TEXAS – An attempted robbery at a north Texas home left a promising Howard University football player dead during his holiday break, local reports said.
Terrence Neal Tusan, 22, was identified as one of two suspects discovered shot to death at a Denton apartment complex over the weekend after allegedly breaking into a home, authorities told the Denton Record-Chronicle.
He and Jakobi Dmon Gipson, 18, of Arlington, Tex., are accused of masking their faces and forcing their way into an apartment Sunday before gunfire erupted.
Tusan’s body was found outside the apartment in the 1500 block of Meadow St. Gipson’s body was discovered inside the apartment, police said.
The news shocked his mother, Donna Tusan, who last saw him Sunday to watch the Dallas Cowboys. (read more)

CALIFORNIA – ANAHEIM, (AP) – Nathanael Blair went to the garage to move his truck early Christmas morning and was surprised by a ski mask-wearing burglar who threw a pipe wrench at him, hitting him in the jaw and neck.
The Orange County Register reports that Blair ran and grabbed his 12-gauge Winchester shotgun, chasing the burglar and firing his shotgun.
The burglar was hit, but ran away. The police arrived and searched the area, finding the suspect who was identified by authorities as 29-year-old Jeremy William Bell of Fullerton. (read more)