Preview

Howard's Shootings: A Short Story

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
363 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Howard's Shootings: A Short Story
found in his home. The very home where his shooting spree had ended in a showdown with over fifty law enforcement officers. Only after firing hundreds possibly thousands of rounds at Howard, officers used tear gas to bring Howard out of his stronghold, and with this, the siege of Camden was finally brought to an end.
Howard had previous problems with the neighbors. He felt they were making fun of him for living at home with his mother and also suspected him of being a homosexual. On the morning of the shootings, he got up, dressed in his best suit and bow tie, and ate breakfast with his mother. After breakfast, Howard threatened his mother with a wrench, so she left the house to visit a friend. Howard took his gun and walked down the street

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Satisfactory Essays

    David North,in the article “The Columbine High school Massacre American Pastoral...American Berserk” states that “installing metal detectors more police more surveillance cameras and enlisting the population as collaborators to inform on those with supposed propensity to violence”. David North, Third page seventh paragraph, North was talking about all new have to be installed. The outbreaks that happens aren’t social problems or failure to miss signals coming off of people it's the police fault. Schools are now having to pay for the security of the students by making sure that there is at least one police officer on campus due to the new rules after the Columbine Shooting.…

    • 194 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    In “Gun Carnage in the Nation, Groundhog Day in the Capitol,” the editorial board of the The New York Times explains that the failed attempt to have America to incorporate a gun control law into into their government policy, acts just like the movie Groundhogs Day. In this 1993 movie, Bill Murray, who plays Phil, has to keep on repeating the same day over until he can learn to appreciate Goundhog’s Day and the editors believe that the Democrats contains comparison to Bill Murray’s role here, as the appreciation of their proposal never seems to exist. The journalists support this claim by Senator, Dianne Feinstein signing the proposition to rekindle the government restriction on guns and implements of war endorsed from the army. A warrant to…

    • 250 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    “Behind every crime is a story of sadness” by Enrique Peña Nieto. This quote applies to two mass murders The D.C. Sniper and The Virginia Tech Massacre. In this case there are people like John Allen Muhammad, Lee Boyd Malvo, and Seung Hui Cho. Who have been notorious for their crimes but behind this horrible crimes is one of the saddest stories that people can relate too. But because of their sad beginning in life they believe that they need to put fear on people’s lives by committing crimes. In this world crimes can be either influenced or psychologically tempted. Some people might considered this as different cases but believe that they are similar in their live but also when they committed their crimes.…

    • 219 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    New year’s day 2015, Valanesha Washington was sitting in her bedroom not knowing that will be the last place she be seen alive, was killed in a drive by shooting in her own home. She was taken to OU medical center where she later died she was only 19 years old. Two days’ later police got a tip on the shooting, 18-year-old Daryan Jones was responsible for the shooting that cause Valanesha’s death. Daryan Jones was charged with first degree murder and can serve up to 20 years to life in prison. In the past year rapes and murders has reached its high while other crimes have decreased, people of Oklahoma City fear for their life knowing that they can be the next victims.…

    • 680 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Fred “Killer” Burke was an unsuspected murderer from the 1930’s and managed to put an unforgettable imprint in crime. Gangsters were very common among the 1930’s after the sudden downfall of the stock market also known as the Great Depression. Managing to escape the law many times Frank was able to achieve many schemes that made his nickname come to life. Frank Burke will be a known 1930’s gangster because of his fraud schemes, murderers, and stolen equipment.…

    • 500 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Hank Shaw’s “On Killing” is an article showing the readers that there is more than meets the eye on the sport of hunting. His style, use of first-person, and emotion really capture the reader’s attention and makes it easy to build a convincing connection through text. This relationship allows the reader to learn more about him as an individual versus just an author. Shaw’s title and opening line insinuates the piece might be about death and killings of some sort. A sad topic, yet he finds a way to turn this around into something beautiful and worth reading.…

    • 551 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    In Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, the author uses a style of writing combining factual, journalistic writing with the mystery and intrigue normally found in traditional fiction novels to develop a new genre that critics found unique from the modernists of his time. In the beginning of this book, the murders and victims seem unrelated, but as the book moves ahead, the relationship becomes clear. The victims, who are the Clutter family of four, are the typical all-American family. The family is murdered in their own home by two ex-convicts named Dick and Perry. The murder takes place in Holcomb, Kansas, but Dick and Perry travel around the U.S. and Mexico cashing bad checks until they are finally caught in Las Vegas.…

