Category: Feel Good Stories

Chief Tango sends us today’s feel good story from Michigan where a youngster decided to turn his life around after a party;

19-year-old Jason Alexander Fornwall, from Novi, reportedly left a party and wandered down the road to the home where the incident took place. We’re told Alexander removed his clothing, cut a screen and let himself into the home.

He then found his way to a bedroom where he woke up a couple. The incident occurred around 1:30 a.m. last Friday night.

The homeowner tackled Alexander to the ground and held him down at gunpoint until police arrived. Alexander has since blamed his behavior on a bad acid trip.

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Chief Tango sends us a link to today’s feel good story about a couple of fellows who tried turn their lives around in a Chinese restaurant in Fayetteville, Georgia;

Police said two masked men entered the back door of the restaurant just before 11 p.m.

The robbers held three employees at gunpoint, but one of those workers also had a gun. Police said the employee shot one of the robbers at least once in the head.

The second robber then returned gunfire, injuring another employee, who was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital in serious condition.

Both robbers got away. Police are checking local hospitals for the wounded robber, who is believed to have suffered critical injuries.

Police said the robbers might be linked to another Chinese restaurant robbery that happened days ago in Fayetteville.

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. . . and then, you read something like this.  And you feel better.

Thanks, Ms. Holidahl.  Thanks.

Chief Tango sends us a twofer today. The first is from El Cajon, California when a 70-year-old man heard someone turning their life around through his bathroom window (cue Joe Cocker), so he went to greet him with his gun;

Lt. Moulton says the two got into a physical fight, and the homeowner fired his gun, hitting the suspect in the leg. The homeowner then rushed to call the police.

When officers arrived, they found the suspect in the bathroom with a single, non-life threatening gunshot wound to the leg. Both men were taken to the hospital: the suspect for the gunshot wound, and the homeowner for observation.

Detectives plan to charge the suspect with burglary, if not other charges.

Under California’s Home Protection Bill of Rights, it is legal to use deadly force to protect your home, so the homeowner will not face any charges.

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The other story comes from Utah when two armed twenty-somethings planned on turning their lives with a homeowner’s “money and drugs” but the homeowner had his own plans;

“As they entered the home, someone from inside the home shot Monte. These individuals fled the residence and Monte was transported to Pioneer Valley Hospital.”

Monte died at the West Valley City hospital on Thursday.

Acting on information developed by South Salt Lake and UPD investigators, detectives located and questioned Gonzales, who told them about the home invasion and shooting, but gave false information and conflicting statements on other facets of the case.

Chief Tango sends us a brief article for your Friday Feel Good Story from Phoenix today.

Phoenix police Sgt. Trent Crump said robbers broke into the Autumn Ridge Apartments near 19th Avenue and Thunderbird Road on Wednesday night.

Police said the two armed suspects entered an apartment and one of the intruders was shot to death. The second intruder fled the scene and police are searching for him.

Police said the resident was not hurt.

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Chief Tango sends us two feel good stories for this Thursday morning, the first is from North Carolina where a store owner was closing up and Joshua Chamberlain (no not that one from Maine, another one) decided to turn his life around;

“My first instinct was just to draw my weapon and fire on him,” said the store owner, who goes by Rocky. “Go home with my family tonight.”

Investigators say in the process of defending the store, the owner accidentally also shot his friend in the stomach.

“I wanted to secure his weapon. At the time I didn’t know my buddy, B, had been shot,” said Rocky. “So I just wanted to make sure this guy was secured and didn’t pose a threat to us.”

Joshua ran out of the store and to a neighboring house and told the folks there he’d been in a car accident, but when the police arrived they immediately noticed that a gun shot wound differs somewhat from a car accident injury. Rocky’s friend is expected to recover.

The other story is from Salem, Oregon where a younger man tried to turn his life around with an elderly couple’s stuff;

On Wednesday morning, John Rose, 82, and his wife Mamie, 83, told detectives they were inside their house on Ward Court Northeast when they heard someone trying to break in.

That’s when John Rose grabbed his gun and shot Garcia-Bonilla, deputies said.

The suspect is expected to recover.

Deputies told FOX 12 that Garcia-Bonilla may have had drugs or alcohol in his system at the time of the alleged crime.

Unfortunately, for Garcia, Mr. Rose is a former cop and teaches a school for private investigators.

Chief Tango sends us our feel good story for today, this time from Racine, Wisconsin where a homeowner had just received a large amount of money in a settlement at work and a home invader, the homeowner’s next door neighbor, thought he deserved part of that money apparently;

Officers responded to the neighborhood just before 2 a.m. Tuesday in reference to someone being shot. At about the same time, dispatch received a call for a report of a home invasion — and the victim reported he fired shots at the suspect.

Racine police say an armed intruder walked into the home, and a resident grabbed a shotgun and fired.

FOX6 News has learned the suspect lives next door to the homeowner. After the incident, he reportedly limped home, and his wife called 911.

Neighbors say the man hasn’t lived in the area long. Sources say he was released from jail in May, acquitted in the 2007 drive-by murder of 12-year-old Marize Jones.

Chief Tango sends us today’s feel good story from Fort Wayne in which a homeowner, reportedly a Vietnam veteran, turned another youngster’s life around;

Officers say they found a victim lying outside of the home suffering from an apparent gunshot wound.

He was pronounced dead shortly afterwards.

Police believe the victim attempted to break into the home, but they say the homeowner armed himself and shot and killed him.

The homeowner was not injured in the incident.