Category: Feel Good Stories

From Orlando, Florida;

Police are looking into a shooting along Southeast 14th Street this Sunday morning.

They say that an intruder was shot by a homeowner.

The suspect is now being treated at the hospital.

From Ocala, Florida;

A 30-year-old man is in critical condition after he was shot after breaking into his ex-girlfriend’s home early Sunday morning, according to Ocala Police.

Authorities said the man broke into the home and encountered his ex-girlfriend’s adult child, who was armed. The suspect fled toward a bedroom that the woman’s younger children were in, and the adult child shot him.

The suspect then jumped out a second-story window. Officers later located him a few blocks away.

Earlier the same morning, officers were called to the residence when the ex-girlfriend, who is out of town, noticed on her security cameras that the suspect was trying to get inside. When authorities arrived the suspect had fled.

Investigators say the individuals in the case have been involved in previous domestic violence incidents.

The suspect was transported to a local hospital.

From Shaler, Pennsylvania;

Police in Shaler say they are investigating a home invasion in the area of Crest Lane.

Police say two men tried to enter a home around 8 p.m. Friday. A shelter in place recommendation issued by police shortly after 8 p.m. has since been lifted and police say they don’t think the suspects are still in the immediate area.

Police didn’t have much of a description for the men, except to say one was white and the other black and both are possibly in their 30s. Police say one man may have been wearing a hooded sweatshirt and the other wearing a red bandanna.

Trib news partner WPXI-TV is reporting the homeowner may have shot one of the men with a bow and arrow and that two men matching the suspects’ description were seen running toward Sandy Drive.

From Nashville, Tennessee;

Police say store clerk Zane Friend, 58, was confronted by Gonzales and two other masked suspects at about 11:30 p.m. that evening.

Friend was outside smoking a cigarette when Gonzales, armed with a stolen shotgun out of Clarksville, and other masked men ordered him to get back into the store. That’s when police say Friend pulled out a pistol he was carrying and shot Gonzales in the stomach. The other two suspects fled the scene and dropped a starter pistol on their way.

After Gonzales went down, Friend helped citizens who were rendering aid to the suspect before the ambulance got on scene.

Gonzales was taken to Skyline Medical Center and has since been released. Gonzales is being held on a $36,000 bond.

From St Louis, Missouri;

A former Marine catches a group of thieves in the act, and doesn’t let them get away with it. It happened Monday night in the Benton Park West neighborhood.

Luigi Giovanni said he believes one of the thieves jumped the fence and started examining his bikes.

He said he was playing a video game at the time but noticed some movement outdoors on his surveillance cameras.

“Then I just happened to look up and that’s when I saw two guys coming over the fence,” said Giovanni.

Surveillance cameras show what happened next. Luigi said he grabbed his pistol, ran outside and found one of the thieves standing by the fence.

Luigi said he fired first, but then claims the thief returned fire. The video doesn’t clearly show the thief firing back.

“Right there behind the tree. Right when he was standing by the tree is when he fired. He shot real quick and then I shot back at them and he took off,” Giovanni explains.

The episode didn’t stop there. Later Monday night, Luigi discovered his 8×5 trailer, along with a motorized quad bike, was stolen from his driveway.

“I don’t understand why they picked us, why they picked us to do it,’ said Giovanni.

Luigi said his cameras didn’t clearly pick up the trailer being stolen, but he suspects the same group was behind it.

“The quad runner is not very important to me, it’s the trailer that I really value and cherish,” he said.

Cherished because the trailer was a gift from his dying uncle.

From Chicago, Illinois;

Prosecutors said a Hanover Park man entered the family room through an unlocked screen door on Sunday, ran through the house and brandished a large butcher knife.

When he held the knife near an 85-year-old woman, the woman’s 60-year-old daughter grabbed her mother’s walker and began striking him, prompting him to flee, Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney Jennifer Gates said in court Tuesday. The older woman had been using the walker since a recent hospitalization, Gates said.

The suspect, 44-year-old Gregorio Salgado, was taken into custody outside the home, where he resisted being handcuffed and was found with more than a gram of cocaine, Gates said.

