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Category: Feel Good Stories

  • Saturday feel good story

    Chief Tango sends us links to today’s feel good story from the Florida panhandle. Apparently Ricky Taylor and Teresa Sunday thought a homeowner had too much stuff and they tried to relieve him of some of it. The homeowner caught them in the act;

    The homeowner held the suspects at gunpoint while he called the Sheriff’s Office. As he was speaking with dispatchers, one of the suspects, identified at Ricky Taylor, lunged toward him. The homeowner fired a .38 caliber revolver, striking Taylor in the leg. Taylor was alert and conscious when he was transferred to LifeFlight to be airlifted to Baptist Hospital in Pensacola. His injuries did not appear life threatening.

    The female suspect, identified as Teresa Sunday, received a minor injury on her face from a ricochet; she was taken into custody at the scene by the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office.

    Taylor and Sunday are being charged with battery, property damage criminal mischief, burglary and larceny. Sunday was being held without bond early Saturday morning in the Escambia County Jail, while Taylor remained hospitalized.

    The homeowner was not injured, and no charges have been filed against him.

    I don’t know about you, but I feel better.

  • Friday feel good story

    A woman in Toledo, OH confronted a man who was trying to force his way into her house, according to ABC13;

    “I screamed as loud as I could, ‘get off my porch. I have a gun. I will shoot you.’ And he stayed at the door,” explained Collins. “I’m like, ‘Get off my porch. I have a gun. I will shoot you.’ He didn’t move, so I opened the door and there he was standing 5 inches from the barrel of a loaded .357.”

    Toledo Police arrested Kyle Caldwell, who’s 31 and from Temperance, Michigan.

    Collins says she didn’t shoot him after what happened not far away on Douglas last month.

    A homeowner there shot and killed a 24-year-old who was also attempting to get inside.

    Instead of spending the night in the hospital, or worse, Caldwell is spending the night in jail.

    Betty Collins says that she has had things stolen out of her car in the past, and that she’d had enough. her boyfriend said that if he had been home, he’d have shot Caldwell, so everyone was lucky all around.

    Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.

  • Wednesday feel good story

    In Houston a young man was attacked by 3 strong arm burglars who shut him in a closet. Unfortunately for them, the closet they put him in was where the victim’s father stored his guns. According to KHOU11;

    The victim got out of the closet, grabbed a gun and confronted the robbers.

    “There was a gun battle inside the home,” HPD Sgt. Jerri Brandon said.

    The suspect missed. The victim didn’t. He shot the suspect twice, once in the leg and once in the neck.

    The wounded robber ran to a nearby home where he collapsed, crying for help in Spanish. That’s where Craig Gaddis found him.

    “The owner, thank God for rights, he shot one of ‘em. And that’s as far as the guy got, collapsed on the concrete there,” Craig Gaddis said. “You know, amen, we got one of them.”

    Go to the link for the video.

  • Mothers’ Day feel good story

    Chief Tango sends us links to the story of a Michigan caregiver, who after discovering that his grandmother’s home had been burglarized, decided that he should stay with her with his rifle. The burglar struck again and the grandson fired once and missed the intruder;

    The man said he looked out and saw a car in the driveway occupied by a female in the passenger seat. He stated that while attempting to get the license plate number, the driver, who was also the suspected intruder, attempted to hit him with the car, so he fired more shots.

    Police said the suspect, who was struck this time, managed to get away and drove to an area hospital.

    Investigators tell WNEM.com that the suspect is a fugitive parole absconder.

    From another link;

    [Buena Vista police Sgt. Greg] Klecker said he expects the man to face charges of first-degree home invasion and said the prosecutor’s office will have to “review the timeline of events” to determine if charges will be filed against the caregiver.

    “We questioned him Sunday,” Klecker said, adding the shooter is not being detained. “He is being fully cooperative.”

  • Thursday feel good story

    Chief Tango sends us a link to the story which unfolded in Warrenton, Oregon when a woman’s estranged husband broke into her house where she lived with her three kids. The ex- was armed, and unfortunately for him, so was she;

    Police say the suspect walked into the upstairs apartment armed with a gun, prompting the family to barricade themselves in a back bedroom and call 911.

