Category: Feel Good Stories

First stop this morning is in North Carolina, where Barbara Temple took the war against crime to the criminals after someone tried to rob her and her husband for a second time within a few weeks;

arbara and Sam Temple were in their home on N.C. Highway 210 near Smithfield at about 9 p.m. when two men broke in, Barbara Temple said.

The home had been burglarized a few weeks ago, when thieves made off with $27,000, she said. After that, she bought a 9-millimeter handgun for protection.

During Thursday’s break-in, Barbara Temple said she grabbed her gun.

“When I got the gun, they realized that I had that gun, and that is when my leg got hit,” she said.

Despite being shot in the leg, she opened fire on the intruders, who ran off without taking anything from the home.

“I’m just hoping that they get whoever done it because we’ve been through terror,” she said.

In Texas, a trucking company owner took out the trash;

According to Houston police, the owner of the shop in the 8500 block of Westcott near Camay returned to his shop, which is currently still under construction, around 9:45 p.m. and found a man inside trying to steal some items.

The two began scuffling, and the business owner, who was armed, pulled out his firearm and shot the man.

The burglar was taken to LBJ Hospital in critical condition, where he died. His identity has not yet been released.

This morning’s story comes from Texas;

A homeowner opened fire on a would-be burglar attempting to break into his home in the 4400 block of Timbercreek.

“You have to do what you have to do,” said a neighbor, who asked not to be identified.

The homeowner told police he shot the burglar, who then hopped into a charcoal-colored Toyota Corolla with three other men and sped away. Police are attempting to track down the suspects.

What can I say after that quote from the neighbor?

Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.

Mark sends us another one from Georgia, I guess it’s a bad idea to jump into cars there with the intention to car jack a citizen;

Fannin says the man slipped into the passenger’s seat when his doors automatically unlocked.

“He told me, ‘You know what this is,’” Fannin said. That is when Fannin says he pulled his gun out.

“I asked him to get out the car, probably not in those exact words,” Fannin said.

“I told him no, there’s no leaving, leaving was before you hopped into my car … at this point there is not leaving,” Fannin said.

The car owner kept the suspect, Edgar Horn, 61, at gunpoint face down in the parking lot for several minutes until police arrived.

“You were not trying to rob me,” Fannin said to the man on cellphone video of the incident. “Do you just get into random people’s cars … you thought I was your friend … you thought I was your friend … so you woke up stupid this morning?”

When police arrived, you can see Fannin wave them over, and put his gun down. The police officer shakes his hand, before putting the suspect in handcuffs.

First stop is Mississippi where two fellows tried to turn their lives around with the booty from a convenience store;

Sam Alamari, who owns the store, says his brother showed up after the two men forced their way inside and shot at the robbers, hitting one of the men multiple times, in the leg and lower back. Sam says that man should feel lucky he wasn’t the one shooting.

“It’s me, I’m not going to shoot him in the legs, I’m going to shoot him in the head,” he says. “There’s nobody coming to me because you know me, I’m going to shoot him, I’m going to kill him.”

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The Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Dept. says they held that clerk at gunpoint, and demanded money, cigarettes and the surveillance DVD. One of the men got away, but the injured suspect was carried away from a home just down the street on Omitted Road in an ambulance.

“He deserved to get shot,” nearby resident Angela Davis says. “He come up in this man’s store, trying to take his money, the money that he worked hard for, and you just don’t take from people like that.”

Sheriff Billy Sollie says they’re seeing more cases with victims fighting back.

“It’s becoming more and more commonplace where citizens are arming themselves and telling the bad guys, ‘Don’t mess with me,’” he says.

The next stop is Iowa;

The officers were met by two individuals who said when they arrived at the residence they were confronted by two suspects displaying weapons.

The individuals were forced into the residence, where the two suspects began searching the residence, police said.

While the suspects were searching the house, one of the alleged robbery victims retrieved a firearm, police said. Shots were exchanged between the victim and one of the suspects. The victims ran from the house and saw the two suspects leave the house and enter a dark-colored vehicle, police said.

Police have not released the names of any of the people involved.

