Category: Feel Good Stories

Chiappa Triple Threat. Because they can.

Another case of poor victim selection skills.
Mugger targets female UFC fighter, ends up in the hospital

By Elizabeth Llorente
When a would-be thief saw 26-year-old Polyana Viana waiting for a taxi on Saturday outside her Rio de Janeiro apartment, he apparently concluded she was easy prey.

He asked her what time it was, she reportedly said, before trying to bully her into giving him her cellphone. He also told her he had a gun.

She quickly sized up the situation – it’s second nature for the UFC straw-weight, who has won 10 of her 12 professional fights.

“He was really close to me. So I thought, ‘If it’s a gun, he won’t have time to draw it,’” she told MMAJunkie.com in an interview. “So I stood up. I threw two punches and a kick. He fell, then I caught him in a rear-naked choke. Then I sat him down in the same place we were before and said, ‘Now we’ll wait for the police.’”

Read the rest of the article here: Fox News

Tip of the hat to MI Ranger for the link.

Wrong apartment.
Suspected burglar shot and killed at southside apartment complex

A suspected burglar was shot and killed by a resident at a southside apartment complex this evening.

The shooting occurred around 8:30 p.m. at the Hampton Port Apartments. These apartments are located on the 6100 block of Wooldridge Road near Cimarron Boulevard.

Police say their preliminary investigation shows a 41-year-old suspect tried breaking into an upstairs apartment. The 68-year-old man living in the apartment confronted the alleged intruder and then shot and killed him. Police are calling it self-defense.

“The 68-year-old resident feared for his safety, and he fired striking the suspect,” said CCPD Officer Travis Pace.

The rest of the story may be read here: KRIS TV

Drug problem, doing his best to stay sober? Shouldn’t be an issue for him now.
DA decides not to file charges against El Cajon homeowner who shot break-in suspect

By: Zac Self
EL CAJON, Calif. (KGTV) — The District Attorney has decided against filing charges against a man who reportedly shot and killed a suspect trying to break into his work truck in El Cajon.

The shooting happened on the 1100 block of Mona Place in March of 2018.

Authorities say Michael Poe woke up in the early-morning hours of March 11 to the sound of glass shattering. When he went outside, he found the suspect, Joseph Mercurio, breaking into his work truck.

Poe told police there was a confrontation before he shot Mercurion. Mercurion’s mother told 10News her son had a drug problem, but was doing his best to stay sober.

Read the rest of the article here: 10 Local News

Two flatlines, one who is going to be a laughing stock when he gets to the slam. The coveted trifecta remains elusive.

Walther for Ex, OWB, and the other TAH Lionesses. Heh. “My name is Bond. Jane Bond.”

No more birthdays for him, happy or otherwise.
Coroner ID’s man killed in self-defense shooting outside of child’s birthday party in Columbia Saturday

By Tanita Gaither
COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) – The Richland County Coroner’s Office has identified the name of a man who was killed during an act of self-defense outside of a child’s birthday party on Saturday.

Richland County Coroner Gary Watts identified the man as Justin B. Archie, 30, of Columbia. An autopsy performed on Sunday showed that Mr. Archie died from gunshot wounds to the torso.

Officers arrived at the 4000 block of Rosewood Drive shortly after 1 p.m. on Saturday after a shooting was reported.

Witnesses at the scene reported that two men were arguing outside of a business where a child’s birthday party was being held. While in the parking lot, one of the men was armed with a knife and made threats to get a handgun from his vehicle.

After making threats he allegedly discharged his firearm at the second man who in returned fire resulting in a fatal injury.

Read the rest of the article here: WIS News

Two in the slam, two in the wind.
Stolen car suspect held at gunpoint until police arrive

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Four people scrambled from a stolen SUV Saturday night in the SouthPark neighborhood.

Two were arrested, including one who was held at gunpoint until police arrived.

Police identified the two arrested suspects as Taylor Roseborough and Tyrell White.

“I immediately pulled my firearm and told him to get down on the ground,” Stewart McKibben said.

McKibben said one of the suspects ran through a wooded area and onto his property while running from officers.

“(My) mind is racing 100 mph trying to figure out what to do next,” McKibben said. “He came from my neighbor’s backyard, jumped over their fence, came through my gate and was coming up my steps. At the first landing is where I approached him and stopped him.”

The incident started after a blue Ford Explorer was stolen from Oakbrook Drive and officers spotted the stolen vehicle around 8 p.m.

Police say they attempted to pull over the SUV, but the driver and three passengers jumped out at a dead end on Moncure Drive.

