Category: Feel Good Stories

Chief Tango sends us our feel good stories this morning. The first is from Bakersfield, California where a fellow was rewarded for kicking down another man’s door with a well-placed shot group;

Police said at about 4:51 a.m. the man who was killed was trying to kick in the front door, and was shot by another man in the house.

Police believe the homeowners and the suspect knew one another.

The suspect died at the scene.

The next story comes from Iberia, Louisiana, where the intruder reported to 9-1-1 that he had been shot;

Charles Prince attempted to break into a balcony bedroom at a home in the 5500 block of East Admiral Doyle Drive, on March 23.

Prince woke the victim, who grabbed a hand gun and fired 2 shots at Prince, hitting him once in the arm.

The victim called the Sheriff’s Office around 8:39 p.m. and explained that he had shot at an intruder.

Shortly afterward, the Sheriff received a 911 call from Prince who said he had been shot near the victim’s home.

He should have called the police before he tried to break in and saved everyone some trouble.

Finally, we have another story from Illinois where 26-year-old Michael Huston tried to liberate some of one homeowner’s property;

About 11:20 a.m. Saturday, Huston broke into a house in the 38W000 block of Mallard Lake Road in unincorporated St. Charles Township and was shot by the man who owns the home, police said.

Huston, of the 300 block of Walnut Street in St. Charles, was found by sheriff’s deputies a few blocks away and taken to Delnor Community Hospital in Geneva with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

The 43-year-old homeowner was alone at home at the time, and has a valid Illinois FOID card, the statement said.

One thing I’ve noticed about these things is that they’re just as likely to occur in the day time as they are night these days.

Chief Tango sends us our Saturday morning feel good story to kick off our weekend right. This one comes from Texas;

The Wood County Sheriff’s Office said a unit was dispatched to a home on County Road 1600 near Alba around 8:16 a.m after receiving a call about a reported trespasser. While the dispatched unit was en route to the home, the sheriff’s office received a second call stating that the trespasser had now entered the home of the caller and had been shot by the homeowner.

Upon arrival, deputies found that a 42-year-old white male inside the home had suffered a gunshot wound. The man was flown to a Tyler hospital where he remains in intensive care.

Funny how the burglar wouldn’t hold on and wait for the police to get there.

This morning’s kickoff for a great day comes from Tulsa where a homeowner went to investigate a triggered alarm;

Police said a man heard his burglary alarm system trigger and went into his garage to assess the situation. He found two burglars there and felt threatened. He fired shots at the suspects, but police do not believe he injured either person.

A 30-year-old male suspect fled on foot, but the homeowner was able to hold a 16-year-old female suspect at the scene until police arrived and arrested her.

The homeowner was not injured.

Next door neighbor, Amy Hoagland, heard the gunshots and called 911. She said the neighborhood has seen an increase in crime in the past couple years.

Chief Tango and Tim send us our feel good stories this morning. the first is from Montana, where a man awoke to the sound of another fellow coming in through the window;

When the resident ordered the man to not move the man turned toward him.

Then, the homeowner shot the intruder who jumped back through the broken window and ran away from the home.

Deputies found the intruder laying on the ground near the house and was pronounced dead at the scene.

His name is not being released.

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The next story is from Arizona where a resident took Joe Biden’s advice;

Olmos told deputies he and the two other men had come to the home to collect a large amount of money owed to him by one of four people in the house, Gaffney said.

Olmos admitted they were well armed, brought black zip-ties and were “prepared for whatever,” Gaffney said.

The 59-year-old homeowner spotted three people outside wearing hoods and holding guns as he viewed the house security camera, and then heard the suspects kicking at his back door, Gaffney said.

He said he fired one round from his shotgun and another person inside the home fire a round from a handgun after seeing laser sights pointed at his head, Gaffney said.

The three suspects returned fire and then fled, with the wounded Olmos falling in a neighboring yard.

Chief Tango sends us our feel good story to kick off the week, this time it’s from Milwaukee where a maintenance man was working and assaulted by two teenage parents;

Since he hasn’t been charged in the case, FOX6 News is not naming the maintenance worker, but police say he was changing the locks at the apartment building near 27th and Vliet when he and the teens began to argue.

Investigators say the teens, along with a 20-year-old man, held the maintenance worker down and beat him with a baseball bat.

“Apparently, these people were mad that a friend of theirs was getting evicted. They thought – apparently – that he was the manager,” Braun said.

That’s when police say the maintenance man pulled out a gun and shot the 19-year-old and 17-year-old.

Sadly, according to the article, the two teens were parents of a child or two, but they’re not around any more because of their own actions. And the man was saving his own life – they gave him no other choice.

In New Orleans, a couple turned the tables on a man while he was sexually assaulting the woman;

According to an NOPD spokesman Officer Garry Flot, the 26-year-old man approached an adult male and female as they were walking, produced a handgun, and demanded that they walk to a building that was being renovated.

Once they entered the yard, the man sexually assaulted the woman, at which time the male that was with her disarmed the 26-year-old and fatally shot him.

Detectives recovered the handgun from the scene and are in the process of determining the origin of the weapon.

The male and female victims were interviewed and released.

Chief Tango sends us our feel good story this morning, this time it’s from Houston, and it happened when a homeowner heard noises at his front door late Friday night.

The resident’s father spoke to Local 2 and said his son was sleeping when the intruders came knocking and tried to break in.

“They woke him up” he said. “He peeked out the peephole and he didn’t recognize who the guys was.”

A neighbor said the men tried to pry the door open.

“They used a crow bar,” Gakayla Render said. “He saw the gun come around the corner and he started firing.”

Render said everyone who lives at the apartment complex is talking about how the tenant was targeted. They believe the would-be robbers were after money. The say the man who lives in the complex has successful parents who provide him with nice things.

“It’s a motive,” she said. “You have other young guys who see them and they’re envious and they want that, they want to be part of that or they want to have that.”

The next one is also from Texas and similar circumstances;

Officials tell NewsWest 9, dispatchers received a call around 9 a.m. in reference to a burglary in progress and shots fire in the 16000 block of West Interstate 20 on Thursday.

When deputies arrived on the scene, officials found 37-year-old James Fulkerson with a gunshot wound to his lower leg.

The wound was superficial.

Authorities said Fulkerson was arrested and charged with attempted burglary. He was also booked on an unrelated outstanding warrant out of Mitchell County.

KWES NewsWest 9 / Midland, Odessa, Big Spring, TX: newswest9.com |

Chief Tango sends this morning’s feel good story, this time from Bakersfield, CA where a neighbor noticed a fellow removing property from the house next door;

On Tuesday morning, a suspect entered a home in the 200 block of Las Flores Drive in northeast Bakersfield.

A witness reported hearing loud noises from across the street and saw the suspect leave his neighbor’s home with a big-screen TV. The suspect then got into a white pickup truck and drove away.

About an hour later, the same neighbor reported seeing the burglar return and re-enter the same house.

When he came out carrying more property, the witness yelled at him to stop. The burglar ignored him, and that’s when the witness fired warning shots.

“I think that a homeowner has the right to protect their home and their property, and the way I understand it, the neighbor across the street was trying to protect his neighbor’s property,” said Janet Goff, who’s lived on the block for more than 40 years. “I would want them to do that for me.”