Category: Feel Good Stories

Our feel good story comes from Chief Tango again and this time it’s from Las Vegas;

According to police, at around 5 p.m. Monday, 40-year-old Scott Brown drove to a house near Decatur Boulevard and Washburn Road. Police say he drove his truck onto the front yard and then into the side of the house. He got out of the truck and forced his way into the home.

The 40-year-old homeowner and Brown got into a fight, police said. Brown hit the homeowner with a metal concrete stake. The homeowner then shot Brown several time and Brown cut himself with a knife. Medical personnel pronounced him dead at the scene.

The homeowner had minor injuries and was not taken to the hospital.

Brown had, a few moments earlier, stabbed thirteen times a woman in another home down the street before rolling up on the second home where he met his end.

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This morning’s feel good story is sent by Chief Tango and comes from New Mexico when a fellow tried to rob the at Oasis Smoke Shop and Hooka Lounge twice in the same day;

The shooting happened Sunday afternoon at the Oasis Smoke Shop on Menaul in northeast Albuquerque. The owner said the robber was armed when he first walked in and demanded money. He says his employees followed all his directions and the robber left with the cash, but then he came back.

“We did not have a gun in there, one of our employees did and it wasn’t on him at the moment. It was actually hidden in his backpack. He actually had to reach out for that to protect himself,” explained Oueis.

The employee shot and killed the robber. Police said that employee was questioned and released.

“I’m sure there will follow up interviews conducted but no one arrested appears to be a case of self defense at this point,” explained Officer Tanner Tixier.

Oueis is still reeling from what his employees had to go through and is worried the robber’s friends could come after them.

Here’s the first feel good story of the week from California;

Officers responded at 2:24 a.m. to the 2800 block of East Third Street in regards to a burglary in progress, said Long Beach Police Department spokeswoman Sgt. Megan Zabel. She said the resident had shot the suspect.

“Officers arrived along with paramedics who pronounced the burglary suspect deceased at the scene,” Zabel said.

Zabel said the suspected burglar is a male. No other identifying information was available on the resident or suspect Sunday.

There are no reports of the residents being injured, she said. Homicide investigators were still on scene Sunday morning.

Can you tell it’s summertime? There’s no shortage of feel good stories for us lately and here are two more from Chief Tango, the first coming from Florida;

Virgis Canteen told investigators Davion Smith knocked on his door around 7:30 pm. They argued, then Smith pulled out a gun and started shooting at him, detectives said.

Canteen said he pulled out his own gun and returned fire. Both men were hit in the upper body several times.

Canteen’s house had been burglarized about a week and a half before the shooting. Canteen told detectives he was convinced Smith was involved because there was bad blood between them.

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The next story is from California;

Police say the burglar entered the home thinking no one was there.

But the homeowner, who was in his bedroom, heard noises, grabbed his gun and fired a shot at the intruder, said Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Lt. Frank Rivera.

No one was injured. The burglar didn’t get away with anything.

Chief Tango sends us our feel good story for this morning, this time it’s from Texas;

College Station police say Daniel Pinon, 23, was caught inside the garage of a home in the 3200 block of Wildrye Drive Tuesday. The homeowner told police that he saw Pinon in his garage and went to get his gun. The homeowner then confronted Pinon as he was walking toward a silver 2011 Dodge Avenger with a box full of things from the garage. According to investigators, the two got into a fight. Officers say that the homeowner shot Pinon in the leg.

CSPD officers say Pinon then ran away from the house. Officers were called to Wildrye because of shots fired in the area. Another 911 caller reported a man with a gun headed towards Rock Prairie Road. Pinon was arrested a couple of blocks from the shooting at Rock Prairie and Normand. He was taken to the College Station Medical Center and treated for a gunshot wound.

Police say Pinon stole the Dodge Avenger in Navasota then drove to the home on Wildrye. The owner of the car told News 3 she reported it stolen Monday night.