    For several tense minutes, police say the victims, a 43-year-old woman and three teenagers, stayed on the line with 911 dispatchers while they waited for help to arrive.

    […]

    As officers surrounded the home and assumed their tactical positions, neighbors say they were told to take cover.

    […]

    But before police could make their way into the home, the intruder busted down the door and that’s when police say one of the victims shot the suspect.

    After hearing gunfire, police ran inside and tried to revive the suspect, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.

    Even when the police are right outside your house, you might still need a gun. According to the Daily Astorian, the dead fella, Bruce Ross Rogers, 39, has been arrested for domestic violence in the recent past;

    He was arrested in April by Clatsop County Sheriff’s deputies following an incident on Lyngstad Heights Lane in Astoria. A woman called 911 around 3:30 p.m. to report her boyfriend had attacked her and was refusing to leave. Rogers was arrested around 7 p.m., charged with fourth-degree assault, coercion, second-degree criminal mischief, interfering with making a police report and strangulation. He was booked into the Clatsop County Jail.

  • Tuesday feel good story

    Chief Tango sends us a link to the story of a shop owner in Alabama who was forced to shoot a man who held a shot gun to the owner’s head while the thief attempted to rob him;

    “He had a shot gun and held it to my head. I saw my life passing by and I thought I wasn’t going to see my kids anymore. That’s why I got really angry. That’s why I went after him,” he said.

    But he didn’t just go after the suspected robber, the owner grabbed his own gun and fired a shot.

    “He then followed the suspect out of the store and as that suspect got into a white charger he fired a couple more shots at the white charger,” said Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran.

    “That’s the second time I’ve shot a gun ever in my life and I couldn’t believe that I hit him,” said the owner.

    Several minutes later, the cops found 34-year-old Charles Steele with a center-mass bullet wound and hauled him off to the hospital to get him well enough to survive jail on a 1st degree robbery charge. Steele’s excuse was that he was laid off from work a few weeks before, so, I guess he felt he deserved that which someone else had earned.

  • Wednesday feel good story

    Chief Tango sends us a link from Midland, Texas where the McDaniel and Pompa families were arguing about something and the cDaniels went in their house to avoid further confrontation. Mr. Pompa wasn’t able to let it go and broke into the McDaniel house wielding a baseball bat. 19-year-old Jonathan McDaniel then shot Mr. Pompa in the chest, ending the argument;

    Police said they haven’t made any arrests because the person who pulled the trigger was trying to protect himself and others inside this home.

    […]

    he shooting is being investigated as a homicide but no charges have been filed.

    “It just means that somebody has caused the death of another person,” [Sgt. Greg McCright, with the Midland Police Dept.] said. “That doesn’t mean necessarily that there’s anything criminal with it, it doesn’t mean there’s not. It’s neutral on that.”

    The lessons of the encounter are obvious and no one needs me to state the obvious.

  • Today’s Feel-Good Story – With A Twist

    A man in Millcreek, UT, once again demonstrated the benefits of an armed citizenry yesterday. But this incident was a bit different from the norm.

    Kent Hendrix was awakened yesterday by his son pounding on his bedroom door. His son advised him that someone was being mugged outside.

    As a good citizen, Hendrix threw on some clothes. He then grabbed a weapon and wen to assist.  Several other neighbors did so as well.

    There was indeed an altercation in progress. A woman – a neighbor of Hendrix’s – was being assaulted by a male acquaintance.  Hendrix intervened, drawing his weapon.

    Hendrix’s weapon was a bit unusual, though: a samurai sword (katana) with a 29″ blade.  Seems Hendrix is a martial-arts instructor and trains with swords regularly. He reportedly owned this particular sword for 20 years and keeps it by his bed at night.  He’d grabbed it as he was leaving his bedroom.

    The man reportedly was stunned when he saw Hendrix draw his sword and come towards him. (No word on whether or not he wet himself.) The attacker immediately fled, dropping a Chap-Stick as he did so.

    Hendrix was barefoot, and thus unable to catch the attacker. But he recovered the Chap-Stick, and got close enough to get the license plate number of the attacker’s car as he drove off.

    The attacker later turned himself in to local police.

    Well done, Mr. Hendrix et al. Well done.