Category: Feel Good Stories

  • Tuesday morning feel good stories

    Tuesday morning feel good stories

    From Fresno, California;

    Two burglars were at the wrong house when they tried stealing from a retired Fresno Police officer Sunday afternoon.

    Authorities say it happened at a northwest Fresno at a home on Hughes and Emerson Avenues.

    According to police, the retired officer was coming home from church and had just pulled into his driveway as the two suspects were leaving with a laptop and gardening tools.

    The homeowner then got out of his car to confront one of the men, which quickly led to a physical altercation.

    “At that point, the husband retrieved a firearm that he carried on his person and fired two rounds from his handgun into the ground,” said Fresno Police Lt. David Ramsey.

    Both suspects immediately dropped all of the property and took off towards a canal bank north of Ashlan.

    Police later caught up with one of them.

    Nicholas Orona, 32, was arrested for residential burglary, possession of burglary tools and strong-armed robbery.

    An update to the Bakersfield, California story yesterday;

    An alleged burglar is recovering after he was shot by an elderly man inside a Northeast Bakersfield home over the weekend.

    On Saturday at 12:20 p.m., Bakersfield police responded to reports of shots fired, according to police. Officers arrived to the 2800 block of Mount Vernon Ave, where they found Joshua Zorilla, 29, suffering from a non-life threatening gunshot wound, police said.

    Officers determined Zorilla was shot by an elderly resident during a burglary a few blocks away in the 2400 block of San Pablo Ave.

    Zorilla was transported to a hospital, where his condition is unknown.

    Once he’s released from the hospital, he will be arrested on burglary, parole violation and gang charges, police said.

  • Monday morning feel good stories

    Monday morning feel good stories

    From Bakersfield, California;

    BPD says they got the call at about 12:19 p.m. and responded to the area of San Pablo Ave. and Vassar St. Police say it appears a homeowner in the area shot a man who was allegedly attempting to break into his home.

    Police say the man was struck at least once and was transported to a local hospital. His condition is unknown. It’s unknown if the homeowner suffered any injuries. More details were not immediately available, check back for updates.

    From Elk River, West Virginia;

    According to Police Chief Ron Nierenhausen, upon arrival, officers learned two unknown males had forced entry into the residence and assaulted the occupants inside. A struggle ensued between a resident and one of the intruders, armed with a firearm, which was discharged during the struggle, causing the two intruders to flee the residence prior to police arriving.

    No life-threatening injuries were suffered during the assault. Police are investigating and there is no immediate threat to the public, Nierenhausen said.

    From Haiku, Hawaii;

    Police responded to a report of shots fired at a Haiku home at about 10:35 p.m. Thursday and found three adult victims who said three males wearing hooded sweatshirts entered their home with one of them brandishing a shiny handgun.

    The bandits forced one victim into a bathroom, then walked through the house. A second victim armed himself with an AR-15 rifle and fired a round at the robbers, nearly striking one.

    The three suspects fled, firing four gunshots on the way out.

    No one was hurt during the robbery, police said. One victim reported the suspects took $3,000.

    From San Antonio, Texas;

    Edgar Ramon, 34, was fatally shot while allegedly trying to rob a West Side home, a spokesperson for the medical examiner’s office said.

    Ramon was armed with a rifle when he broke into a home on the 3600 block of West Houston Street before a resident confronted him and shots rang out.

    Ramon died from gunshot wounds at the scene, the medical examiners office said.

    From Lubbock, Texas;

    Police were called to a U-Haul neighborhood dealership at 2520 East 50th St. at around 10:50 a.m. to assist in removing a man from the business premises, according to a Lubbock Police Department news release.

    After the call came in, while police were responding, the man attempted to assault an employee. The man was then shot by that employee.

    Police found out, from the employee, the suspect was causing problems at the business and was acting erratically, according to an LPD report. The suspect then picked up a large rock and threatened to throw it at the employee.

    The employee, fearing for his life, drew his gun from a holster and fired one round into the suspect’s stomach.

    Police arrived to find the suspect still acting erratically. The suspect also told police he was high on meth, according to the report.

  • Sunday morning feel good stories

    Sunday morning feel good stories

    From North Miami, Florida;

    Alexis Quiros says he got the call from a neighbor late Friday afternoon telling him that someone broke into his North Miami home.

    When Quiros arrived home, he said he wanted to make sure the burglar got what was coming to him.

    “Whoever goes in somebody’s house, needs to die,” Quiros said. “You don’t do that.”

    Quiros who told police he confronted and beat a burglar who broke into his North Miami home Friday afternoon. And he didn’t mince words about it.

    “From the upstairs all the way to downstairs he got his (expletive) tore up,” Quiros said.

    Quiros said he arrived home from work and found the burglar in the upstairs of the house. He suspects the thief got into the home by climbing onto the upper portion of the home.

