Category: Feel Good Stories

E6 type 1 ea. sends the news from Kansas that they’re marginally safer when a homeowner defended his home from invaders with a shotgun;

The Lyon County Sheriff’s Department responded to a shooting about three miles north of Neosho Rapids, just before 4 a.m. Wednesday.

The shooting was the result of a home invasion robbery at 1790 Road X, involving two individuals and the homeowner.

The homeowner, Ron Sleisher, shot and injured one Gary Yowell, 35, of 19 N. Belfry, Council Grove, and held another at gunpoint: Rodney Yowell, 30, of 109 Broadway in Dunlap.

Deputies took Rodney Yowell into custody and he was confined to the Lyon County Jail.

Gary Yowell was shot in the hip and was transported by Lyon County Abulance to Newman Regional Health, and was transferred to Stormont Vail Hospital in Topeka to receive treatment for non-life-threatening injuries. Aside from that, no other injuries have been reported.

Officials with the sheriff’s department said a single shotgun round was fired by the homeowner…

It looks like the Yowell brothers lucked out and Mr. Sleisher wasn’t in the mood to have two lives on his conscience. Good shooting, Mr. Sleisher; here’s hoping you have a long and fruitful life. And the Yowell brothers, not so much.

A Georgia woman was forced to ventilate an intruder in her home office where she was hiding after she saw the stranger outside her home. She fled along with her twins to a crawlspace;

“The perpetrator opens that door. Of course, at that time he’s staring at her, her two children and a .38 revolver,” Chapman told Channel 2’s Kerry Kavanaugh.

The woman then shot him five times, but he survived, Chapman said. He said the woman ran out of bullets but threatened to shoot the intruder if he moved.

“She’s standing over him, and she realizes she’s fired all six rounds. And the guy’s telling her to quit shooting,” Chapman said.

The woman ran to a neighbor’s home with her children. The intruder attempted to flee in his car but crashed into a wooded area and collapsed in a nearby driveway, Chapman said.

So, folks in Logansville, Georgia are marginally safer tonight since the fellow is being restrained by police. He’s lucky that she was only using a .38.

Hack Stone sends this video from Houston about a 15-year-old who defended his home and his 12-year-old sister from home invaders with his father’s AR15 rifle, what some people would call an assault rifle. The news team called his father a “constable”;

I guess it happened a week or so ago. Apparently it got buried in some other things that were on the media’s mind.

Oh, the home invaders fled scene, trailing bodily fluids which led to their arrest.

Yep, no one needs a large capacity magazine for hunting.

Folks in Atlanta are marginally safer today according to a link sent to us by Bubblehead Ray from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution which reports that an intended victim there thwarted two men who tried to rob him;

Police were alerted to the shooting about 10:30 p.m. Monday when a deceased male was dropped off by a private citizen at Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta police spokeswoman Kim Jones said.

“At the same time, Zone 6 officers responded to an attempted robbery at 20 Jackson St.,” Jones said in an e-mail.

“The investigation revealed that the deceased male and another male attempted to rob a subject,” Jones said. “The intended victim pulled his own weapon to defend himself and shot one of the would-be robbers.”

So, the guy who took the poor soul who was ventilated by the not-so-victim to the hospital was also arrested. Two down in Atlanta.

Today’s feel good story comes from the Chronicle-Telegram in northern Ohio and it’s about a burglar by the name of Jeffrey Carson who had apparently robbed the home of Jack Dillon the other night and left a window unlatched so he could make a return visit and finish cleaning out the family. Unfortunately for him, Dillon noticed the unlocked window and was waiting for Carson’s return, sleeping on his couch with a handgun nearby;

The Dillons told police that they were awakened by the sound of Carson in their living room, and when Jack Dillon called out to him, Carson lunged at him. Jack then shot at Carson.

Evans said Carson died because of his gunshot wounds. Carson was lying on the Dillons’ couch, according to a 911 tape, and had stopped breathing but later began coughing before rescue crews arrived.

Eichenlaub has not released any new details of the case.

Carson had a criminal record, including theft and drug convictions, and had pending cases through Lorain County Common Pleas Court.

Carson’s sister, Bobbi Knicely, told The Chronicle-Telegram in an earlier interview that she did not believe that Carson broke into the Dillon’s home and that the couple knew Carson, as he was staying down the street from them.

Dillon plugged Carson five times, apparently finding a way to avoid some of the problems we’ve read about in the past when the burglars survived their encounter with lead injections.

12-year-old Kendra St. Claire was in her family’s home while he mother, Debra, was at work. Suddenly someone started banging on the door and Kendra heard glass shatter. She called her mother, who told the teen to get Debra’s 40 caliber handgun, go to her mother’s closet and call 9-1-1.

The 911 tapes tell the story as it unfolded.

Kendra: “I’m at my house. I’m in my closet. And I ran away from (inaudible) someone’s trying to get into my house and I do not know who they are.” Dispatcher: “Ok I have a deputy en route, I want you to stay on the phone with me. Ok?” Kendra: “Ok. Please. I think they are in the house.”

Kendra had taken shelter in a closet, clutching her mother’s .40 caliber glock gun while she listened to the intruder make his way around her home.

Kendra: “Please help me. Please.” Dispatcher: “Alright, alright. I understand. Do you still have your mom’s gun there?” Kendra: “Yes I do. I have it in my hand.”

Her fear intensified to sheer terror, when she saw the knob of the closet door beginning to turn.

At that point, that for the first time in her life, Kendra fired a gun.

Police said the bullet traveled straight through the closet door and struck 32-year-old Stacey Jones in the shoulder, scaring him out of the house.

Poor, misguided Stacey was found later by the police a few blocks away. They took him to the hospital and he’s awaiting trial and bond has been set at a $1/4 mil.

Excellent shooting, Kendra. Thanks to Tman for the link.

Sorry, I’ve been on the road to and from Bethesda today, so I’m behind on email and I’m catching up. But Hack Stone sends this short, but grin-generating story about a 50-year-old who turned the tables on some teens in Detroit;

A 50-year-old man sitting in his car was allegedly approached by four men who brandished a gun and demanded he get out of the car. Before he could get out of the car, shots were fired.

What they didn’t know is the intended victim had his own gun.

He opened fire on them, killing one of the young men, a 17-year-old. The other suspects ran from the scene.

Police say the 50-year-old man, who was uninjured, has a permit to carry the weapon.

If that doesn’t warm the cockles of your black little hearts today, I don’t know what will.