About the same time police were called to the residence, police received a call from Mercy Medical Center North’s Emergency Department with a report of treating a gunshot victim. The gunshot victim was identified as one of the suspects from 19th Place, police said.

The last stop this morning is in Florida;

[Police] tell WINK News at least two suspects rammed a truck into a fence at the Discount Battery located at 3911 Palm Beach Boulevard in an attempt to rob the store.

An employee staying late fired shots at the suspects who then fled the scene in a truck.

One witness says, “we were inside our room and we heard a bang, bang, bang. A lot of gunshots and we ran outside and was talking to 911 and the owner came out. I said ‘I called the police for you sir’ and he said ‘thank you.’”

NBC-2.com WBBH News for Fort Myers, Cape Coral

As always, thanks to Chief Tango for the links.

Our first stop is Texas where it’s apparent to me that women can shoot as well as the men;

The sheriff’s office said it appeared from their initial investigation that the suspect broke in through the front door, and confronted several people inside. One of the homeowner’s arrived home several minutes later and was attacked at the back door. According to authorities, the husband and suspect fought for several minutes, before the husband was able to break free and run inside the home.

The suspect followed the man back inside his home, and the fighting continued. The homeowner’s wife ordered the suspect to stop and leave, but when the suspect continued the attack, she shot him once, according to the sheriff’s office. Authorities are not saying where the suspect was hit. The husband detained the suspect until deputies arrived.

KLTV.com-Tyler, Longview, Jacksonville, Texas | ETX News

Once again, in Texas, where criminals get shot more often than anywhere else;

Police believe the suspected burglar was visiting a friend at the apartment complex when he broke into a truck in the parking lot. The truck’s owner apparently saw the suspect, grabbed a gun and shot him, according to officers. The suspect jumped into a car and took off. He drove to a hospital for treatment. His condition is unknown.

Thanks to Chief Tango for the links as always.

Your heart-warming stories begin in Pennsylvania this morning, where neighbors rescued a woman from her former lover. He had imprisoned her for more than twenty hours, assaulting and stabbing her repeatedly, until she was able to squirm out of his grasp and into the view of the neighbors;

There was a lot of ruckus,” said neighbor Tatiana Scriver. “They almost sounded like there was a stampede going through the building.”

Another neighbor Nicky Mimikos said, “He’s on top of her just punching her in the face. He got up and started stomping her in the face.”

That’s when another neighbor, Henry Oppenheim, saw what was going on and sprung into action.

“So I quickly ran into my room grabbed my gun and went out to defend her,” said Oppenheim “I said let her go. And then he finally did it.”

Oppenheim has a concealed carry permit and says he brings his gun almost everywhere he goes.

“And then we moved her to the front to get her safe and secure and away from him,” said Scriver.

“We all stick together and when we see a girl getting beat — we just don’t allow that,” said Mimikos

As for Oppenheim, he says he’d do it all over again.

“In a heartbeat. Not a second thought. No reservations.”

On down the East Coast to Florida where police think that a 77-year-old home owner is being credited with bringing a crime spree to an end in the neighborhood;

According to police, the burglars had entered the house and shots were fired around 1 p.m.

One burglar was shot in the chest and pronounced dead at the scene. The other burglar was also shot in the chest and was taken to Kendall Regional Hospital where he was in critical condition.

Yep, us old folks can’t fight and we can’t flee, so we shoot…center mass.

In Alabama, a restraining order is just a piece of paper;

The 58-year-old female homeowner reported that she had been dating a 46 year-old man and earlier in the day they had argued and she had asked him to leave her house. He went outside, but continued to argue and asked to be let back inside the house. The victim told him that he would not be allowed back into her home and to leave. She then closed the door.

The woman told detectives a short time later, she heard the front door being forced open, she armed herself and found the man standing inside the house holding a box cutter. According to the woman, he moved toward her and she fired one shot and he left.

So Mr. Macho Man will probably recover, just in time to make some new friends in the local jail. It will be his turn to be the victimized girlfriend.

Thanks to Chief Tango for the links as always.

Marine_7002 sends us a bonus story from Michigan where a dialysis patient went the clinic for his treat;

The victim had just arrived for an appointment when the suspect approached the vehicle from a wooded area between the dialysis building and adjacent Rite Aid.

