping” a 53 year old woman in the parking lot of a grocery store.  Evanovich, so the story goes, ran and then turned and pointed a gun…

  • Deterred?

    We don’t really know what happened behind the Cub store near Lake and Hiawatha last week, in an incident in which one Darren Evanovich allegedly robbed a woman in the parking lot, pistol-whipped her, was chased by a Good Samaritan, allegedly drew a pistol on the samaritan, and was in turn shot dead.  I published…

  • Why We Need Better Self-Defense Laws. Maybe.

    A shooting  by reported carry-permit holder in South Minneapolis may just illustrate the problems facing the law-abiding citizen. We’ come back to that.  First, the reported details: A man was fatally shot Thursday night in south Minneapolis in what may have been a case of self-defense by another man who interrupted a robbery, police said. Just before…