Category: Feel Good Stories

From Theodore, Alabama, four thugs meet an armed Marine;

MCSO Captain Paul Burch says 4 suspects broke in through the back door with a shotgun.

“[The homeowner, a 62-year-old Marine Corps veteran] heard a crashing sound and knew there were people there. They fired the first round through the door,” said Burch.

We’re told the homeowner was shot at several times, but only sustained one minor injury to his arm. The homeowner then fired back at the suspects with his own handgun.

One of the wounded suspects remained at the home until authorities arrived. Two were driven to a Dollar General on DIP about 2-miles away from the home. Those two suspects – a man and a woman – were seen lying on the ground outside the car.

“We don’t know the reason as to why they decided to stop at that location — if it was because they realized how serious their injuries may be or what,” said Burch. “They obviously lied about how they were shot.”

Burch says the homeowner was robbed a few weeks ago, believed to be by at least one of the same suspects in this incident. Authorities say in the last robbery, the homeowner was targeted for his medication.

“A clear-cut case of self-defense as it stands right now,” said Burch.

Chasatie Dulabhan, Casey Ray Gann and Joseph Heathcock are currently in the hospital being treated for their new orifices.

In ST Louis, Missouri;

According to authorities, the [75-year-old] man was walking in the 4000 block of Kossuth around 4:30 p.m. when he was approached by a man who ordered the victim to stop.

The victim continued to walk away, and was shot in the leg. Police said the victim then pulled out his own gun and returned fire at the suspect.

The suspect ran away from the scene.

Police said the victim was transported to an area hospital where he is in serious but stable condition.

Chief Tango sends us a link from London, Kentucky;

According to the sheriff, Otis Kemp tried to sneak into a home on Hopewell Estates Road. The homeowner was not home at the time, but returned home shortly after, discovering the prowler. The homeowner grabbed his shotgun and fired into Kemp’s torso.

Investigators say Kemp ran into the woods but was found near the home by a k-9.

Kemp has been charged with burglary. He was airlifted to UK Hospital to with non-life-threatening injuries.

From Norfolk, Virginia;

A home invasion turned deadly after a resident shot some of the would-be burglars who broke in.

The Virginian-Pilot reports that four people allegedly broke into an apartment in Norfolk on Friday. One of them, 17-year-old Kuwan Robinson, was shot and killed. Another, 20-year-old Jamal Bridges, was also shot. But he is expected to survive.

Two other alleged burglars, including a 15-year-old boy, have been arrested and charged with armed burglary, conspiracy and using a gun to commit a felony.

From Jacksonville, Florida;

The victim, a delivery driver for Hot Wok on 103rd Street, said he was delivering an order on West Arancio Drive at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday when two men answered the door with a gun.

He said two men in their early 20s pointed a green laser at his face. The laser was coming from the bottom of a barrel on a black semi-automatic pistol, he told police.

The driver said the men told him to come inside several times.

He tried to turn around and leave and was approached by a third man with a gun, he told officers.

The driver told police he threw the food at the third man, backed away and grabbed a gun from a holster on his waist.

The driver fired four or five shots at the suspects and yelled for neighbors to call 911, according to police.

He held one suspect at gunpoint until police arrived, officer said.

Officers said a short time later, a man reported he had been shot at a different location.

He was arrested in connection with the attempted robbery. Officers are still seeking a third suspect.

Neighbors said that the house was empty for a long time and they think that the thieves occupied it for their robbery scheme.

From Port Arthur, Texas;

Around 11:57 p.m. on Wednesday, the Port Arthur Police Department responded to a call from an employee of a business on the 3700 block of 25th Street. The woman told police that three male suspects approached her and opened gun fire at her, which she returned with the gun she was carrying.

Police do not know if any of the suspects were hit. The woman was injured and was transported to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont. Her current medical condition is unknown.

From Brentwood, California;

The two people who died in the shooting apparently had a gun when they entered the home about 11:15 p.m. Wednesday, Brentwood police Lt. Walter O’Grodnick said. Police said they were both male, but did not identify the pair or give their ages, pending notification of relatives.

The shooter lived at the home in the 200 block of Birch Street and he was detained, then released, O’Grodnick said.

“The preliminary information shows it to be a home-invasion robbery,” O’Grodnick said. “Two suspects. One with a firearm. They presented a threat, and the shooting was prompted in self-defense.”

From Campbell, Tennessee;

As the family was having a relaxing Father’s Day at home a trio of would be armed robbers burst into their home. While the rest of the family was napping these armed robbers accosted the mother, who is blind. Her screams alerted the rest of the family who took action. Instead of submitting to these invaders the Storey’s fought back.

When John Storey, the son, arrived in the living room he tackled one of the armed robbers off of the porch and pinned him to the ground. The other would be robbers then fled the scene. When the police arrived they took 29 year old Michael Shears into custody. This marked Shears 29th booking into the county jail.

The other two were caught by the police eventually.

In Salt Lake City, Utah;

Wilking said that at about 6 p.m. Tuesday, the female suspect and two men entered the Quiznos at 1775 S. 4130 West, locked the door behind them and produced two handguns.

