Good Guy with a Gun weekly roundup (Free this week!)
Covering news published from March 22-29, 2026
Welcome to another weekly round-up. Is your state in the list?
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!
Illinois
Decatur: Sha-ron Shelby [What a difference a hyphen makes! Ed.] went looking for trouble — he was a felon in possession of a handgun, and he parked his car and fired at someone down the street for unknown reasons. He then “ran west, stopped in front of a house and pointed his gun toward an unobstructed window.
A resident, standing just inside the aforementioned window, fired his legally possessed firearm at Shelby through the window in self-defense, believing that Shelby was going to shoot him.”
To add to his crimes that night, after being injured by the lawful gunowner, he broke into a house to hide, but police were already on his trail and he was arrested and booked on several charges.
Florida
Escambia County: Andrew Harvey really, really didn’t want another car to merge.
After that car sped up and pulled in front of Harvey, Harvey engaged in some impressive road rage-type behavior, throwing things at the other driver and punching out one of his windows.
The driver, who was traveling with his family in the car, somehow felt threatened by Harvey’s behavior and shot him. “They will not be charged as the incident is being investigated as a Stand Your Ground case.”
Harvey was treated for his injuries and then arrested on various charges related to the incident.
Michigan
Genesee County: In a frustrating twist, a man who was a concealed carry license holder, and who was found to have lawfully acted in self-defense when he shot a gang member, is still being punished.
A gang member was charged with “assault with intent to rob while unarmed, and assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder” after attacking the legally-armed man in a restroom at the fieldhouse on the campus of Motts Community College, while prosecutors did not charge the concealed carry license holder for shooting the gang member because he fired in self defense.
However, under a Michigan law, “sports arena or stadium” is named as a “sensitive place” that concealed carry holders cannot carry.
As Ammoland points out: “The government’s position here is effectively this: yes, you were lawfully defending yourself against a violent assault, but you still should not have been armed when the attack happened because the legislature had already declared that location a ‘sensitive place.’”
Cleared in Self-Defense, Charged for Carrying: Michigan Case Shows Why ‘Sensitive Places’ Fail (Ammoland)
Lansing: A homeowner shot the estranged husband of his “female acquaintance” after the husband drove over an hour to the home, entered the house, and fired multiple shots at the homeowner.
The homeowner was shot twice but returned fire — the estranged husband was killed, and the homeowner was treated for his injuries.
New Mexico
Albuquerque: This is an update on an incident from St Patrick’s Day of 2019, when an Uber driver claimed he shot a drunk passenger in self-defense as they argued on the side of the road on I-25. This week a jury agreed with him, rejecting the prosecutor’s arguments that he should have driven away or that deadly force was unnecessary, and instead acquitted him of the charges of voluntary manslaughter.
Ohio
Boardman: A woman claims she shot Montrell Gilbert after “he showed up at her apartment and was trying to kick in the door, as well as threatening to burn the building down” while she had three children in the home, and then confronted another person who came to help.
After Gilbert knocked that person down, the woman got her gun and fired at him, killing him. No arrests have been made so far.
Pennsylvania
Fayette County: A woman “took care of business,” according to officers, when she shot a man that broke into her house and entered her bedroom.
After he refused to leave, she shot him in the leg, but he kept coming toward her so she shot him again in the “side of the head.” That still didn’t stop him [but who needs “high-capacity magazines” or hollow-points? Ed.] and the intruder and woman struggled before she was able to escape the house and meet troopers outside.
State police on the scene told her brother that “she got beat up a little bit, but she shot the guy,” and they also told the reporter that “state police said the castle doctrine, which allows someone to use deadly force to protect themselves inside their home, applies in this case.”
This case also serves as an answer to the question of why someone shooting in self-defense ever needs to fire more than one shot.
Man shot multiple times after breaking into Fayette County home, authorities say (CBS Pittsburgh)
Man shot multiple times in Brownsville, Fayette County; Investigation launched (WTAE 4)
South Carolina
Orangeburg County: Deputies arrested a man who was shot by his intended robbery victim after surveillance video confirmed that he did shoot first.
Marquise Farley approached a vehicle while wearing a mask and shot into it, so one of the victims — a mother and her son — shot him in the abdomen in self-defense. (The stories differ in which victim fired.). The sheriff stated: “This was certainly this individual’s unlucky day... The only way he was lucky that day was because he wasn’t killed.”
Alleged robbery attempt gets suspect shot and arrested, OCSO says (WCBD 2)
SC man fires into occupied car and then shot in the abdomen, deputies say (The State)
Tennessee
Memphis: A homeowner woke a little before 5 AM after hearing noises and found a woman had entered his house.
She claimed she wanted to buy the home.
He fired at her, wounding her in the leg, and MPD arrived and took her to the hospital and then into custody, reporting that she was apparently “experiencing mental health issues.”
Homeowner shoots intruder near Westwood, MPD reports (WMC 5)
Homeowner Shoots Intruder Who Claimed She Wanted to Buy His House at 5AM (USACarry)
Texas
Houston: A business owner on his way to work says he got an alert that the building’s gate was open. He allegedly arrived to find two suspects inside, and he claims they then approached him. The article states that “shots were fired” without specifying who shot them, but both suspects were shot and taken to the hospital. The police say that the DA’s office will determine if charges will be filed “once the surveillance footage of the shooting has been reviewed.”
Man shoots two suspects in SW Houston, claims they broke into his business Wednesday morning: HPD (KTRK 13)
Houston: In a rather strange story, two men were seen running through a neighborhood, one with blood on his head and the other wearing all black and a mask. The bloodied man began going door to door asking for help and pounding on doors before banging on the door of one home, then kicking in the door and forcing his way inside — and the homeowner inside shot him “multiple times.”
The man was taken to the hospital in critical condition while police investigate and search for the man in black.
Police say that the shooting in the home “may have been self-defense” but they initially had a lot of questions surrounding how the man ended up running around banging on doors to begin with. Turns out the two men were brothers, Wade and Kenneth Jolivet, who owned competing smoke shops.
Kenneth took their ongoing feud up several notches when he allegedly tied up and assaulted their mother, who says she was held hostage for six hours until Wade showed up that night, and that, apparently, is when things really “got out of hand” as they fought in the street. Wade ended up knocking on doors, chased by Kenneth, until the shooting occurred.
Man banging on doors for help shot by homeowner after forcing entry into SW Houston home (Click2Houston)
KHOU 11
Brotherly feud gets one brother shot by a neighbor and another on the run from police, mother says (KTRK 13)
Alleged Intruder in Critical Condition After Kicking in Door, Being Shot by Homeowner (Breitbart)
West Virginia
Kanawha County: A homeowner arrived home to find an intruder in the house, armed with a bat and knife.
After a confrontation at the front door, the intruder attacked the homeowner, leading to a struggle in the front yard until the homeowner pulled a gun and shot and killed his attacker. WFXR notes that the homeowner is “not currently in custody which may suggest the killing was justified in self-defense.”