{"id":75057,"date":"2017-10-01T07:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75057"},"modified":"2017-09-30T17:22:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T21:22:46","slug":"sunday-morning-feel-good-stories-126","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75057","title":{"rendered":"Sunday morning feel good stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/sacramento.cbslocal.com\/2017\/09\/29\/antelope-home-invasion\/\">Antelope, California<\/a>, a 14-year-old defends his family during a home invasion;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was one of the scariest days of her life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was terrified the whole way home and driving\u2014what am I going to come home to? How bad is it? I didn\u2019t know,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>[Cathy] Friedman later found out the crook was no match for her knife-wielding son.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they get away with monetary value, that\u2019s fine, but you can\u2019t just get a new sister,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The teen chased the burglar as far as he could, and a neighbor caught a photo of the alleged suspect on camera.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Police in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainerddispatch.com\/news\/crime\/4336385-authorities-continue-pursue-leads-home-invasion-case\">Backus, Minnesota<\/a> are still looking for the man who was shot at by a homeowner a week or so ago as he escaped after a home invasion. They posted an artist&#8217;s sketch based on a description from witnesses;<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/0bwnas0zt0xtksho3qtfzmjvmzve-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-75063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/0bwnas0zt0xtksho3qtfzmjvmzve-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/0bwnas0zt0xtksho3qtfzmjvmzve-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/0bwnas0zt0xtksho3qtfzmjvmzve-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/0bwnas0zt0xtksho3qtfzmjvmzve.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s Ralphie&#8217;s little brother in &#8220;A Christmas Story&#8221; &#8211; has anyone seen him lately?<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, we talked a bit about Connie Wells, an accountant in <a href=\"http:\/\/abc13.com\/video-intruder-bursts-through-door-gets-shot-by-accountant\/2472655\/\">Knightdale, North Carolina<\/a> was working late and alone in her office when 24-year old Deondre Branch, running from local police after he tried to shoplift some braziers, burst into the accountant&#8217;s office. When he approached her, she screamed for him to stop. She was armed and she had a CCW license which she used when he was about ten feet away. Connie fired once striking Deondre in the neck;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Branch, who has a criminal history, including an assault charge against a woman, was shot just above the neck, shattering his vertebrae, according to his family.<\/p>\n<p>Branch&#8217;s stepfather, Willie Michener Jr., told ABC 11 that he doesn&#8217;t buy Wells&#8217; claim that his stepson was dangerously close to her. He thinks she could&#8217;ve gotten away without firing her gun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Branch is still in the hospital and paralyzed from his injuries. <\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/suspect-shot-by-armored-car-driver-during-attempted-robbery-448816683.html\">Chicago, Illinois<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When the driver, working for armored car service Garda, exited his vehicle, a man in a reflective vest attacked him with a sledgehammer in an attempt to rob him. <\/p>\n<p>The driver then fired his service pistol at the man, wounding him. The suspect fled the scene, and he was taken into custody a short time later by Chicago police. <\/p>\n<p>The driver was taken to a local hospital with non-life threatening, but life-altering, wounds, according to the bureau. The suspect is currently in surgery at a local hospital. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Antelope, California, a 14-year-old defends his family during a home invasion; It was one of &hellip; <a title=\"Sunday morning feel good stories\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75057\"><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-75057","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\/75057","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=75057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75057\/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=75057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}