Category: Feel Good Stories

So, here are your last feel good stories of the year, brought to you by Chief Tango. The first is from South Carolina;

“A man wearing a hooded camouflage jacket, blue jeans, gloves and a bandana over his face entered the convenience store, pointed a handgun at the clerk and demanded money,” Horry County Police said in a press release.

The man left the store with the money from the register, $230, and was followed out of the store by one of the customers.

A customer, who saw the robbery while behind some shelves in an aisle of the store, had a Glock 22 .40 caliber handgun in a holster that was concealed under his jacket.

“The customer who followed the robber out of the store … ordered the robber to stop. According to witnesses, the robber and the customer exchanged gunfire in the street in front of the store,” police said.

The customer, who had a North Carolina concealed weapons permit, fired at least 5 shots at the robber, police said in a report. The robber fired 6 shots, according to a witness, police said.

Both the customer and robber missed each other and apparently hit nothing in the shoot out, police said.

Dude. Range time. Please. For the safety of the rest of us.

The second story comes from Louisiana;

LPSO…deputies responded to Shots fired call from a business located on the 200 block of Austin Road Sunday night.

Upon arriving deputies learned from the business owner that approximately two hours prior his business was burglarized and that several guns were stolen.

Later that night the business owner, who lives near buy his business, again returned to his business to respond to another burglary alarm.

The owner says that when he arrived he was confronted by two individuals who entered a vehicle and then drove towards him striking him and the building.

The owner says at that particular time he looked into the vehicle and saw the driver produce a handgun and point it at him at which time he produced his own gun and fired several times in response.

The vehicle then fled away and was found on a nearby street moments late. At that scene deputies discovered Ladarius Walker (19) deceased in vehicle. Another suspect was located standing near the vehicle Lamar Brooks (17) suffering from one gunshot wound.

That’s shooting straight. The criminals stole guns, that they were halted makes us all safer.

Finally, from Idaho;

Bart Bryson and his family no longer live at the house of Eagle Road, but check on it about every two weeks. When Bryson pulled up to check the mail at about 11:30 p.m., he noticed fresh footprints in the snow leading to and from the front door.

The door handle also appeared broken, so Bryson headed inside to make sure everything was alright.

The intruder was still inside.

“A voice yelled at me ‘please don’t shoot me’ and came running at me, and I grabbed my pistol,” Bryson said.

The man bumped into him, knocking him back, he said. That’s when Bryson fired two shots into the floor.

“I thought, I’ll kill him if I have to, because I’m not going to get killed, and I’m not going to get knocked out either,” he said. “But the gunshot scared him enough, apparently it scared him enough that he fell down thinking maybe I shot him. I thought I had hit him, the way he hit the ground, but he was just playing possum.”

After a few seconds, Bryson asked the burglar if he was shot, and the man said no, the homeowner says.

As usual, our feel good stories come from Chief Tango this morning. the first is from Pennsylvania;

Robert West, 42, was found shot to death at the scene in Daisytown with a gunshot wound to the head. Police arrested Andrew Graseck, 18, who was identified by family members as the fiance of West’s daughter.

Police said West and Graseck wore masks and were armed with axe handles as they cut the power to the property on McGirts Road and planned to rob Nicolas Dziyak over a business dispute.

Dziyak, 74, fought back and fired his Beretta, hitting and killing West, police said.

The next story happened in Indiana;

Officers received a call about shots fired and heard a woman screaming in the background. When police got to the scene, they found a man suffering from a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

IMPD officers said the man who was shot and killed attempted to rob another man in an apartment complex.

Police said the suspect pulled a gun out during the robbery and that’s when the other man shot and killed him.

And a really, really strange story from Pennsylvania;

Police say they received reports of a man masturbating on the deck of a second floor apartment.

The female resident of the apartment called 911 and then fled to a neighboring apartment.

The suspect, later identified by police as 21-year-old Angel Suarez Medero from Bensalem, allegedly forced his way into the apartment through the sliding glass door, and a very short time later he jumped out of the second floor bedroom window.

Police say Medero then broke into a first floor unit and assaulted two of the occupants.

Authorities say a resident with a .45 caliber gun then shot the alleged intruder twice.

Despite being shot, Medero allegedly continued to struggle with the resident until police arrived.

“We have one bad guy with two bullets in him,” said Bensalem Director of Public Safety Fred Harran.

Well, here are closing out the last week of the year and our last Monday morning feel good story for 2014, of course they were sent to us by Chief Tango. The first is from Texas;

A North Texas man is being heralded a hero after police said he held a man at gunpoint who was assaulting a woman.

The tense standoff broke out on Friday near the intersection of Carroll Avenue and Southlake Boulevard.

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Investigators sorted out the situation and determined the man with the gun was actually trying to help.

Chief Steve Mylett with the Southlake Police Department said the man had just witnessed the driver of the red vehicle hitting his female passenger. Police arrested MacMichael Nwaiwu, 28, who is now in jail.

“It’s amazing that in this day in age that people are willing to reach out and help,” said Doland.

The next story is from Tennessee;

Police arrived on the scene to find two men already dead from gunshot wounds. At this point, no charges have been filed against the homeowner.

“When you take something, come into someone’s house, that’s what you get,” Neighbor Ronnie Clark said, “That’s what you got over there, sorry for it, but stuff like that happens.”

Neighbors are standing with one of their own after three armed burglars broke into this house early Saturday morning.

Memphis police say the homeowner gave the would-be burglars one warning before shooting two of them dead.

“I couldn’t believe that happened to him, just try to come in his house like that, I guess he said he left, had been gone a couple hours, came back and that’s what happened, they were in his house,” Clark said.