Salgado was charged with home invasion, possession of a controlled substance and resisting arrest, prosecutors said, and his bond was set on Tuesday at $750,000.

Gates said Salgado has previous felony convictions for aggravated battery and drug possession.

From Memphis, Tennessee;

A suspect was shot during an attempted carjacking in Orange Mound.

Memphis police responded to a shooting call in the 1400 block of Trezevant in near McDonalds.

Police said four men attempted to rob a victim, but the victim then shot one of the suspects.

All four suspects then fled the scene.

The suspect that was shot was transported to the hospital in non-critical condition.

MPD said the four suspects fled the scene in a black Infiniti.

Moments later, a black Infiniti arrived at in the 2900 block Lamar with a gunshot wound.

From Springfield, Missouri;

A man who was attempting to break into an apartment was shot overnight.

Lt. David Myer of the Springfield Police tells KOLR10 that a man attempted to climb in a window in the apartment complex in the 2800 block of south Nettleton shortly before 2:30 this morning…

That is when someone inside shot the suspect. The suspect has non life threatening injuries and it is believed that the suspect and homeowner knew each other.

From Lake Worth, Florida;

The homeowner said he saw [Christopher] Mouassite holding a flashlight on the second floor of his home. He then shot Mouassite to “defend himself as well as his wife and daughter,” a deputy wrote in the report.

When deputies arrived, the homeowner was chasing Mouassite behind his home, according to a sheriff’s office report. Deputies arrested Mouassite when spontaneously he said “It’s all a mistake, I went into the wrong house,” a deputy wrote.

Mouassite had a gunshot wound to his right arm and was taken to JFK Medical Center for treatment. He later was booked into the Palm Beach County Jail and is being held on $30,000 bond.

Deputies said in the report the homeowner was in well-founded fear that Mouassite was inside his home to commit a crime or hurt his family.

Court records show Mouassite was out on bond from a March arrest on drug-related charges.

From Altamonte Springs, Florida;

The victim said she was on her way to her car just before the intrusion, but she turned around when she noticed that she had left her phone at home. She said her 13-year-old son and a female relative were the only ones in the house at the time.

Afraid for her safety, the unarmed victim said she wrestled with one of the men until he dropped the firearm. They eventually ran out of the house, with one firing shots, but missing on his way out. No injuries were reported.

“I noticed that the guy started getting nervous — his fingers getting crazy on the trigger. And I just disarmed it. I just completely took out the magazine from the AK,” the woman said. “They just didn’t know I was going to fight back. That’s what they didn’t know.”

Police in Altamonte Springs, located about 10 miles north of Orlando, arrested Angel Delgado Santiago, 30, and Jorge Montanez, 17, on robbery charges in connection with the invasion, according to WFTV.

From Miami, Florida;

Authorities say a Florida man was fatally shot while trying to rob three people.

The Miami Herald reports that the shooting occurred Saturday night.

Miami police say 24-year-old Francisco Martinez Jr. managed to drive about two blocks away from the scene of the confrontation before losing control and ending up in a yard.

Miami Fire Rescue took Martinez to a nearby trauma center, where he was eventually pronounced dead.

From Springdale, Arkansas because Florida can’t get all of the attention;

Police arrived to find a 21-year-old lying on the sidewalk with multiple gunshot wounds, according to the release. The man was transported to Northwest Medical Center, where he died from his injuries, authorities said.

The person who initially called police about a burglary said he heard someone beating on the door of his apartment and didn’t get an answer when he asked who was there. A male and female then kicked in the door and entered the home, prompting the resident to fire a handgun he was armed with, the release states.

The male collapsed on the sidewalk, while the female reportedly fled in a silver passenger car.

From Trinity, Alabama;

Officers with the Trinity Police Department rushed to the scene. However, Decatur Police detectives are handling the investigation. “The Decatur Police Department was asked to take over the investigation due to a family conflict,” according to Decatur Police spokeswoman Emily Long.

Police say the intruder got his hands on a knife once he made his way inside. He hurt two people.

Someone who lives there was able to shoot the man. Police say that happened during a struggle. At the crime scene, the coroner pronounced the intruder dead.

Morgan County coroner Jeff Chunn is working to identify the dead man. Decatur Police investigators are also trying to determine the man’s ID.

