Category: Feel Good Stories

From Centreville, Virginia

A man who was shot outside a Centreville, Virginia, home early Monday is now facing a charge of unlawful entry, but his shooter likely won’t face charges.

Fairfax County Chief Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney Casey Lingan confirmed that the homeowner likely won’t face charges in the incident, as first reported by NBC 4.Early Monday morning, Ethan Redd, 29, tried to enter the residence in the 6300 block of Fairfax National Way when the homeowner fired several shots and wounded him, Fairfax County police said Tuesday following a preliminary investigation.

Officers had been called to the residence around 5 a.m. over a reported burglary after the homeowner saw a man in his backyard.

Redd, of Chantilly, fled the scene after being shot and was found at a Loudoun County hospital. He was later transported to another hospital in Reston, where he’s still being treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

From Las Vegas, NV

Las Vegas police are investigating Wednesday morning after a man shot at a burglar standing in the bedroom in his east Las Vegas home.

Police were called about 3:30 a.m. to a home at 2727 San Vincente St., near Pecos Road and Carey Avenue, according to Metropolitan Police Department Lt. David Gordon.

The man was home alone when he woke up to a noise and saw another man in his bedroom, Gordon said. He grabbed a handgun and fired three shots at the other man, who ran away.

Gordon said police didn’t find any evidence inside the home that indicated the would-be burglar had been shot, but are still searching for him.

May I suggest a little more time at the range or  a shotgun with #4.

From Tulsa, OK

Tulsa man arrested after using reportedly stolen gun to shoot at home invaders.  The man, Robert Doxey, 24, reported the shooting and burglary to police. Officers arrested him on allegations that the gun he possessed had been reported stolen in Muskogee, Tulsa Police Capt. Mike Williams said.

Police later reported that Doxey was inside his residence playing video games when someone knocked at the door. He then reportedly heard someone pulling an air conditioner from the window in an apparent attempt to get into the house.

Doxey is alleged to have fired four rounds through the wall from a pistol that was reported stolen.

The man arrived at his residence, located in the 4800 block of East King Street North, around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday and saw a red sedan parked nearby. Williams said the homeowner didn’t think much of it until the sedan’s occupants attempted to break into his house.

He gets an “A” for effort but an “F” in execution.  Still, something about this just makes me smile.

From Apache Junction, AZ

According to Pinal County Sheriff’s Office, two armed suspects entered a home near US 60 and Tomahawk Road Saturday around 11 a.m. The homeowner struggled with one of the suspects, shooting him. Detectives believe the second suspect took off in a dark-colored car.

The shot suspect was pronounced dead at a local hospital, PCSO said.

 

From Phoenix, AZ

Phoenix police are investigating a shooting at a home near 19th Avenue and Indian School Road that left one man in critical condition.

The shooting occurred at about 3:40 a.m. Sunday morning.  According to Sgt. Armando Carbajal, when officers arrived on scene, they found one man who had suffered a gunshot wound.  He was taken to a local hospital where he remains in critical condition.

Carbajal said police are still searching for a suspect.

From Huston, TX 

A would-be robber, according to Houston police, was fatally shot after he tried to run away with a money bag he wrestled from an armored truck guard.  “There was a confrontation, if you want to call it, a fight over the money bag,” said HPD Sgt. Robert Ruiz. “A wrestling match, but the suspect did manage to get the bag away from the security guard is the information we’re collecting at this point.”

A Starbucks had to close for several hours,  oh the humanity of it all.

From Litchfield Park, AZ

Authorities say a woman shot a man who was trying to break into her home through the front door on Thursday night.  According to Sgt. Joaquin Enriquez with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, a woman called 911 just before 11 p.m. saying there was a suspicious vehicle in the driveway of her home near 127th Avenue and Camelback Road.  The woman told the 911 operator she didn’t know the man who was inside the car and the man walked up to her front door and tried to enter her home.

