{"id":65297,"date":"2016-04-17T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65297"},"modified":"2016-04-16T20:00:55","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T00:00:55","slug":"sunday-morning-feel-good-stories-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65297","title":{"rendered":"Sunday morning feel good stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MrBill sends us a story from <a href=\"http:\/\/abc7amarillo.com\/news\/local\/citizen-assists-with-arrest-of-man-trying-to-rob-home-depot\">Amarillo, Texas<\/a> where a loss prevention officer at Home Depot confronted a shoplifter, 35-year-old Ricky Solis. The two had a physical altercation and a second thief tried to help Solis escape. A concerned citizen with a licensed handgun intervened when the second suspect kicked the officer in the face and went to get a tire iron out of his car. The second suspect consequently fled the scene, while the citizen held Solis at gun point until the officer handcuffed him. <\/p>\n<p>OldManchu sends a link about shots were fired in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.victoriaadvocate.com\/news\/2016\/apr\/16\/home-invasion-leads-shots-fired\/\">Victoria, Texas<\/a> during a home invasion, according to police. There&#8217;s no word on whether anyone was injured or arrested. In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.victoriaadvocate.com\/news\/2016\/apr\/16\/home-invasion-leads-shots-fired\/\">update to the story<\/a>, it turns out that homeowner was an off-duty cop, and the thief, Wade Austin Kloesel, entered the home through a window, but that he was DRT (dead right there) and left the home feet first.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/news\/homeowner-shoots-burglar-in-northeast-harris-county\">Houston, Texas<\/a>, a homeowner saw a burglar trying to steal his trailer and his John Deere tractor that was on the trailer, so he shot the fellow twice, at least once in the arm. Police say that there was a felony auto theft warrant out for the thief&#8217;s arrest. He will probably survive to face trial and a jail sentence.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/baytownsun.com\/article_1e4cd06d-489d-5edb-9144-685fd69bdff6.html\">Birmingham, Alabama<\/a>, a homeowner found a 16-year-old burglar in the house when he returned from a night out. He shot the youngster and hit him at least once. Junior is being treated at the local medical facility for his non-life threatening  injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Jerome Howard, 44 followed an off-duty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/baltimore-city\/bs-md-ci-police-involved-shooting-folo-20160416-story.html\">Baltimore, Maryland<\/a> detective into a local liquor store and tried to rob him with a replica handgun. The detective didn&#8217;t know it wasn&#8217;t a real gun and shot Howard. The thief was pronounced DOT (dead over there) at the hospital. Most newsworthy about the story is that Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis commended the off-duty officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MrBill sends us a story from Amarillo, Texas where a loss prevention officer at Home Depot &hellip; <a title=\"Sunday morning feel good stories\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65297\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday 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-65297","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\/65297","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=65297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65297\/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=65297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}