Category: Feel Good Stories

From Indianapolis, Indiana;

It happened in the 3000 block of Bavarian Drive around 3:30 a.m. Sunday morning.

Police said when they arrived on scene they found a man dead inside the home, who was later identified as the man who attempted to rob the homeowner.

The homeowner is said to be in full cooperation with authorities.

From McMinnville, Oregon;

A homeowner shot someone who was trying to break into their McMinnville home on Sunday morning, police officials said.

The intruder was flown to a Portland-area hospital in a LifeFlight helicopter. That person is expected to survive the gunshot wound.

From San Benito, Texas;

A San Benito man was arrested this past Monday, after the Cameron County Sherriff’s office say he attempted to break into a home on the outskirts of San Benito. Authorities arrived on the scene after reports of shots fired.

According to Sherriff Omar Lucio, the shots originated from the home owners.
Lucio stated that witnesses in the area saw a man running away from the house with the homeowner chasing him. Chief Deputy Gus Reyna said deputies arrested the man on suspicion of three misdemeanors and one felony.

From Fayetteville, Arkansas;

“My dad was standing in the driveway when a man approached him,” said [Alexis] Cox. “He was wearing a mask, so all you could see were his eyes.”

Cox explained that the suspect demanded large sums of money from Moore, forcing him inside his home at gunpoint. Once inside the home, the suspect took Lou Moore’s arm, and dragged her into a car with her husband.

“He told my parents, if you flee, I will shoot you. If you crash on purpose, I will shoot you,” said Cox. “Fortunately, my dad has a gun license and had just moved a gun into the car a few days earlier.”

That’s when the story takes a turn.

“The man was in the back seat of the car, my parents in front, when all of a sudden he starts screaming for his phone,” Cox stated. During the commotion, Jerry Moore, reached for his gun.

“The man must have heard the safety click, because he lunged at my dad and started biting his arms as hard as he could,” Cox exclaimed. “The man’s hands were on my dad’s, trying to get control of the gun. My dad was able to adjust his hands and shoot the man, then threw him out of the car.”

Sgt. Anthony Murphy with the Fayetteville police department said that’s when they got the call of a shooting.

“The victims left the scene and called 9-1-1,” said Murphy. Cox added that her parents were going straight to urgent care to treat Jerry’s bite wounds.

Fayetteville police have not released the identity of the suspect at this time, but told 40/29 News he is in serious condition at the hospital.

From Moline, Illinois;

The victim reported that she was in her vehicle when [Floyd May, 61] forced his way into her car while armed with a knife.

During the struggle, the victim received a laceration to her arm.

The male then forced the victim to drive him to a rural Rock Island County location.

The victim was able to reach her firearm when they stopped in rural Rock Island County. The male then fled the area on foot. The victim transported herself to the hospital to receive treatment for the injury to her arm and to contact Moline police.

Mr. May is in custody.

From LaPorte County, Indiana;

The 52-year-old homeowner told police someone with a flashlight was outside near a vehicle. He got a rifle and saw the suspect go into a pole barn, the sheriff’s office said.

He “found the suspect inside and a physical confrontation followed,” a statement from the sheriff’s office said. “During the physical confrontation the suspect produced a handgun which the homeowner was able to wrestle away. When the homeowner attempted to use his phone to call 911, the suspect fled the barn. The homeowner did fire his rifle once in the air as the suspect fled.”

The homeowner suffered cuts and scratches to his arms, and police believe the suspect was also injured.

From Jefferson County, Missouri;

Police say [Ramone] Thomas and three other men were ransacking a mobile home when the homeowner arrived and confronted them. The burglars ran off. In their escape, one of the burglars apparently fired a shot at the homeowner, but Thomas was hit instead.

The three men ran off. Police say two women were also involved but drove away in a car.

Mr Thomas is dead from his injuries.

From Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;

While many of the details in this ongoing case remain a mystery, police said they found the shooting victim inside of a house along the unit block of North Dewey Street suffering a wound to the leg.

He was taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center where he is listed in stable condition.

Though the store owner said he shot the man during a robbery attempt, police are still trying to confirm those details.

From Memphis, Tennessee;

Memphis police are investigating after a man was shot and killed Thursday afternoon in the 1000 block of East Parkway South near Walker.

Police said the man was shot trying to rob another person. Someone opened fire, killing him.

From Fall River, Massachusetts;

For Ahman Abdulrahman, it was just another night at his store, the Farm Market in Fall River. Until a masked man came running through the door.

“I could feel something fast coming in, I see someone at the door coming at me telling me to give them the money,” Abdulrahman said.

Happening so fast, he honestly thought it was a joke.

“As soon as he hit me back I said it’s real it’s happening,” he explained.
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Abdulrahman didn’t hesitate to grab a piece of wood he keeps by the register and he’s glad he did.

