Category: Feel Good Stories

Because Monday needs to have more feel good stories, Chief Tango sends us one from Cleveland;

It’s reported that one of the males was in possession of a handgun, the other had a crowbar.

After striking the homeowner in the head with the handgun, police say the suspect tried pulling him out of the vehicle. At that time, police say the homeowner grabbed a handgun from inside the vehicle and fired multiple times.

The suspect, who returned fire and missed, was struck in the torso.

During the shooting, police say the second suspect stole the female victim’s purse and fled the scene.

Chief Tango sends us a story about a young man who turned his life around in Essex, MD as reported in the Baltimore Sun, but this one is a little different from the rest wherein two gentlemen broke into a house, and shot the homeowner in a scuffle;

Lt. Rob McCullough, a county police spokesman, said two armed men broke into the apartment and, in the process, a man in the apartment began to scuffle with one of the suspects. The suspect shot the victim several times, but then the victim picked up some sort of blunt object and struck the suspect in the head with it, killing him instantly, McCullough said. The victim was taken to a hospital in serious but stable condition after the gunshot wounds, McCullough said.

You have to make sure the tools that you take to the job are up to the task at hand. I’m guessing the victim was probably shot with a .22 caliber handgun if he was shot “several times” and still had the wherewithal to clobber the youngster. Regardless, Essex, Maryland is marginally safer tonight.

ADDED: If that one didn’t do it for you, here’s one from Bubblehead Ray about a young man who tried to turn his life around in a Waffle House in Georgia;

Union City police say they were called to the Waffle House on Jonesboro Road just before 2 a.m. Monday.

Officers said a man went into the restaurant waving a pistol and demanding money. Someone inside the restaurant shot the man, police said.

Today’s feel good story comes from Chief Tango and happened in Shreveport, Louisiana. It seems that 24-year-old Malcolm Xavier Fuller was turning his life around, armed with two guns, dressed in black and his face covered when he demanded that the four people he found in their living room give him their money, instead one of the four gave him something he didn’t expect;

Four people were inside the residence when Fuller, who was dressed in all black clothing with his face covered, went inside and demanded they give him money, police say. One of the residents then allegedly shot Fuller.

When police arrived, they found Fuller suffering from gunshot wounds to the upper body. He was taken to LSU Hospital where he later died.

Police say at this time the shooting appears to be justifiable. Detectives will turn their findings over to the District Attorney for review.

The Shreveport Times reports that Fuller had a pretty extensive record of turning his life around stretching back to 2008 – that means his career began when he was 19 years old.

Tim sends us our feel good story to start out our weekend from Phoenix, AZ. A homeowner heard someone kicking in his door;

The 54-year-old homeowner woke up, saw the intruder kicking in his bedroom door and fired multiple shots, according to Phoenix police spokesman Tommy Thompson said.

Thompson said the 32-year-old suspect was hit several times by the gunfire. When officers arrived, the suspect was lying in the hall and a handgun was recovered near him.

The suspect is expected to survive. Thompson said charges are pending his release from the hospital.

The suspect, who was apparently just turning his life around, is expected to survive.

However the homeowner maybe facing charges because, although he had a medical marijuana card, he had too many plants in his house.

“This individual had the proper credentials, but the problem was he has more plants than were allowed by permit,” Thompson said.

Thompson said charges against the homeowner will be submitted to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office for review.

CBS 5 – KPHO

Well, Mark sends us today’s feel good story about the dumbest criminal on the face of the earth. 22-year old Derrick Mosley, walked into the Discount Gun Sales in Hillsboro, Oregon with a baseball bat to rob the place;

Sheriff’s deputies say Mosley walked into Discount Gun Sales on Southwest Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway around 4 p.m. Thursday with a bat in hand and smashed a display case.

But they say when Mosley tried to steal a gun, the store manager simply pulled out his own personal firearm and pointed it straight at the would-be-robber. The manager then yelled some orders at the guy and got him to drop the baseball bat, the gun he had tried to take and a nine-inch long knife he had on him.

When sheriff’s deputies arrived, they found Mosley on the floor being held at gunpoint by the manager.

Yeah, gee, I wonder what Discount Gun Sales sells.

Chief Tango sends today’s feel good story comes from Houston again where 58-year-old Dwayne Dixon was turning his life around in a convenience store;

Norman Ali, the clerk at the store, said that Dixon then pulled out his gun and demanded money. The clerk gave Dixon the money and then pulled out a gun of his own.

“I pulled out my gun and gave him a warning. After that, it took off back and forth shooting,” Ali said.

During the shooting, employees and customers were dogging bullets.

“There was no conversation, there was just gun fire. That’s all it was. The customers hid and that was it,” Ali said.

Ali said he shot Dixon more than once, before the suspect fled the scene in a brown Ford Astrovan. The clerk then followed the suspect.

Dixon ended up crashing into a ditch near the intersection of De Priest and Lucky, police said. He tried to get help from nearby residents demanding that they take him to a hospital.

Dixon even pulled a gun on one person, police said.

Dixon’s record of turning his life around goes back to 1988 and 1990 when he was convicted of aggravated robbery. So, Houston is marginally safer tonight while he tends his wounds.

Chief Tango sends us today’s tale of folks who get their lives turned around. This one is from Indianapolis, happened today at about 2:30 am. ALthough the details are sketchy at this point, but it looks like 31-year-old Joshua Renick was killed during his attempt at a home invasion;

Police responded to a report of gunshots, Wilburn said, and initially discovered a black Chrysler 300 parked in the middle of Naomi Street with no one inside. A homeowner — identified in a police report as Chad Heugel, 28 — then approached police and directed them to his residence, where police found an unresponsive man lying in a hallway.

The IndyStar reports that young Renick had a pretty extensive record of attempting to turn his life around;

About a year ago, on Sept. 9, 2012, Renick allegedly broke into a home in the 5000 block of Rocky Mountain Drive on the Southwestside and stole the homeowner’s son’s cell phone. Renick, at that time, was wanted for criminal confinement and robbery.

Renick also had been convicted of criminal confinement, resisting law enforcement and armed robbery in December 2007, according to the Indiana Department of Corrections database.