The Bachelorette Recap: Emily's a Straight Shooter

Following the London fireworks that saw Kalon McMahon booted off the show a week ago, The Bachelorette and her eight remaining men hit Croatia tonight.

Which log-throwing, kilt-wearing competitor dominated the manly competition? Who won over Emily with persistence in the face of defeat and earned a rose?

Elsewhere, who surprisingly got the chop on tonight's one-on-one date(s), and what surprising bombshell was dropped in the previews for next week?

Follow this link for a rundown of The Bachelorette spoilers we know so far, including the (alleged) final three. Then read on for THG's official +/- recap!

Emily's having a good hair day. Plus 9.

No Ricki this week? :'-( Minus 18.

Annnnd the first one-on-one date goes to ... Travis the Egg Guy. A little anticlimactic for fans of Sean Lowe. Or Jef Holm. Or Arie Luyendyk, Jr. Minus 7.

Put Dubrovnik, Croatia on your travel bucket list BTW. Plus 14.

#BalancingStoneFail. Minus 4.

"This is a 10 on a scale of 8," he calls their date. Who says that? First of all, scale of eight? Second of all, why not an 11 or 12 out of eight then? Minus 2.

Emily is looking for a guy with a bit of an edge ... according to Ryan, who's apparently wearing a Lulu Lemon yoga halter-top wife-beater thing. Minus 30.

Travis' dinner seems to be going pretty well at least. Plus 6.

Ryan scores the next one-on-one date. His heart is beating out of his women's tank top, man. Prepare for the douchepocalypse, America. Plus 10.

Emily sends Travis home after not feeling any sort of romantic connection! Plus 5, 'cause we feel bad for the guy, but it was definitely the right call.

That umbrella Travis flung - like his heart and like his precious egg - may be broken beyond repair. Plus 5. And then there were seven ...

Sometimes a girl just wants to see a movie ... in the name of shameless product placement courtesy of ABC and Disney-Pixar's Brave. Minus 25.

Eye-rolling plugs aside, the movie does look pretty cute at least. Plus 7.

The guys in kilts and muscle shirts? Ditto! Plus 3.

Plus 12 for Emily's archery skills.

Minus 12 for Chris' effort ... at grammar, because we think he just said he's "shotten an arrow only once in his whole life." You're shotten me Chris.

Sean Lowe is so ripped, he broke the log in the competition. Plus 9.

Chris wins the Bravery Cup despite being humiliated in every event. He was a good sport and gave it his best ... can you tell Emily's a mom? Plus 11.

Emily and Sean FTW? Can we start calling them Seamily? Plus 5. Arie's "freaking out," but it doesn't appear he's relinquished co-frontrunner status.

Definitely not after that street makeout sesh. Plus 5.

Ryan has to be acting, right? There are a-holes in the world, sure ... but one can be that full of himself in such comedic fashion. He's like a caricature of your quintessential narcissistic ass clown. Well played Ryan and ABC. Plus 10.

Jef? Definite dark horse still. Plus 4.

He and Chris, who gets the rose, are angling for the final two hometown date spots at this point, with Arie and Sean the favorites. Doug and Ryan are fading fast (for very different reasons). Wolf ... is still on the show we think.

Emily Maynard really sparkles. Literally. Plus 6.

Ryan actually shaves that ugly patch out of his facial hair ... and apparently his legs. Arie is visibly uncomfortable listening to him talk at this point. Plus 2.

Not as uncomfortable as Emily eating an oyster, but close. Minus 11. Or when Ryan says openly that he wants her to be his trophy wife. Minus 21.

"I see in you some things I've always looked for." - Ryan. Read: booty shorts. Plus 7.

When Emily's not happy, she makes this this half-smile, half-glaring crinkle face. Case in point: Ryan reading off his ideal woman checklist. Minus 15.

Crinkle Face turns the checklist around on him, says her criteria are different, then gives him the boot! Plus 20 for Emily being on a roll tonight.

"That is very shocking." - Ryan. To you, maybe. No one else. Minus 18.

No way she's going to go back on it, is she? Noooo, come on, don't go back on it! OMG she's going back on it. Okay phew, she didn't. Plus 17.

Ryan opines that the guys must be shocked and laments that he'll miss them. Back at the hotel, they are HUGGING and celebrating. Plus 33.

Did he just ask to be edited well by the producers? Might be wishful thinking, Ryan, after some of your comments, actions and "fashion." Minus 20.

Eff the next Bachelor, ... but please, ABC, add Ryan to the Bachelor Pad 3 cast! Plus 10.

If Ryan did get the rose, would the guys have staged an intervention, Kalon style? Would it have been warranted? Yes, yes and Plus 5 for that imagery.

Arie just wants to hold her and hug her and do a lot of other things he can't say in a confessional, oh, and she's a great judge of character. Plus 6.

He gets a rose. We get a bit too much makeout audio. Minus 4.

Arie and Emily in the Fifty Shades of Grey movie? Plus 50.

Wolf pulls out his grandparents' funeral cards and it's ... sweet? Poignant? Weird? Out of place? Over the top? All of the above? Eh, Plus 1.

Both Wolf and Doug are hangin' tough in the hunt for that last rose, though the latter seems reluctant to make a move on Em. Tick tock. Minus 7.

The man tears are moving down his face in a hurry, though. Plus 3. The final rose tonight comes down to the two of them, and then ...

Unsure of what do to, Emily runs to seek the sage advice of ... venerable and handsome Bachelorette host-pimp Chris Harrison!! Plus 100.