Read the rest of the article here: WSOC TV

Protective Orders are paper, and unsuitable for self defense.
Man shot to death by woman, 52, after violating protection order

By: Alice Yin
A man breaching an order of protection was killed inside a hallway late Saturday by an armed 52-year-old woman who turned a gun on him in the South Side Englewood neighborhood.

At 11:44 p.m., the 52-year-old was notified that the security alarm at her home in the 1400 block of West 71st Street went off, according to Chicago police. She opened her front door on the second floor to investigate and encountered a 22-year-old man who had an active order of protection forbidding him to go near that address.

After an argument, she shot him in the left shoulder, police said. He was pronounced dead at University of Chicago Medical Center at 12:10 a.m. Sunday.

The Cook County medical examiner’s office identified him as Daniel L. Erskin, who lived in the same neighborhood.

Erskin was taken into custody April 13 under allegations of domestic battery, criminal sexual abuse of an underage victim, assault, home invasion, burglary, theft and criminal damages to property, Chicago police arrest records show. Two months earlier, he was also arrested on domestic battery charges.

The rest of the article may be viewed here: Chicago Sun Times

Two achieving room temperature, two incarcerated, two free to thieve and drug some more. Three deuces, not a bad hand but still no trifecta. (Thanks, I know I’m mixing cards and track. Feel free to submit your complaints to TAH WW HQ, or go VFR Direct to AW1Ed.doesn’t.care). And have a great TAH day!

Officer, these are NJ legal, seven round mags. Both of them.

Burn in Hell, Maire.
Update: International Child Porn Ringleader Beaten to Death in Prison

By: Katherine Rodriguez
A man who ran an international child porn ring was beaten to death in prison this week, but one of his victims predicted his fate long before his demise.

A judge sentenced Christian Maire, a married father-of-two from upstate New York, to 40 years in federal prison in December for running an online operation where he and eight of his accomplices posed as teenage boys on dating sites trying to convince young girls to perform sex acts via their webcams.

The men even tried to convince their victims to cut themselves while in front of their webcams.

But at least one of Maire’s victims did not seem surprised that Maire would suffer this fate. One female victim, who is now 20-years-old, predicted at Maire’s December 2018 sentencing he would get beaten up in prison.

“He’s gonna get the hell beat out of him,” the now-20-year-old victim said at the time.

I wasn’t sure I could loath anyone more than Maire, on Saturday. Seems I can. The rest of the article may be thoroughly enjoyed here: Breitbart News

Possible reporter crafts article about a possible attempted robbery. Possibly.
Pharmacist fires warning shot at possible robber inside Charlotte drugstore

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A pharmacist, thinking he was going to get robbed, grabbed a gun and fired a warning shot Wednesday evening in the northwest Charlotte business.

Police said a man walked into the Star Bright Pharmacy on Mt. Holly-Huntersville Road wearing a mask and gloves when the pharmacist felt threatened and fired a shot.

Police said they arrested 22-year-old Tyler Perry.

Channel 9 spoke to pharmacist Eric Poore, who said customers have to be buzzed into the store. He also said he bought a gun after he was robbed a few years ago.

Was it the mask or the gloves that gave it away? Anyway, read the rest of the article here” WSOC TV

Good guy with a, you know.
Armed good Samaritan stops suspects at Loomis grocery store

By: Walter Makaula
LOOMIS, Calif. (KCRA) — Two shoplifters at a Loomis grocery store were stopped from stabbing a security guard by an armed good Samaritan before being arrested, the Placer County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday.

Brandon Smith, 25, of Santa Cruz, and Elizabeth Almand, 23, of Watsonville, were taken into custody Sunday night at the Raley’s grocery store on Horseshoe Bar Road, the Sheriff’s Office said.
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The incident began around 8:25 p.m. Smith and Almand were spotted shoplifting at the store by a security guard, the Sheriff’s Office said.

“When they left, (the guard) confronted them in the parking lot. There was an altercation where the suspect pulled a knife out,” Lt. Andrew Scott said.

Smith then tried to stab the security guard, Scott said.

“The altercation escalated at that point and the victim was able to disarm the (Smith) and they began wrestling on the ground,” Scott said.

The knife fell to the ground, feet away from them, near where Almand was standing nearby.

Read the rest of the article here, and don’t miss the mug shots of the charming pair: KCRA 3

Don’t care what you hang on it, Blocks still have a face only a mother could love.

This one will never improve on his victim selection skills. I’m good with that.
16-year-old was shot, killed while trying to steal cell phone, police say
ORLANDO, Fla. —

New details have been released on a shooting that left a 16-year-old dead in Parramore.

