Category: Feel Good Stories

Good Friday morning; Our stories come from Chief Tango this Valentine’s Day. The first is from Gary, indiana where some foolish children thought they could rob folks at senior citizens’ social club;

E.C. Robinson, 65, a Gary resident, was shot but managed to defend himself and others with his own gun.

“He shot him twice, that is when E.C. started shooting back,” said one witness.

The suspect hid in the bathroom after he was shot until police came and took him into custody.

Sturgis said he hopes the shooting will send a message to the younger people who want to cause trouble from Chicago.

“We’re in Indiana, they [are] from Illinois, they don’t know people got permits to carry guns, so bang bang, that is what happened,” Sturgis said.

I keep telling you not to mess with us old folks. We’ll kill you.

The next story comes from Texas where a store saw folks trying to break into his store while it was closed;

A manager in the store went outside and confronted the suspects, shooting one of them. The other suspect, a 16-year-old, took off running along nearby Greens Bayou, constables said.

One officer caught up to the male and fired a shot, but he was not struck. The suspect was then taken into custody.

The injured suspect was sent to the hospital in stable condition.

So grab your your cup of coffee and sit down here for the stories that make you feel good with best possible outcome of a bad situation. This one comes from my birth place, Escambia County, Florida where 34-year-old Ricky DeWayne Taylor was helping himself to stuff that didn’t belong to him when the actual owner came home;

[35-year-old Teresa Sunday], who was acquainted with the victim, had called him earlier that day to lure him away from the home to meet her at a local pool hall.

The victim held them at gunpoint with a .38 caliber revolver and contacted the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office. As the victim was speaking with dispatchers, Taylor lunged toward him. The homeowner fired a .38 caliber revolver, striking Taylor in the leg and grazing Sunday on the left cheek. Taylor was alert and conscious when he was transferred to LifeFlight to be airlifted to Baptist Hospital in Pensacola. He was charged with burglary, larceny, criminal mischief property damage and battery.

See, the best possible outcome – the bad guy leaves the scene feet first, the good guy is safe and has all of his stuff. Given that the bad guy set the stage, it’s the best possible outcome. You hafta feel good about that.

Our first story this morning comes from Corpus Christi where Dan Caballero was cleared of all charges for the night a few weeks ago when he shot dead 29-year old Dustin Tate when Tate tried to burglarize Mr. Caballero’s home;

It was Dec. 2 when Tate was shot during an attempted burglary at the home of Caballero on Greenbriar and St. Andrews in Country Club Estates. Caballero confronted Tate inside of his home.

“To put aside any rumors or hearsay that he was shot outside the house while being chased down, that’s not correct. What happened was he was shot in Mr. Caballero’s bedroom by Mr. Caballero’s own personal gun, which was a registered gun to him.”

Tate had an extensive criminal history dating back to 2005, including a burglary conviction in 2011.

The second story was sent to us by Chief Tango and occurred in Oklahoma where a man and his wife were attacked by a couple of thug-like creatures;

A family member who did not want to be identified said her cousin answered a knock on the front door. When she opened it, the family member said the men forced their way inside.

Investigators aid the assailants were armed, and they beat the woman’s husband and a male roommate.

Officials said one of the victims was able to grab a gun, and a gun fight ensued.

The roommate was hit in the shoulder, and his arm was broken in the struggle. The husband suffered gunshot wounds to the hip and the leg.

Police said they believe at least two of the criminals were also hit during the shootout.

They’ll show up if they were hit, they’ve been tagged.

Chief Tango sends us our feel good stories to start our morning off right. The first is from Tulsa where a woman heard her daughter’s cries for help;

The woman who owns the house told police the man entered her 19-year-old daughter’s bedroom window. The two got into an argument, and the man began hitting the girl, police believe.

The girl reportedly called out for help, and her mother got a revolver and went into the bedroom, police say. She fired several shots at the 19-year-old man.

An officer at the scene said the two teenagers had dated in the past, but Odom was not able to confirm their relationship.

The homeowner was not arrested.

Odom said the young man was taken to the hospital in critical condition.

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In Hayward, California, a homeowner fended off an assault in his home by three folks;

According to Hayward Police, officers were called to a home located on the 21000 block of Western Boulevard at about 5:30 p.m. and upon arrival, were told by the victim that one of the robbers had been shot inside.

KTVU news has learned that the victim may have known the suspect and the house was involved in another robbery attempt last year, according to Hayward Police.

Police found the shot suspect deceased inside and were told other suspects had fled.

At 5:47 p.m., police dispatch received a call from a local hospital saying that a female had been transported there with multiple gunshot wounds.