    “I find this dude in the top floor like he own the house,” Quiros told reporters.

    When Quiros confronted him, he said he showed the burglar no mercy and there are blood stains in parts of the home to prove it.

    “Grab him by the head and go to work on him,” Quiros said about the confrontation, adding that he was like “Mike Tyson.”

    From Bountiful, Utah;

    A Utah pawn shop clerk turned the tables on two armed robbers in May when he whipped out his concealed weapon — and police just released video of the deadly encounter.

    Two men walked into Bountiful Pawn on May 4 just before 11 a.m. and demanded the clerk get on the ground, according to police in Bountiful, Utah. The clerk had been wheeling a bicycle out the door when the robbers showed up, video shows.

    One of the two men trained a handgun on the clerk. Meanwhile, the other robber started roving through the shop’s merchandise, surveillance video shows.

    The clerk fled to the pawn shop’s storage room, where he whipped out the concealed gun he had on him, according to police.

    The armed robber followed the clerk, hopping over the bicycle and pointing his gun at the now-armed clerk in the back room. A struggle between the two began, video shows.

    That’s when the clerk opened fire — shooting and killing the would-be robber, police said.

    At that point, the other robber ran off. The attempted robbery lasted mere seconds.

    The attempted robber killed in the incident was Kleydys Arbolaez-Hernandez, a 40-year-old resident of Denver, Colorado, according to police.

  • Saturday morning feel good stories

    Saturday morning feel good stories

    From Memphis, Tennessee;

    A 29-year-old man was shot and killed after making his way into a Hickory Hill apartment Thursday evening.

    Police said the man was an intruder who was shot by the homeowner. The suspect later died of his injuries in the 5900 block of South Little Brook Circle.

    No charges were filed against the homeowner.

    From Desert Hot Springs, California;

    According to the sheriff’s department, the teenager and two other male suspects were trying to enter a home in the 33-000 block of Wallace Way through a backyard window when the homeowner confronted them.

    The homeowner, who was armed with a handgun, opened fire as the trio fled, officials said, adding that the teen was hit in the abdomen.

    Paramedics rushed him to Loma Linda University Medical Center, where he underwent surgery. He remained hospitalized Thursday, in stable condition.

    The teen’s name has not been released.

    Investigators are still looking for two males and a female who are believed to have left the teenager behind the store before they fled.

    From Nashville, Tennessee;

    An 18-year-old has been charged in a criminal complaint. The teen was injured when he was shot by a victim he was reportedly trying to rob at gunpoint.

    On May 10, 18-year-old Gabriel Gonzales and two accomplices attempted to rob the clerk of Chip’s Quick Stop on Whites Creek Pike.

    The clerk was outside the store and reportedly found himself at the end of a shotgun held by Gonzales.

    The clerk was armed and drew his own weapon, firing at Gonzales who was hit. The accomplices fled, and the clerk secured the shotgun and rendered aid to Gonzales until medical crews arrived.

    Gonzales was taken to the hospital where he underwent surgery for the gunshot wound.

    Authorities said it has been determined the shotgun Gonzales was carrying was stolen in Clarksville in April.

    From Hernando, Florida;

    Theodore Antonia Parker, a 60 year old white male, went on a shooting spree Thursday afternoon and was finally shot down by the employee of a smoke shop he was robbing.

    The first shooting took place at 2:36 pm in Hudson at a home on Chestnut Drive where he took several shots at a female victim who he had also physically beaten. Fortunately, the woman was not hit by any of the bullets and her injuries were non life threatening.

    Parker then arrived at a home on Olson Road in Spring Hill where he reportedly shot and killed a man at that location. According to the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office this occurred around 2:43 pm.

    Investigators say that Parker’s next stop was Smokes Smoke and Vapor Shop located at 2993 Commercial Way, Spring Hill- where while attempting to rob the business, he exchanged gunfire with an employee. Both the employee and Parker were shot and Parker succumbed to his injuries. The smoke shop employee remains in critical condition and the investigation is ongoing.

    Parker was DOT at the hospital.

  • Friday morning feel good stories

    Friday morning feel good stories

    In South Fulton, Georgia;

    The victim told police that her ex-boyfriend came to her home on Montilly Place and kicked down her front door. According to investigators, she repeatedly warned him that she was armed and that she would shoot him.

    Police said the man continued into the house and the woman fired three shots, hitting him once in the chest.

    The man was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital in unknown condition.

    Bobo sends a link from some-damn-where in California – this new breed of journalists can’t be bothered with datelines anymore;

    Sergio Hernandez Jr. and his father arrived home around noon Monday to discover a stranger standing in their back yard, he told KGTV.

