Stephen sends us a link to our first feel good story this morning, this time from Allentown, Pennsylvania where a fellow encountered some rambunctious youths;
The east Allentown man who shot a robber to death Wednesday night was first pistol-whipped by three robbers acting together, a neighbor said Thursday.
And when the resident of 655 Westminster St. pulled a gun in self-defense, one of the robbers fired at the resident, a man in his 50s, said the neighbor, recounting what the resident told him.
“I heard the pop, pop, pop, pop, pop,” neighbor Thomas Hoffman said. “They were shooting at each other.
“I went outside and I didn’t see anyone else but my neighbor. His left eye was all puffed up. He said, ‘Call the cops. I just shot somebody.’ “
So this morning’s feel good story comes from Georgia, where a gentleman tried to turn his life around with another man’s recreation vehicle;
The 67-year-old resident of Auburn told Barrow County sheriff’s deputies that at about 3:30 a.m. Saturday he awoke upon hearing the alarm go off in a camper in his yard.
The man told the officer he got his 16-gauge shotgun and went to the trailer, where he confronted the burglar climbing out of a window.
When the man got outside, the homeowner “ordered him to freeze. When the suspect ran, (the victim) fired three shots from his shotgun at the suspect.”
The homeowner told the deputy he thinks one shot hit the suspect because he started screaming as he ran and disappeared into a wooded area, according to the report.
My favorite kinds of targets; pop-up, running, screaming targets.
Tim sends us a link to an article from Connecticut, where the criminals are really low rent, I guess. Dude stuck up a Mobil station clerk with a fork;
Police say the clerk reported that a lone suspect entered store wielding the utensil just before 2:30 a.m. The suspect fled on foot after procuring an undetermined amount of money from the register. He was described as a white man with a scruffy beard, wearing a white hat with a green brim, a blue jacket, blue jeans and work boots. He was also described as enjoying food.
The Bristol Police Department is searching for a break in the case so if anybody has seen a suspicious looking man holding a fork, don’t be [a] hero.
Good thing that Connecticut passed all of those gun laws last year, huh? The clerk should bring a spork to work to fend off the next flatware-armed thief.
Well, to make this a “feel good story”, Tim also sends us an article from Surprise, Arizona where a jewelry store clerk ended a robbery with his handgun;
Officers said three men walked into a store in the 13700 block of West Bell Road shortly after 3 p.m.
They displayed a weapon and told the employee that they were there to rob the store, according to police.
The clerk then pulled his own gun, which scared off the men, officers said.
No shots were fired and nothing was stolen.
The would-be robbers remain at large.
Just look for three fellows with large brown stains on the seat of their trousers.
So, let’s get this work week started with another link from Chief Tango about a Houston story, where a home invasion began but ended differently than the perpetrators had planned;
The homeowner said he woke up when he heard a window smash in his home on Dennis and Sampson.
Investigators said the homeowner shot the suspect as he was breaking in through the front door window. The robber was hit in the abdomen.
The injured man then tried to lunge at the homeowner, according to police.
The man fired a second time, hitting him in the hand.
The accused robber was taken to the hospital in serious condition.
Chief Tango sends us our feel good story this morning from Saint Louis when a youngster tried to turn his life around with the contents of someone else’s wallet;
A man contacted police to report that he and a friend were held up at gunpoint at that location. The victim said the would-be robber approached, pulled out a handgun, and declared a robbery.
A struggle ensued, and the robbery target pulled out a gun of his own and shot the suspect in his legs, chest, face and arm.
Two other people dropped the suspect off at a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Stu sends us another one from Arkansas, but it’s behind a pay wall;
Jack Bosnick was shot dead Friday night at the residence at 314 S. Benton St. that he was accused of breaking into the night before. Chidester is about 14 miles northwest of Camden.
An incident report released Monday said Chidester Police Chief Jarrod Purifoy contacted the sheriff’s office for backup at the Chidester home after resident Frances Hannah told police she had shot Bosnick.
