WOMAN CLOBBERS WILD GUNMAN : TRAILER PARK RESIDENT SWINGS SHOVEL TO STOP ASSAILANT TRYING TO ABDUCT HER.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Daily News Staff Writer After a gunman with an AK-47 broke open the gate in front of her trailer home, grabbed her hair and fired a shot that missed by inches, Ja'Nice Wolfe picked up a shovel she used to clean up after her dog and smacked him on the head. ``I said, you son of a b----, you shoot at me, you wanted this, come on in,'' Wolfe recalled Monday, still shaken from her experience. ``He stepped two feet into the yard and lifted the rifle back up at me. I grabbed the shovel, and I nailed him with it.'' The gunman, identified as Mario Barraillier, 38, of Palmdale was listed in critical condition Monday at Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Hospital with severe head injuries. After Barraillier was down, Wolfe said she ran to the trailer to get rope and hogtied him. Then she got a towel and tried to stop the bleeding. ``I didn't mean to hurt him that bad. He took a shot at me,'' Wolfe said. Authorities said Wolfe, 32, and Tom Thrun, 42, who works for L & S Carpets in Lancaster, brought to an end a 45-minute string of violence that started about 8:15 p.m. Sunday, when a shoplifting Ask a Lawyer Question Country: United States of America State: Florida caught shoplifting at sears 12/05/05, first time, 20yearsold, have no criminal record. suspect shot at Palmdale Kmart security guards who tried to stop him. Minutes later, when an unsuspecting California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. officer stopped a 1980 Buick Riviera The Buick Riviera was an automobile produced by Buick in the United States from the 1963 to 1999 model years, with 1,127,261 produced.[1] A full-size coupé or personal luxury car, the early models of the Riviera in particular have been highly praised by for speeding on the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. , the driver shot at the officer with a .45-caliber pistol but missed. The CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan officer shot back, and the gunman sped off. The driver stopped about three miles away and pushed a woman passenger and her two children, ages 3 and 5, out of the car, then took off again, authorities said. He exited the freeway on Palmdale Boulevard and drove through downtown Palmdale onto Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling , firing numerous shots at pursuing CHP officers and sheriff's deputies. The gunman drove into the Sierra Village Mobile Home Park in the 36000 block of Sierra Highway south of Barrel Springs Road and ran from his car. He attempted to carjack car·jack or car-jack tr.v. car·jacked, car·jack·ing, car·jacks To commit forcible theft of (a vehicle) from its users. [car + (hi)jack. a resident, but the man refused to turn over his car, and the gunman shot at him but missed, deputies said. That's when he went after Wolfe. Wolfe and Thrun were repairing a stove in their trailer home when their dog started barking furiously at a man outside. They went outside and saw a man pulling at the boards on the plank fence around the trailer home and saying he wanted to see ``Turquoise,'' an old, long-used nickname for Wolfe. ``I thought it was some drunk we knew,'' Wolfe said. But it turned out to be a stranger with a rifle. As he broke open the gate, Thrun began looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. something with which to fend him off, Wolfe said. ``The guy had an AK and was pointing at Tom to shoot him in the back,'' Wolfe said. ``I ran as fast as I could and slammed the gate to keep the guy from shooting Tom. The guy had me by the hair and was telling me, `You are going with me.' '' Wolfe said the gunman, whom she had never seen before, said he wanted her to take him to drug dealer's female companion. ``He put the AK in my face and said, `If you don't take me there, I'm going to kill you.' I said, I'm not going anywhere with you,'' Wolfe said. ``The (gun) barrel got caught in the gate, and I started to close it. He pulled the trigger, the gun went off and it missed,'' Wolfe said. ``That's when I wasn't scared anymore. That's when I got mad.'' She grabbed a shovel that was leaning against the fence and hit the gunman. Thrun grabbed the rifle by the barrel, but the intruder An attacker that gains, or tries to gain, unauthorized access to a system. See attacker, intrusion and IDS. hit him in the face with the butt. Thrun tackled him, and he fell to the ground, Wolfe said. ``The guy had the gun almost in Tom's mouth,'' Wolfe said. ``When I saw that, I started to hit him with the shovel. I thought the guy was going to kill my fiance.'' Wolfe said she hit Barraillier three to four times with the shovel in Verb 1. shovel in - earn large sums of money; "Since she accepted the new position, she has been raking it in" rake in earn, realise, pull in, bring in, realize, gain, make, take in, clear - earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or the back of his neck as he tried to reach for something behind his back that turned out to be a pistol. ``I had no choice. God forgive me, I had no choice,'' Wolfe said. The couple then hogtied the man and called out to the law officers who were already searching the mobile home park. Barraillier was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder In the criminal law, attempted murder is committed when the defendant does an act that is more than merely preparatory to the commission of the crime of murder and, at the time of these acts, the person has a specific intention to kill. on a peace officer, armed robbery, kidnapping kidnapping, in law, the taking away of a person by force, threat, or deceit, with intent to cause him to be detained against his will. Kidnapping may be done for ransom or for political or other purposes. and child endangerment, deputies said. Companion Laura LaFrenais, 37, of Palmdale was arrested on suspicion of armed robbery. LaFrenais was treated at Antelope Valley Hospital for a gunshot wound to the leg and taken to the county jail ward. California Highway Patrol officials said they had not determined who had shot LaFrenais. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: (color) Ja'Nice Wolfe and fiance Tom Thrun fought for their lives with a wanted gunman who charged into their yard. Karen Maeshiro/Daily News |
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