Chief Tango sends us our first feel good story for the work week from Michigan where a clerk created an ammo shortage all by himself;
Video first shows the suspect, who was wearing dark clothes and a ski mask, stealing from the register.
Police say he held up the clerk with a revolver and ordered him to the back room, where he loaded cigarettes into a bag.
Police say that’s when the clerk fired ten times at the suspect, as he was running away.
“There were ten shots fired all from the clerk himself, the suspect did not return fire,” says Lieutenant Jon Gale with the Norton Shores Police Department.
Police say it’s not clear if the suspect was hit.
The next story comes from Texas and doesn’t involve a friendly gun, but has a happy ending;
[Mayura Dissanyake] was behind the counter when he noticed his co-worker returning to the store after a run to the bank.
Dissanyake saw two men jump out of an SUV and attack his co-worker. They were trying to grab the bank bag he was carrying.
The store’s surveillance cameras were recording as Dissanayake ran outside and kicked one of the alleged robbers in the face.
“The first guy I saw, I just kicked him in the face,” he said. “Then I punched the other guy.”
They were moves he learned from cage matches. Dissanyake has been involved with mixed martial arts for more than a decade. He says he was the national champion for five consecutive years in his native Sri Lanka.
Police responded to the 3100 block of North College Avenue around 1 p.m. When they arrived, they found the homeowner had shot and killed an intruder, said police.
Neighbors told FOX59 the shooting should serve as a reminder that homeowners will defend themselves against criminals.
Chief Tango sends us our feel good story for this lazy Summer Saturday morning. This time it’s from Iowa where Tim Moore and Scott Eastwood held 5 fugitives for the police;
Deputies say, around 7 Wednesday night, they tried to stop a vehicle that matched the description of a car involved in a shots fired call. They say the driver of the car wouldn’t stop so officers chased them all the way to solon. The chase ended after the car crashed into someone’s yard plowing through a child’s play house. That’s when the five men got out of the car and took off running; two neighbors saw the commotion and decided to help. Tim Moore and Scott Eastwood say the five men threw drugs and a gun down in his yard as they ran across the highway.
Moore and Eastwood chased the five down then held them at gun point until police arrived.
The reader named “ohio” sends us our feel good story today. This time it’s from Pennsylvania where Richard Plotts walked into a psychiatrist’s treatment room and started shooting up the place;
A gunman opened fire inside Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in Delaware County on Thursday afternoon, killing a female caseworker and grazing a psychiatrist in the head, police said.
Officials believe the doctor then drew his own weapon and shot the assailant, hitting him three times and critically injuring him, said Delaware County District Attorney Jack Whelan.
The psychiatrist , 52, is expected to recover.
Donald Molineux, chief of the nearby Yeadon Police Department, said the doctor “without a doubt saved lives” by firing back.
A good guy with a gun saving lives. Who would have thought of it?
Our next story is from Chief Tango and happened in Virginia where two brainiacs tied two pipes together to look like a double-barreled shotgun;
The two forced their way into a rooming house on 31st street around 4:45am, police say.
After entering the house, they forced their way into a room armed with two pipes bound together to resemble a shotgun and began to attack and rob the man that lived in that room.
The man quickly realized it was not a real shotgun and fought back injuring the suspects.
One man was hospitalized with injuries, the other escaped.
Chief tango sends us our feel good story this morning. It’s from Indianapolis;
The homeowner of the house in the 4900 block of Lewiston Drive said he came home to find the house had been ransacked, officials with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said.
Police said the homeowner heard noises upstairs, confronted the burglar and shot the burglar in the arm.
The suspect ran outside through the back of the house, but was caught by police in the 5000 block of Lewiston Drive.
Police say the perp had a warrant out on his ass already. So Indianapolis is marginally safer tonight.
Chief Tango sends us our feel good stories for this morning. The first is from Pittsburgh;
Police who responded at about 2:20 a.m. to the apartment on Merritt Avenue found a man lying face down on the front steps of the apartment building with a gunshot wound to the abdomen, Sonya Toler said. There was a handgun nearby, Toler said.
She identified him as Christopher A. Thomas, 27, of Marshall-Shadeland, and said he will face charges. He was taken to UPMC Mercy in critical condition.
Police found the body of another man inside the apartment, she said. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office identified him as David Calhoun, 31, of Carrick.
The resident of the apartment, who Toler would not identify, said one of the two men fired a shot into the door of his first-floor apartment and pushed their way in, she said. They shoved the 19-year-old man, who lives there with his 17-year-old girlfriend, into the bedroom, and asked him for “his stuff,” Toler said.
The tenant pulled out a shotgun and fired three times, hitting both men, Toler said.
The next story is from Delaware, where Nigel Sykes is suing Season’s Pizza that he tried to rob four years ago, but he was assaulted by his intended victims and then by the police, so he figures he could make himself a quarter million bucks for his trouble;
In his self-written complaint, Sykes admits, “I committed a robbery at Seasons Pizza” on Maryland Ave. on Nov. 30, 2010, just before 8 p.m. He admits he “displayed” a handgun and that an employee —a delivery driver and one of the named defendants — “handed me $140.”
He says he then started to make his way forward in the store when a different employee grabbed him from behind and other employees wrestled the gun from him, with at least one shot being fired during the struggle.
“That is when the assault began,” according to Sykes’ suit. “All of the Season’s Pizza employees participated in punching, kicking and pouring hot soup over my body. I was unarmed and defenseless and had to suffer a brutal beating by all of the employees of Seasons Pizza,” he wrote, adding the beating knocked him unconscious.
