Category: Feel Good Stories

From Mobile, Alabama, 81-year-old Leonard Boltz laments the fact that he didn’t shoot the crooks who robbed his store;

“I walked out from behind the counter and then he followed me back behind there and then he grabbed me,” said Boltz.

A struggled ensued between Boltz and the suspect on the floor behind the counter, while the second suspect stood on the opposite side of the counter watching the front door.

“He knew where the money was because I kept the money in my pocket,” said Boltz. “Finally he took me down and when he got the money him and his buddy took off.”

Boltz said the suspect took the money from the register underneath the counter as well and headed toward the front door.

He said he was able to get up and grab his gun from behind the counter before the suspects left the store.

“I got my gun and I pointed at him and he was at the door,” said Boltz. “I should’ve shot him because he hurt me, but I didn’t. I let him go.”

From Burbank, California;

After complying with the robbers, [Raul Gutierrez] said the two kept pushing him toward the back of the store.

“I didn’t have any more money so I thought they were going to beat or shoot me either way, so at that point … it made me decide to go for it, to go for the gun,” Gutierrez said.

According to Sgt. Derek Green with the Burbank Police Department, one of the suspects attempted to shoot Gutierrez in the chest with the gun, but it didn’t fire.

The store owner said he was able to take the handgun’s magazine during the struggle.

From Boone, North Carolina;

According to the report the male resident reported shooting the suspect after he forced entry into the apartment.

The suspect was transported to Watauga Medical Center and later released. According to the report the investigation is still ongoing.

From Las Vegas, Nevada;

One person was trying to sell a ring before the attempted robbery at 10 p.m. at the casino-hotel, 4111 Boulder Highway, Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Chris Holmes said. The male robber pointed a gun before the ring seller pulled out their own gun and fired a “self-defense” shot at him, Holmes said.

Police said the robber fled and it wasn’t known if he was shot.

The ring seller was a concealed weapon carrier, Holmes said.

From Fountain Valley, California;

Homeowner Cris Maradiaga said he and his wife were just going to sleep after staying up late to celebrate his birthday when he heard two loud crashes.

The vehicle had crashed into a wall surrounding the property and then into a bedroom where a woman who was visiting had been sleeping, Maradiaga said.

The woman was being checked out but was expected to be OK, he said.

“I came out and there was two guys that were trying to get in through the house,” the Maradiaga said.

Maradiaga said his wife went to check on their baby and he went to get his gun before going outside.

“So I went and got my gun and got out and kept the guy here until the police got here, which was like a minute after,” Maradiaga said.

Maradiaga also said a woman who exited the vehicle possibly ran through his house and out a side door before she was found. Police said she was hiding in the front yard of another residence.

Video from the scene showed a woman being pulled down and taken into custody by a K-9 officer.

All four people who were in the vehicle at the time of the cash were eventually arrested, Sorenson said.

The suspects have been identified as Santa Ana residents Tanisha Marie Estrada, 29; Leticia Dominguez, 21; and Daniel Enrique Ramirez, 23, and 20-year-old Corona resident Joshua Rudy Ramirez.

Three firearms were also recovered during the incident, Sorenson said.

There was also drugs found in the car.

In Australia, now that guns are virtually banned, women are forced to defend themselves and their families with vacuum cleaners;

The 24-year-old mother was asleep in bed next to her six-year-old daughter about 11pm when she woke to find someone in her Frankston house.

Frankston detective Senior-Constable John Melhuish said she walked out of the bedroom and saw the woman, who police suspect had been chroming.

“We believe she entered through an unlocked front door,” Sen-Constable Melhuish said.

“The woman had blue around her mouth and was disoriented, substance affected.

“We believe the woman had connections to the house and had been there in the past.”

He said the victim tried to tell the woman to get out, but the woman refused to leave.

A scuffle ensued, which resulted in the victim fighting off the intruder with a vacuum cleaner.

Wilted Willy sends us a link from Orlando, Florida;

Several armed people forced their way inside the condo, so the residents also grabbed weapons, according to Orlando police.

Shots were fired between the groups, and at least one of the suspects was hit, police said. Officers found the injured suspect at the scene.

It’s unclear how many other suspects were involved. Police said the suspects fled, possibly in a silver Volkswagen, before officers arrived.

No residents were injured.

David sends us a link from Arlington, Texas;

Investigators say the man walked into the Zona Caliente Sports Bar at around 6:15 p.m. and got into an argument with the employee before fatally shooting him. An armed customer then confronted the shooter and shot him dead.

A third person was injured by broken glass. Her condition was not immediately available.

Arlington Police Lt. Christopher Cook said the patron who shot the initial shooter had a concealed carry license.

Lurker Curt sends a link from Boise, Idaho;

The homeowner reportedly arrived at the residence and found the suspects in the house.