    The man claimed to be hiding from a dog, but he hopped a fence when Hernandez noticed the window to his father’s bedroom had been opened, he told the station.

    Hernandez chased the man down and brought him back to talk to his father, Sergio Hernandez Sr., who said three rooms in their home had been ransacked and called police, reported The San Diego Union-Tribune.

    When the man tried again to escape, Hernandez – a professional mixed martial arts fighter – threw him to the ground and put him in a triangle choke hold, he told the publication.

    “It took at least five minutes for the cops to show up,” Hernandez told the Union-Tribune. “It may not seem like a long time, but when you’re holding a giant guy who’s trying not go to jail, it feels like forever.”

    A video posted to Instagram shows Hernandez sitting calmly on the ground with his legs locked around the accused burglar’s throat.

    From Houston, Texas;

    Police in southeast Houston are investigating an alleged carjacking that led to an exchange of gunfire and a car crash early Thursday.

    One of three suspects involved was killed while the other two got away, police say.

    Police say a man was carjacked for his pickup in the parking lot of the complex, but when the three suspects went to speed away they went the wrong direction and became trapped. The victim caught up to them on foot and pulled out his gun. The suspects and the victim exchanged gunfire, and one of the suspects was shot.

    The wounded suspect got out and ran to the tollway while the other two fled the scene.

    The suspect collapsed in the roadway and caused an oncoming driver to swerve and crash into a nearby construction zone.

    It happened around 2 a.m. at an apartment complex along Beltway 8 and Pearland Parkway.

    The suspect died at the scene. There were no other injuries reported. Police searched by ground and air but the other two suspects were not located.

    Oh, behave;

    My cousin takes this pervert down for grabbing her ass. He is later arrested in front of his wife and 2 kids when the cops arrived. from r/JusticeServed

  • Thursday morning feel good stories

    Thursday morning feel good stories

    From Houston, Texas;

    Investigators tell Eyewitness News that around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday the woman was standing in the driveway next to the couple’s Suburban when the incident happened.

    The man says he was inside the home when he heard his wife screaming.

    When he went to the window, he saw two men with guns trying to push and drag his wife into the home. Police say he grabbed his pistol, went outside and confronted them.

    He and the suspects exchanged gunfire. One of the suspects was shot. He was taken to the hospital in critical condition.

    Authorities say the suspect is 22-years-old. They have not yet released his name.

    The second gunman got away.

    The homeowner and his wife are okay.

    The homeowner watched too many cop shows and shot the criminal in the head while the criminal was using the homeowner’s wife as a shield

    From Hummelstown, Pennsylvania;

    Two people entered the home through an unlocked back door around 2:30 a.m. The family dog alerted the residents to the intruders, police said.

    A resident confronted the intruders and exchanged gunfire with one of them. Two shots were fired before the intruders fled.

    No one was injured.

  • Wednesday morning feel good stories

    Wednesday morning feel good stories

    From San Antonio, Texas;

    The homeowner told officers he heard a noise at the house on West Houston Street, near Northwest 20th Street, just before 11 p.m.

    He says he grabbed his gun and went to check out the noise when he shot an intruder. The suspect died at the scene.

    Police spent the night talking to several other people in the area who might have witnessed something.

    As of Tuesday morning, investigators said it did not appear the homeowner would be facing any charges, but the incident remained under investigation.

    From Pasadena, Maryland;

    Investigators wrote that the man and woman who live in the home were asleep upstairs when their dog began to bark “excessively,” prompting the man to pick up a pocket knife and go downstairs.

    The man found an intruder naked in the upstairs hallway while wielding a large kitchen knife taken from the home, police wrote, and the two proceeded to fight one another with their knives.

    Both were badly hurt, police wrote, with the resident suffering large cuts to the left side of his neck and “chest/abdomen area.”
    Seven charged in heroin ring, including 2015 Annapolis shooting victim

    The woman tried to assist the man during the fight and suffered a defensive wound to her left palm, police wrote.

    When police arrived, the man told officers that the intruder ran downstairs and out of the house.

    The couple was taken to local hospitals to be treated for their injuries.

    After police began searching for the intruder with K-9 and helicopter support, according to charging documents, investigators found several homes in the area of Pasadena Yacht Yard Road with “blood marks” on the backdoors, indicating he may have tried to break into them.

    Officers said they found Koletty naked and badly injured in a wooded area nearby, behind a home on Jackpine Drive, after receiving a call from a resident, police wrote.

    Investigators said Koletty had lost a large amount of blood from the fight, and a booking photo provided by police shows a large laceration on the left side of his neck along with other wounds.

    Koletty was taken to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he spent two days being treated for his injuries before being released Friday.

    From Fort Worth, Texas;

    The intruders pretended to be Nevada Gaming Commission officers when they attacked a housekeeper and entered the family’s house in the Woodhaven neighborhood.

