IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU: Carjacking at Sparkle's Market

The Akron Beacon Journal reported Dec. 11 that a 56-year-old man was knocked to the ground in broad daylight while leaving the Sparkle Market at 1028 Hammel Ave. on Thursday.

His attackers grabbed his keys, and took his vehicle, a 1995 burgundy Oldsmobile Cutlass bearing the Ohio license plate BFS-5726.

It has not yet been determined if this Sparkle's location is one of several which have posted "no-guns" signs. Several Sparkle's stores are listed on OFCC's Do Not Patronize While Armed database because they have posted dangerous and discriminatory signs banning CHL-holders.

In any case, this incident, along with others across the state, reinforce the fact that DANGEROUS ATTACKS CAN COME AT ANY TIME, ANYWHERE:

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Two die in apparent robbery at West Side delicatessen - Cleveland Plain Dealer, December 14
A clerk and a young mother were killed Monday night on Cleveland's near West Side in an apparent robbery at a neighborhood delicatessen. Three men walked into Tony's Delicatessen on Scranton Road shortly before 10 p.m. and ordered the owner, Fethik Belhouane, 38, and the clerk on to the floor, police Lt. Mark Ketterer said. The robbers then told the clerk to open the register and shot him several times when he failed to do it quickly. The robbers took money from Belhouane before running from the store. A customer, Rebecca Cordoves, 21, ran out before them and was shot twice nearby, Ketterer said.

Man threatens woman in road rage incident - Sandusky Register, December 14
Sgt. James Faunda was sitting in his cruiser watching traffic in New
Haven when a 19-year-old woman drove up and asked for help. At about 3:45 p.m. Sunday, the woman had gone to a former boyfriend's home on Scott Road in Crawford County to drop off some items. The man came out of the residence and argued with her, Faunda said. While the woman drove away, the man broke out a driver's side rear window on the woman's 1989 Mercury Grand Marquis. The man got into a
1999 Dodge Ram pick-up truck and chased her down Scott Road to Ohio 598,
Faunda said. While they were driving, the man pulled up beside the woman
and yelled at her. At Ohio 61 the woman saw Faunda in a cruiser and
asked for help, Faunda said. Faunda and another trooper found the truck parked beside an auto dealer garage, and the man was running through a field toward woods, Faunda said. The suspect escaped.

Dayton Man Critically Injured In Early-Morning Shooting - WHIO-TV, December 14
Dayton police officers on their way to a call hear gunshots in a local neighborhood and found a man shot and lying in the middle of the street. The incident happened around 1:30 a.m. on Sunnyview near Malvern in northwest Dayton. At this time, investigators believe robbery may have been the motive...

Two men arrested after crime spree - Chillicothe Gazette, December 13
Two men on a crime spree through the county were arrested Sunday after several law enforcement agencies combed the area looking for them. John Sullivan, 33, and Chad Kuntz, 24, both of Chillicothe, now are facing one count of aggravated robbery each and the possibility of more charges after police say they used a gun to rob a man of his sports utility vehicle. The 1999 black Ford Explorer later was used as the getaway car in a holdup. Sheriff Ron Nichols said the two men committed two crimes and he believes would have continued had they not been apprehended.

Aggressive dog shot to death near school - Coshocton Tribune, December 10
The sheriff's office was called at 8:22 a.m. after several children walking to school reported being chased and frightened by the dog, said Mary Stenner, principal of the school. Stenner said several children had reported being chased by the same dog on their way to school Tuesday morning. At least one student was bitten, but not injured, by the dog on Tuesday, according to Deputy Brent McKee, the sheriff's office school resource officer. Mckee talked to a boy whose coat had been ripped by the dog on Tuesday. Mckee said the dog left teeth marks in one of the boy's shoes but had not punctured the skin. The large, white, mixed-breed dog sporadically charged the fence, trying to escape through several holes. A deputy fired as the dog made another charge trying to get through the fence. "It was aggressive, and we couldn't allow it to be loose in the neighborhood," Sgt. Dean Hettinger said. "Because of its aggressive nature and with children in the neighborhood, it created an obvious safety issue."