Category: Feel Good Stories

From Charleston, South Carolina;

Multiple sources are reporting that four people have been shot — one fatally — following a robbery in the 600 block of Albert Street in Charleston. A police officer was shot, but was uninjured due to a bullet proof vest.

Story is developing. The report came in about 11 p.m. Thursday night, Nov. 16, following a home invasion that involved five intruders — four black, one white. The homeowner escaped.

Three of the intruders were shot, but no word on the seriousness of their injuries or their names.

From Oshkosh, Wisconsin;

An investigator entered the apartment and found blood on the door to the entrance, handrails and steps.

Police located the alleged target of the robbery, who had a gunshot wound on his right forearm. The man told police that he had been watching a movie in his living room when he heard glass breaking in his kitchen. He went to check it out and found a man trying to get into his home.

The man said the suspect demanded money and fired a round at him, hitting him in the wrist. This man said he fired back in self-defense, possibly eight rounds, according to the criminal complaint.

The man told police that he believed he had hit the suspect because the man had fallen back into the stairwell.

The victim said he didn’t know the man who tried to rob him, but that he thought the crime could have something to do with posts he made on Facebook and SnapChat about winning close to $6,000 at the casino.

Cashmiere Hill, the man who was shot, was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead.

From Baltimore, Maryland;

Officers were called to the 6800 block of Sturbridge Drive at about 9 p.m. Thursday in the Hamilton Hills neighborhood, near the Baltimore County line, where a resident said an intruder forced his way into his apartment.

The resident told police the intruder had a knife and demanded money, and he was able to get to a firearm and shot once.

The identity of the victim was not immediately available pending notification of relatives, but police said he was 28 years old.

Police said the shooting is being investigating as a case of self-defense, and has been referred to the State’s Attorney’s Office.

The criminal was DRT (dead right there).

From Cherokee County, Georgia;

A local pastor shot a burglar who was trying to break into his home early Thursday, according to the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office.

When deputies arrived at the house on Sante Fe Trial for a report of a shooting at 2:40 a.m., they located 19-year-old Donavan Simmons suffering from a gunshot wound.

Simmons was lying in the backyard with a gunshot wound to his head. Simmons was transported to a local hospital; his condition is unknown at this time.

According to police, the suspect tried to gain entry into the home through the basement when the homeowner shot in the general direction of the intruder.

There were five people present inside the home at the time of the attempted burglary, including the pastor’s children, aged 6, 7 and 12. None of them were injured.

From Oklahoma City, Oklahoma;

The homeowner told police three armed males, two black and one white, were trying to burglarize the home.

The homeowner fired shots at the burglars but said the gunfire did not appear to hit anyone.

A family of four were in the home at the time of the incident.

No arrests have been made at this time.

From Cleveland, Ohio;

The owner of a Cleveland convenience store and a friend who served time in the Marines fended off a robber by hitting him in the head with a baseball bat and tackling him after he tried to run away, police said.

The duo held the 31-year-old suspected robber on the ground until police arrived and took him into custody, police reports say. The man has not yet been formally charged.

From Ortonville, Michigan;

The man accused of shooting his estranged wife and her friend at an apartment complex in Ortonville, Michigan is behind bars this morning thanks to the quick-thinking action of a resident and law enforcement.

Michael Quigley, 34, was taken into police custody after a resident found him inside his van on Rattlesnake Lane in Ortonville.

The resident, who didn’t want to give his name, said he checked the vehicle on his property and saw the suspect underneath a blanket in the backseat, first becoming suspicious when he noticed the windows were fogged up.

He said he pulled out his gun and got Quigley out of the vehicle, asking him to get on the ground.

“I took my phone, called 911 and within minutes a SWAT team came and took care of him,” he said.

He said Quigley was “very compliant.”

From Gadsden, Florida;

Around 2 a.m. on Sunday, November 12, a man crawled under the bottom of the front door of the Kelly’s Jr. Store #5 in Quincy.

The store was closed, but not empty.

“I was just camping out,” the store owner said.

The store owner opened fire on the suspect. The suspect fired back but the owner was not hurt. The man then jumped the counter and ran out of the store.

“I can’t say nothing. I don’t want to re-live that again,” said the store owner.

The suspect got away without any cash, and without his black hat.

Investigators say the beanie cap was shot off the suspect’s head and landed in a nearby trash can.

“The bullet holes are actually located here and here, an entrance and an exit. It’s a miracle the perpetrator is alive,” said Investigator Thomas Perkins.

Investigators believe the suspect is 32-year-old Andre Kelly. He’s wanted in connection to 14 store burglaries in Gadsden County.

From Cheektowaga, New York;

A suburban Buffalo business owner says he drove his car into a man who had opened fire at a neighboring store, an act of heroism police credit with saving lives.