After warning the man that she was armed, MCSO says the woman shot him through the front door after he kept trying to enter the home.  When deputies arrived at the home, they found the man on the door step suffering from a gunshot wound.  The man was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries where he remains in critical condition.

From Memphis, TN

Some would-be criminals picked the wrong home to try to break into and found an East Memphis woman was locked, loaded and ready.  As Whitney Lyne tried to wind down for bed on Thursday, some bad guys had other plans.  “As soon as that window burst, I’m running right at her and I am jamming that gun through the door at her,” Lyne said.  “Then I heard a boom and things went silent, and thought she had burst in through the wood door at front and it just got quiet.”

The woman was trying to come in through the front door. At that point, Lyne’s two dogs lost it.  And that’s when she swallowed her fears and grabbed the shotgun her husband told her to use for protection.  Now charging for the side door, where the woman had broken the glass and ready to come in, Lyne and the shotgun stopped the woman dead in her tracks.

“She just nonchalantly just stopped and slowly put her hand up, just walked to her car,” Lyne said. “The guy looked at her, put his hands in the air, backed up and just sped off and they were gone.”

From Katy, TX;

A Katy homeowner shot a man in the head while his car was being burglarized Friday morning, according to the Harris County Precinct 5 Constables Office.

The shooting happened around 1 a.m. at a home near Park Valley and Park Brush, in the Katy area.

A 19-year-old man was breaking into a car in the home’s garage, when the homeowner heard him and grabbed a gun, spokesman Jeff McShan said.

The homeowner, a “elderly gentleman,” had twice asked the suspect to leave, but the suspect refused, spokesman Thomas Gilliland said. The homeowner then fired a single shot, which “grazed” the suspect’s head, he said.

“The homeowner had every right to defend himself,” Gilliland said.

From York, NC

A pair of victims of robberies in separate York County incidents Thursday and Friday shot at the suspects, police said.

One of the victims, a 72-year-old man armed with a shotgun filled with a type of buckshot, told police that he believes he wounded a male suspect who stole a car, police said.

In that incident Friday morning around 3 a.m. on Patrick Road at the North Carolina state line with Gaston County, the victim went to a shed after a motion sensor went off and found the suspect inside. The homeowner said he shot at the suspect and believed he hit the suspect, an incident report states.

The suspect “yelled” after possibly being shot in the torso, then stole a vehicle and fled, the man told police.

Just a few hours before on Aquarius Drive near Clover, a woman, 22, told deputies that she used a shotgun to fire at a robbery suspect, a second incident report states.

In that crime around 10 p.m. Thursday, the victim told deputies that an assailant tried to smash into the home with a tomahawk before the victim inside fired the gun at the intruder.

It is unknown in the second case if the suspect was hit by the shotgun blast.

The suspect in that case fled in a getaway van, the victim told police.

Detectives are seeking suspects in both cases, said Trent Faris, spokesman for the sheriff’s office.

No charges have been filed against either homeowner, police said.

From Essex, Maryland;

Baltimore County Police have identified the man found dead in an Essex home as one of three suspects who entered during a home invasion. Police say 20 year-old Tarae Damon Holton was shot and killed during the incident.

Police were called to the 800 block of Arncliffe Road around 4:44 a.m. Monday for a person suffering from a gunshot wound. Police found one man, a resident of the home suffering from at least one gunshot wound outside. He was transported to a local hospital with serious injuries but is expected to survive.
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Holton was found inside, suffering from at least one gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police say they’re working to determine who shot who during the confrontation.

Officers are still trying to identify Holton’s two accomplices, who fled the home.

From Trotwood, Ohio;

A man was killed after a manager of an auto repair shop shot him after the suspect pointed a gun at the manager, police said.

Officers responded to auto repair shop in the 4000 block of Salem Avenue around 2:30 a.m.

The incident started when the manager of the shop, which operates overnight, returned to the business with an employee and their car was approached by two individuals, said Capt. Dan Heath of the Trotwood Police Department.

When the employee got out of the car, one of the individuals pointed a gun at him, and the manager, whose identity has not been released, shot the suspect, Heath said.