There were two employee in the store, one at the front counter and one in the back, Wilking said.

While one of the robbers was attempting to get money from the register, the other two robbers tried to get into a back room, Wilking said. was at the counter attempting

There, the second employee barricaded herself behind the door by pushing on it with her body, and then began firing a gun she had on her around the edge of the door, Wilking said.

The employee fired two to six shots. One bullet hit the female robber and another hit a window. No shots were fired by the robbers, Wilking said.

When the female robber was hit, the two males left, taking an undisclosed amount of cash.

The female thief was in serious condition in the hospital yesterday.

From Pemiscot County, Missouri;

Pemiscot County Sheriff Tommy Greenwell stated a family living in the 4900-block of Missouri Highway 84 called 911 to report someone trying to steal their vehicle and break into their home.

The caller told dispatch they thought there were several people trying to get in because doors were opening and closing outside the home.

Thinking several suspects may enter the home, the family hid in a closet. One male inside the home armed himself with a shotgun.

According to the sheriff, the suspect tried to take the family’s vehicle but got it stuck in a nearby field.

Outside the house and in the driveway, the male with the shotgun fired at Simpson while he was walking and hit him with birdshot. He then held Simpson until deputies arrived.

From Riverton, Utah, Derrick Palmer, 36, had a bad night after consuming too much firewater;

Palmer went outside the house, and for an unknown reason began undressing and dressing in the middle of the street.

Two teenage boys who were just getting home saw what was happening and kept driving. They called their parents as the made another lap around the block, Lohrke said. The boys’ parents — who could see Palmer outside their window — developed a plan to open the garage and have the boys drive directly in, Lohrke said.

But after the boys got into the house, Palmer, now clothed, began walking toward their house, Lohrke said. The father went out to confront him in the driveway.

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According to what witnesses told police, Lohrke said the conversation at that point went something like:

“That gun is not even loaded,” Palmer said.

“It’s loaded,” the homeowner replied.

Palmer then pulled a knife out of his pocket and asked the homeowner, “Are you going to shoot me now?” according to Lohrke.

At that point, witnesses have given conflicting stories about whether Palmer threw his knife at the homeowner or dropped it. But it prompted the homeowner to fire twice, hitting Palmer in the jaw and chest, the lieutenant said.

After police arrived, Palmer tried to get the homeowner’s gun and got tazed for his trouble.

From Knoxville, Tennessee;

Investigators say Brandon Wang, 26, broke into a house at 1811 Wayland Road around 5 a.m.

The homeowner found the suspect in the hallway and shot at him several times, according to the report.

The suspect ran out of the house and got into his truck. The homeowner continued to shoot at the suspect, causing Wang to cause damage the garage door.

Officers spotted the suspect on Flint Gap Road. While officers tried to stop the suspect, he sped away.

Mr Wang got tazed, too.

From Theodore Landing, Alabama;

The homeowner came home to two men kicking in his door and shoots one of the would be burglars.

The two left the home and drive to Sperry Landing Apartments where they call police informing them one person has been shot. MPD responds and they tie the two incidents together. One person is in custody and the other is at the hospital.

From Conneaut, Ohio;

At 2:41 a.m., police were dispatched to an address in the 200 block of Woodland Avenue for a home invasion incident that also involved a shooting, according to the statement. Information officers obtained in the initial phone call indicated a suspect had been shot with a .22 caliber handgun before fleeing on foot.

Police arriving at the scene heard someone screaming, and discovered a woman on the ground in the 400 block of Dorman Road. The woman told officers she had suffered a gunshot wound to the small of her back.

The woman is considered a suspect in the home invasion, according to [Conneaut Police Chief Michael Colby]’s statement.

From Houcktown, Ohio;

At 1:46 a.m., a resident of Hancock County 8 discovered two juveniles in an outbuilding on his property, the sheriff’s office said. The resident then confronted them with a weapon.

During the incident, one of the juveniles was shot. He was transported to Blanchard Valley Hospital with a non-life-threatening injury, the sheriff’s office said. He was treated and released.

From Tampa, Florida;

The Sheriff’s Office said the surveillance video showed [Daniel Dwayne Eubanks, 44] entering the Sunoco at 14516 N 22nd St. about 5:45 a.m. and demanding a money bag. Then he scuffled with the clerk, knocking over a set of shelves as the fight spilled back out into the store, according to the video, and fighting over a baseball bat.

Eubanks overpowered the clerk and took the bat, deputies said, and was then stabbed by the clerk in the abdomen. They continued to struggle until the clerk ran outside and alerted nearby deputies. Eubanks took a brown paper bag full of cash from behind the counter and fled on foot.

From Macon, Georgia;

A suspected burglar is dead after breaking into an east Macon home Monday.

About 10 a.m., someone knocked on the front door of 152 Bradstone Circle and rang the doorbell. Moments later, a woman in the back of the home heard the door kicked in, Bibb County Sheriff David Davis said during a news conference.

The woman came out and yelled at the two suspects. They ran, and one of the suspects shot back at the house but hit his partner instead, Davis said.