Bobo sends another story from Kansas City;

Police were still sorting through information, but they received a report that one of the suspected home invaders was shot in the leg when they entered the home and were chased off by a resident.

One of the suspects also apparently suffered a panic attack following the chase. It is not clear if the one shot in the leg also suffered the panic attack or if it was the second suspect.

Chief Tango sends us our feel good story this morning, this time it’s from Connecticut where an armed thief went one convenience store too far;

New Haven police report that just before midnight on Tuesday, they responded to Congress Avenue where a store clerk was held up by a suspect with a riffle.

While officers were taking the store owner’s statement, he received a telephone call from his brother, who also works at a convenience store. The brother said he was just held up and opened fire on the suspect.

Police responded to Nino’s Mini market and found the suspect who had been shot in the chest, they also recovered the rifle.

The suspect is not being identified, but police say he was rushed to Yale New Haven Hospital and pronounced dead.

Chief Tango sends us a couple of feel good stories this morning, the first is from Alabama, where Kenneth Johnson discovered that not everyone is as impressed with his naked form as he seems to be;

Police said Johnson entered the home in Camden Cove through the attached garage. Once inside, police said Johnson took off his clothes and walked in on the 15 and 17-year-old boys.

Investigators said the younger teen called police while the older one grabbed his father’s gun and ran him out of the house.

Police said the man wandered around the area before coming back to the home, where they arrested him.

The next story comes from Florida where NJ Logan was forced to chase a burglar from her home with a firearm;

“I don’t know what was going on in my mind. Honestly all I wanted was my gun,” she said.

She grabbed it and went downstairs.

“I was probably running down the stairs with my new hip so to speak,” said NJ.

She yelled out warnings to whoever was downstairs.

“I didn’t want to shoot. I really didn’t want to have to shoot anybody,” she said.

She then called for help.

“When I called 911 she kept saying put the gun down. Put the gun down and I said I’ll put the gun down when I see the police,” NJ said.

The next story comes from North Carolina where a store employee was forced to return fire at thieves;

Officers said the men entered Jerry’s Mini Mart on Mount Holly Road around 9:20 p.m. and robbed the business at gunpoint.

As they fled, police said one of the men fired a shot at an employee. The employee then shot back but nobody was struck.

Police said the suspects, described as black males in their early 20s with their faces covered, ran off. One of the thieves had long dreads.

In Delaware, a woman had to defend herself and her son when they encountered a fellow turning his life around in their home;

According to investigators, a female homeowner and her son entered the unoccupied home that was undergoing renovation and discovered a male suspect sleeping inside.

The homeowner confronted the suspect and a physical struggle ensued. During the struggle, the homeowner, who was armed with a handgun, fired the weapon, striking the suspect in the lower body.

The suspect ran out of the home, but was later tracked down in a wooded area and taken into custody.

He was taken to a Christiana Hospital in good condition.

A neighbor, Lou Fournarakis says, “Hey, all the better for her. If someone wanted to break into my house I’d want to do the same thing.”

Neighbors also tell CBS 3 there have been break-ins at this home in the past, even people partying inside.

Finally, in Ohio;

Kristina Lynne Holskey, 39, reportedly broke into the apartment of Terry J. McConnell, 46, at 10701/2 Linden Ave. just north of downtown Zanesville about 3:30 a.m., said Zanesville Police Capt. Tony Coury.

A neighbor living in the ground-floor apartment below McConnell called 911 to report hearing gunshots. When police arrived, they found McConnell with a gunshot wound in his stomach. He was transported to OhioHealth Grant Medical Center in Columbus, where he remained in serious condition yesterday.

Holskey was on the floor, bleeding but still alive. She was transported to Genesis Good Samaritan hospital in Zanesville, where she later died.

Holskey, of Dresden, had an extensive record in Zanesville Municipal Court, with charges including domestic violence, petty theft, menacing and possession of drug paraphernalia.