{"id":30109,"date":"2012-05-24T12:01:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T16:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30109"},"modified":"2012-05-24T12:01:03","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T16:01:03","slug":"todays-feel-good-story-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30109","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s feel good story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roanoke-chowannewsherald.com\/2012\/05\/22\/store-owner-shoots-kills-two-alleged-robbers\/\">a story from North Carolina<\/a> that should make your heart sing about a store owner who dispatched two thieves who had beat him unmercifully with a gun he kept under his counter;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThey beat him down to the floor,\u201d Webb said. \u201cIt was at that point where the store owner reached under the counter, while lying on the floor, for a weapon he kept there. He fired a shot at one of the assailants, striking him in the abdomen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the bullet wound, Webb said that suspect was able to exit the store.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt that point the second suspect was at or near the door and pointed his weapon at the store owner,\u201d Webb said. \u201cThe store owner then fired three shots at that suspect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Webb said by the time the owner exited his store he discovered one of the suspects lying in the parking lot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Police later found found the second spirited youngster about 150 yards away in the woods.<\/p>\n<p>In a later article, it&#8217;s reported that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roanoke-chowannewsherald.com\/2012\/05\/24\/brothers-killed-in-robbery\/\">the two were brothers<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gates County Sheriff Ed Webb confirmed the identities of the two suspects Wednesday afternoon, reporting they were 20-year-old Eddie Felton and his 17-year-old brother, Quentin, both of the Winfall community.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brother together for ever. What could be a happier story? Well, the store owner was briefly hospitalized for his injuries, but he&#8217;s been released. See? It&#8217;s better for everyone now.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Authorities say they are looking in to whether the suspects are related to a string of other robberies in the area, though reports have not yet detailed the suspects\u2019 descriptions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whether they were involved in the other crimes or not, I&#8217;ll bet misbehavior in that neighborhood  falls off significantly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends us a link to a story from North Carolina that should make your &hellip; <a title=\"Today&#8217;s feel good story\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30109\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Today&#8217;s feel good story<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30109","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}