From Phenix City, Alabama;

A Phenix City store clerk is feeling uneasy after he says he was forced to shoot a robbery suspect who first held him at gunpoint.

The incident happened Monday night at the Lucky Food Store on 10th Avenue near Pine Hill Baptist Church.

“He was injured pretty badly. He got shot three times,” said the store clerk, who does not want to be identified. “He put a pistol to my back and asked for the money. I gave him the money. He wanted money out of the next register which I told him I could not open.”

The clerk said he was busy stocking the cooler when the robber came in just before 11 p.m.

“He made me get down on the floor on my knees and he put a pistol to my head,” the clerk said. He turned around to grab some cigarettes and that’s when I seen the chance to actually grab my pistol and I shot him.”

The clerks said he feared for his life and he shot the suspect three times in the abdomen with a 45-caliber handgun.

“I pray that he makes it and that he’s ok,” the clerk said.

The convenience store is a popular place along 10th Avenue but the clerk said he did not recognize the robber.

After the terrifying ordeal, the clerk said he and his supervisor stayed with the suspect and even prayed over him as they waited for help to arrive.

“He told me, please don’t let him die,” mentioned the clerk. “I hate that it happened but at that point, I feared for my life. So, I didn’t know nothing else to do.”

From Quincy, Illinois;

The 19-year-old killed during a reported Memorial Day home invasion in Burton was warned multiple times by the homeowner before he was shot, police reports reveal.

Multiple witnesses told investigators that the homeowner repeatedly issued warnings to Logan M. Graham of Camp Point before opening fire with a 12-gauge shotgun.

The reports were obtained by The Herald-Whig through a Freedom of Information Act request to the Adams County state’s attorney’s office.

The homeowner provided a three-sentence statement to investigators through his attorney, Don Schuering, in which he said Graham entered his home “in a violent, riotous and tumultuous manner by breaking though the glass in my front door.”

“Earlier, he threatened to kill me,” the statement read. “When he entered my home I feared he was going to kill me or one of my family members, I feared that his action was imminent, and I believed there was only one way to protect me and my family.”

Adams County State’s Attorney Gary Farha said last week that no charges would be filed in the May 28 fatal shooting.

From St Pauls, North Carolina;

The 68-year-old homeowner told investigators that when she arrived home she heard a noise coming from inside of her storage building, Thompson said. She walked out to the building, opened the door and found [James] Dority inside standing in a corner.

The homeowner told investigators that “he was lunging toward her” in an aggressive manner, which prompted her to open fire, shooting Dority five times, Thompson said. The name of the homeowner is not being released at this time.

Thompson did not say if charges had been filed against Dority or the homeowner.

From South Bend, Indiana;

Police arrested 20-year-old Robert Baker Monday.

They say Baker and another man broke into a home on North Illinois Street and started shooting.

One of the victims shot back and both of the suspects ran away.

Less than an hour later police say Baker walked into the hospital with a gun shot wound.

Right now, police are still looking for the second suspect.

From St Louis, Missouri;

St. Louis police say a burglary suspect is dead after being shot by a man in the home that was victimized.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the shooting happened around 3 a.m. Monday. Four people told police they were inside the home when a man kicked in the bottom of a locked door and climbed through. Police say a 21-year-old man shot the intruder, identified as 43-year-old Maurice Pollard.

Pollard was pronounced dead at a hospital. None of the people inside the home were hurt.

From Ohio County, West Virginia;

After a man showed a gun to a clerk in Ohio County on Monday night, the clerk fought back.

Ohio county sheriff Tom Howard says it happened at the First and Last Shot Cantina on National Road in Triadelphia.

They say a man walked up to the door and showed the clerk a gun. The clerk then pulled out a weapon, and the robber then ran.

Sheriff’s deputies say K-9s tracked the suspect into a creek, and then police discovered he had parked at Wanda’s Bargain Barn just down the road.

They have surveillance video and are hoping to release more details later.