Category: Feel Good Stories

From Chicago, Illinois;

It happened when three men, one of whom was armed, forced their way into an apartment in the 5500 block of North Chester Avenue in the O’Hare neighborhood about 11 p.m., Chicago police said in a media notification.

The offenders pistol-whipped two men inside the apartment and demanded their property and money, police said.

In a struggle that followed, one of the victims wrestled a gun away from an offender. While the offenders ran to a black SUV and silver minivan in a nearby alley, the victim fired several shots, possibly wounding an attacker.

From Lexington, Kentucky;

Police say Sunday night, 57-year-old Marcellus Custard broke the glass out of the front door of a home on KY-1842 and was attempting to unlock the door, when the homeowner shot him.

Custard died from his injuries.

Investigators say Custard was the homeowners ex-husband.

Tim sends us a link from Phoenix, Arizona;

According to the Phoenix Police Department, witnesses told officers that the teens had walked into a business in the area and took several items without paying.

Police say the teens were then confronted by a man in the parking lot who asked them to leave the stolen items.

The teens then dropped the items and reportedly started to hit the man.

Police say the man was armed during the assault and fired his weapon, hitting both of the teens.

Their injuries are considered non-life-threatening.

From Lexington, Kentucky;

Officials say a woman in her 40s was home alone when a woman in her 20s came banging on her door, eventually breaking through a window.

Police say the homeowner fired a shot at the intruder.

The woman was taken to UK Hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening, and will likely be charged with breaking and entering.

From Garden City, Idaho;

A Garden City mother told police that she threatened a home intruder with a gun Friday morning— and he fled her house, police said in a release.

Police identified a suspect a short time later, just as he was trying to enter another home nearby. He refused to obey officers’ commands and had to be forcefully taken into custody, police said.

Sage Zumr, 18, was charged with unlawful entry, trespassing and obstructing/delaying police officers.

From Chicago, Illinois;

A man was shot and killed in the parking lot of a Target on the Southwest Side Thursday evening.

According to preliminary reports, a man was shot while attempting to rob another person in the parking lot of the Target near 33rd St. and Damen in the McKinley Park neighborhood around 8 p.m. Thursday.

Police are still on the scene and questioning witnesses. According to early reports, the would-be robbery victim had a concealed carry permit, and fired shots during the robbery attempt. The robber was struck multiple times and transferred to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Tim sends us a link from York County, Maine;

A corrections officer restrained a Standish man who entered his home in what appeared to be drug-induced state of delirium Tuesday afternoon, authorities said.

Anthony Jones, 35, broke through the door to Sean Wilson’s Limington home around 2:30 p.m., York County Sheriff William L. King Jr. said in a statement.

Jones, who was sweating profusely and bleeding from the mouth, told Wilson he was being pursued. But Wilson, who was at home with two of his children, both under age 4, knew something was wrong.

“Jones was rambling about people chasing him and appeared to have excited delirium,” a sign that he was under the influence of some type of drug, King said.

At the time of the intrusion, Wilson was preparing to go to work at the York County Jail and waiting for his three older children to arrive home. Wilson ordered his two children to go to a rear bedroom, then ordered Jones to lie on the floor and remain still, but Jones started walking toward the rear bedroom, where the children were hiding, King said.

Wilson, who is 6-feet 2 inches tall and weighs 330 pounds and played lineman for his high school football team, then wrestled Jones to the floor and called 911 for assistance, King said.

Wilson restrained Jones until deputies from the York County Sheriff’s Office arrived and arrested him on a burglary charge. King said Jones is also wanted for violating his probation stemming from a domestic violence incident in Cumberland County.

From Louisville, Kentucky;

[LMPD] Spokesperson Dwight Mitchell said it happened outside the store at Broadway and 13th Street. A man allegedly tried to rob the Family Dollar, and when officers responded, the suspect ran out of the back of the building with a hand gun.

Mitchell said despite officers’ orders, the suspect refused to lower his gun. He was then shot in the leg.

The man was taken to University Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. No one else was injured.

From Independence, Missouri;

Police were called to the 3400 block of S. Appleton Ave., Thursday afternoon after a homeowner called to report he had shot an intruder in his home.

The suspect was taken to the hospital with injuries not considered serious. It happened shortly after noon Thursday at a home near Winner Rd., and Sterling Ave.

Independence Police spokesperson John Syme said no one at that address had been arrested or charged.

From Glenpool, Oklahoma;

Police say a man entered the store, pointed a gun at the clerk and demanded money from the register. The suspect, identified as 48-year-old Ezell Brown, allegedly threatened to shoot the clerk in the head and knees.

The clerk complied and put the money in a plastic sack, but the clerk knocked the gun out of Brown’s hand as he was giving it to him, according to police. Brown then ran outside the store, but the clerk grabbed a gun and a baseball bat and chased after him.

When police got there, Brown and the clerk were outside the store. Officers then took Brown into custody.

From Tolland, Connecticut;

State troopers from Troop C in Tolland responded to a home on Peter Green Road around 6:40 p.m. Tuesday to investigate a burglary and a resident said he arrived home to find a pickup in his driveway, backed up near the garage.

The homeowner approached the woman sitting in the passenger seat and she said she and the man were lost and looking for directions from the victim’s neighbor, police said.