Mark Pinnavaia (pin-uh-VYE’-uh) says his assistant manager at Daryll’s Car Audio Superstore yelled Tuesday afternoon that someone was shooting outside the Dollar General across the street. Pinnavaia says he saw a man putting his rifle on the ground in between firing at the dollar store.

Pinnavaia says he jumped in his car, drove across a grassy strip and hit the gunman, who flew over the vehicle and landed on the ground. The man got up and ran with Pinnavaia and one of his employees in pursuit.

The man, identified as 29-year-old Travis Green, was caught by police moments later.

From Gilbert, Arizona;

Gilbert police say the incident happened on November 15 at 2:50 p.m. at a 7-Eleven near Cooper and Elliot Roads when the suspect, identified as 27-year-old E’lon Hayes, entered the convenience store, pointed a handgun at the clerk, and demanded money.

Police say the clerk was also armed with a handgun and drew his weapon to defend himself. Hayes then ran outside the store and made another threatening gesture towards the clerk, who followed behind him.

The store clerk then shot Hayes, who was still able to run from the scene. Officers found Hayes in a nearby neighborhood and he was transported to a nearby hospital.

From Johnson County, Kentucky;

It happened Saturday morning in the Leander area.

Gerardo Canuto, 31, is charged with first-degree burglary, possession of burglary tools, alcohol intoxication, and carrying a concealed deadly weapon. Investigators say Canuto is in the country illegally.

The homeowner tells WSAZ that around 5 a.m. Saturday, he came downstairs to find an intruder crawling through his window. The victim lives in the 1500 block of Asa Creek Road.

That victim tells WSAZ he chased the intruder off with his walking stick.

A few hours later, the homeowner found the suspect inside his barn. He isn’t sure if the man was hiding or sleeping, but says he came out from behind the stacks of hay.

The homeowner ordered him to the ground. Then, he and a neighbor held him at gunpoint until deputies could get to the house.

From Houston, Texas;

The gas station clerk caught in a shootout in north Houston is speaking out about the terrifying ordeal.

The shooting happened on West Little York over the weekend.

“He pointed the gun and said, ‘Lay down, lay down.’ I had no idea what they were doing,” Mohammed Kahloon explained.

In the surveillance video, you can see Kahloon open fire on two attempted robbers, even after he was struck in the arm.

We got a chance to see those injuries in person.

“Five on this side, one on the bottom and one on the right side. That’s six and seven,” he said.

That’s not all. In addition to bullet wounds, Kahloon got hit the mouth and had a tooth knocked out.

The suspects got away empty-handed, but one of them, Jarrell Farve, had been shot. He was found in a ditch a short distance away — dead from a gunshot wound.

For your entertainment, I don’t know where or when, but a man shoots a criminal who was running at his wife in his yard in this 20-second video;

From Greebriar, Tennessee;

Officials said a woman went inside her attached garage where she found the suspect, identified as 34-year-old Denver Taylor. She said the suspect told her to be quiet, but instead, she went back inside and told her husband.

Investigators said the resident grabbed his gun, came into the garage, and fired shots at Taylor but apparently missed.

Police said Taylor got into the couple’s car and broke out of the garage, stealing the vehicle and disappearing for about an hour.

Police are still searching for the thief who is believed to have stolen four other cars recently.

From Louisville, Kentucky;

Homeowner Derek Thomas tells WDRB he saw a man going through his truck, so he fired a shot into the air.

Thomas then threatened to use his 150-pound dog named Tank to chase down the suspect if he tried to run.

The man, identified by police as Matthew Conklin, was arrested.

Conklin pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges, trespassing and bribery.

From Clovis, California;

The three Fresno men have been identified as 31-year-old Prince Ash, 29-year-old Eugene Spagner, and 28-year-old Antoinne Simpson.

Officers say the victim’s door was locked, with him in a back bedroom with his wife, and his young daughter was in the living room when the suspects broke in.

Lt. Katy Benham said, “When he heard the door open and obviously came out into the hallway and confronted the suspect that’s when he had recovered his handgun and fired a round.”

Officers believe after he shot one suspect he was hit on top of the head with a handgun before the men took off.

But with the quick response of police officers, they were able to catch two of the suspects speeding away from the scene and found the other bleeding in front of the apartment on the sidewalk.

From Hartford, Connecticut;

The man called police Monday morning after the car was stolen from his driveway as the car was being warmed up.

He went looking for his car and found it on Maple Avenue a short time later.

According to police, as the man approached the car, the teenager behind the wheel pointed a gun at him.

The victim pulled his legal firearm at shot at the teen, who quickly drove away, police said.

A short time later, police received a 911 call about a shooting victim on South Street, which turned out to be the 17-year-old car theft suspect.

The car was recovered on Webster Street.

The teenager is from New Britain and has a criminal history, including an outstanding arrest warrant for auto theft, police said.

There was no word on the teen’s condition.

From Orlando, Florida;

Police say a man got into an argument with security, pulled a gun out and started shooting at the security officer.

According to police, the security officer shot back, hitting the man.

