Category: Feel Good Stories

From McMinn County, Tennessee;

Sheriff Guy says the homeowner shot a man who was trying to assault him.

That suspect was taken to a local hospital. Right now, we don’t know the unidentified suspect’s injuries.

From Evansville, Indiana;

The homeowner told police he shot 25-year-old Malcolm Tyler Payton while Payton was crawling through his window with his face covered by a mask and holding a gun.

Payton was found wounded in a nearby yard with a gun nearby.

Payton was pronounced dead at a local hospital.

Police say the actions of the homeowner appear to be within the law.

In Colerain Township, Ohio;

Colerain officers were called to the bank at about 11 a.m. Employees told police the robber, wearing dark clothing and a black hat, came inside and demanded money. Jim Love, Colerain Police Department spokesman, said investigators believe an accomplice waited outside.

At some point, a customer and the robber fired on each other. None of the customers or employees was harmed.

It’s unclear if the suspect was injured. Police put in an alert to local hospitals in case he comes in with a gunshot wound. The two men were last seen running off, Love said.

The customer was legally carrying a firearm according to the police.

From Ypsilanti, Michigan;

Officers continued to the scene to find a 28-year-old Ypsilanti man, who told police the incident began when someone rang his apartment from the exterior callbox on his building and he let them up. However, one of the individuals that came up then pulled a gun and attempted to rob him.

The man told police he then pulled his own gun and fired a shot at the suspects, who fled, police said.

Nothing was taken and no one was injured.

Another story from Ypsilanti, Michigan;

A 62-year-old man reported that another person – identified by police as a 54-year-old man – approached him and attempted to rob him, police said.

Police believe the 54-year-old demanded that the 62-year-old empty his pockets or he would be shot, said Ypsilanti police Lt. Deric Gress. The 54-year-old had his hand partially in a pocket at the time, Gress said, and it’s believed he was implying he had a gun.

The 62-year-old man, however, was licensed to carry a concealed weapon and pulled out his own handgun, Gress said. He pointed it at the suspect, who fled.

The suspect in the robbery was arrested in the 300 block of Worden Street after a short foot chase, Gress said. He is lodged at the Washtenaw County Jail and is expected to be arraigned Monday.

Last week we talked about a clerk who shot a crook in his store in Fairfield, California. Here’s the video of the defense.

From Oklahoma City, Oklahoma;

Officials said the burglar broke into an apartment complex in the 5700 block of Northwest 23rd Street, near North MacArthur Boulevard. A resident was at the apartment and shot the burglar in the side.

The burglar was taken to an area hospital. Officials have not released the man’s condition.

From Boone, North Carolina;

According to the Boone Police Department, 21-year-old Austin Tyler Cotton was charged with misdemeanor breaking and entering.

The reported home invasion occurred around 9:37 p.m. at an apartment on Green Street, officers said. Police said Cotton received a non-life threatening gunshot wound when he was reportedly shot by the resident during the break-in.

From Canada, 64-year-old Les Lehmann was shot nine times while he fended off two armed criminals while he was armed with only a baseball bat in the Dominican Republic.

The transplanted Winnipegger was shot 10 times — the 10th grazed his knee — just after a warm Caribbean midnight in January 2014.

Lehmann was not only protecting himself. Twenty-six people — 22 teenagers and four chaperones — had just checked in; a humanitarian group from Winnipeg there to help at an orphanage and local school.

Lehmann put his life on the line to save them and was later awarded the Star of Courage, Canada’s second highest civilian medal for bravery.

Lehmann, now 67 and almost fully recovered, doesn’t see his actions as heroic. All he did, he says, was react to a bad situation.

That’s how it plays out when only criminals have guns.

In Laurel County, Kentucky;

The victim told deputies that around 6:30 Friday night on Old Union Church Road in Laurel County two women knocked on her door.

They then forced their way in and assaulted her. She said she thought she was able to stab one with a sword.

The two ran off and nothing was taken.

Deputies are still looking for the intruders.

From Oak Cliff, Texas;

[Michelle] Martinez made an early morning trip, walking across Wilton Avenue to Cowart Elementary School to deliver needed medication to her young son. As she left the classroom in a portable building on the north side of the school, a gray four-door Kia pulled up to the curb. The passenger got out, pulled a ski mask over his face, pointed a handgun in Martinez’s chest and demanded money.

“And he had a gun and he said ‘give me what you got.’”

Martinez told him she didn’t have anything. But with the gun pointed at her he began to pat her down, found $200 in her pocket and then grabbed her cell phone and smashed it on the sidewalk. Then she says the driver told the gunman to take her shoes too: a pair of expensive Nike high-tops.

