Category: Feel Good Stories

Eggs sends us today’s feel good story from Phoenix when an armed security guard comes home at about 10 o’clock at night to find an uninvited someone turning their life around in his home;

He confronted the 22-year-old suspected burglar as he came out of a bedroom and shot him.

The wounded man was taken to a hospital where he died. His name hasn’t been released.

Martos says the homeowner hasn’t been charged but the case will likely be sent to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office for a review.

I know after awhile these stories get old, but it’s not the individual stories which are news, it’s the number of times that a homeowner defends himself or his family with a firearm in this country and it goes unnoticed by the drive-by media. And you know that these incidents are only the tip of the iceberg of folks defending themselves.

UpNorth & Chief Tango sent us a link to today’s feel good story from Houston about a teen who is the son of a local policeman, was home alone and heard the sounds of someone trying to turn their lives around;

Patmon’s 18-year-old son was home alone when he heard a noise. There were two men pounding on the front door, but he didn’t answer. They then went around to the back of the house.

Patmon said his son called him when the trouble started

“He called me and told me about it,” the homeowner said. “Not long after that, two unknown suspects entered our home without permission.”

The men allegedly forced their way inside, meeting the teen head-on.

“My son, trying to defend his home and himself, he discharged my firearm, striking one of the suspects,” Patmon said.

The shot suspect died inside the home. The second suspect fled the scene.

“This is our home, and he’s my son,” Patmon said. “If I’m not there to protect him, we try to teach our children to do what’s right, and I just thank God that he’s OK.”

“It’s unfortunate that a life was taken, but at the same time, it’s very fortunate that this guy had a way to defend himself,” Warren said.

Chief Tango sends us a link to our feel good story for today, this time it’s from Independence, Missouri where a man went to his father’s house and found that the thieves had turned their lives around by ransacking the home and tearing the copper out of the walls. But the stealthy pair tried to hide in the bushes, just not very well.

He noticed a vehicle, and then saw the suspects in bushes.

The man, who only wanted to be identified as Irvin, ordered them to freeze. He told KCTV5 that the suspects jumped in their vehicle and tried to run him over. He then fired two shots toward the tire, but at least one bullet went through the back window and apparently hit the woman.

“I was trying to incapacitate the car at that point,” Irvin said. “I was trying to shoot out the tires, shoot out a window. That way the cops knew exactly what to look for if they see a brown Oldsmobile on the road with no windows. The adrenaline was flowing.”

The second suspect rushed the injured woman to St. Mary’s Hospital in Blue Springs. After dropping her off, that man, identified in court documents as Michael A. Swatosh, 34, of Butler, MO, fled.

Sarajane sends us today’s feel good story from Indianapolis when a young man tried to turn his life around with his new crowbar;

[The woman who lived there, Jewel Henderson] says that they were asleep and awoke to the sound of someone trying to kick in their back door. The woman said she told her husband to grab his gun because someone was breaking into the house. Her husband went downstairs and found a man standing in their kitchen holding a crowbar.

The man, Jerry Henderson, 44, asked the intruder what he was doing in their home. The man told the couple he had been evicted and he had been told by the landlord to kick them out.

Jewel said Jerry told the man he was lying and ordered him to sit at the kitchen table until the police came.

“I guess the man had a chance to swing the crowbar because my husband shot him,” Jewel said.

There’s a video report at the link.

Chief Tango sends us our feel good story for today, this one from Washington State. A couple of fellows tried to turn their lives around with the property of a business owner who happened to live on his business’ premises;

It happened at Frager Farms, which is located in Frager St. near Meeker St. The owner lives on the property and became aware of something going on in the office of the business that didn’t seem right. He went to the office armed with a shotgun. Inside the office he confronted two men and fired the fatal shot.

We do not yet know if the men were armed. The King County Sherriff’s Office is investigating the incident. Among the questions they need answered is whether deadly force was justified in this incident. Under law, a property owner has the right to defend himself or his property, if he feels his life is in danger.

Yeah, well, if I encounter someone in the dead of night on my property and they don’t belong there, I’m going to assume that my life is in danger rather than wait for one of them to confirm it for me.

Chief Tango sends us a link to today’s feel good story, this time from Orangeburg, SC where Josheul Allen had a disagreement about whether he could turn his life around;

A store clerk told county deputies that around 9 p.m., a man wearing a black mask and carrying a handgun entered the business demanding money. The clerk told the man the store had no money, resulting in the gunman waving the handgun, according to the incident report.

While the gunman waved his weapon around, the clerk snatched his own handgun from nearby and managed to fire off a single round, the report said. The clerk told deputies that he believed his shot may have struck the would-be robber but was uncertain.

Investigators checked the store’s security video footage, which showed a black male wearing a black shirt with a front logo of “I love haters,” a black baseball cap and shorts, according to the report.

Investigators received a phone call from the hospital about a youngster with an extra hole. They determined that the tagged fellow was the one who had stolen a bullet from the store clerk, so they quickly enrolled him their vocational rehab program.

Chief Tango sends us our feel good story for today – this time from Maine, no less. It seems that Christopher Dennison decided that it was time to turn his life around and drove over hill and dale to Richard Duffy’s house back off a dirt road that he had littered with cryptic signs that said “No Trespassing” and “Keep out!”, whatever that means. Anyway, Christopher donned a ski mask (everyone in Maine wears one of those, right?) and invited himself into Mr Duffy’s residence;

Duffy, who lives off state Route 225 in the Foss Hill Lane home with his teenage son, shot Dennison after a brief altercation in the living room about 8 p.m., according to McCausland.

An autopsy showed Dennison died from multiple gunshot wounds. Neither Duffy nor his son, who was home at the time, were injured. McCausland declined to say whether any other people were present at the time of the incident.

Duffy’s home, set well back from a dirt road, is out of view of any other residence. Monday morning, his neighbors pulled a chain across his driveway after feeding his animals, including several pigs and chickens.

Multiple gunshots – I guess that means that Mr Duffy has found the right amount of range time.