Category: Feel Good Stories

Chief Tango sends us today’s feel good story from Alabama in which a youngster decided that an elderly man’s stuff could turn his life around;

Midfield police Sgt. Jesse Bell said an elderly man was asleep in his bed when he heard a noise and went to investigate. He found an intruder in his home and opened fire with a shotgun. The intruder was pronounced dead on the scene.

Authorities have not yet released his name, but said he is believed to be a 34-year-old Midfield man. “Right now our investigation shows they didn’t know each other,” Bell said.

From Fox 6, apparently the homeowner found the guy going through his refrigerator;

Haynes’ neighbor, Eddie Alexander, said Haynes owns two homes across the street from each other in Midfield. Someone kicked in the door to one of the homes this weekend, so Haynes spent Sunday night at his house across the street.

Haynes put up a chime on the outside of the house with the kicked-in door, and spent the night there on Monday. He was woken up by the sound of the bells signalling someone was inside.

Haynes spotted an intruder going through his refrigerator and shot him in the face, his neighbor said.

“I don’t blame him for doing it. He was protecting his property, protecting his home, protecting himself,” Alexander said.

UpNorth sends us a feel good story from Arizona where a youngster took offense at being asked to leave a party and returned with a rifle to fire off a few shots skyward, but then leveled the gun on the festivities;

The man pointed the rifle at partygoers and a 39-year-old partygoer pulled out a handgun and shot the 27 year old before police arrived, Breeden said. The shooter did not try to leave and waited for officers to arrive.

The shooter has been cooperative with investigators, [Glendale Police Department spokeswoman Officer Tracey Breeden] said. He was questioned and released by detectives.

So that’s one that the gun grabbers won’t count as a good guy with a gun stopping a mass shooting because no one got shot except the gunman – but that possibility existed before a good guy with a gun stopped the potential evil-doer. Gun grabbers need four bodies before it counts.

WFIE14 news brings us our feel good story today when Pastor Carl Sanders stopped a store robbery in Evansville, Indiana.

Pastor Carl Sanders tells 14 News he only wanted to buy a Gatorade when he stopped at a local Dollar General store on Friday night. Once he went inside, he got much more than he bargained for.

Authorities say Jermaine Marshall attempted to rob a store clerk at a Dollar General.

Sanders says Marshall appeared to have a gun wrapped in plastic on him.

“He was coming at me saying, ‘Get on the ground,’” said Sanders. “But I couldn’t see what he had.”

Pastor Sanders is able to laugh about it now, but at the time he says he was all business.

“He was telling me to get on the ground,” said Sanders, who decided to fight fire with fire. “That’s when I pulled my weapon and say, ‘No, you get on the ground.’”

Sanders says he told Marshall to put his face on the ground and not to look at him.

“I just told him this is out of love,” said Sanders.

14 News, WFIE, Evansville, Henderson, Owensboro

Stu, Chief Tango and UpNorth send us our feel good story this morning from Dumas, Arkansas (not pronounced the way you might think from this story). Young Tavell Lawson tried to turn his life around from the proceeds he would get from a local pharmiscist;

According to Dumas police, 31-year-old Tavell Lawson entered Meador Pharmacy around 5:30 a.m. Friday wearing a mask and wielding a gun, then demanded money from the pharmacist, who was just opening the store.

The pharmacist initially retreated, but when he could retreat no longer, he pulled his own concealed weapon and shot and killed the masked gunman.

Police say the pharmacist is a concealed-carry permit holder.

In California, in another link sent to us by Chief Tango, Herb Pearce took out a bank robber with his bare hands when young Jacob Williams tried to hold up a bank with his finger;

Pearce said the man claimed to have a gun and pointed it right at him.

“He had his hand in the plastic bag,” he said.

Pearce then grabbed the suspect’s arm and called his bluff.

“Pow! I clocked him. He went back a little bit, he came at me again, I hit him again,” he said.

Police said 29-year-old suspect Jacob Williams was not armed and was arrested on the spot.

Mr Pearce currently is being treated for a broken hand that Mr Williams pummeled with his face.

UpNorth sends us the first of our feel good stories for today from Arizona where a homeowner came home from work as a security guard and found his light on, he grabbed his gun and went to investigate;

Once inside the home, the homeowner encountered 22-year-old Aaron Fisher, who had broken into the home.

The homeowner opened fire on the suspect, firing one shot and hitting him.

The homeowner then fled to a neighbor’s home to call 911 for help.

The 9-1-1 call is in this video;

The second story is sent to us by Chief Tango and comes from Portsmouth, Ohio when Keith Richards (no, another one) was interrupted by a gun shot wound while he was turning his life around.

Family members of the deceased homeowner say the home was also broken into the night before, so they had someone at the house Sunday, keeping an eye on it.

They say Richards was crawling through a window at the home, when a family member told him to leave. When he didn’t, the family member shot him.

Police say they searched Richards’ home on Monday and found items that had been stolen recently from other homes in the area.

Richards was taken off life support by supportive family members and reached his expiration date soon afterwards.

Kendra St. Clair was one of our first feel good story heroes about a year ago – she is a twelve-year-old in Tulsa, OK who shot an intruder in her home when she was cornered in her closet. World News Now reports that Kendra was honored as Oklahoma’s 911 Hero of the Year.

Congratulations to Kendra and thanks to Chief Tango for the link.

Chief Tango sends us two feel good stories to get us through this hump day (Mike, Mike, Mike), the first from Tulsa when a man returning from a brisk Fall walk, noticed a disturbance in his home;

After a nice cool walk down South Columbia Avenue, Charles Sweeny realized something wasn’t right at home.

“My own mental alarm was going off because that drawer is always closed and it’s open,” said Sweeny.

He said he just walked back into his home and saw his mother’s old dresser had been opened.

“It didn’t come open by itself,” he said.

He picked up his gun on the way to that bedroom when he saw the burglar standing in the hallway.

“I quickly noticed someone standing in the entrance way to my bedroom. I just simply reacted, finger went on the trigger, clicked off the safety and I shot him three times,” Sweeny told FOX23’s Dontaye Carter.

Sweeny walked the news station around his home to show me how the man, police are not identifying, escaped.

“He made his escape by pushing my window unit out the window,” He said. “Taking a 12-foot high dive out my bedroom window.”

Another short story from Erie, PA;

Police say the victim was one of two or possibly three masked men suspected of breaking into a west side apartment Monday night. Police say a resident in the apartment opened fire.

A second suspect was also shot. He is undergoing treatment at UPMC-Hamot.

Police are still looking for a possible third suspect.

They say the residents of the apartment on West 21st Street were not hurt.