“When he said her shoes I started punching him in the face. I punched him probably like four times,” Martinez said. “I was like I’m going to get some licks after him. I’m gonna let him feel a little pain. I might be a female but females know how to hit too.”

“I know I hit him pretty good,” she said.

She says the gunman backed up, lowered his gun, got in the car and sped away with his accomplice. But Martinez says the encounter would have ended differently if she hadn’t been feet away from an elementary school, a gun free zone. Because both she and her husband keep handguns in their car.

“If it had happened in my car, it would have turned out differently, way differently,” Martinez said, claiming she’s fired in self-defense before, hitting a burglar climbing over her back fence, and a second time warding off a would-be burglar in her front yard.

“She’s tough,” said her husband Eli Montoya who posted the incident on Facebook to warn his friends and neighbors. “She’s my hero,” he said. “I want them caught. Because he could have easily, by accident, squeezed that trigger.”

The crooks knew she was unarmed because she was in a school zone. Only law abiding citizens abide by the law. Crooks not so much.

From Lexington, Kentucky;

Police say a burglar was caught stealing clothes.

Someone inside fired a shot at him. No one was hurt.

Neighbors say the man in question is mentally challenged.

He is in custody and has been charged with burglary.

From Franklinton, Louisiana, Wilson Glenn Rowell is facing a charge of aggravated battery after a friend stole a firearm and then pointed the gun at Rowell and his family when he was confronted about the theft;

That’s when Rowell got a shotgun and said he fired a warning shot into the ground, then at the man while he was still holding the gun, and a final shot when the man started running, after dropping the gun.

The injured man was taken to the hospital, while the Washington Parish Sheriff’s Office arrested Rowell for aggravated battery.

“I just had to protect my family,” he said. “Do what any man should do.”

The gun thief is being treated for his injuries, but the police expect to arrest him when he’s released.

Amy sends us a link from Harris County, Texas;

Deputies confirm a homeowner fatally shot a home invasion suspect near Tomball early Thursday.

Around 2 a.m. a 911 call came in from the 19200 block of Juergen Road in northwest Harris County.

The homeowner was detained for questioning as the suspect was placed in an ambulance and taken to the hospital. The home invasion suspect later died, according to deputies at the scene.

In another link it’s reported the intruder was only wearing his underwear.

In Gordon County, Georgia;

According to Gordon County Sheriff Mitch Ralston, two suspects wearing masks and armed with bricks and a baseball bat forced their way into the home.

One suspect reportedly, knocked the husband in the head with a brick. He recovered and somehow wrestle away the suspect’s bat and used it to “defend himself and his wife,” according to Sheriff Ralston. When deputies arrived, he was found incapacitated in the house and was airlifted to the Erlanger Medical Center.

The other suspect fled on foot but neighbors who were armed chased him into a thickly wooded area. They held him there until deputies arrived to arrest him.

From Cape Coral, Florida;

Ryan Robert Doyon, 27, of 1914 Cornwallis Parkway, was arrested and charged Monday with one count each of homicide murder dangerous depraved without premedication and probation violation.

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Doyon told police that he was asleep in his bedroom when he was awakened by an unknown man holding a gun to his forehead. The man demanded the keys to Doyon’s safe. He said that while he was opening the safe, he grabbed his M-4 assault rifle and began shooting at the man inside the home.

Doyon told police that he chased the man outside and shot at him at least 10 times while the man ran away from him, according to a report. Doyon said his wallet and about $100 in cash were taken.

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Witnesses stated that the man was being chased by Doyon, who was firing several rounds from an assault rifle. One neighbor told police that the victim fell three times while running. They said Doyon continued to chase after and shoot at the victim until he rounded the corner at Cornwallis Parkway.

In Chicago, Illinois;

An off-duty Cook County sheriff’s deputy fatally shot a 17-year-old robbery suspect at an Englewood hair salon Wednesday afternoon, officials said

The boy, Rashad Wells, of the 6900 block of South Harvard Avenue, was pronounced dead on the scene, according to the medical examiner’s office.

Two people entered Marquita’s Hair Salon, at 132 W. 69th St., around 1:40 p.m. and announced a robbery, police said.

The female off-duty deputy shot one of the robbers and the other one fled, according to Cara Smith, chief policy officer for the sheriff’s office.

Rashad’s mom says that there was some kind of mistake;

“My baby was coming from school. I know he was. I dropped him off this morning. To go to school,” she said.

Bobo sends us a link to a story in Beech Bluff, Tennessee;

The suspects kicked in the door of a home on East Laurel Road around 10 a.m. Monday, not realizing the homeowner was home, according to a release from Madison County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Tom Mapes.

The homeowner pulled a gun on them, and the suspects fled in a vehicle. All five were apprehended within 40 minutes after a brief chase, according to the release.