As the resident was speaking with the woman he heard noise behind him, turned around and saw a middle-age man running toward him with something in his hand, police said.

The victim feared for his safety, pulled a handgun that he carries and shot at the man, who got into the pickup and fled, police said.

No injuries were reported and police said the victim legally owns the handgun.

Police said the back kitchen sliding glass door to the house had been smashed in.

From Yuma, Arizona;

The suspect jumped over three fences while the officer still chasing him. The officer soon lost contact with the suspect while jumping the fences.

The suspect entered a home on Augusta Drive where he was met with the homeowner.

The homeowner was armed with a weapon and a short scuffle ensued. A shot was fired and the suspect was hit but was non-life threatening.

The suspect took the homeowner’s firearm and left the residence with the weapon. The officer heard the gunshot and yelling inside the home leading him to enter to search for the suspect.

As the suspect crossed the street he was apprehended and arrested.

Last week, we talked a bit about 19-year-old Andres Herrera who was killed by a father protecting his family from the thief at Popeye’s in San Antonio, Texas. Now a local real estate broker has come forward and said that he had fired his gun at Herrera and missed when the teen tried to rob a Dollar store a few weeks prior to his ultimate demise.

From Rochester, Minnesota on a slow Thursday morning, a story added just to play TAH Name Scabble. 21-year-old Teekajwok Oman and 21-year-old Ali Gombo were arrested after two home invasions the other night. They are being uncooperative with police who arrested them based on victim descriptions.

From Summerville, South Carolina;

Police say [David Austin] Rutledge came to his ex-girlfriend’s apartment, began banging on the door, kicked in the door and then went inside.

According to the police, the woman’s current boyfriend told investigators that when Rutledge broke in, he grabbed the woman’s gun from the bedside, and fired it one time.

The bullet hit Rutledge in the arm, but police say the boyfriend told them Rutledge continued coming forward, and the two wound up in a physical fight.

Only when the boyfriend began choking Rutledge did he relent, and leave the room, the boyfriend told police.

Rutledge remains hospitalized, and faces arrest once discharged. Police say the boyfriend was injured, but not seriously, and did not want medical treatment.

From Chicago, Illinois;

Shortly after 2 a.m., a 27-year-old man was pulling his vehicle into a back yard lot in the 9100 block of South Blackstone when another male approached and pointed a weapon, according to Chicago Police.

The 27-year-old, who has a concealed carry permit, opened fire, striking the would-be robber in the chest, police said. The suspect was taken in critical condition to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.

From Oak Park, Illinois;

The store manager tells WGN, three men walked into the store, located at 240 Chicago Ave., around 11:30 p.m. Monday.

One of the men had a gun, and he walked to the back of the store — while the others followed.

A store employee shot one of the suspects. He was transported to the hospital.

The two other men fled from the scene — empty-handed. According to the store manager, the men are still on the run.

From Ft Lauderdale, Florida;

A teen who was trying to burglarize a car in Fort Lauderdale was shot by the car’s owner Tuesday morning, police said.

The burglary happened around 5:15 a.m. in the 600 block of Southwest 6th Street, Fort Lauderdale Police said.

Officials said the 16-year-old suspect was burglarizing the vehicle when he was confronted by the car’s owner, who shot him. The teen suffered non-life threatening injuries.

No other information was immediately known.

From Port St Lucie, Florida;

A man who lives in the 600 block of NW Fairhaven Drive told police he heard something coming from the family shed and went out to investigate.

When he got outside, Jorge Lopes, 42, came out of the shed with a drill above his head as if he was going to attack the homeowner, police said.

The victim said he drew his firearm and told Lopes to lay on the ground. Lopes did so and the victim held him at gunpoint until police arrived.

Reason 1 to stay out of the UK;

A 72-year-old man who shot dead a burglar he caught breaking into his caravan in the middle of the night was today jailed for illegally owning the shotgun without a licence.

Reuben Gregory told police who arrived in woodland near Heathrow airport and found Wayne Digby’s body that he ‘was the one that did it, mate’.

The pensioner was initially arrested on suspicion of murder but later released and told he would not be prosecuted for the death of Digby, 48.

Digby was caught trying to remove the door from his caravan and armed with a meat-tendering hammer and a makeshift Molotov cocktail fire bomb.

Later Mr Gregory was charged with possessing a firearm without a certificate – an offence he admitted in court last September.

He was today jailed for 10 months, with the final half of his sentence to be served on licence, Judge Paul Dugale said.

From Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;

Police were called to the scene of the home in the 2700 block of Veteran Street shortly after 2:30 a.m. for a reported home invasion.

According to police, someone inside of the home fired a shot at the intruders. The shot did not hit anyone, but sources told Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 that a woman was taken to the hospital with an unrelated injury.

That woman was later taken to jail. Details surrounding her charges have not yet been released.

From Nashville, Tennessee;

A suspect in an alleged attempted robbery was reportedly shot by the victim.

Authorities responded to the shooting at the Extended Stay Hotel in the 2500 block of Elm Hill Pike on Sunday.

A preliminary investigation showed the suspect pulled out a gun to rob the victim, but the victim then grabbed his gun and fired multiple rounds.

The suspect was shot and taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center with critical injuries.

Police confirmed weapons were recovered from both the suspect and the victim.