It’s believed that the homeowner and suspects know each other.

Police said there was a disagreement and a fight involving a hatchet and a gun. The suspects were both injured with the hatchet and suffered non-life threatening injuries.

They were being treated at a hospital.

The homeowner wasn’t injured.

From San Antonio, Texas;

According to officers at the scene, the homeowner said he heard a noise outside his home in the 4100 block of Cliff Oaks, then saw the man scaling his backyard fence.

He fired at least one shot at the intruder wounding him in the leg, police said.

The homeowner told police the wounded man then climbed another fence leading to a neighbor’s home. He said he stopped the suspect and forced him to lie on the ground at gunpoint until officers arrived.

Police said the wounded man was dressed in his underwear and may suffer from mental issues. He was taken to a hospital.

Police say that the homeowner won’t face charges.

From Houston, Texas;

Investigators said three men forced their way into the man’s home, where his wife and two young children ages 5 and 6 years old were inside.

The homeowner was pistol whipped and his family was forced to lie down on the floor.

The men were looking to rob the victim, but police said at some point the homeowner was able to get his own gun out to defend his family.

There was an exchange of gunfire, and the suspects drove off in a pickup truck.

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“About 30 minutes later, we received a report of a male at the hospital off of 249,” said Houston Police Lt. Larry Crowson. “He had been shot. We believe it is the suspect from this shooting. He has been transported to Memorial Hermann in critical condition, but he is expected to survive.”

From Chino Hill, California;

A Chino Hills homeowner snapped a telling photo of himself pointing the business end of a gun at three teens who tried to break into his house.

The family spoke little English. Their neighbor told CBS2’s Crystal Cruz what happened Monday afternoon when the family heard unwanted guests in their back yard.

“They came home from supermarket, and they noticed somebody jump the fence and try to pry in. And he panicked. He had a gun. So he pulled out and do a warning shot,” neighbor Tony Tran said.

The homeowner held three burglars at gunpoint until San Bernardino sheriff’s deputies arrived and arrested them on suspicion of attempted burglary.

From Jacksonville, Florida;

A woman said a man followed her home from a nearby store.

Investigators learned the man was shot after he forced his way into a woman’s house and demanded money, officers said.

She grabbed a handgun and shot the man, officers said.

He walked a few blocks away and called police, officers said.

The man was taken to UF Health Jacksonville with injuries not considered life-threatening.

Bobo sends a story from Kingsport, Tennessee;

The female resident (52 year old white female adult) answered a knock at her door to find a woman holding a flyer about a lost dog. As soon as she opened the door, a masked man stepped into the doorway, grabbed her arm, and attempted to pull her outside. When this initial assault proved unsuccessful, the masked man pushed the resident back inside the home and shouted, “This is a robbery!”

A struggle ensued, during which time the victim was able to partially remove the mask from the suspect’s face. In doing so, she immediately recognized the man as Joe M. Sotello, a longtime family friend. She also noticed what appeared to be a handgun tucked in Mr. Sotello’s waistband. The victim grabbed a baseball bat from behind the door and fought back in clearly justifiable self-defense.

Two teenage witnesses (both 18 year old white female adults) were in the residence at the time and joined in clearly justifiable third-party defense of the victim. Together, the three women physically drove Mr. Sotello out of the house and onto the front lawn. The woman who had been holding the flyer (later determined to be Mr. Sotello’s girlfriend) fled to a silver Honda. Mr. Sotello attempted to get into the car with her; however, he could not escape the three women who continued to get the better of him.

The end result;

Frankie sends a story from Miramar Beach, Florida;

The incident was captured on surveillance video and the suspects were wearing black masks and hoodies. The videos showed two suspects breaking in the door and entering; one to the left and one to the right. They broke the display cases with one using a hammer and the other a crowbar.

While the suspects began to take jewelry out of the cases, the store owner is shown coming around the corner, firing an unknown number of shots from a handgun. As one subject exited the store, he dropped or threw a pillowcase with the items he attempted to steal to the left of the door. He was heard on the video saying something as he exited.

That suspect is then seen hobbling as he ran away and fell again in the parking lot. WCSO could not confirm whether that suspect had been shot.

From West Valley City, Utah;

Police said shortly after the fight — around 3:30 a.m. — they received a report that a man had forced his way into a home about a block away at 4158 W. 4400 South.

Officers found an 18-year-old man with gunshot wounds outside the home, according to West Valley City police Sgt. Jake Hill. He originally reported the homeowner had facial lacerations, but later said the resident was shot also.

Both men were taken to area hospitals — the homeowner in good condition and the alleged intruder in stable condition.

From Santa Fe, New Mexico;

Officers were attempting to arrest the suspect after discovering a stolen vehicle in the driveway.