Investigators have confirmed that this woman was also part of the attempted robbery attempt.

The third story comes from South Carolina where a 76-year-old Charles “Red” Petit was attacked in his driveway by 25-year-old Robert “JoJo” Deziel who had a stun gun;

Charles “Red” Petit, the homeowner, told Charleston County sheriff’s deputies that he was walking to his vehicle about 6 a.m. when a man attacked him and tried to rob him with a stun gun at his carport.

Petit told deputies he shot at the man three times with a .38-caliber revolver. He had several cuts on his hands, and it appeared he had been punched in the face, according to an incident report.

A deputy found the body of Deziel of Summerville lying face down in front of the carport, according to the report. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

I keep telling you, us old folks will just kill you. Dead. With lots of bullets.

Chief Tango sends us our feel good story today, this time from Dallas, where Muhammad Samaad caught someone fiddling around with his livelihood, a Lincoln Town çar that he uses for a limosine;

“Young guy, gentleman about 5-9, 5-10 working with a crow bar or tie handle trying to get into my window,” Samaad recalled as he shows us the damage to his 2009 Lincoln Town car. “Then he came here to this back window and busted this window and I could hear the noise.”

It was Sunday about 4:45 a.m. Samaad woke up, grabbed his handgun and went outside. Then the guy at his town car jumped in a white sedan a few feet away where someone was waiting and they drove off.

“I fired three shots and hit the car and it looks like I think I might have hit someone in the car,” said Samaad.

Samaad says in the four years he’s had his town car, it’s been vandalized in front of his home six times, costing him about $3000 out of his own pocket as the damage is always less than his deductible.

Muhammad hopes that this incident sends a message to the crooks to quit messing with his ability to earn a living. He also says that he may have hit someone in the car with his gunfire. Maybe that will affect their ability to make their living by preying on folks who work hard.

This feel good story comes from California, believe it or not, where a woman was wakened by her dog;

She looked outside and saw a man in her backyard, another waiting by a car.

Carla wasted no time. Wearing her nightgown, she went outside and fired once toward the ground. Carla says, it was just to scare them off. It worked. The two suspects ran back to a white sedan and drove off.

Carla says she heard one of them screaming, “Crazy b**ch has a gun!!”

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Cortillaen sends us our first feel good story for this morning’s stand to (I know you do it) from Orangeburg, South Carolina where a woman got tired of being thrown and dragged around her house by her boyfriend;

24-year-old Jeremy Scott Williamson “became enraged after looking in his girlfriends’s purse and finding papers where he was listed as a suspect for a crime in another jurisdiction.” After he argued with her about the papers and refused to let her call her mother to come get her, the woman ran out in the yard where Williamson chased her down and attacked.

He dragged her back inside, “hit her on the back of the head and threw her to the floor.”

After hearing the disturbance Williamson’s grandfather entered the room and asked his grandson to stop. When Williamson paused to look at his grandfather, the girlfriend was able to grab a handgun and “[shoot] him in the abdomen.”

Williamson died from the gunshot.

Our second story, sent by Chief Tango, comes from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania where, a not-so-innocent victim thought he was meeting a prostitute in a hotel room, but instead met some folks intent on taking his money, without the happy ending;

The victim, who was not identified, also told officers he has a gun permit and had shot the man who was robbing him, police said. [Mario Rudolpha Shockley, 25] then fired back and hit the victim.

Authorities said the victim had gone to the motel to meet [Brittany Elizabeth Pitts, 23], a prostitute, for sex.

“That individual arrived believing he was arriving there for that purpose,” District Attorney Ed Marsico said. “When he was robbed by the two individuals, the gun was pointed at him.”

Police said they stopped Pitts as she was driving away from the Rodeway Inn and found Shockley hiding in the back of the vehicle.

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Chief Tango sends us our feel good story for this morning, this time from Kansas City where a man temptingly left his car running in his driveway to warm up before his drive. It proved too much of a temptation for four gentlemen;

Police initially reported the incident as a home invasion, however after further investigation, police determined the man was shot when he confronted the would-be thieves.

“[He] heard the car leaving, trying to leave the driveway,” Thomas Tomasic, KCK police officer said. “Suspects had gotten in and tried to steal the car. At that time the homeowner came out confronted the suspects. Suspect and homeowner got into a gunfight, shooting at each other.”

Police said the homeowner had left the car engine running.

The two suspects, described as black males, bailed from the four-door silver car in the middle of the street and took off running. Police tried to track them down with their canine unit but had no luck. They were later apprehended in a second-floor apartment at the Legend Oaks Apartment building.