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Chief Tango sends us our stories again this morning. The first is from Pennsylvania;

A release from police stated that the homeowner asked the intruder, “What are you doing here?” The intruder then ran toward the homeowner, who fired a single shot that struck the intruder in the chest.

After making his way through the home’s living room and out the front door, the intruder collapsed in the yard.

The next story is from Texas;

Wise County Sheriff David Walker said early Friday morning a man tried several times to get into a house on Carpenter Lane in Rhome.

The home owner confronted the suspect outside the home and the two fought according to Walker.

The Sheriff said the man then tried to get into the house again and that is when he was shot and killed by the home owner.

Chief Tango sends us our feel good stories this morning. The first is from Illinois;

“I wasn’t scared. … I don’t care, it doesn’t bother me. When you work the night shift, a lot of robberies happen’’ said Rahmoun, who was at the counter when two men entered the 7-Eleven at 2900 W. Montrose Ave. about 1:25 a.m. Friday and one said: “Give me your money.”

“I said, ‘Are you joking?’” Rahmoun said.

“I’m not joking!” the robber yelled as he pulled a gun and placed its tip at his head and told him would “blow up’’ his head, Rahmoun said.

He gave the men between $100 and $130 and the two fled. But Rahmoun and his boss looked at store’s surveillance camera and spotted a car parked in the alley.

The supervisor grabbed their gun and they walked outside.

“We went back to see which car and he started shooting at us,” the clerk said.

The boss fired eight times, hitting the back window of the car, which was found later, Rahmoun said. He did not know whether either of the assailants were wounded.

The next story is from Washington state;

Clark County sheriff’s deputies said the homeowner near 216th Avenue and SR 503 noticed his garage was messy and disturbed, so he went back inside his home and found a burglar in the hallway near his living room.

He confronted the burglar and deputies say both men fired. They believe the suspect shot twice while the homeowner, who is a retired federal law enforcement officer, fired three times.

No one was hit by the gunfire.

“Pretty crazy,” said James Bell, who lives nearby. “Nothing like that happens around here.”

Deputies said the thief had stolen items wrapped up in pillow cases, but he didn’t end up taking anything.

Read more: http://www.kptv.com/story/27705077/search-on-for-thief-in-amboy-after-homeowner-interrupts-burglary#ixzz3N273giim

Today’s feel good story comes from California;

Police were called to a home in the 900 block of Country Glen Way (map) about 3:30 Christmas morning by a call from a resident who said a masked burglar was inside his home, according to Lt. Bob Dunn of the Anaheim Police Department.

The burglar assaulted the homeowner with a wrench, prompting a struggle that led to the criminal fleeing the home, the homeowner told authorities.

Armed with a shotgun, the homeowner followed the burglar and fired on him once, striking him, Dunn said. Still, the burglar was able to again escape, Dunn said.

Shortly before 5 a.m., with the help of bloodhounds from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department and a police K-9, officers found their suspect in a garage one block away.

Police were nearby investigating another break in that might be related to Mr. Jeremy Bell, the wounded fellow in this incident. I’m sure since it’s California, we’ll hear how Mr Bell is suing the fellow who shot his monkey ass.

Amy sends us a bonus story from Texas;

One man is dead after a suspect was shot and killed during an attempted home invasion late Wednesday in southwest Houston, police said.

According to the Houston Police Department, it happened around 11 p.m. at a townhome in the 4100 block of Woodwind Lane near West Bellfort.

Investigators said the suspect entered the home, but the homeowner shot him. The suspect died at the scene.

Chief Tango sends us our story this Christmas morning from Tennessee;

Officers responded to a home in the 2300 block of Devoy at about 6:20 p.m. Tuesday, where they saw 22-year-old Nico Carlisle with multiple gunshot wounds lying at the front door.

Investigators say Carlisle and another man knocked on the door, then forced their way inside when a woman answered the door. Carlisle then put a gun to the woman’s neck.

The homeowner grabbed a handgun before going to investigate the commotion, and fired multiple shots at the men, hitting Carlisle.

The second man escaped and has not been identified.

Once again, Chief Tango sends us our feel good stories. The first comes from Pennsylvania;

Investigators tell Action News former Colwyn cop Stephen Rozniakowski was armed with a gun, police radio, and a bullet proof vest when he kicked the door in at the home on the 600 block of Glenfield Avenue.

He allegedly shot dead Valerie Morrow, then shot her 15-year-old daughter once in the arm.

Morrow’s husband, a part-time Morton police officer, was awakened by the gunfire.

Delaware County District Attorney Jack Whalen explains, “Tom Morrow, at this point hearing the commotion, hearing the gunfire, reached into his nightstand next to the bed, pulled out a revolver and started returning fire.”

When he ran out of bullets Morrow jumped out of a second floor window, breaking his ankle.

Motive appears to be jealousy, according to sources. Valerie Morrow and Rozniakowski had at one time been romantically involved.

The late Valerie Morrow had filed a protection order the day before which had been served the evening of the shooting. But, I’ve heard that’s just a piece of paper.

The next story comes from Florida;

Neighbors told Channel 9 a resident spotted a man trying to break into vehicles in the neighborhood. Investigators said the resident alerted an off-duty deputy who lives in the area.

“I just woke up to my wife and stepson saying there was gunfire and to get down,” said resident Jeremy Santos.

According to police, the deputy confronted the alleged burglar and opened fire when he became violent.

“He was telling him to keep his hands out and get back,” said neighbor Dwight Leavel.

The suspect, later identified as 32-year-old Wilford McCloud, was taken to a nearby hospital in serious condition.

Mister McCloud had a pretty long history with the local authorities, a career that has come to an end for a little while, I’m guessing.