{"id":38810,"date":"2013-12-12T05:00:51","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T10:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38810"},"modified":"2013-12-12T06:00:58","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T11:00:58","slug":"thursday-feel-good-story-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38810","title":{"rendered":"Thursday feel good story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s feel good story comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wvec.com\/news\/Hampton-elderly-man-shoots-burglary-suspect-after-finding-him-hiding-in-closet-235279551.html\">Virginia<\/a> where 76-year-old former paratrooper, Leon Winder, who called 911 when he heard noises in his house. The police searched the premises but found nothing. Leon kept looking though;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was shortly after that, while officers searched the area, that Winder, a former Army Airborne soldier, went into his barbershop attached to his home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw a coat on the floor and I looked to pick the coat up. I looked to my left to get the coat up and the guy was standing in the closet,\u201d Winder recalled.<\/p>\n<p>Winder said fired twice and hit the man in the arm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe didn&#8217;t say nothing. I was firing on him he couldn&#8217;t say nothing,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s when the suspect, identified by police as 37-year-old John Buck Fields, ran out and was caught by police.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/www.wvec.com\/templates\/belo_embedWrapper.js?storyid=235279551&#038;pos=top&#038;swfw=470\"><\/script><object name=\"player\" id=\"_fp_0.10155206639319658\" width=\"470\" height=\"264\"    data=\"http:\/\/swfs.bimvid.com\/player-3.2.15.swf\"  type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param value=\"true\" name=\"allowfullscreen\"\/><param value=\"always\" name=\"allowscriptaccess\"\/><param value=\"transparent\" name=\"wmode\"\/><param value=\"high\" name=\"quality\"\/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/swfs.bimvid.com\/player-3.2.15.swf\" \/><param value=\"config=http:\/\/www.wvec.com\/?j=embed_235279551&#038;ref=http:\/\/www.wvec.com\/news\/Hampton-elderly-man-shoots-burglary-suspect-after-finding-him-hiding-in-closet-235279551.html\" name=\"flashvars\"\/><\/object><script src=\"http:\/\/www.wvec.com\/templates\/belo_embedWrapper.js?storyid=235279551&#038;pos=bottom&#038;ref=http:\/\/www.wvec.com\/news\/Hampton-elderly-man-shoots-burglary-suspect-after-finding-him-hiding-in-closet-235279551.html\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>All the way, Leon!<\/p>\n<p>Chief Tango sends us links to two more feel good stories. The first is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toledonewsnow.com\/story\/24145027\/west-toledo-homeowner-shoots-would-be-burglar\">Toledo<\/a> where Antione Garret heard Randy Estrada breaking into his house, so Garret went to confront the burglar;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Garret fired his handgun several times, until Estrada climbed back out the window and ran away. <\/p>\n<p>A short time later, Estrada called 911 to report that he had been shot and was taken to a Toledo hospital for treatment. He is expected to survive his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If someone&#8217;s breaking into your house and you fear for your safety, you have the right to defend yourself and your family. And in this case, that&#8217;s what we believe Mr. Garret has done,&#8221; said Sgt. Joe Heffernan with the Toledo Police Department.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/WTOL.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=259646;hostDomain=www.toledonewsnow.com;playerWidth=500;playerHeight=300;isShowIcon=true;clipId=9604586;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlay'><\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toledonewsnow.com\" title=\"ToledoNewsNow.com: News, Weather \">ToledoNewsNow.com: News, Weather <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next story comes from the mean streets of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/breaking\/chi-2-shot-in-the-south-shore-neighborhood-20131210,0,3440898.story\">Chicago<\/a> where 25-year-old Demarcus Brandon decided that he needed a new cell phone so he went to the neighborhood cell phone store and tried to rob the place. The clerk, however had a different goal in mind and he killed young Brandon dead right there.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police said there was an exchange of gunfire between Brandon and the clerk, though it\u2019s not clear who shot first.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon was paroled from the Shawnee Correctional Center this summer, where he had been serving concurrent 3-year and 13-year sentences, according to Illinois Department of Corrections and Cook County Court records.<\/p>\n<p>The 13-year sentence stemmed from an incident in Chicago in which Brandon was charged with armed robbery with a firearm, armed violence, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, gun possession, aggravated fleeing from police, and having either a rifle with a barrel less than 16 inches or shotgun with a barrel less than 18 inches.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another perp broke his ankle while he was scattin&#8217; out of the AO.<\/p>\n<p>The video below the jump autostarts<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.newsinc.com\/Single\/iframe.html?WID=1&#038;VID=25434149&#038;freewheel=69016&#038;sitesection=sechicagotribune_lnw&#038;width=700&#038;height=300\" height=\"300\" width=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s feel good story comes from Virginia where 76-year-old former paratrooper, Leon Winder, who called 911 &hellip; <a title=\"Thursday feel good story\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38810\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday 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":[218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feel-good-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38810","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=38810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}