{"id":39017,"date":"2013-12-26T05:00:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T10:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39017"},"modified":"2013-12-26T09:01:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T14:01:47","slug":"thursday-feel-good-story-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39017","title":{"rendered":"Thursday feel good story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends us our feel good stories for this Thursday morning. The first is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/story\/24293004\/homeowner-shot-during-attempted-home-invasion-in-piedmont\">North Carolina<\/a> where a fellow tried to make himself at home in the house of a 78-year-old man who wasn&#8217;t too happy about that apparently;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The victims, a man and woman, told deputies the suspect tried to force his way into the home at gunpoint, placing a woman who lived at the home in a choke hold.  They added that the woman was able to alert her husband, who confronted the suspect with a gun.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Sheila Cole with the Anderson County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said the male victim, described as a 78-year-old man, was airlifted to the hospital, having suffered a gunshot to his stomach.<\/p>\n<p>Cole said the suspect returned fire before running from the scene and driving off in a black SUV.<\/p>\n<p>Coroner Greg Shore said the possible suspect in the home invasion, Rahim Shakur, 39, of Williamston, died of gun shot wound to the chest.  A SLED background check revealed Shakur had a long criminal history that spanned more than half his life, and included charges for violent crimes and drugs.  A personals profile on the site PrisonerLife indicated he was released earlier this year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/WHNS.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=368873;hostDomain=www.foxcarolina.com;playerWidth=630;playerHeight=385;isShowIcon=true;clipId=9664788;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=Video%2520Player;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=fixed'><\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\" title=\"FOX Carolina 21\">FOX Carolina 21<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The second story comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montereyherald.com\/localnews\/ci_24786557\/police-briefs-salinas-man-78-shoots-at-intruder\">California<\/a> where another 78-year-old man was forced to defend his home;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The man said he heard the garage door to his house being kicked in and reached for a revolver he kept next to his bed.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the man sat up, and upon seeing a flashlight shine into his room from the hall, the man feared for his life and fired one round toward the light.<\/p>\n<p>The round went into the hall ceiling just outside the bedroom and police said it not appear to have struck the intruder. A witness saw two men in the area running very fast toward St. Edwards Street, police said, but after a search no one was found. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Us old guys will shoot you every time. dead. Right there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends us our feel good stories for this Thursday morning. The first is from &hellip; <a title=\"Thursday feel good story\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39017\"><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-39017","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\/39017","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=39017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}