Good Guy with a Gun weekly roundup
Covering news published from March 28-April 4, 2026
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Note that we don’t pretend that this represents every newsroom that covered any given story. And everyone is innocent until proved guilty.
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Florida
Miami Beach
In this case, the gun was drawn but not fired.
The aggressor, who later told investigators that he was Muslim and “does not like Jews,” approached a father and his two children, 5- and 7-years-old, and asked if they were Jewish. When the father answered in the affirmative, this allegedly led the suspect, Ahman Zeeshan, to “verbally assault” the family and threaten to attack the father.
After warning Zeeshan many times to stop and to stay away, the victim and witnesses say the victim feared for his and his children’s safety and drew a concealed handgun.
After retreating initially, Zeeshan began moving toward the family again and resumed his verbal threats.
A nearby witness stood between Zeeshan and the family to protect them, at which point Zeeshan began to record the incident and left in his car, and he, the victim, and the witness all called the police.
The police indicated that they felt the victim was “in fear for his life” and justified in drawing his gun, and that the suspect—charged with “assault with prejudice based on religion”—put the family and others in the park in danger through his actions.
Man draws gun after cops say suspect harassed him and his children for being Jewish: Local10
West Park
In an update on an incident from January of 2024, a judge granted Darrell Rose’s “motion for immunity under Florida’s ’Stand Your Ground’ law.”
In the incident, Rose was arguing and fighting with Serdjy Hyppolite outside a tire shop when Hyppolite pulled out a gun.
The judge ruled that as the men struggled for the weapon, Rose “simply tried to prevent himself from being shot and killed by Hyppolite and, during the process, the firearm accidentally discharged.”
Broward judge grants manslaughter suspect’s motion for immunity under ‘Stand Your Ground’ law: Local10
Broward Court Shocker: Stand Your Ground Shields West Park Killing Suspect: Hoodline
Georgia
Atlanta
Najal Swain and Kamari Walker got into an argument with two other men outside a Food Mart. According to police warrants, Swain was “the first person to show he had a gun” and probably “shot it at the feet of the other two men, one of whom shot Walker in self-defense.”
Walker died at the scene, and Swain is charged with his partner’s murder, as well as “possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and two counts of aggravated assault.”
Suspect arrested in deadly shooting outside south Atlanta convenience store: Atlanta News First
Illinois
Chicago
An argument in a home escalated when a 44-year-old man drew a knife or “sharp object” on the 31-year-old man he was arguing with.
The younger man, who has an FOID, shot the man with the knife multiple times, also hitting a 38-year-old woman who had tried to intervene. Both the man and the woman died, and the shooter is being held. Depending on the news story, charges are supposedly pending as the investigation continues.
Chicago Today opines that “gun violence and fatal altercations in homes remain a persistent public safety issue in Chicago” and that this incident highlights “the need for better conflict resolution resources.”
Funny, but it was the attempted knife violence that allegedly made this altercation escalate to a fatal encounter, and “conflict resolution resources” means someone coming to the scene to try to resolve the conflict—how long would someone facing an angry man with a knife inside a home have to wait for more such resources to arrive?
2 dead in double shooting Monday night on Chicago’s West Side: Chicago Tribune
Two Killed in East Garfield Park Shooting, Suspect in Custody: Hoodline
FOID card holder fatally shoots man, woman inside East Garfield Park home, police say: ABC 7
Rockford
A mother waiting in her car at a gas station witnessed two people go inside the gas station’s store and start punching her son.
She took her handgun and approached the store—according to her and surveillance footage, one person continued to beat her son while the other held the door closed, so she forced the door open a bit and fired, hitting one of them in the leg. That convinced the attackers to stop and everyone left the gas station, with the mother calling police from her home.
She was charged with “Aggravated Battery/Use of a Deadly Weapon and Aggravated Battery/Discharge of a Firearm,” though other sources say police indicated that their continuing investigation included looking into the legal justification of using deadly force to protect a family member.
Rockford mom charged with shooting son’s attacker at gas station: WTVO 17
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