The male suspect apparently got into the patrol car and put it in drive.

The Santa Fe officer was trying to remove the suspect from the driver’s side door but ended up knocked down and pinned between the car and a tree.

Authorities say the officer fired one shot, striking the suspect in the abdomen.

The suspect died at the scene.

The police were the only folks shooting criminals this weekend, I guess. From Killeen, Texas;

After a few days of silence, officials have released the name of the juvenile suspect shot and killed in a robbery at Killeen Marketplace on Monday.

The boy was identified as Daezion Turner by Sgt. David Roberts, a spokesman for the Texas Rangers and the Department of Public Safety. Daezion was 15 years old.

Five days ago, police said a juvenile exchanged gunfire with officers after robbing a T-Mobile store along U.S. Highway 190 about 4:15 p.m.

That left the suspect dead and one officer hurt with minor, non-gunshot injuries.

In Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Barry Edwards, got his ass shot the last time he was there, I guess he didn’t learn his lesson;

According to arrest papers filed against Edwards, the shooting drama unfolded around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday on South Grant and Reese streets after witnesses reported hearing a flurry of gunshots. Occupants of two vehicles were shooting at each other while racing down city streets, they said.

During the gunfight, one of the vehicles slammed into an oncoming car of a passerby, rendering them unconscious.

A police officer nearby heard the shots ring out and responded. One of the fleeing vehicles — heavily damaged, with its front hood up blocking the windshield — nearly smashed into the officer’s patrol car. The officer chased after the vehicle until it crashed into a parked car on New Hancock Street.

Officer Joseph Homza then used his patrol car to pin the car to the other vehicle.

Investigators said Edwards quickly rushed from the driver’s seat of the disabled car holding a gun and charged directly at Homza’s patrol car.

Homza used his car door as a weapon, ramming Edwards with it to stop his advance and disorient him.

Fearing for his life, Homza shot the gunman, who dropped his weapon and fled.

The passenger, who was not identified, then bolted from the car holding a gun. He, too, abandoned his gun and fled, police said.

In Atlanta, Georgia, the FBI put an end to Avery Richard’s two day crime spree;

Officials had planned to serve the warrant at a home, but wound up at a shopping center at the intersection of Hamilton E. Holmes Drive and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, where Richard shot the agent, FBI spokesman Stephen Emmett said at a press conference.

Other agents fired back at least twice, killing Richard and striking a 32-year-old woman who was with the suspect, Emmett said. The woman and agent were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

“It was a high risk arrest,” Emmett said. “(FBI agents) went into it knowing he was armed and dangerous and that he’d shot a sheriff’s deputy.”

Richard, 32, had been wanted since Wednesday after authorities say he shot a Banks County sheriff’s deputy at the Tanger Outlet mall in Commerce. He had been released from prison in October on an aggravated assault conviction, according to the Department of Corrections.

In Des Moines, Iowa;

That house had been broken into several times in the weeks preceding April 10, prompting homeowner Savu Cirligel, 75, to stay there with a .357 Magnum to try to thwart more burglaries.

Cirligel told the Register that, a little before midnight [on April 10th], a woman [Robin Inman] wearing a headlamp entered his house and told him she was there with her boyfriend, who was outside with a gun.

Cirligel told police the woman tried to choke him and as the fight moved outside, he shot her in the lower torso.

Nobody was charged at the time, but police say that woman was Inman. She was in the hospital for more than two weeks after being shot, Parizek said.

Officers couldn’t interview her because she was on pain medications, so she wasn’t placed in custody.

She was released from the hospital Wednesday afternoon, a short time before officers found her. Due to HIPAA laws, the hospital couldn’t tell police when she was being released, Parizek said.

She was arrested driving around with a large amount of drugs in a car with no license plates near another crime scene, so it all evens out.

The other day we talked about the homeowner in Jacksonville, North Carolina who shot and killed Stacey Ross, Jr., when he broke into the home. Onslow County’s district attorney has decided that it was a case of self defense and no charges will be brought against the unnamed homeowner. Police have also arrested Joshua Cordts, 18; Sean Padgett, 18; Steven Lewis, 18; and Haleigh Noling, 17 who were all charged with attempted armed robbery with a dangerous weapon and conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon.

In the Bronx, New York, a man forced his way into an apartment and began beating the woman who lived there. She was unable to defend herself, so her 11-year-old son stepped up and began stabbing the intruder with a kitchen knife until the crook fled the scene.The mother identified the attacker when he showed up at the hospital for treatment of his injuries and he was arrested.

In Belleview, Florida, Mahendrakumar G. “Mike” Patel tried to shoot a guy robbing his convenience store, but the idiot’s gun wasn’t loaded, so the crook escaped unharmed and unrestrained. You can watch the moron fire his empty gun and then surrender it to the crook in the video at this link.