Good Guy with a Gun weekly roundup
Covering stories that made the news from April 4-11, 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.
To the stories!
Florida
Jacksonville: In a twist on the usual sequence of home-invasion events, a homeowner returned home and found the invader already inside the house. After confronting the invader, who was a male in his late-teens, the homeowner shot him in the shoulder. Police then arrived and transported the wounded man to the hospital.
One shot during suspected home invasion on University Boulevard North, Jacksonville police say (First Coast News)
Florida Man Shoots Intruder After Walking In on Home Invasion at Jacksonville Apartment (USACarry)
Miami-Dade County: No one is saying what the argument o Tuesday morning was about, but it must have rankled Eugene Witherspoon, 46, because hours later, after midnight, he went to the victim’s home and shot at him three times, hitting him in the leg.
The victim then fired on Witherspoon, causing him to flee.
Deputies found him later on Wednesday and arrested him, at which point Witherspoon “admitted to shooting the victim and getting rid of the gun,” and thanks to the fact that Witherspoon is a registered sex offender, a charge of “felon in possession of a gun” was added to the attempted first-degree murder charge.
Man shot hours after dispute near northwest Miami-Dade restaurant, cops say; 1 arrested (Local10.com)
Illinois
Chicago: A homeowner (who happens to be a license concealed carrier, not that he needed to concealed carry in his own home) fired on an intruder who charged at him. He then called police and started CPR, but the intruder died from the gunshot wound in his chest.
One story notes that the home the intruder broke into is across the street from a police station—even across the street isn’t close enough to stop someone charging at you when the police are still a call away... [Note that the same was true for today’s GGWAG #166 —Ed.]
