{"id":76900,"date":"2018-01-04T06:55:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T11:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76900"},"modified":"2018-01-03T14:24:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T19:24:53","slug":"thursday-morning-feel-good-stories-149","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76900","title":{"rendered":"Thursday morning feel good stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visaliatimesdelta.com\/story\/news\/2018\/01\/02\/visalia-homeowner-shoots-suspected-vehicle-burglar\/997983001\/\">Visalia, California<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Witnesses told police [37-year-old Nicholas] Wilkerson was attempting to burglarize a vehicle parked in the driveway of the home when the homeowner caught him. <\/p>\n<p>The owner was armed with a gun, Sgt. Kevin Kroeze said. The confrontation escalated and the homeowner opened fire. <\/p>\n<p>Wilkerson was hit once. The injury was not life-threatening, Kroeze said.  <\/p>\n<p>Once Wilkerson is released from the hospital he is expected to be booked into Tulare County Pretrial Facility on suspicion of vehicle burglary. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kristv.com\/story\/37183205\/one-dead-two-injured-in-home-invasion-shooting\">Corpus Christi, Texas<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Officers say three men tried to rob the home. Two people were inside the home at the time and a shootout began, according to officers. It is unclear who fired the first shots.<\/p>\n<p>One of the men who tried to rob the home, a 27-year-old, was shot and killed. The two 23-year-old men who were inside the home were also shot but their injuries are not life-threatening, according to officers.<\/p>\n<p>Officers say the remaining two men got away with some property but police aren&#8217;t saying what was taken.<\/p>\n<p>Officers say at least one of the three men who entered the home was known by the victims.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/article\/store-owner-shoots-alleged-15-year-old-robber-after-17-year-old-suspect-pulls-out-gun\/14534541\">Fort Pierce, Florida<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The brother of a store owner who shot an alleged robber said his brother almost started crying when he heard one of the suspects was 15-years-old.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place on New Year&#8217;s Eve at the Three O&#8217;s convenience store located on 25th street in Fort Pierce.<br \/>\nAdvertisement<\/p>\n<p>The store owner, Sami Said, said the incident was captured on surveillance video.<\/p>\n<p>It shows to teens waking in the store.<\/p>\n<p>Said said the video shows one of the suspects pointing a gun at him and then both stuffing money into a bag before running out the front door.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All I see is a gun in my face. I backed up and give them the money,&#8221; said Said.<\/p>\n<p>He said seconds later one of the suspect&#8217;s went back to the counter and that&#8217;s when the store owner fired.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The guys leave but one is coming in when he come I say you wanna come in for other cashiers and I shot him inside the store,&#8221; said Said.<\/p>\n<p>Store employee Willie Plain was outside when he heard the shot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And when I looked up my boss man was shooting at him and he came out shooting,&#8221; said Plain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Visalia, California; Witnesses told police [37-year-old Nicholas] Wilkerson was attempting to burglarize a vehicle parked &hellip; <a title=\"Thursday morning feel good stories\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76900\"><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-76900","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\/76900","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=76900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76900\/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=76900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}