{"id":59292,"date":"2015-04-16T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59292"},"modified":"2015-04-15T16:54:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T20:54:24","slug":"thursday-morning-feel-good-stories-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59292","title":{"rendered":"Thursday morning feel good stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning&#8217;s stories start with one in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thv11.com\/story\/news\/local\/conway\/2015\/04\/14\/conway-robber-shootout\/25802561\/\">Arkansas<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Conway Police say 34-year-old James Allen was the victim of an attempted armed robbery outside a home on Joyner Drive. Allen didn&#8217;t want to speak on camera but told THV11 he was walking to his car when two men approached him demanding money. When he reached for his gun they shot first. He returned fire and starting running away. According to a police report Allen fired more than 20 rounds in the middle of the street.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Police say that James initially left the scene, but returned to answer questions, there are no reports of the fate of his targets which means that Mr. James, who has a concealed weapons permit, needs more range time, although he did manage to hit a neighboring house and his car.<\/p>\n<p>From down in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/breaking-news\/os-man-shot-apartment-burglary-orlando-20150415-story.html\">Florida<\/a>, we get our next story, a fairly short one;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The victim was in his home, which is just south of downtown Orlando, when a stranger entered the apartment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During the victim and suspect encounter, the victim shot the suspect multiple times,&#8221; Orlando Police Lt. Darnell Hill said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was taken to the hospital. His condition is unknown.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kaltura.com\/p\/557781\/sp\/55778100\/embedIframeJs\/uiconf_id\/12411312\/partner_id\/557781\"><\/script><object name=\"kaltura_player_1429120193\" id=\"kaltura_player_1429120193\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowNetworking=\"all\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" height=\"300\" width=\"500\" data=\"http:\/\/www.kaltura.com\/index.php\/kwidget\/wid\/1_rjx1gtzl\/uiconf_id\/12411312\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowNetworking\" value=\"all\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.kaltura.com\/index.php\/kwidget\/wid\/1_rjx1gtzl\/uiconf_id\/12411312\"\/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"\"\/><a href=\"http:\/\/corp.kaltura.com\">video platform<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/corp.kaltura.com\/video_platform\/video_management\">video management<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/corp.kaltura.com\/solutions\/video_solution\">video solutions<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/corp.kaltura.com\/video_platform\/video_publishing\">video player<\/a><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Finally, in <a href=\"http:\/\/fox6now.com\/2015\/04\/14\/police-medical-examiners-office-on-scene-of-homicide-investigation-near-29th-and-melvina\/\">Wisconsin<\/a>, where the family of Michael Powell is upset that when he enters other people&#8217;s homes, he gets shot. He&#8217;s done it before, without getting shot, so why now;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Powell\u2019s family is devastated over a loss they say they can\u2019t understand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just\u2026it\u2019s just crazy,\u201d Martin said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know man, it was all a shock,\u201d Powell\u2019s cousin, Christopher Powell said.<\/p>\n<p>Family members say Powell did not live in the home where he was found dead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll I know is that he was shot multiple times in the chest,\u201d Christopher Powell said.<\/p>\n<p>Gregory Davis owns the home and was leasing it. He says he heard from his tenant earlier Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGot a text. Someone broke into the house and his brother reacted. It\u2019s just not a good situation. It\u2019s very sad,\u201d Davis said.<br \/>\n\u201cWe got to stop the violence. The victims are getting younger and younger. These are kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Powell\u2019s family members say he wasn\u2019t a violent person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a shame they killed him like that, man. The violence really has to stop,\u201d Christopher Powell said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know what has to stop? Folks going into other folks&#8217; homes without being invited.<\/p>\n<p><script height=\"300px\" width=\"500px\" src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/iframe.js#pbid=218d3da5eeb24e93a601526d4d3e8750&#038;ec=1hOWNqdDpoyB_46heHwQHsWGUmqnaqYM\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Several other people were taken into custody. <\/p>\n<p>As always, thanks to Chief Tango for the links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning&#8217;s stories start with one in Arkansas; Conway Police say 34-year-old James Allen was the &hellip; <a title=\"Thursday morning feel good stories\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59292\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday morning feel good stories<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59292","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\/59292","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=59292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}