Category: Feel Good Stories

Chief Tango sends us a link to a local news story in Ohio in which a 72-year-old woman shot an intruder, Alex Melton, 26, of Youngstown, who may have been doped up, and then held him at gunpoint until police arrived to scoop him up and take him to jail;

According to police reports, the woman called police just after 8 p.m. Wednesday saying a man broke in and she had him at gunpoint.

When police arrived, they noticed a window on the front porch had been broken out.

When they went inside the home, they found Melton laying on the kitchen floor with blood on him. Police said it appeared he was under the influence of some type of narcotic, and they found a crack pipe in his pocket.

The woman was sitting on the living room couch with a revolver sitting next to her.

The woman told police she had heard her front door rattle and saw a shadow walk past the front window on the porch. She said she then heard banging on the window and glass break before seeing the suspect enter.

She went to her bedroom, got her gun and began to yell at the suspect to leave. She told police she yelled, “you broke into the wrong house” and “I will kill you.”

She said he began advancing toward her in a threatening manner, so she said she pulled the trigger and her gun misfired.

Luckily, the next round fired, and the woman lived to see the police arrive. The police determined that she didn’t hit the intruder with that single round, but that his injuries resulted from his forced entry into the lady’s house. Regardless, if she didn’t have the gun (that we’re told we don’t need) she might not have been around long enough to tell this tale.

Dusty sends us a link on our Facebook page about a woman in North Carolina who stayed home from work yesterday morning when at about 11 AM she heard someone force her door open. She went and hid in the closet with a cellphone and a handgun;

The men ransacked the house, and when they opened the closet door, she fired at them, Griffin said. One man was struck, authorities said.

The men fled, and neighbor Wayne Crumpler said he heard them yelling for help.

“I heard somebody out at the road. He was hollering, ‘Help me,’ waving his arms, jumping up and down trying to stop traffic,” Crumpler said. “There was another guy in the background. I heard him hollering, ‘Help me. I’ve been shot in the chest. I’m dying.’”

The wounded man then started toward Crumpler’s house.

“He started in this direction. I stepped inside and got my revolver,” he said. “I told him to hold it.”

The man then ran into the woods, Crumpler said.

It’s a real fairytale ending isn’t it? Michael Daquarius Bynum, 16 is in jail the same fate awaits his accomplice, Christopher Devonte Joseph, 18, when he gets out of the hospital. The police say the lady doesn’t face any charges.

Crumpler said he was glad she was able to defend herself.

“She was lucky she knew how to use a handgun and lucky she had it. Because If she hadn’t, we might be going to a funeral,” he said. “I’m proud of her.”

Tman sends a link to the story about rambunctious teens who just happened to steal their parents’ truck, 17 guns and 2,000 rounds of ammunition and took off on a lark, until they got to Maypearl, Texas;

On Wednesday afternoon, a homeowner in Maypearl — 35 miles south of Dallas and some 240 miles south of Bethel Acres — noticed someone was trying to open her back door. She looked out the window and saw a camouflage-clad armed man.

Her husband yelled and retrieved a gun. Two suspects darted from behind the house and ran toward a field, firing at the home as they fled. The husband shot back and may have hit one of the suspects, Ellis County Sheriff Johnny Brown said. The woman called 911.

Sheriff’s deputies found one suspect dead in the field and the other inside the stolen pickup truck. Both appeared to have died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds, the sheriff’s department said. No one else was hurt.

Of course, the father of one teen says that the son he knew wouldn’t have done any of that. I guess that that explains how the teen got his hands on 17 guns and a couple of thousand rounds of ammunition.

Chief Tango sends us our feel good story for today when an Alabama homeowner took up arms against an intruder and the good guy walks away. Too many good quotes in this article to leave much out;

“Your home is your castle, you can only retreat so far as your home,” [Assistant Chief Jamie Smith] said.

“I’m sure at the time he felt he was in danger so he took what action he thought he needed to take at the time to protect himself… You can back away from anything but home is as far backwards as you can go. At what point do you leave your house to let them have it?

“If that’s even a question, and in my mind, it wouldn’t be,” he said.

Investigators said the homeowner fired just one shot with his shotgun, and Smith said he is sure this will be viewed as a victory for people in the pro-gun crowd.

“Things like this probably happen everyday and fortunately it doesn’t happen everyday in our county or neighborhood. I’m a supporter of the second amendment and you do what you’ve got to do and you use what tools are necessary,” Smith said.

From another link;

The unidentified homeowner and another man were in the home Tuesday night checking the property when a third man allegedly broke into the home.

The homeowner shot the intruder once in the abdominal area. The man was later pronounced dead at the scene when medics arrived on scene.

Smith said the homeowner called 911 seeking assistance and waited outside for police to arrive.

Smith said officers found the victim in the home’s basement.

In Spokane, Washington, Marshall Balduff was shot dead as he crawled through a doggie door to get at his girlfriend and children in a neighbor’s hoouse;

Officers said that Balduff crawled through a doggie door to get into the home and was shot in the chest. Blackmore said she was inside the house when her boyfriend tried coming inside the house.

“He said ‘we can do this the easy way or we can do this the hard way, either way I’m coming inside and I’m going to get you,’” said Blackmore.

She said that is when she ran into the living room to hide. Blackmore said that the homeowner fired and shot Balduff as soon as he came inside the house.

Thanks to UpNorth for the link.