A Chicago shop owner used a bat to fight off a gunman who tried to rob his store. The thief shot at the shop owner nine times. The shop owner owner was only hit once. It was all caught on surveillance tape.
First the news report on the event, then the raw version.
Here's the raw tape of the incident.
Newly restored video shows James Earl Ray, the man who murdered civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., being returned to Memphis, Tenn. after his arrest, along with his interaction with authorities as he is read his rights and taken to jail.
Steve Kihlthau may be a pastor, but the events of the past week at his church off of Hammer Lane in Stockton required some action, he says.
Redding police are looking for a suspect who, first, showed his face (and sweet, sweet trousers) to the security camera, then weak-armed a rock into the window before tripping over a parking obstacle, falling on his face then galumphing off into what can only be guessed is either oblivion or, more likely, eventual incarceration.
The suspect, identified as Jett McBride, is being charged with attempted murder, battery and assault with a deadly weapon. McBride reportedly stands over six feet tall, and weighs over 300 pounds. And nobody describes the incident like hitchhiker Kai.
The FBI ended the standoff with Jimmy Lee Dykes, who was holding a 5-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker. As Mark Strassmann reports, agents exploited a supply delivery routine they developed over a week of negotiations.
Police released video Friday night that shows officers finding Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher asleep in his car just hours before he killed his girlfriend and later shot himself.
A Nebraska 19-year-old lands behind bars after posting a YouTube video bragging about robbing a bank and showing off the cash. Jen Markham explains why the young woman probably should have changed her clothes before shooting the video.
Here's the full YouTube video she posted.
She sticks newspaper in the machine and sets it on fire. Of course, it gets caught on tape.
It's hard to catch a naked person. Seattle police have arrested a man accused of knocking a young brother and sister to the ground at a park, then stripping off his clothes and jumping naked into a nearby lake where he eluded police boats and divers for more than two hours. Here's the raw video:
Now something out of the movies. A tough cops clings to the roof of a speeding vehicle to make an arrest.
The Martini Shot is a Hollywood term that describes the final shot of the day before it's a wrap. Let's end the day with this:
Florida police ended a high speed chase through Miami-Dade county with what appears to be the capture of at least three suspects. There's nothing like a good car chase, especially when the bad guys get caught.
Warning: Graphic elements in this video. Passersby try to help victims shot outside the Empire State Building on Friday.
A convenience store owner in New Bedford, Mass., takes on a knife-wielding robber, first with a broomstick, and then with a display race in an incident caught on video tape.