In Sykes’ first 2011 complaint, which is significantly different than the most recent one, he claimed an unknown person robbed him at gunpoint “and then forced me, after giving me a gun, to (rob) a nearby Seasons Pizza.”
“I complied with his commands and proceeded to rob the establishment.” he wrote in 2011, adding he informed employees that he was being forced into the hold-up by someone outside.
Channel 2 Action News reported that when the four boys tried to rob a man at the Laurel Park Apartments near Riverdale around 3 a.m. Tuesday, the man shot one of the teens in the stomach.
The man called police, and the teens were found in another part of the complex after they called for medical help, according to Channel 2.
The last story comes from Alabama where 63-year-old Phyllis Law was forced to defend herself in her own home;
“We heard this crackling… Like wood popping and stuff. I said oh my god. He trying to come in. So I backed up to my room and got my gun and got my extra clip,” Law said.
She was hoping the suspect would go away. Instead, Law said he came closer.
“Next thing I know, he hit the lights and put all the lights on and I’m saying to myself, ‘This person been here before to know where all my lights at,’” she said. “This is ridiculous. He just comes strolling walking around. By the time…He was right here I saw the blue jogging basketball pants he was wearing. And when he got there I jumped up and just start shooting. I have no idea where I hit him. He fell right there on the floor there. “
Law’s granddaughter hid in a closet while she moved closer to the living room and got down on the ground.
Prichard police say she shot the suspect in the head.
AW1, USN (Ret) sends us our first feel good story this morning, this time it’s from California and it’s a little bit different than our regular stories. In this one, a thief foils his own robbery;
One man was wielding a rifle and the other toting a machete.
As they attempted to rob the store, the man with the firearm got into a struggle with someone inside.
The robber’s rifle accidentally went off, firing a single bullet into his accomplice’s upper body. He died at the scene.
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“We chased after the suspect, who shot at his accomplice, and me and my husband grabbed him, and talked him into coming back into the store,” a woman who asked not to be identified told CBS2/KCAL9?s Brittney Hopper. “We weren’t going to let him go. I told him, ‘It’s better to just turn yourself in.’”
The robber allegedly told the woman it was his friend’s idea to rob the store and that he didn’t want to do it alone.
Chief Tango sends more stories, the first from Florida;
Upon deputies arriving on scene, contact was made with the 15-year-old victim who stated that he was home alone when he heard banging coming from the back of the residence.
The teen investigated the noise and saw the suspect attempting to open the back door.
At this point, the teen feared for his safety, so he armed himself with a shotgun.
The 15-year-old then fired a warning shot into an interior door which caused the suspect to flee the scene.
The homeowner’s motion detector was activated and he stepped out to check on it. He saw the man and the man charged the homeowner. The homeowner fired one shot and struck the man somewhere in the lower chest area. The man ran away after the shooting.
Officers quickly set up a perimeter and followed a trail of blood down several city blocks. A K-9 was called and tracked for a lengthy period of time but couldn’t find the man.
Chief Tango sends us our feel good stories for this Sunday morning. the first is from Florida where an elderly man was being stabbed at a bus stop;
Josh Juliano happened to be driving to work when he saw the man being stabbed along South Orange Avenue.
“He was an elderly gentleman. He just had his hands out in front of him, and the guy at that point, was just slicing his hands. He had a 4-inch black knife that he was stabbing him with,” said Juliano.
He quickly tried stopping the attack by the bus stop when another man showed up with a gun.
“The other gentleman who got out to help, had his weapon drawn. He got him to the ground; we got the knife away from him,” he explained.
Deputies arrested 50-year-old Thomas Thorpe who was being held at gunpoint.
“I know, when he saw the gun, his face was priceless,” said Juliano.
The second story comes from Oregon where two fellows called the cops because someone fired a gun at them while they were assaulting him;
[Joseph E. Killingsworth] and [Johnny R. Moore] took turns hitting the victim with the bat, causing extensive head, face and back injuries, the sheriff’s office said.
In an attempt to escape after the attack, the victim grabbed a shotgun from his home and fired two rounds into the air, the sheriff said.
The two suspects fled to a nearby residence and called police to report that they had been shot at.
Chief Tango sends us our feel good stories today. The first comes from Georgia, where a youngster took a cab to a home invasion;
Local cab driver Dennis Weathermen tells us that he picked up the 26 year old male from the Courtesy Motel around 7 AM. They arrived at the residence shortly after 7:30. The man handed him his license and said he was running into the home to grab correct change. That’s when Weatherman says he heard someone trying to kick down the door.
“I heard the noise of somebody trying to kick the door in, about the second or third kick I heard it give way. Then it probably wasn’t 30 seconds after that i heard two consecutive shots. I said please tell me that was not gun shots…so I waited a few minutes and right as I was about to call 911 a sheriff pulled up.
The next story comes from Mississippi where two fellows left the scene of their crime with more (or less) than they had intended;
The incident happened about 2:30 a.m. Friday at a home in the 3500 block of Rosemary Avenue, police said. Assistant Police Chief Lee Vance said it appears the two men had broken into the house and were confronted by the homeowner.
Jonquez Porter, 19, was killed, according to Jackson Police Department spokeswoman Officer Colendula Green.
“The homeowners confronted them. He shot one individual several times. The second one was able to escape through a window,” Vance said.
Romelo Porter, who had been shot in the leg, was captured down the street from the home, Vance said.