Orlando police said a couple trying to sell phones killed the teen, but that it might have been in self-defense.

Officials released 911 calls in the case on Friday.

Orlando police said it was an online cell phone deal that led a married couple to shoot and kill a teenager Wednesday.

Newly-released 911 calls reveal what the couple first told police.

“Somebody robbed us and my husband was like, trying to protect us, and we ended up having to like shoot at them,” a woman told a 911 dispatcher.

Officers said Denim Williams, 16, was found dead from gunshot wounds near Polk Street and West Jefferson.

The husband said they felt threatened.

“I don’t know if they’re hit, I don’t know what’s going on, but I know we did discharge our firearm at them, when I thought he was pulling a firearm on me,” the man told a 911 dispatcher.

WESH 2 News spoke with Williams’ granfather, Virgil Smith. He said the high school student was planning to move in with him.

Smith said he would have convinced Williams to study more and take a different life path.

The rest of the story may be read here: WESH

GSW to the back of the head? Either a grazing wound or the clerk needs more club. Claw will love this one
Suspect arrested in connection to shootout with clerk at East Side gas station

By Caleb Downs
Police arrested a 19-year-old man in connection with a violent gun battle at an East Side gas station that left another teenager with a gunshot wound to the back of the head.

The suspect, Javonta Kenneth Marquise-Whitfield, is now facing a charges of marijuana possession and unlawful carrying of a weapon. He remains in the Bexar County Jail.

According to a preliminary report of the shootout, Marquise-Whitfield and a 17-year-old boy entered the 7-Eleven in the 5200 block of Rigsby Avenue just after 2 a.m.

The gas station clerk later told police Marquise-Whitfield shot at him, and he returned fire, striking the 17-year-old boy in the back of the head.

How the shooting was initiated was not addressed in the preliminary police report, and Jennifer Rodriguez, a spokeswoman for the department, said no other information regarding the shooting would be released.

Responding officers later located Marquise-Whitfield and arrested him on the drug possession and weapon violation charges.

Read the rest of the article here: LMT On Line

Never mess with a mama bear protecting her cubs.
Sub-zero temperaturers, hot shooting draw headlines tulmutuous year ends
By Mike Spence

Charles K. Goldtrap, age 17 years, was shot and almost instantly killed shortly after 7 o’clock last night by Mrs. Elizabeth Haskett at her home, 2630 Orman Avenue.

Haskett, when questioned by the police, gave this account, as reported by The Chieftain:

“He (Goldtrap) attempted to gain entrance to the house where she and her daughter, age 14 years, and her son, age 10 years, were alone. Her husband W.H. Haskett and her older son were at work at the Minnequa steel plant at the time.

“The Goldtrap boy resided at 2510 Orman Avenue, just a block this side of the Haskett home. Why he went to the Haskett home and for what purpose seems somewhat vague. The bullet penetrated his lung and he died before he could get out of the yard.

“According to the story told by Mrs. Haskett to Deputy Coroner A.R. Davis, she was alone in the house with her two children when she heard someone knocking at the front door.

?‘I called down the stairs and asked who was knocking and what was wanted. I received no reply and the knocking continued. I shouted to the person at the door to go away, as I was alone and would not open the door. Then I heard someone walk around the house to the rear and asked to be let in. I said I would not let anyone in the house and for God’s sake to go away.’

“At this moment, I heard the back door open and someone’s footsteps on the kitchen floor. I loaded the revolver I kept in my bedroom and shot through the bedroom window thinking whoever it was would be frightened away. The intruder left the house.

“Thinking that he had left the premises, I went downstairs and opened the back door. I heard a noise but could not say what it was. I could not see anyone and to make sure that the man would go away, I fired another shot into the darkness.

“As soon as I did so, I heard a man cry, ‘Oh.’ I hurried back into the house and a short time later was told that a man had been shot.”

Dicey shoot- no visible target or threat. The rest of the article may be viewed here: Fowler Tribune

Two DRT and one with a chronic headache. Not too shabby, but not a trifecta. Hey, if those were easy anyone could hit one.

Byron Alfonzo Who?
911 caller claims self-defense in fatal Wilmington shooting

By Cammie Bellamy StarNews Staff
WILMINGTON — The woman who called 911 after a fatal shooting in Wilmington claims that she shot a home-invader in self-defense, according to 911 calls released Wednesday.

The shooting happened just before 6 p.m. Dec. 14 in the Hillcrest Housing Community in the 1000 block of South 13th Street. According to police, Byron Alfonzo Funderburke Jr., 31, was found shot and pronounced dead at the scene.