From Chattanooga, Tennessee;

Calvin Carter III was arrested Monday, and charged with first-degree attempted murder, especially aggravated burglary, reckless endangerment, and three counts of aggravated assault, according to the arrest report.

Late Saturday night, Carter knocked on an apartment door on Mansion Circle and demanded to be let in. One victim told police he heard a metallic sound, what he thought was the receiver on a weapon being racked back and forth.

That’s when the victim jumped out of the apartment’s back window, only to be discovered by Carter. The report states Carter then led the one victim back to the apartment at gunpoint to make his way inside.

Carter then demanded the victim’s cellphone and during the exchange was jumped by his two victims, who disarmed him and held him until police arrived.

From Carolina Beach, North Carolina;

John Alexander Bracken, 28, faces charges of burglary and injury to real and personal property, reports WNCN.

Police responding to a report of a break-in at 9 p.m. Saturday found Bracken lying in the home’s front yard. Bracken had kicked in the front door of the home and a fight broke out when the resident came to investigate, police said. The resident was uninjured, but the same can’t be said for Bracken, going by his police mug shot.

From Dallas, Texas;

The 83-year-old man told police he asked Robert Facundo to leave his home about 1:40 a.m. in the 900 block of Glen Oaks Boulevard. Facundo refused and started threatening, yelling and advancing towards him, police said. The elderly man said he feared for his life and shot the arrestee in the leg, police said.

Facundo was treated at Methodist Central before being transported to Lew Sterrett Justice Center.

From Port Richey, Florida;

Authorities arrested a man accused of breaking into a home in Port Richey and then fighting a male resident inside the house.

The Pasco Sheriff’s Office says known suspect Chad Lynch, 28, broke into a home on the 9000 block of Hidden Lane. Lynch then got into a fight with a man living in the home and fled the scene.

Deputies spent hours searching for Lynch. He was eventually spotted trying to hide inside of a car. A short foot chase occurred, and Lynch was arrested.

From Anchorage, Alaska;

A man suspected of firing several bullets into a cash register while robbing a hardware store on Muldoon Road on Saturday evening was then shot by the store’s security guards while trying to escape, according to witnesses and Anchorage police.

The incident occurred about 5 p.m. Saturday at Andy’s Ace Hardware store at 240 Muldoon Road.

The security guards shot the fleeing man, who has not been officially identified, in the abdomen and the shoulder, said Sgt. Jeremy Conkling of the Anchorage Police Department.

The man was taken to the hospital with injuries that are not believed to be life-threatening, Conkling said. He said police detectives were investigating the incident.

“The man did have a gun, he did fire shots in the store and he was shot by security,” Conkling said.

No one else was injured in the incident.

Chief Tango sends a link from Baltimore, Maryland;

Police said Sunday that a man in the Halethorpe area attempted to contact police and hold another man who was allegedly breaking into a car. The man allegedly breaking into the car resisted, and when officers arrived they found him unconscious and not breathing, police said.

Police said they are investigating the incident as a “suspicious death.” They did not immediately release the names of the two men involved.

No word on cause of death. I guess we’ll need an autopsy.

From Chicago, Illinois;

Pablo Sosa, 35, stabbed a 25-year-old man nine times on Tuesday and attempted to flee the scene on a bicycle, Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney Lorraine Scaduto said, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

Sosa was wielding knives in both of his hands, according to a police report obtained by the newspaper.

When he made his escape, an unknown man clocked Sosa in the head with a bottle, and other witnesses surrounded Sosa until police arrived at the scene, Scaduto said. Sosa remained hospitalized with minor cuts and a torn tendon in his knee, he added.

From San Antonio, Texas;

Deputies at the scene said the homeowner heard noises outside a home on the 7200 block of Glen Bay around 3:30 a.m. The homeowner, believing someone was break in, grabbed a gun and shot the suspect from inside the house.

The burglary suspect, a man in his early 30s, was found by deputies lying on the ground outside. He had been shot multiple times. He was taken to San Antonio Military Medical Center.

The criminal is in critical condition.

From Las Vegas, Nevada;

Metro Police are investigating a fatal shooting that happened in northeast Las Vegas Thursday night.

The shooting occurred shortly before 9 p.m. at The Rubix apartment complex on the 5300 block of East Craig Road, near Nellis Air Force Base.

Police say a homeowner reported shooting a man who was allegedly trying to break into his home in the area of Craig Road and Aviation Street.

From Orlando, Florida;

According to investigators, the teen entered the store armed with a rock, used it to break open the counter display and tried to steal several cellphones.

The manager, who was not identified, tried to stop the teen and after a struggle inside the store, he followed the suspect outside and shot him, deputies said.

“(The teen was) literally hobbled,” witness Gabrielle Boozier said. “He couldn’t walk.”

The teen was somehow able to flee the scene, deputies said.

As investigators searched for the alleged burglar, they received a call from a woman saying her son had been shot.

The teen was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, deputies said.

From Victoria, Virginia;

A fatal shooting in a small town leaves a community shaken. A man was found shot to death on Main Street in the town of Victoria, which is in Lunenberg County. Right now, Virginia State Police say no charges have been filed.

The store owner of Little B’s convenience store says the man who was killed was trying to rob his store.