Orlando Police patrol units were in the area at the time of the shooting and responded immediately.

Police say the security officer was not shot and was uninjured. The other man however, was transported to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

At a Houston, Texas gas station, thieves tried to rob an armed clerk or customer;

The shooting began around 8:30 a.m. at the Chevron on West Little York near Domino Lane.

The victim was hit in the gunfire and was rushed to the hospital. We do not know the victim’s condition.

One of the robbery suspects tried to escape in a car, but crashed almost immediately after being shot. He died at the scene, police said.

Two other suspects got away on foot and police are hoping someone might have information on where they went.

From Flint, Michigan;

A shooting victim Saturday night in Flint managed to fire a shot back at his alleged assailant, according to police.

The victim told police he was walking around 9 p.m. Nov. 11 in the 1500 block of Berrywood Lane, between Hargott Avenue and Crestbrook Lane, when he was approached by two males wearing dark clothing.

Words were exchanged between the trio and one of the suspects pulled a handgun out and fired at the victim before fleeing in an unknown direction.

Flint police Detective Tyrone Booth confirmed Sunday afternoon that the victim “did discharge the firearm he was legally carrying” during the incident.

“We only have one victim at this time,” he said.

From Littleton, Colorado;

Police told Denver7’s Jaclyn Allen the off-duty police officer was asleep in the basement but awoke to someone breaking-in to his home. The officer reportedly heard noise upstairs and shot the suspect from the base of the stairs.

Neighbors were concerned about their safety as word about a possible second suspect spread.

The burglar was DOT (dead over there) a few hours later.

From Forsythe County, Georgia;

A little later, about 2.5 miles away on Keith Bridge Road, a second victim reported bumping into a burglar who stole several items, including their Chevy Tahoe.

In that case, the homeowner got off a shotgun blast as the burglar escaped.

From Rochester, New York;

A man doing repairs outside a city home late Friday night shot a man who attempted to rob him at gunpoint, according to police.

Rochester police said the unidentified repairman was approached by a man with a gun outside the Sixth Street home about 10:15 p.m.

During the confrontation, there was an “exchange of gunfire” between the suspect and man, who is a licensed firearm owner, police said.

The suspect was shot at least once in the lower body and ran from the scene on foot, police said. He was later dropped off at Rochester General Hospital, where he is being treated for a non-life-threatening injury, police said.

The man who was doing repairs was not injured.

From Canon City, Colorado;

Cameron Locke, 33, was taken to the hospital on Sunday morning after being shot in the stomach. The injury was not life-threatening and he is expected to be okay.

Detectives believe Locke had broken into a home in the 300 block of Greenwood Avenue in Canon City when he was shot. The homeowner and a man were inside at the time of the break-in. They told officers that they had asked Locke to leave. Locke did not listen, so the man fired his pistol.

Locke is now facing charges of burglary, stalking, violation of a protection order/domestic violence, assault, trespass, and harassment.

From Wardville, Louisiana;

Lee Rays owner, Frank Issa reached out to News Channel 5 letting us know that there was more to the story than what investigators are releasing, and that he had surveillance video to back it up.

He gave us a copy of the video to see for ourselves.

The video shows not one, but three men entering Lee Rays in wearing hoods and masks over their faces, one of them was carrying a gun.

Issa said they demanded money. And one pushed two customers out of his way and jumped on the counter. He continued to point his gun at Issa.

That’s when Issa’s brother distracted the attempted robbers, allowing Issa to grab his own gun. Issa began shooting at the three men, he said he hit one in the stomach and one in the arm.

We spoke with Sheriff William Earl Hilton, he told us one victim is still in the hospital, and the other was treated and has been released to his parents. They are still searching for the third suspect.

From Kansas City, Missouri;

Ellwyn T. Brown, 18, Ellshaun C. Brown, 18, Bryan C. Byers, 18, and Adrian D. Stallings, 19, are all charged with first-degree robbery, armed criminal action, and stealing a motor vehicle.

They are accused of robbing a Pizza Hut on the 9500 block of Blue Ridge Blvd. According to court records, witnesses claim four men used force and a black rifle to break glass to get into the building.

While inside, they allegedly ordered victims to empty their pockets, took one person’s car keys and stole the car.

Later, police said a gunshot victim showed up at Research Medical Center and said he shot himself in the hand. He also allegedly said he jumped the counter at the Pizza Hut and took money. Police also said he said he was taken to the hospital in the stolen vehicle.

The four defendants were also identified in surveillance photos from the restaurant.

They are each being held on a $75,000 bond.

From Nashville, Tennessee;

Police Lt. Matt Sears said the two people were meeting up for the purchase of a vehicle — but at one point the seller brandished a gun and tried to rob the buyer. But, police said the buyer had a gun of their own and shot the seller.

The seller ran across the parking lot before collapsing near the entrance of the grocery store. The suspect was transported to the hospital where they are in critical condition.