Category: Feel Good Stories

Chief Tango sends us our feel good story this morning, this time it comes from Indiana two enterprising fellows welcomed themselves into someone’s home;

The resident of the home, Levil Bedwell reported to police that suspects had forced their way into his home, displayed a pistol and demanded money.

The intruders pried open the front while Bedwell and his girlfriend slept.

The suspects entered the bedroom, where they kicked and pistol whipped Bedwell, demanding cash and marijuana.

According to police, the suspects threatened to shoot Bedwell, however, no shots were fired inside the home.

As the suspects fled the home, Bedwell fired two shots at their vehicle with a 20ga shotgun, smashing out the passenger side window.

Well, a parting shot to tag the vehicle is better than none at all.

Chief Tango sends us our feel good story this chilly Monday morning, this time it’s from Florida an uninvited guest showed up at a home;

According to officials, a man attempted to break into a home. When the intruder entered the home, the resident shot and killed him.

Neighbors say a woman lives inside [the] home where the man was shot — and it’s only been a week or two since she moved in with her kids.

They say several people were hanging out at her home and things got really loud around 11 p.m.

Then at midnight, a man across the street says he heard three pops.

Chief Tango sends us our feel good stories for today. The first is from Florida where a home invader was kind enough to let a man shoot him in the home;

An armed man jumped through one of his windows while he was recording music around 3 a.m.

Castle’s friend, affectionately nicknamed “big homie Kash”, jumped up from a couch and tackled the intruder, knocking the pistol out of his hand, Castle said.

Castle then picked it up, taking matters into his own hands.

“When they separated, I shot him like four, maybe five times,” Castle said.

The next story comes from Detroit where a burglar didn’t believe a woman when she tried to warn him away;

Police say the middle-aged homeowner saw a young man approaching her house in Detroit’s Brightmoor neighborhood with a brick Friday afternoon.

She yelled for him to go away but he continued to come towards the home. She went and got her handgun and, again, told him to go away. The man with the brick then went to the side of the front door and started to break through the window.

The homeowner fired two shots, killing the suspect. He was coming through a window at the time he was shot.

Sources tell FOX 2 the suspect had an active felony warrant for a home invasion.

Two fifty-cent bullets to make the community safer. Nice shooting, lady.

Chief Tango sends us our first feel good story to kick off the weekend. This one comes from Texas;

Through their preliminary investigation, the officers learned that a 48-year-old property owner was leaving a nearby office when he was approached by a subject who produced a weapon and demanded money.

“The property owner stated that he was able to obtain a weapon from his vehicle and fired multiple shots in self defense,” the press release stated.

The 26-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene by Justice of the Peace Larry Whitworth. The body was sent off to the Harris County Institute of Forensic Science for an autopsy.

SJ sends us one from North Carolina, where the homeowner didn’t use a gun, but still rids us of one more criminal – 37-year-old Ralph Edward Whitney was using the homeowner’s shower;

“I’m very sorry for what took place, but my husband didn’t really mean to take Ralph’s life,” said Smith.

Smith said it all started at about 4 a.m. Thursday, when she and her husband heard someone in their home at Kelly Park Apartments on Shipman Road in Havelock. When her husband went to check it out, he found the uninvited Whitney in the shower, Smith told NewsChannel 12.

Police said Smith’s husband and Whitney then got into an argument, before Smith’s husband stabbed Whitney. Smith then called 911.

“[I] was scared really because [Whitney] was in a rage. He was always telling him and other people he was going to kill us,” Smith said.

Police said Whitney left the apartment after he was stabbed. But officers were able to eventually find him by following a blood trail to the area of the Eastwood Apartment Complex. Police said Whitley was still alive but unresponsive. He later died at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville.

Chief Tango sends us our feel good story from Washington State this morning;

“He and a friend of his were in the garage when two men entered the garage with their faces covered and attempted to rob the two of them at gunpoint, “ said Shari Ireton with the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office.

Investigators say that the homeowner’s friend grabbed a gun from his own car and shot one of the suspects. The other suspect ran away.

Neighbors made sure their doors were locked Tuesday night, investigators aren’t sure if the robbery suspect who ran had a weapon.

