Category: Feel Good Stories

The first story this morning comes from Louisiana, again;

Officials say an intruder was shot by the homeowner. Detectives believe a male and a female tried to break into the home.

The shooting happened just after 10 a.m.

Summer Breeze Drive is just off of Burbank between Bluebonnet Blvd. and Gardere Ln.

Deputies say the male suspect was shot and killed.

The next story comes from Texas;

The caller stated someone tried to break into their home and her husband shot at them near the back doorway. She said her husband ran after one person through the pasture behind their home. Upon deputies arrival, the home owner had returned to the house and had apparently been hit and knocked unconscious for a short period of time by one of the criminals. It is believed the home owner did wound at least one of the suspects and there had been at least two suspects outside the home.

The home owner was treated at a local hospital for a minor head injury and a laceration on his arm.

Investigators and deputies searched the area, but the suspects were not located.

Its not a good idea to go chasing after your wounded targets in the dark. More range time and the homeowner would know right where to find the target.

Thanks to Chief Tango for the links, as always.

Today’s story didn’t end well for the homeowner, yet. It’s from Louisiana;

Investigators said they were called out to the home invasion on Walker South Road just after noon, but the investigation showed it all got started in Prairieville earlier in the day.

Detectives said it is believed that’s where [17-year-old Benjamin] Jarreau stole a 2009 Ford Fusion. They added he is also suspected of a burglary at a home in Prairieville in which a .22 rifle was taken. They think he then drove to Walker and went into the home “without consent” and armed with the gun.

According to detectives, the two adults and child inside were held against their will for about three hours. During that time, Jarreau is accused of taking their phones and keys. He is also accused of forcing them to search the home for drugs and money.

Investigators reported after about three hours, [24-year-old Aaron] Neames returned home. They said Neames and Jarreau know one another. They were described as acquaintances. Investigators said when Neames showed up at the house Jarreau fired three shots inside the home.

Authorities said a fight then broke out between the two and Neames was able to take the gun from Jarreau. They added Jarreau ran out the door, jumped in the stolen car and tried to drive off, but Neames reportedly fired shots at him and the car. Jarreau suffered a gunshot wound to the shoulder.

So, Jarreau was charged with illegal use of a weapon, illegal possession of a stolen firearm, illegal possession of a stolen vehicle, 3 counts of aggravated kidnapping and home invasion. Neames was charged with attempted second-degree murder and illegal use of a weapon. But, you know, if someone kidnapped my family, I’d want to make sure that they never came back to my home, too.

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The first story this morning comes from Kentucky where the criminal was so confident that he laid his gun on the counter while he tried to empty the register of a tobacco store;

“While he struggled to get money out of the drawer he laid the gun down, I grabbed it and told him to leave or I’d shoot and the other robber ran away,” she said.

The clerk says she did not hesitate when a struggle between the two broke out as she was standing up for the business owned by her family

“We work 12-15 hours a day. It is just quick cash for them but for us it is hard earned money and my mom works all day her,” said Adil.

During the struggle Adil says she fired one shot at his shoulder and then was able to pull off his mask.

“Turns out it someone who had been here before. I asked him why he was doing this and he said just let me go. I told him not to touch the money on his way out,” she said.

That is when another brief struggle broke out before he ran out of the store empty handed.

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Next up is Missouri;

Police say the suspect forced his way into the home prompting the person inside to fire several shots.

The suspect then fled the home and headed to Cox North Hospital for treatment of two gunshot wounds; meanwhile, the resident called the police.

Hospital staff got in contact with law enforcement officials after the patient showed up, and officials were able to apprehend that person near Cox North.

Thanks to Chief Tango for the links.

AW1Ed sends us our first feel good story for this Sunday morning. It comes from Missouri;

Around 9:20pm Thursday, deputies responded to a home in the 1000 block of Osage Parkway where the homeowner told police that he had shot the man, whom he knew. The victim, identified only as a 60-year-old man, was located just inside the front door of the home.

The homeowner told police that he and the victim had been in a prior argument. He claimed that the man had entered his home with a weapon and that he shot the victim in self defense. A weapon was recovered at the scene.

Chief Tango sends us a couple more stories, the first from Ohio;

The [71-year-old] North Side homeowner dialed 911 just after noon yesterday and gave his address. When asked what his emergency was, he replied, “Some … some guy broke into my house, and I shot him.”

He answered the dispatcher’s questions. Yes, it just happened. Yes, the man was lying motionless at his door at 1915 Faymeadow Ave. No, he didn’t appear to be breathing. No, he didn’t know him. The homeowner’s revolver was still in his hand.

“He kicked the door in,” he said.

After a minute, the dispatcher told him help was on the way, and he hung up.

Officers arrived to find the homeowner inside and the intruder dead on the porch. The door showed signs of being kicked in. The intruder was pronounced dead at 12:12 p.m. Sgt. Rich Weiner, a Columbus police spokesman, said it appeared to be a case of self-defense.

“Everyone has the right to protect their house,” Weiner said. At the same time, “it’s very tragic. It’s something he’ll have to live with.”

Finally, from Texas where some youngsters tried to steal some electronics from Lester Meeks;

“I just wanted to catch them,” Meeks says.

It was just as those teens were leaving when Meeks drove up the driveway with his daughter next to him. Meeks said one was standing outside drinking a bottle of Meeks’ liquor, another was on his way out a back window,

At that moment, Meeks, who has eight surveillance cameras rimming his property, decided to chase down the trio of teen thieves, with a handgun at his side.

“I grabbed my firearm and took after them and when I caught up to them I told them to get down,” he said. “I shot one round into the ground… to show them I wasn’t carrying a BB gun.”