The two people injured at the home were treated at Huntsville Hospital. Their injuries were not a threat to their lives.

From Atlanta, Georgia;

Police say an off-duty officer has fatally shot a man in suburban Atlanta.

Clayton County Police spokeswoman Sgt. Ashanti Marbury told news outlets the officer saw someone firing shots toward another person near a restaurant Sunday afternoon. The officer was working an approved security job at a nearby church.

Police say the initial shooting erupted after a man made an inappropriate comment toward a woman with two other men in the restaurant. An argument ensued outside as the suspect followed them before firing shots, police say.

Marbury says the officer went to confront the suspect, who fired at shot and missed. She says the officer then shot him.

The suspect, whose name wasn’t immediately released, died en route to a hospital.

From Miami, Florida;

A 24-year-old man’s attempt at robbing three people Saturday night ended with him shot dead and his car crashed, cops say.

Miami police identified the man Sunday morning as Francisco Martinez Jr.

Investigators say Martinez was shot when he tried to rob three people at Northwest 22nd Avenue and 28th Street.

His car wound up in a front yard two blocks away, grill-to-porch with a house at 3034 NW 22nd Ave. That’s where police found Martinez when they answered a 10:57 p.m. call about a shot, unconscious man behind the wheel of a crashed car.

Miami Fire Rescue took Martinez in critical condition to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital, where he eventually was pronounced dead.

From Washington, Missouri;

The reporting party told the dispatcher he had fired a gun into the floor as a warning shot to scare away the burglar, police said.
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Officers arrived on the scene and found a broken window and blood. The reporting party told police he had heard someone kicking the window and glass breaking.

At that point, he fired the gun into the floor and the suspect left the scene.

Based on the blood found at the scene, police said it was clear the suspect was cut and bleeding when the window was broken. Officers tracked the blood to the 300 block of Rolling Meadows Lane where it was reported a fight had broken out.
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The suspect from the burglary had been involved in a fight and was taken to Mercy Hospital Washington. Police contacted the man at the hospital.

The man, a 41-year-old Pacific resident, told police he had broken the glass. The man said he was looking for the resident on Rolling Meadows.

When he eventually found who he was looking for, the suspect got into a brief fight. Police said he fell and hit his hand and had to be taken to the hospital.

From Las Vegas, Nevada;

Las Vegas police suspect that the man shot to death Wednesday during a fistfight may have been killed in self-defense.

The man was identified Friday by the Clark County coroner’s office as 44-year-old Scott Anthony Hayse. He was fatally shot in the head on the 1200 block of Melville Drive, and his death was ruled a homicide.

Hayse was working on a car with a friend when the suspected shooter arrived. The men got into a fight for reasons that weren’t immediately clear, and Hayse was shot, police said.

The suspect has been identified and interviewed by Metropolitan Police Department homicide investigators, but was not in custody as of Friday.

“We have discovered evidence that the shooting may be self-defense,” homicide Lt. Ray Spencer told the Review-Journal.

In Fort Dodge, Iowa;

Fifty-one-year-old Richard Remme, of Fort Dodge, told police he was playing with his dog, Balew, on the couch and tossed the dog off his lap. He says when the pit bull-Labrador mix bounded back up, he must have disabled the safety on the gun in his belly band and stepped on the trigger.

The gun fired, striking one of Remme’s legs. He was treated at a hospital and released later that day.

Remme told The Messenger newspaper that Balew is a “big wuss” and lay down beside him and cried because he thought he had done something wrong.

Tim sends a link from Scottsdale, Arizona;

[Sgt. Ben] Hoster said the altercation began in the bathroom at the Third Avenue parking garage when the suspect, identified as 41-year-old Charles Lovin, stole the victim’s property and the two began to fight along Scottsdale Road.

Lovin dropped the stolen items in the median of the road and the victim tried to grab the items, Lovin then assaulted the victim again. That’s when Hoster said the victim produced a knife and stabbed Lovin in self-defense.

Lovin then chased the victim to Indian School Road where Scottsdale PD detained both men. Lovin was taken to a local hospital for treatment and has been arrested for attempted robbery, assault and disorderly conduct.

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