The four adults are each charged with aggravated burglary and will be arraigned Thursday morning in General Sessions Court.

They are Quentin Childress, 20, of Jackson, Jaylon Chiles, 18, of Biloxi, Miss., Amar Johnson, 21, of Jackson, and Kendrick McMullin, 19, of Jackson.

chooee sends a link from Muskegon Heights, Michigan;

Police responded around 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 16, to the Marathon gas station near West Hackley Avenue and Seaway Drive on a report of a shooting.

Muskegon Heights Police Chief Joseph Thomas Jr. confirms two men aged in their early to mid 30s were shot. One of whom was an employee of the station, he said.

It’s possible one of the men shot is the suspect; there is no more apparent threat to the public.

They were taken to Muskegon-area hospitals, where they’re expected to recover from their injuries.

Don sends a link from Centerton, Arkansas where it’s reported that Kerrie Lenkerd won’t face charges for shooting at a dog-rapist;

She told police that the boy was in his boxers and he was sexually assaulting the neighbor’s dog.

She took a gun from her safe and approached him and ordered him to get on the ground, the warrant states. She said he jumped the fence and so she went after him and fired a shot into the ground to scare him.

Officers spoke with the boy who said Lenkerd came around and pointed a gun at him and told him to put his hands up. He said he didn’t see a badge so she he jumped the fence and ran away in his underwear. He said Lenkerd fired a shot about five or 10 seconds after he jumped the fence.

The boy told police that when he got home he changed his clothes and told his mom a false story before meeting with police. The court documents states the boy does not want to pursue charges and law enforcement does not object to this decision.

From Oklahoma City, Oklahoma;

An officer caught up with the 79-year-old man who stated he had just been robbed. The man told police he was getting gas at 1028 N. MacArthur when a man ran up behind him and grabbed his wallet from his back pocket and fled the area. The victim then grabbed a gun from his truck and fired several shots at the man’s feet because “he didn’t want to shoot anyone else”.

Police were able to identify the suspect as 55-year-old Kervin Leon Gardiner. Gardiner was arrested May 15 on complaints of robbery in the first degree.

From Orangeburg County, South Carolina;

The Mount Carmel Road resident said he heard someone walking across his kitchen floor at 4:45 a.m.

He jumped up and armed himself with his handgun.

That’s when he noticed a man coming toward his bedroom.

The resident said he shot at the intruder out of fear for his own safety. The intruder returned fire.

The intruder exited the house and the two continued to exchange fire.

Deputies noticed the man’s front door had been kicked in. The intruder left a pair of Nike flip-flops on the front porch.

Chief Tango sends a link from Memphis, Tennessee;

Tuesday evening, the victim was leaving his home in the 5100 block of Horn Lake Road headed to work when he noticed a man rummaging through his car.

Seeing the homeowner, the suspect reportedly jumped out of the vehicle and charged at the man.

Authorities said that’s when the homeowner opened fire, striking him. He then immediately called 911.

The suspect in this case has not been identified, but we do know he is expected to be OK.

From Asheville, North Carolina;

A convenience store owner tells News 13 that a customer shot the suspect in an armed robbery Friday night in West Asheville. The suspect is still in the hospital, the store owner said.

Police say there are active warrants out for a juvenile after the robbery.

From Las Vegas, Nevada;

An employee at a go-kart business shot a would-be robber Monday night.

Detectives are investigating the attempted armed robbery by two men about 10:50 p.m. at Las Vegas Mini Gran Prix, 1401 N. Rainbow Blvd., according to Metropolitan Police Department.

Lt. David Gordon said an employee shot one of the two aspiring robbers. The man who was shot was taken into custody and hospitalized. He was in surgery as of 12:15 a.m. Tuesday, Gordon said.

The other man was not in custody.

From Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;

The attempted robbery occurred shortly before 2:40 p.m. in the 4800 block of Palethorp Street. The victim, a 25-year-old man, was licensed to carry a firearm and shot his assailant in the left groin, police said.

The wounded man was taken by medics to Einstein Medical Center, where he was reported in stable condition and placed under arrest.

From Schwartz, Louisiana;

Deputies say a man entered a home in the area and threatened to harm 2 elderly people who lived there.

One of the homeowners fatally shot the suspect.

The suspect was pronounced dead at the scene.

In Fairfield, California;

Police said several witnesses told officers the suspect entered the store wearing a mask, before pulling a gun from his waistband and attempted to rob the place.

The store’s clerk, fearing for his life, pulled out his own gun and shot the suspect in the chest.

Officers recovered the suspect’s gun, which turned out to be a realistic-looking BB gun, police said.

Mr Perp is in critical condition.