He described the confrontation “like a battle, as he want to kill me to rob me.”

Abdulrahman hit the man over and over again until chasing him away.

“By the end of it he said please just give me the money. I told him I’m not going to give you anything but this stick,” he said.

From Houston, Texas;

Police are investigating a deadly scene in north Houston where an apartment dweller defending his property shot and killed a robber in a home invasion.

The incident happened around 2:00 p.m. Tuesday at The Palms on Rolling Creek Apartments on Rolling Creek Drive near Cypress Creek Parkway, near the North Freeway.

When a group of suspects attempted to rob a man and woman, the man shot back, and an exchange of gunfire followed.

The man went to the hospital by transport after being shot. His wife was also admitted for shortness of breath.

Authorities believe another suspect ran over the slain victim.

By “slain victim” I think they mean “dead perp”. Another article says that the good guy was shot in the chest and the dead perp was shot in the noggin.

From Louisville, Kentucky;

Louisville Metro police say the robbery happened around 7:10 a.m. Sept. 16. A man armed with a gun went into Wide Open Motorsports at 8633 Preston Highway, pointed it at an employee and demanded tools from the business.

After getting the tools, the suspect, Chad Douglas Autry, 38, of Louisville, demanded the employee get into his vehicle. During a scuffle, the victim managed to get a gun and fire three shots at Autry, hitting him once. When the wounded Autry fell to the ground, the victim managed to get Autry’s gun and hold him at gunpoint until police arrived.

Last week we talked about the Concealed Weapon Permit holder who fired up a thief in Detroit, Michigan. Here’s the video of that encounter (bonus ramblings of an outraged mother of the criminal);

From Kalamazoo, Michigan;

Police said a soon-to-be customer was on his way inside the store when he noticed a man pointing a gun at the clerk.

The witness went back to his vehicle and called 911. Shortly after, officers received an emergency call from the clerk of the party store.

Police said a middle-aged white man with a handgun came into the store and demanded money from the clerk. As the clerk emptied the register, he took advantage of a chance to disarm the suspect.

The clerk reached for the gun and took it out of the suspect’s hands. The suspect grabbed as much money as he could before fleeing the scene.

Police said the suspect was seen leaving the area on foot, westbound on West Michigan Avenue. A perimeter was set up and a K9 track was attempted.

Due to heavy rain and foot traffic, the track was called off and the suspect was not found.

From Jacksonville, Florida;

Sgt. Steve Rudlaff said police and the resident were called about 11:42 a.m. by the alarm company about a break-in at the home, which is between Lake Shore Boulevard and Lane Avenue.

The resident made it to the house before police arrived, went inside and confronted two men, shooting one of them, Rudlaff said.

The man who was shot died inside a silver four-door car in the home’s carport. It’s unclear if the burglar was shot inside the home and made it to the car before he died, or if he was shot in the car, police said.

The second intruder ran from the home, and officers and the JSO helicopter were called in to search for him, but he has not been found yet.

From Puyallup, Washington;

It was just before 2 a.m. Sunday when a man who lives in the home in the 17700 block of 75th Avenue East heard an alarm go off indicating someone had opened a back door.

He woke up his roommate, who grabbed a handgun, and both men went downstairs to investigate the noise.

Deputies said they found two men in ski masks in one of the rooms. One burglar was holding a gun and a television; the other was holding a vehicle rim.

The armed burglar allegedly tried to shoot the roommates, but the gun wasn’t working properly, sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said.

The roommate then fired his handgun three times at the burglars, who dropped the items they were holding and ran out the back door.

A search dog was unable to find them.

Detectives believe one of the burglars might have been shot during the confrontation and are asking anyone with information to call them.

From Alton, Illinois;

Simmons said the woman, 36, awoke to the sound of someone knocking on the door but she did not get out of bed to answer. He said no one lives in the first-floor unit.

“She then heard a banging noise on the side of the house,” Simmons said. The woman got out of bed and saw that the man had put a ladder against the house and was climbing up to an open window on the second floor of the building. The woman called 911 at about 8 a.m., and grabbed an aluminum baseball bat that she keeps for protection.

“He climbs through the window and gets into her bedroom,” Simmons said. “Then he sees her around the corner, yells at her and pushes her onto the bedroom floor. She gets up and waylays him,” hitting the man repeatedly with the bat before he flees out of the window.

Simmons said the woman was shaken, but not injured during the home invasion. Some of the bedroom furniture, though, was damaged during the altercation, he said.

The victim had kept police on the phone the entire time, with such calls being recorded, and the woman also recognized the man, the chief said.

From Cheboygan County, Michigan;

Cheboygan County deputies say a person accused of breaking into a house was shot when they got inside.

