HOUSTON TX Sept 24 2018 – Security officers patrolling the Texas Direct Auto Auction came under fire and police are investigating. Police said that someone opened fire on security officers in the TDAA parking lot on the north side overnight but that no one was hit. Houston Police say it happened around 1:30 a.m. Friday in […]
Salinas CA Sept 24 2018 A security officer on duty was the victim of a drive-by shooting according to police. Police said that the shooting occurred outside Mariano’s Club on East Market Street about 12:30 a.m., when officers were alerted by an activated ShotSpotter, the police department’s gunshot-location system. Several shots were fired at a […]
Philadelphia PA Sept 24 2018 A disturbance escalated to a shooting outside of a nightclub in the Kensington section of Philadelphia overnight. According to police, a 34-year-old man got into a fight inside the club, then went to his car and grabbed a gun. He came back and exchanged gunfire with a club security guard outside […]
BALTIMORE COUNTY, MD Sept 17 2018 Baltimore County Police say that they are investigating a shooting that happened around 10:30 p.m., on Saturday night. Police say the shooting happened at 15 De Septembre Bar and Lounge on Hollins Ferry Road, after a security guard was threatened, then nearly run over by a partygoer. The suspect, a […]
HOUSTON TX Sept 15 2018 A late night shooting at a fast food restaurant resulted in the shooting death of a man. Police say a man and a security officer were involved in a shooting. Police say the 10 customers inside the restaurant located at 7629 West Bellfort ran for their lives after a man started […]
Villa Rica GA Sept 16 2018 A man pointed a gun at Waffle House workers in Georgia early Thursday and tried to rob them, until another customer, an off-duty security guard, stepped in with a gun of their own, according to police. The attempted robber showed up at the Waffle House on Highway 61 in […]
AUSTIN TX Sept 15 2018 A man was shot in downtown Austin Friday, after a security guard’s gun “accidentally” fired, according to Amy Jackson, the director of development at Caritas Austin. Jackson says it began as a scuffle between a security guard and one of the diners at their community kitchen. One person has been apprehended, […]
ORLANDO, Fla. Sept 11 2018 For the second time in two months, a person has been shot by an armed security guard at an Orlando area bar. Deputy sheriffs responded to the Happy Place Sports Bar Monday morning, and the Orange County Sheriff’s Office says that a shooting happened in their parking lot. They got […]
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. Sept 11 2018 – A robbery suspect injured when a security guard opened fire on him at MetroPCS last month, has died. Trayvale Chance Gentry Carlson, 28, and another man entered the MetroPCS store, located at 1030 Chester Avenue on Aug 30 just before 6 p.m. A security guard shot Carlson while the other […]
CHARLOTTE NC SEPTEMBER 7 2018 About every two years, Private Officer International researches our archives of news stories and researches multiple on-line local and federal data bases, public records, law enforcement data, news headlines and other resources to compile an accurate look at the present and real dangers to private security front-line officers. During the past ninety […]