In 911 records released Wednesday by New Hanover County emergency communications, a weeping woman tells dispatchers that she shot a man who entered her apartment while she was in the shower.

“I didn’t know I left my house keys in my door,” the woman says in the recording. “He dead, m’am.”

At one point, the woman provides her address, but tells dispatchers that she does not know the phone number from which she is calling. According to an emergency communications report, the woman hung up and did not call police back.

But Wilmington Police Department spokeswoman Linda Thompson said Wednesday that the case is not closed, and police are still interested in leads.

“No arrests have been made and it is still under investigation,” Thompson said.

Read the rest of the article here: Star 8 Online

Sheriff says this was unavoidable. He left out the predictble part.
Lansing man shot and killed after entering a home in Ionia County

By: Kalie Marantette
LANSING,Mich. (WLNS)– – An intruder was shot and killed after entering a home in Ionia County last night.

The intruder was identified as Justin Eddy of Lansing. Police say there is no connection between Eddy and the homeowner, and why Eddy was even in the area.

Police added that his car was parked a couple miles down the road, and he stole a truck hauling a Bobcat, and that’s the vehicle that was found at the scene.

According to Ionia County Sheriff Justin Noll, Eddy entered the home, which is said to have been unlocked, and told the homeowners he was being chased by someone who wanted to kill him.

The homeowner armed himself, called 9-1-1, then went outside to look for a car or someone who could have been chasing Eddy, but they found nothing.

While waiting for police to come, the homeowner asked Eddy to wait in their breezeway. Eddy got irritated, confrontational, then attacked the homeowner. The homeowner opened fire on Eddy and he was found dead when police got there.

Sheriff Noll says this is not a normal case for Ionia Count, but can be a message to stay safe even when you’re at home.

“Make sure that you lock all your doors and make sure that you try to do everything you can to prevent this however there are times when you know certain things cant be prevented,” said Sheriff Noll.

He also added that for these homeowners, this was unavoidable.

The rest of the article may be read at: WLNS.com

Three in the wind, one still in the chill chest.
Update- Wichita teen killed by customer during armed robbery had a gun, police say
By Chance Swaim
A 16-year-old boy was killed during an armed robbery at B and H Fast Trips in south Wichita on Friday, Dec. 28. Police say a customer who had been robbed shot at the robbers. On Wednesday, police said the boy had a gun when he was shot.

A 16-year-old Wichita boy who was shot in the head by a customer during a gas station robbery had a gun when he was shot, police said.

Wichita police did not say whether the 16-year-old was moving toward or away from the customer when he was shot. They would not describe the position of the customer relative to the teen.

“It’s an active investigation. We’re not going to go into the details of that,” Wichita police Officer Charley Davidson said Wednesday.

Here’s what police have said so far: Around 2:45 p.m. on Friday, police were called to a shooting at B and H Fast Trips, 2796 S. Seneca, a gas station and convenience store near 26th and Seneca in south Wichita. Four people had “entered the store, pointed handguns at an employee and customers, and demanded money,” Wichita police said in a news release.

They took money and cigarettes and stole a wallet from a customer, police said.

The teen was shot by a 42-year-old male customer who pulled his gun and fired multiple shots at the alleged robbers. Police said the 42-year-old had been robbed before he shot.

Read more here: Wichita Eagle, again

Two down, not bad at all.
Police: Man shoots robbery suspects in Logan Square

By: Hannah Leone
A 29-year-old man sidelined a New Year’s Eve robbery in Logan Square by shooting the two suspects he said tried to rob him, Chicago police said.

Around 9:40 p.m. in the 2900 block of West Cortland Street, two male suspects with handguns got out of a silver Nissan and told the man they were robbing him, police said. The man, who is a concealed carry license and firearm owner’s identification card holder, shot both suspects, police said. They were taken to local hospitals and stabilized.

The rest of the article, such as it is,  may be read at: The Chicago Tribune

Stoned, stupid, or suicidal?
Security guards kill armed man at casino-resort, police say
By The Associated Press

Security guards shot and killed an armed man in a casino-resort Sunday in suburban Las Vegas during a confrontation, police said.

The man, whose name was not released, was walking through the Green Valley Ranch resort about 3:40 p.m. when people told security that he was carrying a handgun, police told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Three security guards confronted the man, and he drew his weapon, police said. Two of the guards shot the man, police said.

He received medical care at the casino but later died.

Read the rest of the article here: ABC News Wire Story