“I have a kid. It’s a little scary there’s someone still out there,” said Myra Griffith who lives nearby.

Chief Tango sends us our feel good stories for this chilly morning. The first is from North Carolina where Michael Holliday met his reward during his home invasion along with three other playmates who all survived;

Deputies say it started around 7:30 p.m. when four people broke into a home on Abbotts Branch Lane.

A news release says Holliday and Brian Bailey went into the home to rob John Moore of cash and drugs, while two others waited nearby in a getaway vehicle.

Warrants say the suspects were after prescription drugs and cash worth about $200.

Holliday and Bailey pointed a shotgun at Moore, who deputies say pulled out a .22 caliber pistol and demanded they leave his home. Deputies say Holliday was shot, and Bailey ran from the home.

The three were taking the 21-year-old Holliday to the hospital when their vehicle collided with another vehicle on Highway 172 in Hubert. Holliday was taken to Naval Hospital and later died, according to a news release.

The second story comes from SJ and Chief Tango ad it is also from North Carolina where 19-year-old Chris Ludwick survived his second robbery attack in two weeks better than his first, because this time he gunned, bro;

Ludwick said he shot at the men four times with a .22-caliber pistol that his father gave him after the first home invasion on February 7. He was prepared when the men broke down the back door just before 4:30 a.m. Sunday.

“I was sleeping and was woken up to a disturbing outrage,” said Ludwick, “and they came inside my house and started trying to beat me up.”

Ludwick has cuts on his face and four staples in the back of his head from where one of the men grabbed the gun and pistol whipped him after the shooting.

He doesn’t know why he was targeted twice in as many weeks.

“The first time they took a lot of hats and my phone and some of my money, and the second time all they got was my watches,” he said.

Kannapolis police arrested two men shortly after the attack, after Ludwick gave police a description of their car.

Yeah, Chris, you have to up the caliber unless you get more range time and aim for the face with the .22 caliber. Just the sound of a .45 puts most bad guys on the ground.

Marine_7002 sends us our first feel good story to start out the week from Detroit where two homeowners protected themselves and their families from rambunctious youths;

The incident is the second this week involving a homeowner who used a firearm to fend off intruders.

The most recent shooting happened at about 2 a.m. at a home in the 5000 block of Toledo, Detroit Police 3rd Deputy Chief Rodney Johnson said.

“After two men broke into the home, one of the suspects attempted to hit the homeowner with a tire-iron,” Johnson said. “A struggle ensued, and the homeowner managed to shoot both of them.”

A 21-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene of a gunshot wound to the chest, Johnson said. The second suspect, ran away.

On Monday, a woman made national news after she fired at three teens, ages 14, 14 and 15, who broke into her northwest side home. The teens were quickly arrested and charged with home invasion.

You might remember that we wrote about Detroit’s police chief, James Craig earlier when he came out for expanded gun ownership for lawful citizens. He took the opportunity of this incident to remind Detroit;

Craig has repeatedly stressed his belief that the city’s crime rate would be lowered if more responsible citizens were armed, because criminals would think twice about attacking them.

“I’ve said it many times: Good Americans with guns can help deter crime,” Craig said.

The second story, sent by Chief Tango, comes from Houston, where criminals are apparently hard-headed given that a number of these stories are coming out of Houston these days;

According to Harris County Sheriff’s deputies, an unknown number of men backed into the driveway in a white Ford F250 pickup, got out and began to break in through the front door. The 30-year-old homeowner, who was in bed at the time, grabbed his pistol and opened fire. One of the suspects was shot.

The suspects returned fire, spraying the front of the house with an assault rifle. One of the bullets went through a wall and hit the homeowner in the leg. He was airlifted to Memorial Hermann Hospital in stable condition.

Our feel good story this morning to enjoy with your bacon and pancakes is sent by Chief Tango and comes from Ohio;

Police said they responded to a call that several people entered a home and one of the residents was shot.

When police arrived, they found one victim that was shot in the arm, authorities said.

Witnesses said that one of the men who entered the home might have been wounded in the exchange of gunfire between the men and the residents of the home.

Police said area hospitals were notified to be on the lookout for gunshot wounds.

According to police, the intruders were described as three black males between 16 and 25 years old.