Lt. Cedric D. Gregory and deputies Chris and Gill David Harcrow responded, along with emergency medical personnel.
Once Gregory arrived, Purifoy led him to Bosnick’s body on the front porch, where he was positioned with his upper torso resting on the seat of a chair. Blood trailed from the front door to where Bosnick’s body lay on the porch.
Just 24 hours earlier, police were dispatched to the home when Hannah said she shot at Bosnick after coming home and finding him rummaging through her kitchen drawer for syringes. Hannah told police she believed Bosnick had entered her home through a back door while she was away.
I don’t what was going through his head when he returned for a second attempt. I guess he thought she was out of bullets from the night before.
How about a three-fer. This story from Brian comes from Portland where 38-year-old Joshua McCoy forced his way into a home and confronted the people inside;
But things didn’t go so well from there for the suspect and his pistol-grip shotgun, according to police.
Once inside the home, McCoy encountered a 20-year-old man who lives there. That man grabbed the shotgun from McCoy and shoved him down the stairs.
Police said McCoy hit his head on the way down and was briefly knocked unconscious.
The 20-year-old man and his mother’s boyfriend then maintained watch over the suspect while calling police.
Officers arrived and took McCoy into custody. Before being booked into jail, he had to be taken to a Portland hospital for injuries he suffered during his fall.
Chief Tango sends us our feel good stories for today, the first is from Louisiana where a 63-year-old woman faced a 16-year-old with a shotgun;
It happened around 6:15 p.m. Sunday night at a home in the 3000 block of Morningside Dr. Police say a 16-year-old male, who’s name has not been released, reportedly tried to enter the house armed with a long-barrel shotgun. He demanded money from the homeowner, a 63-year-old woman.
Police say at some point during the ordeal, the homeowner was able to gain access to a handgun she kept secured inside the safe. That’s when she fired several shots at the suspect hitting him in the upper body.
The teen ran from the scene but collapsed in front of a home about 6 houses down the street.
The suspect was taken to University Health Shreveport, where he died shortly after 10 p.m. Police say no charges have been filed against the woman.
The next story comes from Sacramento, California where police are trying to sort out details of the story;
At 4:15 a.m. Monday, officers were called to the complex on Center Parkway near Mack Road by residents saying a man with a gun was trying to break into their unit, say police.
When officers arrived, they found a man identified as the suspect in front of the complex with several gunshot wounds. He was later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.
Yeah, i’m pretty sure he didn’t shoot himself “multiple times”. But who knows.
UpNorth and Wayne send us our feel good story this Monday morning, from Killeen, Texas, Fort Hood’s bedroom. Man’s best friend gave a warning;
The preliminary investigation revealed that resident of the home was woken up out of his sleep by his dog barking and saw someone coming through his bedroom window. He fired one shot then immediately called police.
When police arrived, they found 32 year-old Terry Lee Moon Jr., lying in the backyard of the one-story home with a gunshot wound. The man was transported to Carl R. Darnell Army Medical Center in critical condition where he later died.
The resident of the home was taken to the Killeen City Jail following the incident. After the case was reviewed by the Bell County District Attorney’s Office the resident was released and no charges were filed.
Tim sends us a link to a story about a good guy with a gun at the right place at an Arizona Sears store;
Glendale police said a man and a woman were shoplifting in the Sears store and as they were leaving from the upper level, an unarmed loss prevention officer tried to stop them. The female suspect pulled a gun out and pointed it at the loss prevention officer, according to Glendale police spokesman Sgt. Jay O’Neil.
A 61-year-old Glendale man sitting in a vehicle outside the mall, waiting for his wife in Sears, saw the gun pointed at the loss prevention officer and got out of his vehicle to help. As he was walking toward the suspects, he saw his 64-year-old wife walking out of the store.
“Fearing for the safety of his wife and the loss prevention officer, the male fired his handgun an unknown number of times toward the armed suspect,” O’Neill said.
A witness said one or both of the suspects may have been hit by the bullets. The suspects fled on a black motorcycle.