Meeks said while holding two of the three teens at bay with his gun drawn, he dialed 911, but when he told the 911 operator he had a gun on the kids, the operator told him to put the gun down. Meeks said when he did, one of the two teens bolted off.

That teenager was later caught again.

Our first story this morning comes from Florida;

According to deputies, four people were sleeping inside of that house–a man, his girlfriend, her 30-year-old son and 14-year-old daughter.

The suspect, according to police, managed to get into the fenced-in backyard, burglarized the shed, and then tried to get into the home–that’s when the homeowner woke up.

“He heard noises in the backyard, armed himself as he has the right to do and went to the backyard, confronted the suspect who is now dead,” Keyla Concepcion with BSO said.

Detectives say the homeowner pulled out a gun and ended up shooting the alleged burglar.

The next brief story comes from New York;

The exact details are unknown, but it appears that a man stabbed the gas station worker, who then shot the robber.

Arriving officers found a 48-year-old male Yonkers resident with multiple stab wounds to his torso, and a second male, approximately 18 years of age, with two gunshot wounds to his torso. Both were transported to a trauma center in the Bronx. At last report, both were in surgery.

At this point, it is unclear if the altercation was a robbery or some sort of dispute.

The next story comes from Sarah Palin country, in Alaska;

“I walk in there and there was this guy sitting there at my desk dressed in camouflage with a cap pulled own over his eyes,” [

Charles] Hayes said. “It was the creepiest sight.”

Hayes had a few sharp words for the man, who replied that he didn’t want any trouble. The man was holding one of Hayes’ pistols and had it pointed at him.

In addition to his work as a philosopher, Hayes has police training from his days as a beat cop in Dallas in the mid-1960s.

“I ran as fast as I could into the bedroom and grabbed the pump shotgun that I keep in the corner,” Hayes said.

Meanwhile, the man opened Hayes’ garage door and ran outside. Hayes caught up with him. The man swung around and again pointed the pistol at Hayes.

“I leveled the shotgun on him and told him I was going to blow him to pieces and to drop the gun,” Hayes said. “He didn’t have too many more times I would have shot him.”

The man put the gun down. He said he was going to run. Hayes told the man he’d shoot if he did.

He said he was kind of bluffing and he kind of wasn’t. The shotgun had stood so long in the corner he’d actually forgotten which button to push to free it up so you can rack a shell into the chamber. As he tried to figure that out with one hand, with the other he called 911. His conversation with dispatchers ran simultaneous to his conversation with the intruder.

“They’re hearing me tell this guy I’m going to shoot him and they’re saying, ‘Don’t shoot!’” Hayes recalled.

That’s about when troopers arrived. Hayes said he was lucky there was one just a mile away. The trooper arrested the burglar.

Thanks to Chief Tango for the links.

This short and sweet story comes from New Mexico;

Albuquerque police say a homeowner has fatally shot an intruder during a home invasion.

Police say the shooting occurred Thursday morning at a home on the 1100 block of Stutz Northeast.

The wounded man was taken to a hospital where he died.

Albuquerque police say it’s too early to determine whether charges will be filed against the homeowner.

Not to early for me to determine if charges will be filed. Another link says that police don’t believe he will be charged.

I couldn’t find any new stories for you, but maybe this one will suffice. Last July, the story of 80-year-old Thomas Greer came across my desk and I held off on it. In California, Greer was beaten by a woman and a man who forced him at gun point to open his safe and give them about $5000 from it.

As they were escaping, Mr. Greer got his own gun and shot Andrea Miller in the back twice even though she begged him not to shoot, telling him that she was pregnant (she wasn’t). Mr Greer was arrested, but just last month, the prosecutor said;

Greer, who was robbed on two other occasions, “held a reasonable fear of imminent peril of death or great bodily injury,” wrote Los Angeles County Deputy Dist. Atty. Janet Moore, explaining the office’s decision not to charge him.

“Greer exercised his legal and legitimate right of self-defense when he shot and killed Andrea Miller,” Moore wrote.

He wasn’t prosecuted. Miller’s accomplices, Gus Adams and his mother, the getaway driver, were captured and charged with her murder. So that’s good news, right?

Our feel good story today comes from Texas, yet again this morning;

Police say they were called to an apartment home in the 7200 block of Twin Crest Drive around 1 a.m. on Saturday. When they arrived, they found 26-year-old Ray Anthony Arredondo dead of an apparent gunshot wound. Police say the tenant of the apartment was sleeping when Arredondo forced his way into the apartment.

Police say Arredondo pointed a gun at the tenant and demanded he get on the ground. The tenant then grabbed his handgun and fired a shot at Arredondo striking and killing him, police said. An autopsy determined the cause of death was a gunshot wound and the manner was homicide.

Police say there have been no charges filed at this time.

Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.

Another story comes from North Carolina;

Catawba County deputies said two burglars broke into the home on the 7400 block of Riverbend Road in Claremont around 9 a.m. The suspects broke a window around the back of the house and came in through the basement. Meantime Bruce Fox heard the men entering his home and got a 12 gauge shot gun. Fox called police but the men came after him.

“Subject kicks in the door leading into the hallway, he comes down the hallway toward the homeowner and the homeowner fires one shot with the shotgun striking the subject in the chest,” said Sheriff Coy Reid, Catawba Co.

Sheriff Reid said Fox will likely not be charged, but the case will turned over to the district attorney.

“He was afraid that this subject was going to harm him or harm his wife so he has a right to protect himself and he did,” said Reid.

Shotgun to the chest leaves quite a mess, though. I’d recommend waiting until they get the lawn.