It happened at a home in Benton Township around 10 Sunday night.

Deputies say someone inside the home shot the person and then the suspect took off.

Deputies caught up with them, and called an ambulance to bring the person to the hospital for non-life threatening injuries.

In France 85,000 have signed a petition in support of a Hérault property owner who shot and killed a burglar on October 5.

The petition is accompanied by an open letter to Minister of Justice Nicole Belloubet headlined: A victim risks imprisonment for protecting his family.

A Facebook support page, meanwhile, has nearly 48,000 likes, for ‘Daniel’, a landscape gardener, whose Saint-Adrien venue in Servian, near Béziers, as featured on France 2 show Le jardin preferé des Français.

He faces a manslaughter charge after shooting one of two burglars who broke into his home. He reportedly told police that the pair were armed, and attacked him and his wife.

Franceinfo reports that he then seized a gun that he owns to drive wild boar from his award-winning gardens, and shot one of the criminals as they headed upstairs in search of valuables.

The other burglar fled the scene.

From Volusia County, Florida;

An 81-year-old homeowner shot at a man who tried to break into his Edgewater-area home Monday morning, according to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office.

The victim said he was lying in bed around 9:15 a.m. when he heard someone knocking on the door and ringing the doorbell. He looked out the window and saw a man he didn’t recognize, so he didn’t open the door, the report said.

The man then put on gloves and went to the back of the house.

The victim grabbed his .22-caliber pistol then he heard a window break and saw the man reaching through the window to clear away the shattered glass, according to deputies.

The homeowner said he feared for his and his wife’s safety so he fired three to four shots at the man. The man then fled to his mid-2000s Chevrolet Silverado 1500, authorities said. The victim fired three to four more shots at the truck as it sped away.

It’s possible the man was shot or grazed by a bullet, deputies said.

“I fired a whole bunch of them. I don’t know whether I hit him or not, one time I heard him say, ‘Oh,’” the victim told a 911 operator.

From Clio, South Carolina;

Lt. Sara Alberri explains that the suspect entered the store, pulled out a gun and assaulted the store owner. During the robbery, the store owner shot the suspect, but they were still able to get away with the money.

Later in the day, the Marlboro County Sheriff’s Office was able to find the suspect and retrieve the money.

The suspect is currently in the hospital in stable condition.

Bill sends us a link from Valparaiso, Indiana;

Police said Thomas Powell, 36, of Hebron, came into the store with a mask on, approached a cashier and demanded money. He inferred that he had a weapon on his pocket.

He got money from the cashier and was immediately restrained by a customer, police said. Additional customers helped and held Powell down until police arrived.

When officers arrived, they saw five or six men holding him down.

Powell was arrested and held on robbery charges.

From Chicago, Illinois;

At 10:54 p.m., the homeowner, a 60-year-old man, said a man used a crowbar to force his way into the 60-year-old’s house in the 4500 block of South St. Lawrence Avenue, police said.

The homeowner shot at the man, police said. The man, 44, was hit multiple times throughout his body and was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition.

The 60-year-old has a valid FOID and concealed carry permit.

From Haltom City, Texas;

Five masked gunmen broke into an apartment at the Spanish Square Apartments in the 2000 block of Dayton Street and exchanged gunfire with at least one resident, police said.

Three suspects were wounded _ one was in critical condition Sunday at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, authorities said.

One resident also was wounded in the shooting, police said.

From Houston, Texas;

According to the Houston Police Department, officers responded to a shooting call around 10:30 p.m. at the McDonald’s located in the 9100 block of Cullen near Reed Road.

Upon arrival, police learned a customer had walked outside the restaurant when he was approached by the suspect.

Police say there was some sort of disturbance and fight before the man shot the customer in the stomach. At the same time, police say the security guard working at the restaurant returned fire on the suspect.

HPD says the suspect died en route to the hospital, and the victim is in stable condition.

From Baton Rouge, Louisiana;

Officials with the Baton Rouge Police Department say on Thursday, October 5 around 2:20 p.m., a man, later identified as Malcolm Williams, 29, approached the two victims in a parking lot and demanded the victims’ property while threatening them with a handgun. The victims, in fear for their lives, then gave their cell phones to Williams.

During the robbery, one of the victims pulled out their own handgun and shot Williams in the arm, the report says. Williams then reportedly fled the scene on foot.

During the course of the investigation, officials found a long blood trail following the same path Williams was last seen running. Along this route, a cell phone belonging to one of the victims was found. The cell phone also had blood on it.

Williams arrived at a local hospital a short time later and reportedly told staff members he’d been shot. The victim who reportedly shot Williams was able to identify him in a six-person photographic lineup. Williams is charged with armed robbery.