    “Right when she gets to the door, they say, ‘You’re under arrest” and just grab her,” homeowner Michael Riccubuono told KXAS-TV (NBC5).

    The housekeeper was confronted after returning from the store about 2 p.m. Monday. The intruders told her they had a warrant for her arrest and followed her when she ran inside.

    Riccubuono’s wife, who was in the backyard doing yoga, saw the man and woman assaulting her employee and fled.

    That’s when Benny and Butch [the family dogs] saved the day, chasing the man and woman out of the house.

    “They just … they went into action,” Riccubuono said.

    The couple escaped in a maroon car. Police did not release a detailed description of the car or the suspects. A motive remains unclear, but the homeowner believes it was an attempted robbery.

    Police suspect the intruders targeted the family because Riccubuono sells slot machines to casinos around the world.

    From Durham, North Carolina;

    According to police, officers responded to a shooting and attempted robbery at the Guess Road Mini Mart, located at 2014 Guess Road, around 9:30 p.m. Monday. Once on scene, the employee at the store told police that a man had come into the store and brought a beer up to the front counter. Once at the counter, the suspect then went behind the counter, pulled out a gun and said he was robbing the store.

    According to the employee, he struggled with the suspect — identified as Kevin White, 38 — and grabbed the gun. The employee said he then fired shots when White moved towards him. The suspect ran out of the store before officers got to the scene.

    A few minutes after responding to the call, police found a man matching the suspect’s description lying in front of a house on Hillcrest Street, which police said is just a short distance from the store. The man lying on the ground had been shot int he legs.

    White was taken to the hospital for treatment. Once released, he was taken to the Durham County Jail and charged with attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

    From Raleigh, North Carolina;

    Raleigh police said Monday the young man found dead over the weekend was a robbery suspect.

    A news release said that 21-year-old Derrick Malik Wiley was a suspect in a robbery at the Mini Mart on the 5500 block of Old Wake Forest Road.

    Wiley and an employee exchanged gunfire Saturday, and Wiley was shot in the leg, police said.

    Police found Wiley about two and a half miles from the store.

    The owner of the Mini Mart told CBS 17 Monday afternoon that the incident began when someone outside the store saw a man wearing a mask walking inside, so they called 911.

    Once inside, the suspect pointed a gun at the store clerk, who handed over about $400 in cash, the store owner said.

    The owner says as the suspect ran outside, the clerk followed him out the door and told the suspect that the police were on their way.

    That’s when the suspect shot at the clerk, who then shot back, the store owner said.

  • Tuesday morning feel good stories

    Tuesday morning feel good stories

    AW1Ed sends us a story from Bonsall, California;

    While arguing with the 30-year-old woman inside a van parked on a large rural property, Raymond Rivera, 39, allegedly began punching and choking her and slammed her head against a window, then punched her daughter in the arm when the child tried to intervene, said Lt. Dave Schaller.

    The woman eventually managed to get outside, after which Rivera allegedly chased her around the vehicle and threw a portable air-conditioning unit at her.

    “Fearing a continued attack and while fleeing, the victim produced a pocket knife and stabbed Rivera in the buttocks in self-defense,” the lieutenant said. “This action provided sufficient time to flee on foot and call 911.”

    The mother and daughter then hid in a nearby 40-acre parcel covered by thick chaparral as deputies arrived and caught Rivera as he tried to flee the area on foot, Schaller said.

    The suspect was treated at the scene for his stab wound and then transported to Palomar Medical Center. His girlfriend, whose name was withheld, declined treatment, and the child was unhurt.

    From Mobile, Alabama;

    Mobile Police have confirmed to News 5 a homeowner shot an intruder around 9:00 p.m. Sunday.

    No arrests have been made in the incident, but Mobile Police are continuing their investigation.

    From Ballard, Washington;

    At approximately 4:15 a.m. on Sunday, a Ballard resident was sleeping at a home in the 6700 block of 25th Avenue NW when he heard someone breaking into his house.

    According to the Seattle Police Department, the resident armed himself with a handgun and left his room to find that the intruder had already broken into the mudroom and was trying to gain access to the main house. He then fired a gun through the window of the door and into the mudroom.

    The homeowner called 911 himself and officers responded.

    Ten minutes later, a 35-year-old man with a gunshot wound in his abdomen was dropped off at Swedish Hospital in Ballard and was later transferred to Harborview Medical Center for further treatment.

    A neighbor also reported seeing a dark-colored station wagon driving away from the resident’s house. Officers later located the car several blocks away and observed fresh blood on the inside and outside of it as well as what appeared to be stolen property inside. A man and a woman were standing near the car when it was found and were taken in for questioning.

    The man had an outstanding warrant and was arrested, and the woman was the sister of the man who suffered the gunshot.