"Emily ... the extra rose you asked for." Chris. SO lame. Minus 40.

Saying goodbye tonight:

• Travis (cut loose on one-on-one date)


• Ryan (canned on one-on-one date)

Still alive: Sean, Jef, Arie, John "Wolf", Chris and Doug.

EPISODE TOTAL: +143. SEASON TOTAL: +142.

Weird preview for next week, in which Arie's relationship with a producer on the show is exposed and Emily makes her frustrations known!

What do you think? Will he be eliminated?

Cops scour home for Auburn shooter

Manhunt on for alleged Auburn shooter

• NEW: All police leave the scene where the suspect was believed to be hiding


• Police surround a Montgomery home, believing slaying suspect is inside


• Two other men have been accused of hindering prosecution


• Two of the three dead were former Auburn University football players

Alabama authorities abruptly left a Montgomery home early Tuesday morning without saying if they had captured a triple murder suspect that was believed to be hiding inside.

Police surrounded the home for over six hours, dosed the attic with tear gas and searched the residence in the hopes of finding the man accused of killing three people and wounding three others near Auburn University.

No one from the large contingent of officers told reporters assembled in the area, if 22-year-old Desmonte Leonard, now wanted on three counts of capital murder, had been apprehended.

Earlier Montgomery Mayor Todd Strange told reporters that police came to the home after at least three tips about someone who looked like Leonard being in the area.

Police had shot "a powerful dose" of tear gas in an attempt to force the suspect out of the attic, Strange said. They had searched the attic one time and had not located the suspect, though coughing could be heard. Another search was planned, Strange said.

"They are going to do another, what they call toe by toe search, through the entire attic looking in HVAC ducts, looking in chimneys, looking in every crevice," said Strange.

Montgomery County Sheriff D.T. Marshall said the owner of the house returned home to find the suspect inside and called police.

Just after midnight a large group of police left the area and Strange said the effort will bolster back up after daylight, CNN affiliate WSFA reported.

But hours later, all officers had left the scene.

Saturday night's shootings took place at an off-campus apartment complex in Auburn, about 50 miles east of Montgomery. The dead included two former Auburn football players, and a current football player was among the wounded.

Leonard has been the target of an intense manhunt for two days, and two other men have been jailed on charges of hindering prosecution in the case.

Auburn police said one of those arrested, 18-year-old Jeremy Thomas, escaped from the scene of the shootings with Leonard. Montgomery police say 41-year-old Gabriel Thomas tried to mislead investigators during the search, and they arrested him Sunday at the request of U.S. marshals.

Police did not immediately disclose the relationship, if any, between the two men. Both were arrested in Montgomery, but Jeremy Thomas was expected to be transferred to a jail in Lee County, which includes Auburn, police said.

Officers received a call reporting the shooting at the University Heights apartments clubhouse about 10:03 p.m. Saturday, Auburn Police Chief Tommy Dawson told reporters Sunday. Arriving officers found Edward Christian, 20, dead at the scene.

Christian, of Valdosta, Georgia, was off the football team because of an injury, Dawson said. Former player Ladarious Phillips, 20, and Auburn resident Demario Pitts, 20, died later at a hospital, he said. Two others, including current Auburn sophomore offensive lineman Eric Mack, 20, of Cameron, South Carolina, were taken to East Alabama Medical Center in the nearby town of Opelika.

Mack was released from the medical center Sunday morning, while another man, 19-year-old Xavier Moss, was treated and released from the same facility.

A third man, 20-year-old John Robertson, was transferred to the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital, where he was in critical condition after being shot in the head.

Leonard and two other men were thought to have fled the scene in a white Chevrolet Caprice, authorities said. Police later found the car abandoned in an adjacent county, Dawson said.

The Opelika-Auburn News reported Monday that a $15,000 reward -- $10,000 from the FBI and $5,000 from the U.S. Marshals Service -- was offered for information leading to Leonard's arrest and conviction.

Police have a motive in the shooting, but Dawson would not release it, saying "that's for the courtroom, later on." He did say authorities believe gunfire erupted during a fight at a party.

Several media outlets cited unidentified witnesses as saying the altercation was over a woman.

Witness Turquorius Vines told affiliate WGCL the violence was sudden.

"It went from us chilling with all these females to a massacre for no reason at all," he said.

"I heard what appeared to be six or seven gunshots outside my apartment," resident Nate Conoly told affiliate ABC 33/40. He said he couldn't see anything when he peered outside his window, but heard screaming. "... I went back into my apartment and locked the door," he said.

A woman identifying herself as only Leonard's grandmother answered the telephone Sunday at an address listed as his in court records, the Montgomery Advertiser reported.

"I'm just very surprised by all of this," she told the newspaper. "This is not the grandson I know, I can tell you that. I've just been sitting here, can't hardly move, I'm so in shock by it. It just doesn't seem real."

Dawson said he was not aware of any connection between Leonard and the university.

Auburn officials expressed condolences to the victims' families, saying many athletes on the football team were grieving after the deaths of Christian and Phillips.

Gene Chizik, Auburn's head football coach, called it "a sad, sad day for everyone associated with the entire Auburn family." Chizik said he was "devastated" by the three deaths, including those of Christian and Phillips, whom he knew personally.

"We have a lot of people on our football team that are hurting right now, and we're going to do everything we can to help them get through this," he said. "We are relieved that Eric Mack, who was also a victim in this incident, is expected to make a full recovery. This is a very trying time for everyone involved, and I would just ask that you lift up the victims and their families in your prayers."