    • 487 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Tennessee V Garner

    • 653 Words
    • 3 Pages

    At about 10:45 p. m. on October 3, 1974, Officers of the Memphis Police Department, Elton Hymon and Leslie Wright responded to a "prowler inside call" (FindLaw.com). After arriving at the scene, they saw a woman standing on her porch and motioning toward the house next door. She said that she had heard the sound of glass being shattered and that "they" or "someone" was breaking in the house next door. While Wright radioed the dispatcher saying they were at the scene, Hymon went behind the house. He heard a slamming door and saw someone running across the backyard. The fleeing suspect, Edward Garner, stopped at a 6-feet-high chain link fence ( Justia & Oyez & Forms WorkFlow ). Being able to see Garner 's face and hands, He saw no sign of a weapon and though not certain, was "reasonably sure" and "figured" that Garner was unarmed. Hymon thought Garner was near the age 17 or 18 and around 5 '5" to 5 '7" tall. While Garner crouched at the base of the fence, Hymon identified himself and issued a command to halt taking a few steps toward the suspect. Garner then attempted to climb the fence. Believing that if Garner made it over the fence he would escape capture, Hymon shot him. The bullet hit Garner in the back of the head. Garner was taken by ambulance to a hospital, where he died on the operating table. Ten dollars and a purse taken from the house were found on his body (Biers).…

    • 653 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Hawks could make his distinctive mark on any genre and can be easily recognized throughout his long film career, “westerns, musicals, screwball comedies, war pictures, historical epics, romantic adventures, films noir, gangster sagas, and even science fiction“(imdb, Howard Hawks). Here is just sample of classic films he has directed, Scarface (1932), Bringing Up Baby (1938), His Girl Friday (1940), Sergeant York (1941), Air Force (1943), To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), and Rio Bravo (1959). He nearly won the Oscar in 1941 for Best Director of Sergeant York; Hawks was “nominated for Best Director only that one time, despite making some of the best films in the Hollywood canon“ (imdb, Howard Hawks). By the 1960s and 1970s the…

    • 1354 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The story ended when George shot Lennie in the back of the head. He didn’t want Lennie to feel the pain, so he tried to picture their American dream to take Lennie's attention away.…

    • 402 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    11,127 is the number of Americans killed in the United States last year with a gun. 381 is the number of Germans killed with a gun, which is the closest statistic country to the U.S. Why is there so much gun violence in the U.S? What is so different in the U.S. that gun crime is so prevalent? What can we do to change it? All questions Bowling for Columbine poses in the film documentary by Michael Moore. Like the documentary, there is not one simple answer and there are no easy solutions.…

    • 776 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    On March 5, 1770 shots fired out through the city, leaving five dead, more wounded, and soldiers that were charged of murder. This was called the Boston Massacre a huge turning point in the colonies. Although most people thought the soldiers were guilty I think they aren’t. I will prove from the testimony and eyewitness accounts that the soldiers should not be charged with murder and they acted only in self-defense.…

    • 483 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    In The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, we are brought to a startling realization when, in the end, it is revealed that our very own narrator, Dr. Sheppard, is the killer all along. However, this does not make him an unreliable narrator. In fact, Dr. Sheppard, as the “author” of this story, is a very honest and dependable narrator- using subtle clues in his writing in order to reveal himself as the killer from the very beginning.…

    • 1545 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    The 1970’s- we’ve heard plenty of trippy stories about those years. It was a decade of partying, exploring, color television, and troops returning home from the Vietnam War. With all the changes evolving, the 70's was also the start of the worst violent serial murders in America’s history with credit given to Dean Corll. You may know him as the infamous Candy Man but lets rewind a little bit-Dean Arnold Corll, born December 24, 1939 in a small town in Indiana, was an American serial killer who, with the help of two young accomplices, David Brooks and abducted Elmer Wayne Henley Jr- sodomized, tortured, and murdered a minimum of 28 boys in a number of killings beginning in 1970 and lasting until 1973 in Houston, Texas (Blanco,Murderpedia,2014). The crimes became known as the Houston Mass Murders when discovered after his accomplice Henley shot him to death in August of 1973. At the time of the findings,…

    • 2269 Words
    • 10 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    This is the frame where Bugliosi and Posner, etc indicate that the first shot was fired. Now, the first shot is the easiest in terms of distance and the fact that the shooter has time to aim. Their are several problems associated with this claim. First, at Frame 160, the Presidential limousine is just about underneath the 6th floor window. Anyone shooting from the sniper's nest would have had to lean out the window, with his rifle (By the way, Mr. Posner. You write this carpola book called, “Case Closed” and you have a graphic on Oswald's assumptive weapon. But, you don't call it a rifle – you call it a gun. I wonder where your editor was to try to save you from your ignorance. If any GI referred to his rifle as…

    • 1928 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Powerful Essays