Lisa Reardon, the "queen of redneck noir," has been arrested on charges of shooting her father in the buttocks.
Mr. McGriff is being held in Baltimore on federal firearms charges of shooting a gun at a firing range.
Last month five Nigerian policemen were taken to court to face charges of shooting dead unarmed civilians on the outskirts of the capital, Abuja.
He is facing trial in January on charges of shooting a man outside a Philadelphia bar and on charges of punching another man in the face.
When police in New York arrested Salvatore Perrone earlier this month on charges of shooting three Brooklyn shopkeepers to death, the focus was on the grisly murders of the merchants as they worked in their clothing stores.
And much was made of the news that the investigating officer in the case, Hilton Botha, is up on charges of shooting at a taxi with seven passengers on board.
Perhaps, he said, it was because some people were upset by his victories for people accused of crimes, like a young man cleared of a baseball bat assault, and a woman acquitted on charges of shooting a taxi driver in the eye.
Jamil Al-Amin, the former radical organizer known as H. Rap Brown in the 1960's, was arraigned in federal court in Montgomery on charges of shooting at federal marshals who were trying to arrest him in the killing of a deputy sheriff in Atlanta.
Ms. McIntyre said that when she heard that Father Gulas had been killed in the rectory fire she was shocked and that when she heard that "Brother Dan" had been arrested on charges of shooting him the shock turned to anger and devastation.
