Category: Feel Good Stories

The story that we get from Chief Tango this morning is a little different than most. It comes from Indiana where an elderly couple were watching television when they were interrupted by someone breaking in their home;

The intruder confronted the couple and demanded any guns they might have.

“I looked at him and said, do you have a gun?” Kearney said. “And he said, ‘No,’ and I don’t know what happened. I snapped…I don’t think he expected an overweight woman on oxygen to attack him — I really don’t.”

Kearney attacked him with the wooden back scratcher and then picked up a wrench.

“When he said, ‘I don’t have a gun,’ I went like this and BAM! BAM!” she said, reenacting the incident with the back scratcher. “And I BAM’d all the way to where I saw the wrench and I picked the wrench up, which is this little baby. And I went out this back door and I BAM’d four times until he got right to the old back door and he ran out.”

WDRB 41 Louisville News

Big, bad, brave burglar who tried to rob an elderly couple ran for the hills.

This morning’s feel good story comes from Chief Tango and happened in Georgia;

Police say they responded to a home on Emory Drive on Monday night, after a woman and her son were shot during a robbery. They told police her husband grabbed a weapon when he heard the commotion and fired at two black men multiple times as they tried to get away.

Chief Brian Childress says, while his officers were at this location, they got a call about another shooting nearby.

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Childress says he believes they have enough evidence to show that the two men, who reported being shot, are the suspects in not only Monday night’s shooting, but potentially two other robberies in the area.

This morning’s feel good story was sent by Chief Tango and happened in Minnesota where Kert and VeAnn Wright were forced to defend their livelihood from from a 16-year-old criminal who whacked Kert on the head with flashlight. Kert pulled out a gun and held the little weasel until the police arrived;

Reporter: “Pretty scary ordeal?”

VeAnn Wright: “Yeah, it was. I had a hard time sleeping last night.”

Kert Wright: “Something has got to happen. This is ridiculous for people to start doing this stuff. I hate to say it, but maybe somebody needs to get shot once in awhile. Maybe they’ll stop breaking into people’s houses, because they break into people’s homes quite a bit here.”

Kert says at no time during the ordeal did he put his finger on the trigger of his pistol. He says he felt in control of the situation and did not want to shoot the suspect. However, he’s hoping it sends a clear message to would be burglars at his business.

Valley News Live – KVLY/KXJB – Fargo/Grand Forks

Chief Tango sends us this morning’s feel good story, this time it’s from Nevada where a burglar was forced to out run a bullet;

The homeowner got home while the burglar was inside, and they struggled over one of the homeowner’s guns, which ended up firing.

Then the homeowner got another one of his guns and shot at the burglar.
Neither shot hit anyone, and the burglar got away.

Chief Tango sends us our feel good stories this morning, the first comes from Florida, a story of a dramatic attack on a family by four thugs;

Breau says he was awakened when a man started beating him up in his own bedroom.

“He ripped me out of bed, and started pummeling me while I was on the floor,” said Breau.

“I kept trying to get up and he kept hitting me. Pistol whipped me.”

Breau’s fiancee, Ashley Churchill, was lying next to him. The couple’s 3-month-old son was in a baby bed just a few feet away. Churchill says she tried to fight the men off.

“I jumped up and I started hitting the guy as hard as I could in the head,” said Churchill.

“It took the attention away from my fiancee for a couple of minutes and another guy came running in with a gun and he hit me in the head with it.”

One of the gunman tipped the baby’s crib. The infant started crying. That’s when he threatened to harm the child.

Churchill said the gunman told him to pick up his child because he was screaming. “He told me if I didn’t quiet my child down he would shoot him.”

The men left, but came back. That gave Breau time to retrieve his shotgun from the closet and load it. One of the men shot at Breau, and he returned fire.

“I shot three. Three shots. I had to,” said Breau.

“It was a shotgun so I had to take the shells out and put one more bullet in and that’s it.”

One of the suspects, Steven Reverdes was wounded. His brother, Michael and a third gunman, Joseph Rich, fled the scene.

WFLA News Channel 8

Te next story comes from South Carolina;

Deputies say the 48-year-old [Francis Brian Stalvey] broke into an occupied residence on Williams Hill Road around 4 p.m. Wednesday. Armed with a handgun, Stalvey began shooting at the resident.

The search for Stalvey lasted for several hours. At about 9 p.m., deputies were notified that Stalvey was at a neighbor’s house on Ray Road and wanted to turn himself in. The neighbor secured the weapon and ammunition, and notified deputies of Stalvey’s whereabouts.

WMBFNews.com, Myrtle Beach/Florence SC, Weather