{"id":102441,"date":"2020-07-21T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=102441"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:31:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:31:14","slug":"tuesday-feel-good-story-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=102441","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Feel Good Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">ODESSA, Texas (KOSA) &#8211; A 73-year-old man in Howard County shot and injured two suspects during an alleged burglary on Wednesday night. He shared what happened with CBS7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThey came at me, so I was running backwards,\u201d Ira Thompson said. \u201cI had to shoot because I got up against this truck. So just boom, boom. I\u2019m not sure which one I shot first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Authorities identified 39-year-old Rocky Zarraga and 27-year-old Julian Rodriguez Jr. as the suspects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Thompson said this isn\u2019t first time he\u2019s caught them stealing parts from cars in his wrecking yard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cStealing converters,\u201d he said. \u201cStealing radiators. Tailgates. Air conditioner condensers. Hoods. Just everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Thompson had a handgun, and says he was asking the suspects to put their hands up when they charged him, and he shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWhy would somebody be stupid enough to come at me with me having a gun on them?\u201d Thompson asked. \u201cI said \u2018Man that\u2019s nothing but birdshot. You\u2019re not going to die. Cause I didn\u2019t want to kill y\u2019all. I knew I was about to catch y\u2019all, cause you got to the point where you just disrespected me so bad\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Authorities said Zarraga was treated and released from the hospital, and was taken to Howard County Jail.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez Jr. was airlifted to a Lubbock hospital and is listed in critical condition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ODESSA, Texas (KOSA) &#8211; A 73-year-old man in Howard County shot and injured two suspects during &hellip; <a title=\"Tuesday Feel Good Story\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=102441\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday Feel Good Story<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":82825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feel-good-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102481,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102441\/revisions\/102481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}