Defensive Gun Use weekly roundup
From 12/7/2025 through 12/15, here are GGWAG stories that made the news.
Here’s a roundup of Defensive Gun Uses (DGUs) from the past week. Click the location to be taken to the article that describes the story in more detail.
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Update: 12/12/2025
Incident: 11/22/2025
Knightdale, NC
There’s very little information. Looks like there was an accident first, and then two men fighting. Corey Hansen was shot and died. The Wake County DA has said that the shooting was in self-defense.
Update: 12/8/2025
Incident: 11/30/2025
Bowling Green, KY
The Great Equalizer in action! Four masked men with guns broke into an apartment when the resident wasn’t home. When the resident returned, he fired shots at the intruders. They returned fire, then left.
Two men had previously been arrested: Jaivion S. Harris and Brian C. Williams.
The update shows three more people being arrested: Keon Knight, Aboubaker Mohamoud, and a 17-year-old female. (I’m not sure why five people were arrested when only four broke in. Getaway car?)
Incident: 12/4/2025
Emanuel Greenwalt-Claypool was about to get stomped by his brother, Jarell Wheeler. He drew and fired instead, killing Wheeler. (He unfortunately also wounded a bystander.) The DA has declined to press charges, citing self-defense.
Incident: 12/5/2025
This isn’t a definite DGU, but it has the look of one. It sometimes takes a little time for these things to get sorted out.
Around 3 AM on Friday, December 5th, a man was shot in the neck at a residence. Officers recovered a crowbar outside the home, which could mean that the man was breaking in. Another man at the scene told officers that his home had been “previously” broken into, and he had two handguns on him. He was detained.
Incident: 12/9/2025
Ricardo Alonzo Diaz is a homeless man who was testing doors to see if they were unlocked. He found one, with nobody inside, and settled in to make himself some food. He returned later, but this time the homeowner was at home. Diaz was holding a knife, so the resident shot him with a .22 revolver.
That thing that never happens, happens every day.
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