{"id":59864,"date":"2015-05-18T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59864"},"modified":"2015-05-17T16:17:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T20:17:45","slug":"monday-morning-feel-good-stories-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59864","title":{"rendered":"Monday morning feel good stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first stop on our tour of incidents of good guys with guns saving the world this morning comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wapt.com\/news\/jpd-searches-for-man-in-connection-with-saturday-kidnapping\/33063342\">Mississippi<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Authorities said the incident occurred in the Eastover area of town shortly before 7 a.m. Saturday. They said the victim was putting items into his truck when two men armed with guns approached him and forced him into his home.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the men took the victim\u2019s wallet and drove him to a nearby ATM to withdraw more money.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the men mentioned returning to the house to do something to the man\u2019s wife. When they made him get out of the truck, police said the man grabbed a gun and began shooting at the two men.<\/p>\n<p>One of the men died at the scene, however the second is still at large.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our next stop is in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kltv.com\/story\/29082177\/smith-county-homeowner-holds-burglar-at-gunpoint\">Texas<\/a>, as most seem to be;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The homeowner [Ellis Tyra] told deputies that he saw a gray Dodge Durango in a carport of his storage building, next to his home. He grabbed a gun, went to the storage building to see what was going on, and found two suspects, a man and a woman.The homeowner ordered the two to stay where they were, holding the man at gunpoint. The woman fled the scene in the Durango.<\/p>\n<p>The homeowner, feeling his life was in danger, fired one shot striking the vehicle in the passenger&#8217;s side. No injuries were reported as a result of the discharge of the firearm.<\/p>\n<p>A Smith County Sheriff&#8217;s Patrol Unit arrived around 9 minutes later and took the male into custody. <\/p>\n<p>Using a description of the vehicle, a second unit located the Durango, driven by the wife of the man in custody, on Farm to Market 724 between Twin Lakes Drive and Highway 64 West. A short pursuit ensued and the woman was taken into custody a short time later.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to Chief Tango for the links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first stop on our tour of incidents of good guys with guns saving the world &hellip; <a title=\"Monday morning feel good stories\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59864\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 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-59864","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\/59864","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=59864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59864\/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=59864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}