The suspect stood at the passenger side of the vehicle and asked for the victim’s wallet, police said. The victim refused, and the suspect pulled a small revolver from inside his hoodie.

The victim told police he then pulled his own gun on the suspect and said, “Do you really want to do this?”

The suspect responded, “Have a nice day,” and ran back into the wooded area, the victim told police. The victim proceeded into the dialysis clinic, where he called police to report the incident.

He should have said something like “You call that a gun? Now, this is a gun….”

The first story comes from the Metro DC area in Reston, Virginia;

Police say it happened around 2:30 when a group of men, possibly as many as five, entered an apartment and violence erupted. One man was shot and killed. Another was injured, possibly by a bullet. Multiple shots were fired; multiple weapons were recovered. Throughout the evening, police interviewed those involved.

“I heard a couple gun shots and then I heard some other noise. I saw somebody running down the stairs,” said Anne Park.

If you thought those details were sketchy, wait until you read this one from Florida;

One man was found dead at The District apartments just before 9 a.m., and two others drove away from the scene with gunshot wounds, homicide detective Michael Paul said. The shooting is being investigated as a home invasion.

“All three people were at the apartment complex during the shooting, and they all received their gunshot wounds from that shooting,” Paul said. “There could be a shooter out there on the loose, or it could be one of these individuals who were shot.”

One of the victims drove to the 121 Financial Credit Union at Kernan and Beach boulevards looking for help, and someone there called 911 when the man said he’d been shot. Rescue and police arrived and the man was taken to UF Health with life-threatening injuries, Paul said.

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Paul said two people on the lease for the apartment where the shooting happened are reportedly students at Florida State College at Jacksonville, but it’s unclear if either of those people were among the shooting victims.

However this one turns out, it was a home invasion and some people were taken off the street.

The first stop on our tour of incidents of good guys with guns saving the world this morning comes from Mississippi;

Authorities said the incident occurred in the Eastover area of town shortly before 7 a.m. Saturday. They said the victim was putting items into his truck when two men armed with guns approached him and forced him into his home.

Police said the men took the victim’s wallet and drove him to a nearby ATM to withdraw more money.

Authorities said the men mentioned returning to the house to do something to the man’s wife. When they made him get out of the truck, police said the man grabbed a gun and began shooting at the two men.

One of the men died at the scene, however the second is still at large.

Our next stop is in Texas, as most seem to be;

The homeowner [Ellis Tyra] told deputies that he saw a gray Dodge Durango in a carport of his storage building, next to his home. He grabbed a gun, went to the storage building to see what was going on, and found two suspects, a man and a woman.The homeowner ordered the two to stay where they were, holding the man at gunpoint. The woman fled the scene in the Durango.

The homeowner, feeling his life was in danger, fired one shot striking the vehicle in the passenger’s side. No injuries were reported as a result of the discharge of the firearm.

A Smith County Sheriff’s Patrol Unit arrived around 9 minutes later and took the male into custody.

Using a description of the vehicle, a second unit located the Durango, driven by the wife of the man in custody, on Farm to Market 724 between Twin Lakes Drive and Highway 64 West. A short pursuit ensued and the woman was taken into custody a short time later.

Thanks to Chief Tango for the links.

The forces for good got a little rest so far this weekend, but not in Texas where 72-year-old was struck in the face with a gas can by an intruder. He took the only option he had at that point;

Dietz said he woke up around 8:30 a.m. Friday and noticed his surveillance cameras weren’t working.

“I got up this morning and checked the monitor on the cameras and noticed I couldn’t see anything,” Dietz said.

He went outside to check the cameras and found a man inside the back of his storage unit, just feet from his front door.

“I asked him what he was doing in there and he said he was just looking around,” Dietz said.

He called 911 but the robber wasn’t going away without a fight.

Dietz managed to pull out his gun and fired at least one shot, hitting the suspect in the stomach. The robber fled but was eventually caught and taken to a hospital where he underwent surgery.

“When you are doing bad, bad things happen to you,” neighbor Monica Tristan said.

Like I said, us old guys can’t fight back, so we shoot.

Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.