{"id":64111,"date":"2016-02-01T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64111"},"modified":"2016-02-01T07:03:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T12:03:42","slug":"monday-morning-feel-good-stories-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64111","title":{"rendered":"Monday morning feel good stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark kicks off our stories this morning with one from <a href=\"http:\/\/krqe.com\/2016\/01\/30\/reported-robbery-shooting-in-northeast-albuquerque\/\">Albuquerque, New Mexico<\/a> where a coin shop owner was confronted by three folks. A scuffle broke out and the shop owner ventilated one of the thieves. The trio took off, dropping off their wounded pal at the hospital where he was DOT (dead over there). <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re a little light on real feel good stories today. stories where citizens defend themselves with their own legal weapons. <\/p>\n<p>Folks seem excited about this story from <a href=\"http:\/\/crimeblog.dallasnews.com\/2016\/01\/robbery-suspect-dead-after-officer-involved-shooting-in-irving.html\/\">Irving, Texas<\/a>, though, where a police officer with a modern sporting rifle took out a fellow who was hiding behind his hostage. Christopher Michael Dew was DRT (dead right there) and the hostage was unharmed.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/news\/man-fatally-shot-in-englewood-police-standoff-police-say\/1181012\/\">Chicago, Illinois<\/a>, officers were responding to a call about a home invasion. When they rolled up to the address, they encountered an armed Charles Smith who exchanged gunfire with the officers. He was DRT, too.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ky3.com\/news\/local\/-missouri-troopers-shoot-kill-suspect-near-kansas-city\/21048998_37740596\">Kansas City, Missouri<\/a>, an unnamed man led police on a car chase with his stolen car. He rolled it into the Missouri River, leaping from it at the last minute and fired on pursuing officers. He was DRT, too.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/story\/news\/local\/tarrant-county\/2016\/01\/31\/suspect-shot-dead-after-fighting-saginaw-police\/79601802\/\">Saginaw, Michigan<\/a>, two officers responded to a disturbance call and were getting their asses handed to them by a nut. Passers by tried to help the officers, but they were injured, too. Finally one of the officers ended the drama with a round from his service weapon and the mad man was DRT.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldcourier.com\/news\/prosecutor-says-suspect-shot-after-firing-at-officer\/article_61c05ef1-1cac-5c08-802d-879f746664d9.html\">Newark, New Jersey<\/a>, a traffic stop went badly when the driver stepped from his vehicle and started firing a handgun at the officer. He was taken to the hospital where he&#8217;s expected to recover.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/krwg.org\/post\/suspect-stable-after-being-shot-new-mexico-state-police\">New Mexico<\/a>, Agustine Fransisco Carrillo-Ortiz pinned a state trooper against his vehicle with another vehicle. Three officers fired at him, but he ran away, only to be captured and hospitalized later.<\/p>\n<p>Another driver in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turnto23.com\/news\/local-news\/one-shot-in-officer-involved-shooting-on-weedpatch-hwy-and-farmers-lane\">California<\/a> led the Highway Patrol on short chase then pointed a weapon at the pursuing officers. He was taken to the hospital to recover for his long stint in the hoosegow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark kicks off our stories this morning with one from Albuquerque, New Mexico where a coin &hellip; <a title=\"Monday morning feel good stories\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64111\"><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-64111","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\/64111","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=64111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64111\/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=64111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}