One of the problems with guns is that there are too many people who simply don’t take seriously their killing potential. Either that or they don’t care. Last Friday, for instance, a woman named Mary Frances Alday, 61, went into a Walmart in Crawfordville, Fla., and when she got to the checkout line, demanded that the store redeem a “dollar off” coupon she procured online. She became furious when told the store would not honor Internet coupons, and after lashing out at the store clerk and other Walmart employees – and hurling a shopping cart at them – she went to her car, where she pulled out a loaded Smith & Wesson .38 Special and waved it in the direction of the Walmart staff. After she fled the parking lot, Alday was pulled over by the sheriff’s department and charged with four counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Here is today’s sampling of gun violence.

Two teenagers were shot in the back at the Delmont Village Apartments in Richmond, Va., overnight. Police found one teen in a stairwell in the apartment complex and the other half a mile away in another complex. The first victim told police he was robbed; the second victim couldn’t remember if someone put him in a car and drove him away. They are being treated at a hospital.

—News 12

Deidra Blackmon, 33, was shot in the head in her car after an altercation shortly before midnight Saturday at a Saginaw, Tex., gas station. She was rushed to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Jeffrey Hansana, 24, faces a murder charge, and Heather Rene Thompson, 22, was charged with failing to report a felony. They both have prior arrest records.

—Dallas Morning News



18-year-old Richard Vega was shot and killed Sunday evening in Campbell, Calif., a suburb of San Jose. Police say they don’t know the motive behind the killing and have yet to make an arrest. Local residents blame the scene that has popped up around the city’s handball courts, which some feel is gang-related. It is the city’s first homicide since 2007.

—KGO-TV

Two teens were seriously wounded after a shooting Sunday night in George, Wash. Witnesses told investigators the victims were among four people sitting in a car in front of a home when another car pulled up behind them. Two people got out, fired shots and drove away. A 16-year-old boy is wounded in the torso, knee and face. A 14-year-old girl is wounded in the torso. They were airlifted to trauma centers in serious condition.

—KOMO News

John Sumpter IV, 32, of East Hills, Pa., was found dead about 4 a.m. early Sunday in his car near a nightclub called Club Pink. The suspect, Paul Barone, 23, was seen by witnesses and a surveillance camera outside the club firing shots toward Sumpter’s car before he got into another vehicle with two other men and attempted to flee. Barone was arrested by Allegheny County Police and charged with homicide and illegal possession of a firearm.

—Trib Live

A Morgan County, Tenn., man is charged with attempted first-degree murder for allegedly shooting his stepfather in the head. Johnny Haun, 36, is accused of shooting Bill Harris, 41, during an domestic argument outside Harris’s residence. Authorities found Harris in the front yard with a single bullet wound to his head. He was later transported to the hospital, where he was listed in critical condition. Haun was arrested without incident.

—Knox News

A 22-year-old man was shot and killed Monday morning at a busy intersection in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood. Dominic Scott was gunned down at the corner of Third Street and Palou Avenue about 8:24 a.m. and died of multiple gunshot wounds. Officers saw a man running away from the shooting, chased him several blocks and arrested him. While he was running away, he stowed a handgun in the wheel well of a parked vehicle, and police recovered the gun.

—SF Gate

An 81-year-old man in Ashford, Conn., was found dead of a gunshot wound 8 a.m. Monday. Initially reported as accidental, police are now investigating the death as a possible suicide. The man’s name hasn’t been released.

—Boston.com

A man is dead after a drive-by shooting early Sunday in south suburban Riverdale, Ill. 22-year-old Preston Griffin was in a vehicle when a shooter in a white SUV opened fire about 4:30 p.m. Griffin was shot once in the back and taken to the hospital, where he died. Police do not have any suspects.

—CBS Chicago

According to Slate’s gun-death tracker, an estimated 2,474 people have died as a result of gun violence in America since the Newtown massacre on December 14, 2012.